Tournament:The Box (series)

The Box
Info
Founded	2020
Region	Online
Format	Double Elimination
Most successful player(s)	Sonix (9 Juice Boxes, 1 Lunch Box, 35 Ultimate Coinboxes, The Coinbox IRL, and 1 Smash 4 Coinbox)  Sparg0 (7 Juice Boxes, 5 Lunch Boxes, 15 Ultimate Coinboxes, and El Jugo Box)  Cody Schwab (11 Melee Coinboxes)
Staff
Organizer(s)	Team Liquid, Hungrybox

The Box is an online tournament series held by Team Liquid on Hungrybox's Twitch channel. The series originally started with The Box and consisted of a weekly (Juice Box) held on Wednesdays as well as a monthly at the end of each month (Lunch Box) limited to Hungrybox's Twitch subscribers. The series was sponsored by Coinbase in February 2022, which shifted focus to the weeklies, now renamed to The Coinbox, with $2,000–$3,000 prize pools. Currently, Ultimate Coinboxes are held biweekly on Wednesdays with a $2,000 prize pool, with different games rotating each month. Most tournaments in the series are region-locked to North America as well as The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.

Notable Events

Melee Coinbox

While The Coinbox started as an Ultimate series, Melee began being run in February 2023, switching games every week, with Ultimate on Wednesdays and Melee on Tuesdays. However, on November 8th, 2023, following the announcement of the Nintendo Community Tournament Guidelines, Hungrybox announced that Team Liquid would not be seeking a license for Melee Coinboxes due to the usage of Slippi, and that the final Melee Coinbox would be Coinbox #84. There were ultimately 18 Melee Coinboxes held throughout 2023, of which Cody Schwab won an impressive 11 of the 14 that he entered. At times, there were bounties put on Cody Schwab for anyone to claim if they could take a set off him in bracket.

Character Bans

Steve has had mixed legality throughout the history of The Coinbox series. Following Coinbox #51, Steve was indefinitely banned from The Coinbox on March 2nd, 2023, with Hungrybox stating that the discovery of the Phantom MLG tech and the difficulties of banning it on its own, especially online, was the "straw that broke the camel's back." This lasted until January 2024, when Hungrybox announced that Steve would be unbanned on the first Coinbox of each month of 2024, beginning with Coinbox #87, stating that he didn't want to have a complete ban on a character which is legal in the majority of regions around the world. Steve was later fully unbanned on April 1st, 2024, when the series shifted from weekly to biweekly. Steve has ultimately been banned from a total of 24 Coinboxes, those being #53-86, #88, #89, #93, #95, #96, and #97.

Hungrybox has also floated the idea of banning Sonic from The Coinbox, citing the effect that the character has on stream viewership.

After the results of a Twitter poll, Bayonetta was banned from The Coinbox 98 - SM4SH SENDOFF held just days before the Wii U online servers shut down on April 8th. Additionally, custom sizes for the Mii Fighters were banned for the tournament, though default-sized Miis were legal with any custom special moves.

Champions

Ultimate Winners

The Box: Juice Box

Logo for The Box: Juice Box.

Date	Event	Entrants	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
June 3rd, 2020	Juice Box #1	512	Cameron Garrett	Vendetta		SKITTLES!!
June 10th, 2020	Juice Box #2	512	Gabriel Romero	Epic_Gabriel		The6Master
June 17th, 2020	Juice Box #3	512	Gabriel Romero	Epic_Gabriel		Fatality
July 1st, 2020	Juice Box #4	512	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Maister
July 8th, 2020	Juice Box #5	512	Tanner Jordan	SKITTLES!!		Ravenking
July 15th, 2020	Juice Box #6	512	Spencer Garner	BestNess		SKITTLES!!
July 22nd, 2020	Juice Box #7	512	Tanner Jordan	SKITTLES!!		BestNess
August 5th, 2020	Juice Box #8	512	Brian Kalu	Cosmos		Aaron
August 12th, 2020	Juice Box #9	512	Gavin Dempsey	Tweek		Sonix
August 19th, 2020	Juice Box #10	512	Leonardo Lopez Perez	MkLeo		Tweek
September 2nd, 2020	Juice Box #11	512	Gabriel Romero	Epic_Gabriel		Sharp
September 9th, 2020	Juice Box #12	512	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		SKITTLES!!
September 16th, 2020	Juice Box #13	512	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Lights
September 23rd, 2020	Juice Box #14	512	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Epic_Gabriel
October 7th, 2020	Juice Box #15	512	Spencer Garner	BestNess		Axel~
October 14th, 2020	Juice Box #16	512	Enrique Hernández Solís	Maister		Sonix
October 21st, 2020	Juice Box #17	512	Aaron Wilhite	Aaron		BestNess
November 4th, 2020	Juice Box #18	512	Gabriel Romero	Epic Gabriel		Sharp
November 11th, 2020	Juice Box #19	512	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Ned
November 18th, 2020	Juice Box #20	512	Samuel Robert Buzby	Dabuz		Ravenking
December 2nd, 2020	Juice Box #21	514	Enrique Hernández Solís	Maister		Ned
December 9th, 2020	Juice Box #22	512	Markus Florido	ShinyMark		Sonix
December 16th, 2020	Juice Box #23	512	Gabriel Romero	Epic_Gabriel		ChunkyKong
January 6th, 2021	Juice Box #24	512	Gabriel Romero	Epic_Gabriel		Sharp
January 13th, 2021	Juice Box #25	512	Santiago Perez	Chag		Sharp
January 20th, 2021	Juice Box #26	512	Enrique Hernández Solís	Maister		Sharp
February 3rd, 2021	Juice Box #27	514	Leonardo Lopez	MkLeo		Sonix
February 10th, 2021	Juice Box #28	514	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Aaron
February 17th, 2021	Juice Box #29	512	Aaron Wilhite	Aaron		Sparg0
March 3rd, 2021	Juice Box #30	512	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		SKITTLES!!
March 10th, 2021	Juice Box #31	512	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		WaDi
March 17th, 2021	Juice Box #32	512	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Maister
March 24th, 2021	Juice Box #33	512	Jestise Negron	MVD		Ned
April 7th, 2021	Juice Box #34	512	Enrique Hernández Solís	Maister		Skyjay
April 14th, 2021	Juice Box #35	512	Nicholas Dovel	Ned		Maister
April 21st, 2021	The Box: Juicebox+	516	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Riddles
May 5th, 2021	Juice Box #36	513	Jake Silberman	Jake		Sonix
May 12th, 2021	Juice Box #37	512	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		ShinyMark
May 19th, 2021	Juice Box #38	514	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		ATATA
June 2nd, 2021	Juice Box #39	515	Michael Tedesco	Tilde		Capitancito
June 9th, 2021	Juice Box #40	513	Spencer Garner	Scend		Tilde
June 12th, 2021	Juice Box #41	456	Markus Florido	ShinyMark		Mr. E
June 23rd, 2021	Juice Box #42	512	Jake Silberman	Jake		ShinyMark
July 7th, 2021	Juice Box #43	512	Beckett Rogers	Demon		LMan
July 14th, 2021	Juice Box #44	500	Markus Florido	ShinyMark		Gamer
July 21st, 2021	Juice Box #45	512	Brett Esposito	8BitMan		Desmona
August 4th, 2021	Juice Box #46	512	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Jake
August 11th, 2021	Juice Box #47	512	Markus Florido	ShinyMark		AlanDiss
August 18th, 2021	Juice Box #48	502	Kiyarash Younessi	Kiyarash		OG-Mustaine
September 1st, 2021	Juice Box #49	356	Daniel Mustaine	OG-Mustaine		Mabel
September 8th, 2021	Juice Box #50	380	Brandon M.	Key		ven
September 15th, 2021	Juice Box #51	374	Spencer Garner	Scend		RockMan
September 22nd, 2021	Juice Box #52	415	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Jake
October 20th, 2021	Juice Box #55	483	Jake Silberman	Jake		BeastModePaul
November 3rd, 2021	Juice Box #56	347	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		RockMan
November 10th, 2021	Juice Box #57	362	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Jahzz0
November 17th, 2021	Juice Box #58	343	Jake Silberman	Jake		OG-Mustaine

The Coinbox

Logo for The Coinbox.

Date	Event	Entrants	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
February 2nd, 2022	Coinbox #1	1,024	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Sonix
February 9th, 2022	Coinbox #2	1,024	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Sonix
February 16th, 2022	Coinbox #3	1,024	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		AlanDiss
March 2nd, 2022	Coinbox #4	922	Jake Silberman	Jake		Riddles
March 9th, 2022	Coinbox #5	728	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		enhancedpv
March 16th, 2022	Coinbox #6	667	Jake Silberman	Jake		SKITTLES!!
March 23rd, 2022	Coinbox #7	869	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		ShinyMark
March 30th, 2022	Coinbox #8	730	Kyle Traufmann	thirty4		Jake
April 6th, 2022	Coinbox #9	698	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Syrup
April 13th, 2022	Coinbox #10	803	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Onin
April 20th, 2022	Coinbox #11	750	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Jake
April 27th, 2022	Coinbox #12	825	Markus Florido	ShinyMark		Desmona
May 4th, 2022	Coinbox #13	721	Michael Kim	Riddles		thirty4
May 11th, 2022	Coinbox #14	682	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Epic_Gabriel
May 18th, 2022	Coinbox #15	753	Gabriel Romero	Epic_Gabriel		Kiyarash
May 25th, 2022	Coinbox #16	785	Enrique Hernández Solís	Maister		Scend
June 1st, 2022	Coinbox #17	663	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Scend
June 8th, 2022	Coinbox #18	702	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		thirty4
June 15th, 2022	Coinbox #19	769	Gabriel Romero	Epic_Gabriel		Maister
June 22nd, 2022	Coinbox #20	693	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Desmona
June 29th, 2022	Coinbox #21	863	Markus Florido	ShinyMark		AlanDiss
July 6th, 2022	Coinbox #22	730	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		ShinyMark
July 13th, 2022	Coinbox #23	741	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Onin
July 20th, 2022	Coinbox #24	827	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Midnight
July 27th, 2022	Coinbox #25	604	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Syrup
August 31st, 2022	Coinbox #30	776	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		ShinyMark
September 7th, 2022	Coinbox #31	548	Mario Cervantes	WaKa		JeJaJeJa
September 14th, 2022	Coinbox #32	633	Mario Cervantes	WaKa		LeoN
September 21st, 2022	Coinbox #33	517	Juan Pablo	Skyjay		AlanDiss
September 28th, 2022	Coinbox #34	548	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Maister
October 5th, 2022	Coinbox #35	540	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Sparg0
October 12th, 2022	Coinbox #36	529	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Maister
October 19th, 2022	Coinbox #37	526	Spencer Garner	Scend		Desmona
October 26th, 2022	Coinbox #38	548	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		OG-Mustaine
November 2nd, 2022	Coinbox #39	468	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Jake
November 9th, 2022	Coinbox #40	469	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Maister
November 16th, 2022	Coinbox #41	460	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Maister
November 23rd, 2022	Coinbox #42	471	Jake Silberman	Jake		ShinyMark
November 30th, 2022	Coinbox #43	342	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Epic_Gabriel
December 7th, 2022	Coinbox #44	447	Mario Cervantes	WaKa		Jake
December 14th, 2022	Coinbox #45	440	Jake Silberman	Jake		Sonix
December 21st, 2022	Coinbox #46	509	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Desmona
December 28th, 2022	Coinbox #47	492	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Wrath
February 15th, 2023	Coinbox #49	783	Michael Kim	Riddles		ShinyMark
March 1st, 2023	Coinbox #51	903	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Sparg0
March 15th, 2023	Coinbox #53	801	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Sonix
March 29th, 2023	Coinbox #55	855	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		ShinyMark
April 12th, 2023	Coinbox #57	954	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Sonix
April 26th, 2023	Coinbox #59	793	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Maister
May 10th, 2023	Coinbox #60	815	Markus Florido	ShinyMark		Peru
May 24th, 2023	Coinbox #62	772	Michael Kim & Carlos Pérez	Riddles &  Sonix	&	Dabuz
June 7th, 2023	Coinbox #64	922	Markus Florido	ShinyMark		Sonix
July 5th, 2023	Coinbox #67	876	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Sonix
July 19th, 2023	Coinbox #69	1,546	Pau Caire Albors	Sisqui		MoDzai
August 2nd, 2023	Coinbox #71	931	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Sonix
August 16th, 2023	Coinbox #73	944	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Sparg0
September 13th, 2023	Coinbox #75	975	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Sonix
September 27th, 2023	Coinbox #77	715	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Wrath
October 11th, 2023	Coinbox #79	719	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		JaZaR
October 25th, 2023	Coinbox #81	682	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Sonix
November 8th, 2023	Coinbox #83	712	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Sonix
November 22nd, 2023	Coinbox #85	552	Markus Florido	ShinyMark		Sonix
December 13th, 2023	Coinbox #86	666	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Sonix
January 17th, 2024	Coinbox #87	1,024	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Wrath
January 25th, 2024	Coinbox #88	615	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Sonix
January 31st, 2024	Coinbox #89	662	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Sparg0
February 7th, 2024	Coinbox #90	637	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Wrath
February 14th, 2024	Coinbox #91	552	Angel Mireles & unknown	Onin &  lolyoshi	&	Scend &  Luis	&
February 28th, 2024	Coinbox #93	702	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Sonix
March 6th, 2024	Coinbox #94	612	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Chase
March 13th, 2024	Coinbox #95	813	Carrington Osborne	Wrath		TM7_ZAP
March 20th, 2024	Coinbox #96	799	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Chase
March 27th, 2024	Coinbox #97	756	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Lima
April 10th, 2024	Coinbox #99	684	Angel Mireles	Onin		AlanDiss
April 24th, 2024	Coinbox #100	844	Markus Florido	ShinyMark		elijmin
May 8th, 2024	Coinbox #101	743	Markus Florido	ShinyMark		Sonix

The Box: Lunch Box

Logo for The Box: Lunch Box.

Date	Event	Entrants	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
June 24th, 2020	The Box: Lunch Box 1	512	Gabriel Romero	Epic_Gabriel		Maister
July 29th, 2020	The Box: Lunch Box 2	512	Ryan McDonough	Ravenking		Maister
August 26th, 2020	The Box: Lunch Box 3	512	Enrique Hernández Solís	Maister		MkLeo
September 30th, 2020	The Box: Lunch Box 4	446	Spencer Garner	BestNess		KirbyKid
October 28th, 2020	The Box: L4st's Box	512	Enrique Hernández Solís	Maister		LeoN
November 25th, 2020	The Box: Lunch Box 6	393	Yezre'el Askew	Yez		ShinyMark
December 23rd, 2020	The Box: Lunch Box 7	434	Gabriel Romero	Epic_Gabriel		Chag
January 27th, 2021	The Box: Lunch Box 8	416	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Chag
February 24th, 2021	The Box: Lunch Box 9	413	Tanner Jordan	SKITTLES!!		Sparg0
March 31st, 2021	The Box: Lunch Box 10	339	Enrique Hernández Solís	Maister		Sonix
April 28th, 2021	The Box: Lunchbox+	430	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Maister
May 26th, 2021	The Box: Lunch Box 11	322	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Sonix
June 30th, 2021	The Box: Lunch Box 12	203	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		AlanDiss
July 28th, 2021	The Box: Lunch Box 13	193	Tanner Jordan	SKITTLES!!		AlanDiss
August 25th, 2021	The Box: Lunch Box 14	209	Kiyarash Younessi	Kiyarash		Jake
September 29th, 2021	The Box: Lunch Box 15	196	Jake Silberman	Jake		WaKa
October 27th, 2021	The Box: Lunch Box 16	167	Mario Cervantes	WaKa		Sparg0
November 24th, 2021	The Box: Lunch Box 17	155	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		WaKa
January 26th, 2022	The Box: Lunch Box 18	1,024	Markus Florido	ShinyMark		Sparg0
February 23rd, 2022	The Box: Lunch Box 19	739	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Maister

Other

Date	Event	Entrants	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
May 8th-10th, 2020	The Box	8,158	Spencer Garner	BestNess		Tweek
July 24th, 2020	The Box: The Cube Charity Doubles Invitational	16	Spencer Garner & Luis Oceguera	BestNess &  Lui$	&	Kola &  Wrath	&
August 14th, 2020	The Box: SmolBox	256	Luis Oceguera	Lui$		Cosmos
October 10th, 2020	The Box: El Jugo Box	512	Edgar Valdez	Sparg0		Sonix
December 17th, 2023	The Coinbox IRL	174	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Sparg0
April 24th, 2024	PIZZABOX: A GOML X QUALIFIER	169	Jayson Medeiros	Soar		BlueJay

Melee Winners

The Coinbox

Date	Event	Entrants	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
February 8th, 2023	Coinbox #48	1,024	Cody Schwab	Cody Schwab		Zion
February 22nd, 2023	Coinbox #50	465	Sasha Sullivan	Magi		SFOP
March 7th, 2023	Coinbox #52	377	Cody Schwab	Cody Schwab		Wevans
March 21st, 2023	Coinbox #54	404	Cody Schwab	Cody Schwab		Hungrybox
April 4th, 2023	Coinbox #56	387	Cody Schwab	Cody Schwab		Zion
April 18th, 2023	Coinbox #58	330	Cody Schwab	Cody Schwab		Zion
May 16th, 2023	Coinbox #61	496	Cody Schwab	Cody Schwab		Spark
May 30th, 2023	Coinbox #63	272	Cody Schwab	Cody Schwab		Hungrybox
June 27th, 2023	Coinbox #66	344	Avery Wilson	Ginger		Hax$
July 11th, 2023	Coinbox #68	296	Aziz Al-Yami	Hax$		Zuppy
July 25th, 2023	Coinbox #70	312	Justin McGrath	Plup		Hungrybox
August 8th, 2023	Coinbox #72	286	Cody Schwab	Cody Schwab		Salt
August 22nd, 2023	Coinbox #74	324	Cody Schwab	Cody Schwab		Hungrybox
September 19th, 2023	Coinbox #76	280	Cody Schwab	Cody Schwab		Salt
October 3rd, 2023	Coinbox #78	252	Cody Schwab	Cody Schwab		Hungrybox
October 17th, 2023	Coinbox #80	222	Juan Debiedma	Hungrybox		Magi
October 31st, 2023	Coinbox #82	230	Sasha Sullivan	Magi		Aklo
November 14th, 2023	Coinbox #84	846	Jake DiRado	Jmook		SFOP

Smash 4 Winners

The Coinbox

Date	Event	Entrants	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
April 3rd, 2024	The Coinbox 98 - SM4SH SENDOFF	358	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Wrath

Trivia

• Some of the weekly tournaments have been played on games outside of Smash.
  • The Juice Box #53 and #54 were played on Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl.
  • The Coinbox #26, #27, #28, and #29 were played on MultiVersus.
  • The Coinbox #65 was played on Street Fighter 6.
  • The SLIME Box and The SLIME Box #2 were played on Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2.
  • The Coinbox #92 was played on Tekken 8.
• VoiD, Plup, and Sonix are the only players to have won a Box series tournament in multiple games.
  • VoiD's victories were in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (Juice Box #53) and MultiVersus (Coinbox #26).
  • Plup's victories were in Smash Melee (Coinbox #70) and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 (The SLIME Box #2).
  • Sonix's victories were in Smash Ultimate (first win being Juice Box #4) and Smash 4 (The Coinbox #98).
• Sonix is the only player to have won a Box series event without dropping a single game, doing so in both The Coinbox #89 and #96.
• Counter Logic Gaming won every Melee Coinbox while the team was active; with Cody Schwab winning #48, #52, #54, and #56, and Magi winning #50.
• Cody Schwab won every Melee Coinbox he entered except for #50, where he placed 9th, #66, where he placed 25th using Sheik, and #82, where he again placed 9th after DQ'ing.
• The Coinbox #62 was decided to have two winners after Nintendo online server maintenance started at the beginning of the Grand Finals reset, preventing it from completing.
• The Coinbox #69 was region-locked to most of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, rather than North America.
• The Coinbox #91 was a doubles tournament for Valentine's Day.
• The Coinbox #98 was held in Smash 4 in the final week before the Wii U online servers were shut down.

External links

• Coinbox Schedule