Tournament:The Box (series)

The Box is an online tournament series held by on 's Twitch channel. The series originally started with and consisted of a weekly (Juice Box) and a monthly at the end of each month (Lunch Box), held on Wednesdays, as well as a few special tournaments. In February 2022, the series was sponsored by Coinbase, renaming the weekly tournaments to The Coinbox and ceasing the monthlys. Most tournaments in the series are region-locked to North American countries. Juice Box/Coinbox events are open to any competitor within the region-lock, while Lunch Box tournaments, aside from a few special iterations, were limited to Hungrybox's Twitch subscribers.

While The Box 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.

Following Coinbox #51, was indefinitely banned from Ultimate Coinboxes 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." In January 2024, 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.

Trivia

 * Some of the weekly tournaments have been played on games outside of Smash.
 * The Juice Box #53 and #54 were played on .
 * The Coinbox #26, #27, #28, and #29 were played on .
 * The Coinbox #65 was played on .
 * The SLIME Box and The SLIME Box #2 were played on .
 * The Coinbox #69 was region-locked to most of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, rather than North America.
 * 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.
 * won every Melee Coinbox he entered except for #50, where he placed 9th, #66, where he placed 25th using, and #82, where he again placed 9th after DQ'ing.
 * won every Melee Coinbox while the team was active; with Cody Schwab winning #48, #52, #54, and #56, and winning #50.