Hungrybox

He himself took part of the tournament, finishing in 25th place.

In the mid-1990s, DeBiedma's family moved to Orlando, Florida, after which Violante became a real estate agent.

DeBiedma played piano and sang a capella while growing up.

He discovered video games at a young age, particularly enjoying the Super Mario Advance series, and started playing Melee when he was little after the stepson of one of his father's co-workers introduced him to the game.

He would also often play Super Smash Bros. Brawl with Fermin.

DeBiedma and his lifelong best friend and future manager, Luis "Crunch" Rosias, met in fifth grade in Orlando, and would often play Melee together.

He originally used Ness as his main character, but switched to Jigglypuff after realizing the effectiveness of the "Rest" move.

His eventual nickname, "Hungrybox", came from middle school after he failed to forge his mother's signature, producing a drawing instead.

He kept on recreating the drawing when bored in class, eventually resulting in a "hungry box" character resembling a box with eyes and a jagged mouth.

Juan Manuel DeBiedma (born June 21, 1993), better known by his alias Hungrybox, is an Argentine American professional Super Smash Bros. player and streamer.

Recognized as one of the greatest and most successful Super Smash Bros. Melee players of all time, he is one of the "Five Gods" of Melee along with Adam "Armada" Lindgren, Jason "Mew2King" Zimmerman, Joseph "Mang0" Marquez, and Kevin "PPMD" Nanney, and is regarded as the greatest Jigglypuff player in Melee history.

Juan Manuel DeBiedma was born in Argentina on June 21, 1993, to Juan Daniel Debiedma, a diplomat for Argentina, and Lucia Violante, a flight attendant.

He has two older brothers, Gaston, the oldest, and Fermin.

DeBiedma discovered the Super Smash Bros. competitive scene sometime between 2006–2007 and started to perform at small local tournaments in 2007.

DeBiedma was abandoned by his father Juan Daniel when he was 15 years old; they last saw each other July 20, 2008, when Juan Daniel dropped him off at the venue for the Brawl tournament Fast 1 before flying back to Argentina.

In July 2008, he volunteered to host several players at his parents' home for the upcoming 122-player Brawl tournament named Fast 1.

Hungrybox has won over thirty major Melee Singles tournaments between 2009 and 2022, including editions of Apex, The Big House, CEO, DreamHack, EVO, GENESIS, the MLG National Championship, and Smash Summit.

In 2009 at a local Tampa tournament, Twilight Showdown 6, he placed 3rd for the first time in any tournament, earning $27.50, his first prize money; he recognizes this as the first moment he considered becoming professional.

Hungrybox won his first-ever tournament at Revival of Melee 2 on November 21, 2009.

He then went on to place in high positions repeatedly on tournaments, with Apex 2010 on August 8 marking his first win in a major tournament.

For the following years, Hungrybox remained one of the top Melee players, and established himself as the best Jigglypuff player in the world.

He won both the Singles and Doubles tournaments at CEO 2010 (with ChuDat in Doubles), and then again at CEO 2011 (with Linguini in Doubles).

In parallel, he continued to compete on Brawl, to lesser success, and on the Brawl mod Project M, winning several minor tournaments.

After finishing in 7th place at Revival of Melee on March 7, Hungrybox placed 3rd at GENESIS for Melee on July 11, his first high placement at a major Melee tournament, while placing 97th on Brawl the following day.

Results in major tournaments included placing 2nd at both Apex 2012 and The Big House 3 in 2013.

He has been ranked one of the top five Melee players in the world every year since formal rankings began in 2013, achieving the top rank a record three consecutive times from 2017 to 2019; retroactive rankings establish him as a top five player in the world every year since 2009, and rank him number one for 2010.

A 2021 list compiled by PGstats ranked DeBiedma as the third-greatest Melee player of all time.

Despite his "God" status, he is considered one of the most polarizing figures in the Melee community, in part due to the unpopularity of his defensive, counterattack-centric playstyle among part of the community.

In 2013, Evo, the most prominent fighting game event worldwide, announced Melee as part of the Evo 2013 line-up, after the game had only previously been featured at Evo 2007.

The event is considered the full beginning of the "Era of the Five Gods" (or "Platinum" Era), which marked a surge in prominence and popularity for the Melee competitive scene, and its near-total domination by five players: Hungrybox, Adam "Armada" Lindgren, Jason "Mew2King" Zimmerman, Joseph "Mango" Marquez, and Kevin "PPMD" Nanney, with every Melee tournament ranked Supermajor (the highest rating for a Smash tournament) or Major (the second-highest) for several consecutive years being won by one of the "Gods", and them rarely losing to anyone but another "God".

At Evo 2013, Hungrybox finished in 3rd place, losing to Wobblez in the losers finals after a controversial finish; in parallel, he took part in a Melee Doubles Evo side-event, teaming up with Mew2King to win the tournament.

On July 3, 2013, Hungrybox was picked up by team CLASH Tournaments alongside fellow Super Smash Bros. player Aziz "Hax" Al-Yami.

On April 17 of the following year, he left CLASH Tournaments and joined Team Curse.

He is also an active competitor in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and he has been a member of Team Liquid since 2015.

In December 2021 Hungrybox became co-owner of Team Liquid.

He is currently ranked the 8th Melee player in the world for 2023.

Born in Argentina, DeBiedma grew up in Orlando, Florida, and became a U.S. citizen in 2017.

Although he is known for competing mostly with Jigglypuff, he has briefly used Fox in Melee.

Hungrybox has also competed in Super Smash Bros. games subsequent to Melee, including Project M and Ultimate professional tournaments.

Although primarily known as a Singles player, he also has an extensive career in Melee Doubles, and partnered up with a variety of other players, most notably Mew2King and Justin "Plup" McGrath, both of whom he won major Doubles tournaments with; he has been managed by his lifelong best friend Luis "Crunch" Rosias for the entirety of his career.