Smash Bros Melee’s biggest ever participant, Crew Liquid’s Juan ‘Hungrybox’ DeBiedma, gained the CEO 2025 main.
Group Effort Orlando (CEO) is a big annual preventing sport occasion that includes a number of titles.
This latest win was Hungrybox’s thirty seventh main championship in Melee and his tenth CEO title, having gained the unique CEO 15 years in the past.
And the Crew Liquid professional gained this yr after his controller broke through the Grand Ultimate versus Justin ‘Wizzrobe’ Hallett.
The Jigglypuff primary’s phob controller started malfunctioning early into the ultimate.
Hungrybox needed to borrow a controller from fellow competitor Mast3rofFlavor1 on the occasion, simply to complete the match.
He was having points with the controller all through the match, as you possibly can see within the clip beneath.
Throughout the last, Hungrybox additionally needed to placed on headphones because the close by Brawhala match was too loud for him to pay attention.
It was an especially tense sequence during which Wizzrobe had a dominant begin, and it didn’t assist Hungrybox that he needed to forfeit Sport 1 of the primary set on his final inventory due to the controller points.
Nevertheless, the Crew Liquid professional was in a position to come again from 3-0 all the way down to reset the bracket and finally got here out on high.
Hungrybox was visibly emotional and shaky following the win, falling to his knees earlier than getting again as much as kiss his girlfriend within the crowd.
He additionally picked up his chair, as he had infamously achieved at a earlier occasion, however this time made some extent of inserting it down very gently reasonably than smashing it on the ground.
Talking after his spectacular victory, Hungrybox understandably gave credit score to the participant whose controller he used:
“I solely gained as a result of Mast3rofFlavor1 is an unimaginable sport and allowed me to change controllers mid sport, mid inventory, and many others and even gave me one other handwarmer.”
“I don’t deserve that kindness, however she’s so unimaginable for doing that.”
Hungrybox additionally then tweeted asking for controller suggestions earlier than additional reflecting on his accomplishment:
“Additionally: I gotta say I’m tremendous happy with myself for this weekend, actually needed to dig deep to one way or the other clutch that set.
“CEO for Smash is tremendous good and I’m hoping extra folks come out for Melee and [REDACTED] subsequent yr.”
It has been an enormous yr for Hungrybox. He additionally gained the Genesis X2 just a few months in the past after not successful an excellent main in nearly three years.
Hungrybox can also be on the listing of nominees for The Esports Awards 2025 after being nominated for Esports Controller Participant of the Decade.
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