Beat the Box is a singles format in which you split your participants into small groups, known as boxes. Within each box everyone plays against everyone else (a round-robin), and Slams keeps separate standings for each box. This gives you clear, evenly matched games, even with a large group. Beat the Box is often used as a competition running over several weeks, with promotion and relegation between the boxes.
How Beat the Box works in Slams
Every participant plays individually. You add players as individual participants, and Slams distributes them across the boxes through a random draw. The default box size is 8, but you can change this. Within a box, everyone plays one match against each other player. Slams automatically creates the full schedule, plans the courts and times, and makes sure nobody has to play on two courts at once (not even across boxes).
Because it is a singles format, matches played count towards the player rating. You can read more about this in Slams rating explained.
