UK Beatbox Championships

The UK Beatbox Championships (UKBC) are hosted every year in London, England. This historic annual all-day event, which brings together the country's top beatbox artists for gladiatorial knock-out of face to face beatbox battles, in five different categories solo, female, team, loopstation and under-18. The 2019 UK Beatbox Championships was held on 23 and 24 November 2019.

History

The UK Beatbox Championships are one of the major tournaments in British Hip Hop music scene, and has been held at various venues in its history that include the Scala at Kings Cross, O2 Academy Islington, the Garage, and the Grand Theatre, Clapham, London.[1][2] The first ever UK Beatbox Championship took place in 2005 in London, England, hosted by UK Beatbox Championships.[3] Qualification for the UK Beatbox Championships consists of geographical heats held around Britain, which are contested from February through to June in London(South-east), Bristol (South-West) (Bristol heats), Nottingham (Midlands) and Liverpool (North).[4] Beatboxing is the art of producing percussion, rhythm and musical sounds using only parts of the human body, namely the mouth, lips, tongue, vocal cords, nasal passage and throat.[4] The event attracts around 1000 spectators and is live streamed to around 90 countries globally.[1] A panel of highly respected judges include former winners and international judges from the beatboxing fraternity.[4] The judges listen for originality, musical composition, technique, clarity, complexity, timing, rhythm, flow, and performance. They look for witty response in battle, ingenuity, endurance and intelligence.[5]

Winners of the solo event include Faith FSX (2005), Beardyman (2006,2007), MC Zani (2008), Reeps One (2009,2010), Ball-Zee (2011, 2012, 2013), Contrix (2014, 2015), D-Low (2016) and Frosty (2017).[3] A solo event for ladies was introduced in 2012 and won by Grace Savage (2012, 2013) and Bellatrix (2014) before being disbanded the 2016 event.[3] A team event was introduced in 2012 and has been won by Illbits (2012, 2013, 2014), the all female group BURD (2015, 2016) and Kotcha (2017).[3] Loopstation was introduced in 2013 and has been won by Hobbit (2013, 2014), Oxbox (2015), Bellatrix (2016) and Balance (2017).[3] An Under 18 tournament was introduced in 2014 and has been won by D-low (2014), Redbeard (2015), Frosty (2016) and Epos (2017).[3] The tournament was sponsored in the early years by Vauxhall,[4] since then the sponsor has been Relentless energy drink and Popbox.[3] The winners of each title qualify for the Beatbox Battle World Championship in Berlin.[6]

UKBC Historical results 2005 to present
Solo
Year Champion Runner-Up Semi-Finalist Semi-Finalist Video/Reference
2005 Faith FSX Beardyman MC Zani Dr Badfunk [7]
2006 Beardyman Pikey Esquire Foz Dr Rhythm [8]
2007 Beardyman [9] MC Zani Bellatrix Talisman [10]
2008 MC Zani Reeps One Lippicool ThePetebox [11]
2009 Reeps One ThePetebox Layth Big Taj [12]
2010 Reeps One Hobbit Layth Yasson [13]
2011 Ball-Zee Reeps One Hobbit Beatfox [14]
2012 Ball-Zee BeatFox Experimental Griff [15]
2013 Ball-Zee Hobbit Minamus Raw Element [16]
2014 Contrix Hobbit ABH Big Taj [17]
2015 Contrix BeatFox Trey Qua Cull [18]
2016 D-Low ABH Contrix Beatfox [19]
2017 Frosty D-Low ABH Renegrade [20]
2018 D-Low Frosty BeatFox Graycloud [21]
2019 ABH Bass Ventura Kimmybeatbox Epos [22]
Women
Year Champion Runner-Up Semi-Finalist Semi-Finalist Video/Reference
2012 Women Grace Savage Dana McKeon - - [15]
2013 Women Grace Savage Dana McKeon MC Lycan Ness [16]
2014 Women Bellatrix BeBox Dirty Gut Bucket J9 [17]
2015 Women Event abolished - - -
Teams
Year Champion Runner-Up Semi-Finalist Semi-Finalist Video/Reference
2012 Teams IllBits Minamus & Raw Element - - [15]
2013 Teams IllBits Minamus & Crumpets TyTe & Bevis SoundByts & Feman [16]
2014 Teams IllBits ABH & Contrix MicB & Subsonic Grace Savage & Bellatrix [17]
2015 Teams BURD ABH & Contrix A-Cloud The Foosa [18]
2016 Teams BURD A-Cloud Waveless ABH & Contrix [19]
2017 Teams Kotcha A-Cloud Ultragrade BPM [20]
2018 Teams Kotcha A-Cloud BPM Intensifree [21]
2019 Teams A-Cloud K-A-Pow Throwback Bassacre [22]
Loopstation
Year Champion Runner-Up Semi-Finalist Semi-Finalist Video/Reference
2013 Loopstation Hobbit Mr Phormula - - [16]
2014 Loopstation Hobbit Oxbox RamZ Mr Phormula [17]
2015 Loopstation Oxbox RamZ Frack Motormouf [18]
2016 Loopstation Bellatrix Heavy Treble Oxbox Motormouf [19]
2017 Loopstation Balance D-Low Frosty Bowl [20]
2018 Loopstation Balance Oxbox Frosty D-Low [21]
2019 Loopstation Frosty Guuru Oxbox TMY [22]
Under 18
Year Champion Runner-Up Semi-Finalist Semi-Finalist Video/Reference
2014 Under 18s D-Low [23] Redbeard Scorch FrostyFX [17]
2015 Under 18s Redbeard Lewie G Epos Scorch [18]
2016 Under 18s Frosty Epos Maish Droplet [19]
2017 Under 18s Epos Maish Sonorous Crocs [20]
2018 Under 18s Jeddzino W1sh Sonorous Mozzie [21]
2019 Under 18s Kyle ESHvans Mozzie Chewis Marcus Bush [22]

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