UK Beatbox Championships explained

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,^[1] the O2 Academy Islington,^[2] the Garage, Highbury ^[3] the Grand Theatre, Clapham, London and the Battersea Arts Centre^[4] The first ever UK Beatbox Championship took place in 2005 in London, England, hosted by UK Beatbox Championships.^[5] 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). 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.^[6] The event attracts around 1000 spectators and is live streamed to around 90 countries globally. A panel of highly respected judges include former winners and international judges from the beatboxing fraternity. 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.^[7]

In 2020, because of the Covid-19 Pandemic, the UKBB championships were successfully held online, the judges included Chiwawa, Chris Selez, D-Low, Kim, Sizzler, Frosty, Inkie and Rythmind.

Timeline

2005 UKBB inaugural event won by Faith FSX.
The tournament was sponsored in the early years by Vauxhall, since then the sponsor has been Relentless energy drink and Popbox.
The winners of each title qualify for the Beatbox Battle World Championship in Berlin.^[8]
2006 - Solo was won by Beardyman
2007 - Solo was won by Beardyman
2008 - Solo was won by MC Zani
2009 - Solo was won by Reeps One
2010 - Solo was won by Reeps One
2011 - Solo was won by Ball-Zee
2012 - Male Solo was won by Ball-Zee
2012 - A solo event for ladies was introduced and was won by Grace Savage.
2012 - A team event was introduced and was won by Illbits.
2013 - Solo was won by Ball-Zee
2013 - Solo Female was won by Grace Savage
2013 - Team event was won by Illbits
2014 - Solo was won by Contirx
2014 - Solo Female was won by Bellatrix
2014 - Team event was won by Illbits
2014 - Loopstation was introduced and was won by Hobbit.
2014 - An Under 18 tournament was introduced and was won by D-Low.
2015 - Solo was won by D-Low
2015 - Solo Female was abolished as a category
2015 - Team Category was won by all female beatbox team BURD (Bellatrix and Grace Savage)
2015 - Loopstation was won by OxBox.
2015 - Under 18 was won by RedBeard
2016 - Solo was won by D-Low
2016 - Team Category was won by all female beatbox team BURD (Bellatrix and Grace Savage)
2016 - Loopstation was won by Bellatrix
2016 - Under 18 was won by Frosty
2017 - Solo was won by Frosty
2017 - Team Category was won by Kotcha
2017 - Loopstation was won by Balance
2017 - Under 18 was won by Epos
2018 - Solo was won by D-Low
2018 - Team Category was won by Kotcha
2018 - Loopstation was won by Balance
2018 - Under 18 was won by Jeddzino
2019 - Solo was won by ABH
2019 - Team Category was won by A-Cloud
2019 - Loopstation was won by Frosty
2019 - Under 18 was won by Kyleeshvns
2020 - Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, only the Solo and Loopstation events went ahead and were held online.

UKBC Historical results 2005 to present

Year	Champion	Runner-Up	Semi-Finalist	Semi-Finalist	Video/Reference
bgcolor=#EEDD82 colspan=7 align=left	Solo
2005	Faith FSX	Beardyman	MC Zani	Dr Badfunk	^[9]
2006		Pikey Esquire	Foz	Dr Rhythm	^[10]
2007	Beardyman ^[11]	MC Zani	Bellatrix	Talisman	^[12]
2008	MC Zani	Reeps One	Lippicool	ThePetebox	^[13]
2009		ThePetebox	Layth	Big Taj	^[14]
2010		Hobbit	Layth	Yasson	^[15]
2011	Ball-Zee	Reeps One	Hobbit	Beatfox	^[16]
2012	Ball-Zee	BeatFox	Experimental	Griff	^[17]
2013	Ball-Zee	Hobbit	Minamus	Raw Element	^[18]
2014	Contrix	Hobbit	ABH	Big Taj	^[19]
2015	Contrix	BeatFox	Trey Qua	Cull	^[20]
2016		ABH	Contrix	Beatfox	^[21]
2017	Frosty	D-Low	ABH	Renegrade	^[22]
2018	D-Low	Frosty	BeatFox	Graycloud	^[23]
2019	ABH	Bass Ventura	Kimmybeatbox	Epos	^[24]

Year	Champion	Runner-Up	Semi-Finalist	Semi-Finalist
bgcolor=#EEDD82 colspan=7 align=left	Women
2012 Women	Grace Savage	Dana McKeon	-	-
2013 Women	Grace Savage	Dana McKeon	MC Lycan	Ness
2014 Women	Bellatrix	BeBox	Dirty Gut Bucket	J9
2015 Women	Event abolished	-	-	-

Year	Champion	Runner-Up	Semi-Finalist	Semi-Finalist
bgcolor=#EEDD82 colspan=7 align=left	Teams
2012 Teams	IllBits	Minamus & Raw Element	-	-
2013 Teams	IllBits	Minamus & Crumpets	TyTe & Bevis	SoundByts & Feman
2014 Teams	IllBits	ABH & Contrix	MicB & Subsonic	Grace Savage & Bellatrix
2015 Teams	BURD	ABH & Contrix	A-Cloud	The Foosa
2016 Teams	BURD	A-Cloud	Waveless	ABH & Contrix
2017 Teams	Kotcha	A-Cloud	Ultragrade	BPM
2018 Teams	Kotcha	A-Cloud	BPM	Intensifree
2019 Teams	A-Cloud	K-A-Pow	Throwback	Bassacre
2020 Teams	Cancelled due to	Covid-19 Pandemic

Year	Champion	Runner-Up	Semi-Finalist	Semi-Finalist
bgcolor=#EEDD82 colspan=7 align=left	Loopstation
2013 Loopstation	Hobbit	Mr Phormula	-	-
2014 Loopstation	Hobbit	Oxbox	Ram Z	Mr Phormula
2015 Loopstation	Oxbox	Ram Z	Frack	Motormouf
2016 Loopstation	Bellatrix	Heavy Treble	Oxbox	Motormouf
2017 Loopstation	Balance	D-Low	Frosty	Bowl
2018 Loopstation	Balance	Oxbox	Frosty	D-Low
2019 Loopstation	Frosty	Guuru	Oxbox	TMY
2020 Loopstation	Epos	TMY	Clockworx	Domtapper

Year	Champion	Runner-Up	Semi-Finalist	Semi-Finalist
bgcolor=#EEDD82 colspan=7 align=left	Under 18
2014 Under 18s	D-Low ^[25]	Redbeard	Scorch	FrostyFX
2015 Under 18s	Redbeard	Lewie G	Epos	Scorch
2016 Under 18s	Frosty	Epos	Maish	Droplet
2017 Under 18s	Epos	Maish	Sonorous	Crocs
2018 Under 18s	Jeddzino	W1sh	Sonorous	Mozzie
2019 Under 18s	Kyle ESHvans	Mozzie	Chewis	Marcus Bush
2020 Under 18s	Cancelled due to

External links

Notes and References

Web site: 2016 UK Beatboxing Championships - The Finals. scala.co.uk . 2016 . June 29, 2021.
Web site: Vauxhall UK Beatboxing Championships 2010 - The Grand Finals. ra.co . 2010 . June 29, 2021.
Web site: 2019 UK Beatbox Championships Live at The Garage, Highbury . thegarage.london . 2019 .
Web site: 2018 UK Beatbox Championships . voicemag.uk . 2018 .
Web site: UK Beatbox Championship home . ukbeatboxchampionships.com . 2017 . 19 January 2018.
Web site: Vauxhall UK Beatbox Championship 2012 . vauxhall.co.uk . 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110531032202/http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vauxhall-uk-beatbox-championships.html . 16 January 2018. 31 May 2011 .
Web site: UKBC Judging Criteria . ukbeatboxchampionships.com . 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180401065433/http://www.ukbeatboxchampionships.com:80/judging-criteria.html . 1 April 2018 .
Web site: 2015-05-29 Beatbox Battle World Championship . astra-berlin.de . 2015 . 19 January 2018.
Web site: 2005 UKBC Results . ukbc.com . 2005 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190129184553/http://ukbeatboxchampionships.com:80/2005.html . 29 January 2019 .
Web site: 2006 UKBC Results . ukbc.com . 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190905220607/http://ukbeatboxchampionships.com/2006.html . 5 September 2019 .
Web site: The beat goes on . independent.co.uk . 2017 . 19 January 2018.
Web site: 2007 UKBC Results . ukbc.com . 2017 . 19 January 2018.
Web site: 2008 UKBC Results . ukbc.com . 2017 . 19 January 2018.
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Web site: 2010 UKBC Results . ukbc.com . 2017 . 19 January 2018.
Web site: 2011 UKBC Results . ukbc.com . 2017 . 19 January 2018.
Web site: 2012 UKBC Results . ukbc.com . 2017 . 19 January 2018.
Web site: 2013 UKBC Results . ukbc.com . 2017 . 19 January 2018.
Web site: 2014 UKBC Results . ukbc.com . 2017 . 19 January 2018.
Web site: 2015 UKBC Results . ukbc.com . 2017 . 19 January 2018.
Web site: 2016 UKBC Results . ukbc.com . 2017 . 19 January 2018.
Web site: 2017 UKBC Results . ukbc.com . 2017 . 19 January 2018.
Web site: 2018 UKBC Results . ukbc.com . 2018 . 20 January 2021.
Web site: Congratulations to our 2019 UK Beatbox Championship winners . UK Beatbox Championship on facebook . 2019.
Web site: Dan is unbeatable in national contest . Swindon Advertiser . 2014 . 19 January 2018.