The UK Beatbox Championships (UKBC) are hosted every year in

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. This historic annual all-day event, which brings together the country's top

beatbox Beatboxing (also beat boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (typically a TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.

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. Reeps One in 2012

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, the

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, the Garage, Highbury the

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and the

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The first ever UK Beatbox Championship took place in 2005 in

, hosted by UK Beatbox Championships. Qualification for the UK Beatbox Championships consists of geographical heats held around Britain, which are contested from February through to June in

(South-east),

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(South-West) (Bristol heats),

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(Midlands) and

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(North).

Beatboxing Beatboxing (also beat boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (typically a TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.

is the art of producing percussion, rhythm and musical sounds using only parts of the human body, namely the

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and

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. 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. In 2020, because of the

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, 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

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, since then the sponsor has been Relentless energy drink and Popbox. *The winners of each title qualify for the

Beatbox Battle World Championship The Beatbox Battle World Championship (BBBWC) is hosted triennially (every three years) hosted by Beatbox Battle Tv in a week-long festival held in Berlin, Germany. Face-to-face beatbox battles take place in five different categories:- individual ma ...

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. *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

, only the Solo and Loopstation events went ahead and were held online. *2021 *2022

UKBC Historical results 2005 to present

References

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External links

UK Beatbox Championships on facebook

Swissbeatbox.com - World's largest Beatbox Platform

Beatboxbattle.tv - Organizer of the World Beatbox Championship

Humanbeatbox.com - One of the first Beatboxing Online-Communities
Beatboxing Recurring events established in 2005