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Grand Beatbox Battle

The Grand Beatbox Battle (commonly abbreviated GBB) is an annual international beatboxing competition hosted by Swissbeatbox. The competition holds multiple tournaments for different forms and categories of beatboxing which include: Solo (or Showcase), Loopstation, Tag Team, Crew, Tag Team Loopstation, Producer and Under 18.

Grand Beatbox Battle
2019 GBB Poster
StatusActive
GenreTournament
VenueEX THEATER ROPPONGI (2023)
Location(s)Basel, Switzerland (2011-2018)
Warsaw, Poland (2019-2021)
Tokyo, Japan (2023-)
Years active15 years
Inaugurated2009 (2009)
Founder
  • Andreas "Pepouni" Fraefel
  • Kilian "Kilaa" So[1]
  • Claudio Rudin
Organised bySwissbeatbox
Websitegbbofficial.com

The event follows a traditional tournament format, where competitors take turns performing on a stage, and a panel of judges vote on the winner. To qualify for the tournament portion, beatboxers from around the world must submit "wildcards" online for an invitation or by winning another national and international competition, as well as pass an "elimination" round during the competition.

History edit

The first Grand Beatbox Battle was held in 2009 in Switzerland. It was part of the BScene Basel music festival where only Swiss-competitors are allowed to participate until in 2011, where it was open internationally.[2]

Results edit

Solo edit

Ed. Year Venue Champion Vice Champion Third Place Fourth Place Ref.
1 2009 Data not found
2 2010
3 2011 Basel, Switzerland   Skiller   KRNFX Was not awarded [3]
4 2012   Ball-Zee   Skiller [4]
5 2013   Dharni   Alem   Two H   K.I.M. [5][6][7][8]
6 2014   Dharni   Two H   K.I.M.   Alexinho [9]

[10]

7 2015   Gene Shinozaki   Efaybee   Jayton   Babeli [11]
8 2016   Kenny Urban   Napom   Gene Shinozaki   Babeli [12][13]
9 2017   Napom   Hiss   Alexinho   Trung Bao [14][15]
10 2018   Codfish   D-low   Hiss   Bataco [16][17]
11 2019 Warsaw, Poland   D-low   Tomazacre   B-Art   Codfish [18][19]
12 2020 Event was cancelled due to 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
13 2021 Warsaw, Poland   Colaps   River   FootboxG   Inertia [20][21]
14 2023 Tokyo, Japan   River   Napom   Wing   Abo Ice -
15 2024 To be determined

Loop Station edit

Ed. Year Venue Champion Vice

Champion

Third Place Fourth Place Ref.
1 2009 Data not found
2 2010
3 2011 Basel,

Switzerland

This competition did not take place in this year
4 2012
5 2013   Grison   Faya Braz   Camero   Slizzer
6 2014   Faya Braz   Hobbit Was not awarded [22]
7 2015   Mando   Penkyx   Wawad   MB14 [23][24]
8 2016   Thorsen   Tioneb   Ibarra   MB14 [25][26]
9 2017   Saro   Tioneb   MB14   Penkyx [27][28]
10 2018   Beatness   Balance   NME   Jarno

Ibarra

[29][30]
11 2019 Warsaw, Poland   Rythmind   NME   Inkie   SO-SO [31][32]
12 2020 Event was cancelled due to 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
13 2021 Warsaw, Poland   BizKit   Frosty   Rythmind   Chris

TheOdian

[33][34]
14 2023 Tokyo, Japan   Robin   Matej   BizKit   AVH -
15 2024 To be determined

Tag Team edit

Ed. Year Venue Champion Vice

Champion

Third Place Fourth Place Ref.
1 2009 Data not found
2 2010
3 2011 Basel,

Switzerland

This competition did not take place in this year
4 2012
5 2013
6 2014
7 2015
8 2016   Fabulous

Wadness

  Costik

Storm

  Mad Twinz   Spider

Horse

[35][36]
9 2017   Mad Twinz   A&Z   Spider

Horse

  Costik

Storm

[37][38]
10 2018   Spider

Horse

  Kotcha   K-PoM   Bery [39][40]
11 2019 Warsaw, Poland   Uniteam   Middle

School

  Kotcha   16bitzee [41][42]
12 2020 Event was cancelled due to 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
13 2021 Warsaw, Poland   Middle

School

  Rogue

Wave

  Rofu   ONII-CHAN [43][44]
14 2023 Tokyo, Japan   Rogue

Wave

  Jairo   Rofu   Jackpot -
15 2024 To be determined

Crew edit

Ed. Year Venue Champion Vice

Champion

Third Place Fourth Place Ref.
1 2009 Data not found
2 2010
3 2011 Basel,

Switzerland

This competition did not take place in this year
4 2012
5 2013
6 2014
7 2015
8 2016
9 2017
10 2018
11 2019 Warsaw, Poland
12 2020 Event was cancelled due to 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
13 2021 Warsaw, Poland   M.O.M   SARUKANI   S.Q.U.I.D   The

Razzzones

[45][46]
14 2023 Tokyo, Japan   SARUKANI   M.O.M   End Of

the Game

  YA NA HA -
15 2024 To be determined

Tag Team Loopstation edit

Ed. Year Venue Champion Vice

Champion

Third Place Fourth Place Ref.
1 2009 Data not found
2 2010
3 2011 Basel,

Switzerland

This competition did not take place in this year
4 2012
5 2013
6 2014
7 2015
8 2016
9 2017
10 2018
11 2019 Warsaw, Poland
12 2020 Event was cancelled due to 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
13 2021 Warsaw, Poland   SORRY   Bery   Scam Talk No more

Participants

[47][48][49]
14 2023 Tokyo, Japan This competition did not take place in this year
15 2024 To be determined

Producer edit

Ed. Year Venue Champion Vice

Champion

Third Place Fourth Place Ref.
1 2009 Data not found
2 2010
3 2011 Basel,

Switzerland

This competition did not take place in this year
4 2012
5 2013
6 2014
7 2015
8 2016
9 2017
10 2018
11 2019 Warsaw, Poland
12 2020 Event was cancelled due to 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
13 2021 Warsaw, Poland
14 2023 Tokyo, Japan Day 1   SyJo   KBA   FriiDon   Kaos -
Day 2   SyJo   Kaos   KBA   FriiDon -
15 2024 To be determined

Under 18 edit

Ed. Year Venue Champion Vice

Champion

Third Place Fourth Place Ref.
1 2009 Data not found
2 2010
3 2011 Basel,

Switzerland

This competition did not take place in this year
4 2012
5 2013
6 2014
7 2015
8 2016
9 2017
10 2018
11 2019 Warsaw, Poland
12 2020 Event was cancelled due to 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
13 2021 Warsaw, Poland
14 2023 Tokyo, Japan   Julard   Marvelous   Lennsi   Wand -
15 2024 To be determined

Participants edit

Info edit

  • Only countries that were represented at least once in any "Grand Beatbox Battle" are listed.
  • The year 2009 cannot be found in this table because no data was found for this year.
Number of Participants each Year in all Countries 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2023 Total

(Country)

  Australia - - - - - - - - 1 1 - - 2
  Austria - 1 - - - - - 2 - - 3 3 9
  Azerbaijan - - - - - - - - - - 1 - 1
  Belgium - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 3 3 - 13
  Bulgaria - 1 1 - - - 1 - - - - 1 4
  Canada - 2 2 1 - - - - 2 2 4 1 14
  Chile - - - - - - - - - 2 2 2 6
  China - - - - - - 1 2 1 - - - 4
  Czech

Republic

- - - - - - - - - - 1 - 1
  Denmark - - - - - - 1 1 - - 1 1 4
  France 1 4 - 3 6 7 8 11 7 11 16 11 85
  Germany 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 - - 6 10 28
  Hong Kong - 1 - - 1 - - 1 - - - - 3
  Hungary - - - 1 - - - - - - - - 1
  India - - - - - - - - 1 - - 5 6
  Indonesia - - - - - - - - - - - 1 1
  Israel - - - - - - - - - - 1 - 1
  Italy - - - - - 1 - - 1 1 - - 3
  Japan - - - 2 - - 1 2 2 3 6 11 27
  Lithuania - - - - - - 1 - - - - - 1
  Luxembourg - 1 - 1 - - - 1 - - 1 1 5
  Malaysia - - - - - - - - - - 2 3 5
  Netherlands - - 2 - 1 3 3 1 3 1 1 1 16
  Norway - - 1 - - - - - - - - - 1
  Romania - - - - - - 1 1 - - - - 2
  Russia - - - 1 - 2 2 2 3 1 2 6 19
  Saudi Arabia - - - - - - - - - - - 1 1
  Singapore - - 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 - - 1 7
  Slovenia - - - - - - - - - - 1 - 1
  South Korea - - 1 1 1 - - 2 4 2 5 6 22
  Spain - - - 1 3 - - - - 1 1 - 6
  Switzerland 20 13 13 3 3 3 2 1 - - - - 58
  Taiwan - - - - 1 - - - - - - - 1
  United

Kingdom

1 3 4 1 3 1 1 - 6 7 2 2 31
  United States

of America

- - - 1 - 3 8 4 6 3 9 7 41
  Vietnam - - - - - - - 1 2 2 1 - 6

Ref.: [50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62]

Grand Beatbox Battle Online edit

In 2020, Swissbeatbox held an online GBB competition to act as a qualifier for the cancelled 2020 Grand Beatbox Battle due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The event was held in Beatbox Community Discord server and was livestreamed at Swissbeatbox YouTube channel from 4-5th April 2020. The event includes Solo and Loopstation categories.[63]

Results

Category Champion Vice Champion Third Place Fourth Place Ref.
Solo   Zer0   Vocodah   Napom   Cloud
Loopstation   Frosty   BreZ   Kristóf   Rusy

Performances by nation edit

As of the 2023 edition
Nation S L TT C TTL P U18 Total
1   France 2 5 3 0 0 0 1 11
2   United States 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 5
3   Germany 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 3
4   United Kingdom 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
  Singapore 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
  Japan 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2
7   Australia 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
  Austria 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
  Belgium 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
  Bulgaria 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Denmark 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
  Russia 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
  Spain 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Swissbeatbox - World's largest Beatbox Platform". Swissbeatbox. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  2. ^ "About Grand Beatbox Battle". Human Beatbox. September 6, 2017. Retrieved January 4, 2024.
  3. ^ Swissbeatbox (11 April 2011). "KRNFX vs SKILLER Grand Beatbox Battle 2011 FINAL" – via YouTube.
  4. ^ Swissbeatbox (10 April 2012). "SKILLER vs BALL-ZEE Grand Beatbox Battle 2012 FINAL" – via YouTube.
  5. ^ Swissbeatbox (8 April 2013). "DHARNI Grand Beatbox Battle 13 Showcase Grand Final" – via YouTube.
  6. ^ Swissbeatbox (April 2013). "ALEM Grand Beatbox Battle 13 Showcase Grand Final" – via YouTube.
  7. ^ Swissbeatbox (April 2013). "TWO.H Grand Beatbox Battle 13 Showcase Small Final" – via YouTube.
  8. ^ Swissbeatbox (April 2013). "K.I.M. Grand Beatbox Battle 13 Showcase Small Final" – via YouTube.
  9. ^ Swissbeatbox (11 May 2014). "DHARNI (SNG) vs TWO.H (KOR) Grand Beatbox Battle 2014 FINAL" – via YouTube.
  10. ^ Swissbeatbox (11 May 2014). "ALEXINHO (FRA) vs K.I.M. (FRA) | Grand Beatbox Battle 2014 | SMALL FINAL" – via YouTube.
  11. ^ Swissbeatbox (26 April 2015). "GENE (USA) vs EFAYBEE (FRA) Grand Beatbox Battle 2015 FINAL" – via YouTube.
  12. ^ Swissbeatbox (29 April 2016). "KENNY URBAN vs NaPoM Grand Beatbox SHOWCASE Battle 2016 FINAL" – via YouTube.
  13. ^ Swissbeatbox (28 April 2016). "BABELI vs GENE Grand Beatbox SHOWCASE Battle 2016 SMALL FINAL" – via YouTube.
  14. ^ Swissbeatbox (29 April 2017). "HISS vs NaPoM Grand Beatbox SHOWCASE Battle 2017 FINAL" – via YouTube.
  15. ^ Swissbeatbox (28 April 2017). "ALEXINHO vs TRUNG BAO Grand Beatbox SHOWCASE Battle 2017 SMALL FINAL" – via YouTube.
  16. ^ Swissbeatbox (1 April 2018). "CODFISH vs D-LOW Grand Beatbox SHOWCASE Battle 2018 FINAL" – via YouTube.
  17. ^ Swissbeatbox (31 March 2018). "HISS vs BATACO Grand Beatbox SHOWCASE Battle 2018 SMALL FINAL" – via YouTube.
  18. ^ Swissbeatbox (7 May 2019). "D-LOW vs TOMAZACRE Grand Beatbox Battle 2019 Final" – via YouTube.
  19. ^ Swissbeatbox (12 May 2019). "B-ART vs CODFISH Grand Beatbox Battle 2019 SMALL FINAL" – via YouTube.
  20. ^ Swissbeatbox (10 January 2022). "RIVER' 🇫🇷 vs Colaps 🇫🇷 GRAND BEATBOX BATTLE 2021: WORLD LEAGUE Grand Final" – via YouTube.
  21. ^ Swissbeatbox (8 January 2022). "FootboxG 🇧🇪 vs King Inertia 🇺🇸 GRAND BEATBOX BATTLE 2021: WORLD LEAGUE Small Final" – via YouTube.
  22. ^ Swissbeatbox (29 March 2014). "HOBBIT vs FAYA BRAZ | Grand Beatbox Battle 2014 | Loopstation FINAL". YouTube.
  23. ^ Swissbeatbox (28 March 2015). "MANDO (GER) vs PENKYX (BEL) | Grand Beatbox LOOPSTATION Battle '15 | FINAL". YouTube.
  24. ^ Swissbeatbox (26 March 2015). "MB14 (FRA) vs WAWAD (FRA) | Grand Beatbox LOOPSTATION Battle '15 | SMALL FINAL". YouTube.
  25. ^ Swissbeatbox (6 April 2016). "THORSEN vs TIONEB | Grand Beatbox LOOPSTATION Battle 2016 | FINAL". YouTube.
  26. ^ Swissbeatbox (5 April 2016). "BARRA vs MB14 | Grand Beatbox LOOPSTATION Battle 2016 | SMALL FINAL". YouTube.
  27. ^ Swissbeatbox (3 April 2017). "TIONEB vs SARO | Grand Beatbox LOOPSTATION Battle 2017 | FINAL". YouTube.
  28. ^ Swissbeatbox (2 April 2017). "MB14 vs PENKYX | Grand Beatbox LOOPSTATION Battle 2017 | SMALL FINAL". YouTube.
  29. ^ Swissbeatbox (11 April 2018). "BEATNESS vs BALANCE | Grand Beatbox LOOPSTATION Battle 2018 | FINAL". YouTube.
  30. ^ Swissbeatbox (10 April 2018). "NME vs JARNO IBARRA | Grand Beatbox LOOPSTATION Battle 2018 | SMALL FINAL". YouTube.
  31. ^ Swissbeatbox (23 May 2019). "NME vs RYTHMIND | Grand Beatbox Battle 2019 | LOOPSTATION Final". YouTube.
  32. ^ Swissbeatbox (22 May 2019). "INKIE vs SO-SO | Grand Beatbox Battle 2019 | LOOPSTATION Small Final". YouTube.
  33. ^ Swissbeatbox (19 May 2022). "Frosty 🇬🇧 vs BizKit 🇺🇸 | GRAND BEATBOX BATTLE 2021: WORLD LEAGUE | Grand Final". YouTube.
  34. ^ Swissbeatbox (17 May 2022). "Rythmind 🇫🇷 vs Chris TheOdian 🇫🇷 | GRAND BEATBOX BATTLE 2021: WORLD LEAGUE | Small Final". YouTube.
  35. ^ Swissbeatbox (16 May 2016). "COSTIK STORM vs FABULOUS WADNESS | Grand Beatbox TAG TEAM Battle 2016 | GRAND FINAL". YouTube.
  36. ^ Swissbeatbox (15 May 2016). "SPIDER HORSE vs MAD TWINZ | Grand Beatbox TAG TEAM Battle 2016 | SMALL FINAL". YouTube.
  37. ^ Swissbeatbox (14 May 2017). "MAD TWINZ vs A&Z | Grand Beatbox TAG TEAM Battle 2017 | FINAL". YouTube.
  38. ^ Swissbeatbox (13 May 2017). "SPIDERHORSE vs COSTIK STORM | Grand Beatbox TAG TEAM Battle 2017 | SMALL FINAL". YouTube.
  39. ^ Swissbeatbox (25 April 2018). "KOTCHA vs SPIDER HORSE | Grand Beatbox TAG TEAM Battle 2018 | FINAL". YouTube.
  40. ^ Swissbeatbox (24 April 2018). "BERY vs K-PoM | Grand Beatbox TAG TEAM Battle 2018 | SMALL FINAL". YouTube.
  41. ^ Swissbeatbox (8 June 2019). "UNITEAM vs MIDDLE SCHOOL | Grand Beatbox Battle 2019 | Tag Team Final". YouTube.
  42. ^ Swissbeatbox (7 June 2019). "KOTCHA vs 16BITZEE | Grand Beatbox Battle 2019 | Tag Team Small Final". YouTube.
  43. ^ Swissbeatbox (3 March 2022). "Middle School 🇧🇪 vs Rogue Wave 🇫🇷 🇨🇴 | GRAND BEATBOX BATTLE 2021: WORLD LEAGUE | Grand Final". YouTube.
  44. ^ Swissbeatbox (1 March 2022). "Onii-Chan 🇩🇪 vs Rofu 🇯🇵 | GRAND BEATBOX BATTLE 2021: WORLD LEAGUE | Small Final". YouTube.
  45. ^ Swissbeatbox (30 January 2022). "M.O.M. 🇦🇹 | GRAND BEATBOX BATTLE 2021: WORLD LEAGUE | Crew Showcase". YouTube.
  46. ^ Swissbeatbox (28 January 2022). "Sarukani 🇯🇵 | GRAND BEATBOX BATTLE 2021: WORLD LEAGUE | Crew Showcase". YouTube.
  47. ^ Swissbeatbox (21 March 2022). "SORRY 🇯🇵 | GRAND BEATBOX BATTLE 2021: WORLD LEAGUE | Tag Team Loopstation Elimination". YouTube.
  48. ^ Swissbeatbox (19 March 2022). "Bery 🇫🇷 | GRAND BEATBOX BATTLE 2021: WORLD LEAGUE | Tag Team Loopstation Elimination". YouTube.
  49. ^ Swissbeatbox (23 March 2022). "Scam Talk 🇫🇷 | GRAND BEATBOX BATTLE 2021: WORLD LEAGUE | Tag Team Loopstation Showcase". YouTube.
  50. ^ Swissbeatbox (8 December 2017). "GBBB 2018 | SOLO Wildcard Winners". YouTube.
  51. ^ Swissbeatbox (12 November 2018). "GBB 2019 SOLO Wildcard Winner Announcement". YouTube.
  52. ^ Swissbeatbox (9 January 2019). "GBB 2019 LOOPSTATION Wildcard Winner Announcement". YouTube.
  53. ^ Swissbeatbox (11 November 2019). "GBB 2019 TAG TEAM Wildcard Winner Announcement". YouTube.
  54. ^ Swissbeatbox (14 May 2021). "Solo Wildcard Winners Announcement | GBB21: WORLD LEAGUE". YouTube.
  55. ^ Swissbeatbox (15 June 2021). "CREW Wildcard Winners Announcement | GBB21: WORLD LEAGUE". YouTube.
  56. ^ Swissbeatbox (13 May 2021). "LOOPSTATION (Solo) Wildcard Winners | GBB21: WORLD LEAGUE". YouTube.
  57. ^ Swissbeatbox (14 June 2021). "TAG TEAM Wildcard Winners Announcement | GBB21: WORLD LEAGUE". YouTube.
  58. ^ Swissbeatbox (27 March 2023). "Solo Qualified Wildcard Winners Announcement | GBB23: World League". YouTube.
  59. ^ Swissbeatbox (14 March 2023). "Crew Wildcard Winners Announcement | GBB23: World League". YouTube.
  60. ^ Swissbeatbox (26 March 2023). "Loopstation Qualified Wildcard Winners Announcement | GBB23: World League". YouTube.
  61. ^ Swissbeatbox (25 February 2023). "Tag Team Wildcard Winners Announcement | GBB23: World League". YouTube.
  62. ^ Swissbeatbox (5 March 2023). "Producer Wildcard Winners Announcement | GBB23: World League". YouTube.
  63. ^ Swissbeatbox (29 March 2020). "HELLO LOVELY BEATBOX COMMUNITY! As you know the GBB20 is postponed and many other battles are cancelled". Facebook.
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