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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, the O2 Academy Islington, the Garage, Highbury the Grand Theatre, Clapham, London and the Battersea Arts Centre The first ever UK Beatbox Championship took place in 2005 in London, England, 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 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. 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 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.
