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American Beatbox Championship 2016

October 18, 2016

The 2016 American Championship is the most anticipated battle of the year!

This year’s American Championships will be one to remember, where this is the first year the Beatbox House will be hosting. The Beatbox House has made waves in the beatbox community around the world and are gearing up to make their names heard in the city they call home.

This is the seventh year of the American Beatbox Championships and this year it is anybody's game! Gene Shinozaki, 2015 Grand Beatbox winner, will be judging this year. However, two-time American champion, Napom, will be judging overseas and will not be competing.

UPDATE:

After a long two evenings, the results are in. Mark Martin is the new 2016 American Beatbox Champion! This was his second time competing in the main solo battles after losing to Mike Lackey in 2015. And congratulation to Trung Bao, vietmanese college student from Oregon, for becoming the Vice Champion. Other winners include, the tag team SpiderHorse, Chris Celiz and Gene Shinozaki and loopstation winner, Kaila Mullady.

Here are all the details:

When: November 5th & 6th

Where: The Knitting Factory

361 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Judges:

Gene Shinozaki (The Beatbox House)

Pepouni (Swissbeatbox)

Kaila Mullady (Female Beatbox Battles World Champion 2015)

Reeps One (2x UK Beatbox Champion)

Dharni (2x Grand Beatbox Champion)

Alem (Beatbox Battles World Champion 2015)

Competition rules:

1V1 OPEN ELIMINATION | November 5th

Open elimination round will determine top 16
All Ages
Every beatboxer has up to 1:30 on stage to be chosen
Will be judged by score cards
Order of competitors to be determined day of competition
Beatboxers rank 1st-16th based on score
If a top 16 member does not attend the main event, the next ranking beatboxer (17th, 18th, 19th) will be placed in the battle

MAIN EVENT | November 6TH

All battles are A B A B format, and all rounds will be 1:30
Beatboxer A has 1:30, then it instantly passes to beatboxer B for 1:30, for two consecutive rounds
The battle will use a seeded bracket
Score from open elimination day determines who battles in the first round, 1st vs 16th, 2nd vs 15th, 3rd vs 14th, and so on
Battle is single elimination
If a beatboxer wins a battle, they will advance to the quarterfinals, then semifinals, then the finals
Overtime round will be allotted if the judges can not come to a definite winner
Overtime rounds are one round each, in reverse order that the battle was, for 30 seconds each.

2V2 TAG TEAM | November 5TH

Top 8 teams will be chosen from video submissions
The teams chosen will be ranked by their video and placed into a bracket

All battles are ABAB format, and rounds will be 1:30, excluding the finals, which will be 2:00
Beatboxer A has 1:30, then it instantly passes to beatboxer B for 1:30, for two consecutive rounds
Score from video submission determines first battles, 1st vs 8th, 2nd and 7th etc.
Teams will start at quarterfinals, then advance to semis and the finals

LOOPSTATION | November 5th

** BOSS RC-505 REQUIRED FOR BATTLES. YOU MUST BRING YOUR OWN LOOPSTATION

Top 4 will be chosen from video submissions
The loopers chosen will be ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th

All battles are ABAB format, and rounds will be 3:00
Looper A has 3:00, then it instantly passes to looper B for 3:00, for two consecutive rounds
All loops MUST start from scratch (no pre recorded loops)
Score from video submission determines first battles, 1st vs 4th, 2nd vs 3rd
Looper will start battling in the semifinals, then the finals