Grand Beatbox Battle 2021

GBB 2021 initial announcement image.

The **Grand Beatbox Battle 2021: World League** (also abbreviated to **GBB 2021** or **GBB 21**) was an international beatboxing competition hosted by Swissbeatbox. It was the 12th edition of the Grand Beatbox Battle and took place at EXPO XXI in Warsaw, Poland from October 22–24, 2021, with an afterparty and 7 To Smoke battle taking place at Progesja in Warsaw, Poland on October 25, 2021.

## Overview

All qualified participants from the Grand Beatbox Battle 2020 automatically qualified for this event, for a total of 26 Solo participants, 11 Tag Team participants, 17 Solo Loopstation participants, 3 Tag Team Loopstation participants, and 4 Crew participants.

The event was livestreamed for free on the Swissbeatbox YouTube channel.

### Timeline

A wildcard competition began on April 1, 2021 for an additional seven Solo participants, three Tag Team participants, four Solo Loopstation participants, and one Crew participant. Solo and Solo Loop wildcard entries closed on April 30 and winners were announced on May 13. Tag Team and Crew wildcard entries closed on May 31 and winners were announced on June 14.

## Participants

### Solo

* Elisii initially dropped out of GBB 2020 and forfeited his place to D-Koy. Swissbeatbox allowed him to qualify for GBB 2021 in light of the circumstances regarding the cancellation of the former event.
* Improver acted as a replacement for  MB14 (6th GBB 2020 Wildcard Winner).
* FootboxG acted as a replacement for  Show-Go (6th GBB 2021 Wildcard Winner).
* DEN acted as a replacement for  Wawad (2nd GBB 2020 Wildcard Winner).
* Heartzel was given the opportunity to replace Helium due to uncertainty of the latter being able to leave Russia the week of the event. Helium was ultimately able to make it, and Swissbeatbox decided to honor Heartzel's participation.
* Due to requests from Vocodah and D-Koy, they are both listed as "Artist" in the official battle videos.

### Tag Team

* Rhythmination (Yuto & Riki, 4th GBB 2020 Wildcard Winner),  Abducted (Mr. Androide & Tomazacre, 5th GBB 2020 Wildcard Winner) and  Lightship (Kaila Mullady & Mark Martin, 8th 2020 Wildcard Winners) dropped out of the tournament prior to the wildcard results. Because of this, one extra spot was given to the 4th GBB 2021 Wildcard Winner, Wildcard Guys.
* Dreamerz acted as a replacement for  Wolfgang (MB14 & Saro, 1st GBB 2020 Wildcard Winner).
* Blue Mountain Beatbox acted as a replacement for  A-Cloud (A-Kam & GrayCloud, 6th GBB 2020 Wildcard Winner).

### Solo Loopstation

* BizKit acted as a replacement for  NME (GBB 2019 Vice Champion).
* KBA acted as a replacement for  Zhang Ze (2nd GBB 2021 Wildcard Winner).

### Crew

(Efaybee, Orfey, Robin, Chris TheOdian, & BreZ)
  MOM
(Geo Popoff, Eon, & Slizzer)
  The Razzzones
(ChloroPhil, Rapha, Johannes Welz, & Kays Elbeyli)
  SARUKANI
(SO-SO, Rusy, Kohey, & KAJI)

### Tag Team Loopstation

(Beatness & Rythmind)
  SORRY
(SO-SO & Rusy)
  Scam Talk
(BreZ & Chris TheOdian)

* Freedom of Sin (FriiDon & SXIN, 3rd GBB 2020 Wildcard Winners) was qualified but ultimately dropped out of the event.

## Results

### Solo

* Reeps One voted OT in King Inertia vs. Helium. It is worth noting that OT votes were deemed illegal in this event, technically making his vote invalid and resulting in an official score of 3-1.
* D-low confirmed in an analysis video that the Final score was 4-1. He voted for Colaps.

### Solo Loopstation

* BreZ confirmed in one of his Instagram stories shortly after GBB21 that 5 out of 8 solo loopstation battles were split decisions (3-2), hence confirming that both the Small Final and Final were split decisions (3-2).[*citation needed*]

### Tag Team Loopstation

 2
 3

### Crew

 2
 3
 4

## Gallery

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## References

1. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/swissbeatbox/posts/10158187529472415 Accessed November 12, 2020.
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CUrcjwRroZZ/ Accessed October 6, 2021.
3. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/swissbeatbox/posts/10158111206312415 Accessed October 8, 2020.
4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210328042556/https://grandbeatboxbattle.ch/ Accessed March 28, 2021.
5. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CQEXuY3Ltiu/ Accessed June 13, 2021.
6. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CPQuEMUrmxX/ Accessed May 24, 2021.
7. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CTkswhFLUNK/Accessed February 2, 2022.
8. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CTnALxzpnVC/
9. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CUk2RcjsXQ-/ Accessed October 3, 2021.
10. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CVQZGlyrvbD/ Accessed October 20, 2021.
11. ↑ "GBB21: World League TAG TEAM & CREW Wildcard Winner Anouncement | LIVESTREAM." YouTube.
12. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CTz2M-INB6y/
13. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CTz2M-INB6y/
14. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CUIj2dTBXCN/ Accessed September 22, 2021.
15. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CSHgKYmr0Q3/ Accessed October 21, 2021.
16. ↑ "COLAPS VS RIVER GBB21 - OFFICIAL ANALYSIS (D-LOW)." 17:12. Accessed January 17, 2022.