Grand Beatbox Battle 2023

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The **Grand Beatbox Battle 2023: World League** (also abbreviated to **GBB 2023** or **GBB 23**) is being the 13th edition of the Grand Beatbox Battle, an international beatboxing competition hosted by Swissbeatbox. The event took place from October 18–21, 2023 in the EX Theater Roppongi in Tokyo, Japan, with the afterparties taking place in the 1OAK Tokyo, R3 Club Lounge and BAIA in Tokyo, Japan and a 7 to Smoke night on October 22, in the Spotify O-EAST in Tokyo, Japan, marking the first time that GBB would be held outside of Europe.

## History

The Grand Beatbox Battle 2023 was confirmed to be in production following the cancellation of GBB 2022 on April 26, 2022, and an official teaser was released on September 17. The teaser announcement revealed that the event would take place in "an all-new city" and included an image of the skyline of Tokyo, Japan, leading many to speculate that it had moved to the country. On October 1, Swissbeatbox confirmed on social media that GBB 2023 would take place in Tokyo. On November 1, Swissbeatbox announced the rules and regulations of the Wildcards with a second phase for Solo & Loopstation Wildcards (Initially Top 25 and Top 15 respectively and then Top 27 and Top 20 respectively) and two new categories, Producer Showcase, where unlimited devices and controllers can be used for a Loopstation, as this last category will become exclusively for use by the BOSS RC-505 and BOSS RC-505 MKII, and U18, where there will be a competition for beatboxers of any age under 18. The Tag Team Loopstation category was postponed to a future GBB edition and the Wildcards process started on January 1. On January 3, Swissbeatbox did a livestreaming together with the Wildcard Judges of the categories.

## Participants

### Solo

* H-Has acted as a replacement for  Max (11th GBB 2023 Solo Wildcard), who would have acted as a replacement for  Colaps (GBB 2021 Solo Champion), who only participated in Tag Team and Crew.
* BizKit acted as a replacement for  FootboxG (GBB 2021 Solo 3rd Place), who only did a Showcase.

### Tag Team

(River' & Colaps)
(RUSY & Kohey)
  Rofu
(Fuga & HIRO)
(WinG & Hellcat)

  Jairo
(YAMORI & John-T)
(Artsy & Heartzel)
  ZieGer
(Yuichi & Yuske)
(ZVD & Rahul)

* Lotus acted as replacements for  Hippy & Max (3rd GBB 2023 Tag Team Wildcard).

### Loopstation

  BreZ | 1st GBB 2023 Loopstation Wildcard
  Josh O | 2nd GBB 2023 Loopstation Wildcard
  Dice | 3rd GBB 2023 Loopstation Wildcard

* Matej acted as a replacement for  Epos (5th GBB 2023 Loopstation Wildcard).

### Producer

  FriiDon | 6th GBB 2023 Producer Wildcard\*

* FriiDon acted as a replacement for  Oxygenic (4th GBB 2023 Producer Wildcard).

### Crew

(Geo Popoff, Eon, & Slizzer)
  SARUKANI
(SO-SO, RUSY, KAJI, & Kohey)
  YA NA HA
(Helium, Vahtang, Andrey Grizz-Lee, & Taras Stanin)
  End Of the Game
(K.I.M., Faya Braz, Colaps, & Scouilla)
  The Razzzones
(ChloroPhil, Marvelin, Bricks, & Kays)
  Desible
(Mihir, Shivali, SonuBBX, & Wah Da Fu)

* Desible acted as replacements for  SQUID (BreZ, Efaybee, Robin, ORFEY, & Chris TheOdian).

### Under 18

  Serpent
  Deity
  Lennsi

* Marvelous acted as a replacement for  M1klz (1st GBB 2023 Under 18 Wildcard).
* Clarkceds acted as a replacement for  Leevy (6th GBB 2023 Under 18 Wildcard).

## Judges

All judges (except 7 to smoke) also ranked the wildcard entries for their respective category.

## Results

### Tag Team

Eliminations
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8

### Loopstation

* Robin declared on the radio on December 20 that the score of the final was 3-2 in his favor.

### Producer

Showcase Day 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6

Showcase Day 2
 3
 4
 5
 6

### Crew

Eliminations
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6

## References

1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cju9ZD2jwcu/ Accessed October 15, 2022.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://swissbeatbox.com/newsfeed/gbb-2023-wildcard-competition/ Accessed November 4, 2022.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.instagram.com/p/CjK50z3D-uz/ Accessed October 1, 2022.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://www.instagram.com/p/CimvfqCALOi/ "GBB23 | WE ARE BACK!" Accessed October 1, 2022.
5. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc0gI\_APirQ/ Accessed October 15, 2022.
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVC6WTSFKQI Accessed January 3, 2023.
7. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cwfn1gyNUV0/ Accessed August 28th, 2023.
8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4kGrZILNl0&t=5063s Accessed April 1st, 2023.
9. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CxQt56TNzIF Accessed September 16th, 2023.
10. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CxQ7RovLcJY Accessed September 16th, 2023.
11. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CwDZ-fotMEh Accessed August 18th, 2023.
12. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CyTk3TvtVSi Accessed October 12nd, 2023.
13. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CxQtIUjNaxP Accessed September 16th, 2023.
14. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CxncThbNFaJ Accessed September 25th, 2023.
15. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cul-KFUrLqz Accessed July 12th, 2023.
16. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CyTjiiqNvaJ Accessed October 12nd, 2023.
17. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CwGLkGVNet8 Accessed September 16th, 2023.
18. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CxQuRbrtKmE Accessed September 16th, 2023.
19. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CzTe40ftC-P/?utm\_source=ig\_web\_copy\_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
20. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx1R4l9Day2SVaQlmAr\_hGZe-K6oWRLSu4