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The Grand Beatbox Battle 2024 (also abbreviated to GBB 2024 or GBB 24) was the 14th edition of the Grand Beatbox Battle, an international beatboxing competition hosted by Swissbeatbox. The event took place from November 1–3, 2024 at the Toyosu PIT in Tokyo, Japan, an afterparty was held on November 3 at Kiranah Garden Toyosu in Tokyo, Japan and 7 to Smoke was held on November 4 at Spotify O-EAST in Tokyo, Japan.

History[]

The Grand Beatbox Battle 2024 was confirmed by Pepouni in the video uploaded by Swissbeatbox: "Merry Merry Beatbox! | SBX X-mas Wishes for 2024". Later at the beginning of the year it was revealed that the start of the Wildcards would begin on January 21st[1] and on January 19th that the event would return to Tokyo, Japan, being the second time it will be held there[2]. On January 20th, Swissbeatbox announced the rules and regulations of the Wildcards, which would begin one day later, in addition to the pre-qualifications, the Wildcard Judges and removing the U18 Category & Round 2 of the Solo and Loopstation categories[3].

Qualified participants[]

Solo[]

Name Qualification Name Qualification
WinG[4] GBB 2023 Solo 3rd place Osis[4] 1st Wildcard Winner
Alexinho[4] GBB 2023 7 To Smoke Champion ABO ICE[4] 2nd Wildcard Winner
Julard[4] GBB 2023 U18 Champion Steady[4] 3rd Wildcard Winner
KAJI[4] Beatland Beatbox Battle 2023 Champion DEN[4] 4th Wildcard Winner
MaxO[4] Florida Beatbox Battle 2024 Champion[5] PACMax[4] 5th Wildcard Winner
BlackRoll[4] Great North Battle 2024 Champion[6] Helium[4] 6th Wildcard Winner
Bly Crepsley BeatCity Japan 2024 Champion Stitch[4] 8th Wildcard Winner
Remix[4] Africa & Mena Region Qualifier 2024 Champion momimaru 10th Wildcard Winner*
  • momimaru acted as a replacement for Improver (7th Wildcard Winner) due to his health problem.

Tag Team[]

Name Qualification Name Qualification
Jairo[7]

(YAMORI & John-T)

GBB 2023 Tag Team Vice Champions Future Monster[7]

(CJ & KARA)

5th Wildcard Winner
UMA[7]

(Se-MA & DYU-TAR)

1st Wildcard Winner ZieGer[7]

(Yuichi & Yuske)

6th Wildcard Winner
Fresh Tonic[7]

(Bookie Blanco & PACMax)

2nd Wildcard Winner SARSHIANS

(The-O & HiccuP)

9th Wildcard Winner*
MiCo[7]

(Mizuki & CoLoA)

4th Wildcard Winner

Loopstation[]

Name Qualification Name Qualification
Matej[8] GBB 2023 Loopstation Vice Champion SyJo[8] 4th Wildcard Winner
Duncan[8] Beatland Beatbox Battle 2023 Champion Yaswede[8] 5th Wildcard Winner
Josh O[8] 2nd Wildcard Winner Raje[8] 6th Wildcard Winner
Cardona[8] 3rd Wildcard Winner 808Banon 7th Wildcard Winner*
  • 808Banon acted as a replacement for BreZ (1st Wildcard Winner).[9]

Producer[]

Name Qualification
SyJo[10] GBB 2023 Producer Champion
Antrix[10] 1st Wildcard Winner
KBA[10] 2nd Wildcard Winner
Kaos[10] 3rd Wildcard Winner

Crew[]

Name Qualification
Kowler Rangers[11]

(4 - OSY, Tunecinoo, Epock & AëlMight)

1st Wildcard Winner
meOne[11]

(4 - Kristóf, Raptor, Blaz & Shackle)

2nd Wildcard Winner
Sound of sony Ω[11]

(3 - Shinyaaa, Bly Crepsley & fkd)

3rd Wildcard Winner
The Young Drug[11]

(4 - Kawai Senpai, Vinzayn, Ani & Wah Da Fu*)

4th Wildcard Winner
  • Wah Da Fu acted as a replacement for BassFace, making the crew still elegible to participate.[12]

Judges[]

Wildcards[]

Name (Solo) Name (Tag Team) Name (Loop) Name (Producer) Name (Crew)
FootboxG River' BizKit Inkie Slizzer
Colaps Colaps Kristóf Kristóf Colaps
Hiss Chris Celiz Tioneb Tioneb Chris Celiz

Battles[]

Name (Solo) Name (Tag Team) Name (Loop) Name (Producer) Name (Crew) Name (7 to Smoke)
Colaps Chris Celiz BizKit Jayton Chris Celiz BizKit
FootboxG FootboxG Robin Robin Colaps Scott Jackson
Dharni Frosty Frosty Frosty Dharni Alexinho
Hiss HIRONA Slizzer Pash Slizzer Geo Popoff
NaPoM River' Tioneb Tioneb SO-SO Eon

Referee (in Battles)[]

  • Referee was a new role added to the Loopstation and Producer categories in GBB 23.
  • They only check whether the participants are cheating and do not vote on the battles.
Name (Loopstation) Name (Producer)
Kristóf Kristóf

Results[]

Solo[]

Eliminations
Rank Name
1 ABO ICE
2 Alexinho
3 WinG
4 Osis
5 Helium
6 KAJI
7 Julard
8 Remix*
9 BlackRoll*
10 Stitch
11 PACMax
12 DEN
13 MaxO
14 Steady
15 momimaru
16 Bly Crepsley
  • Remix and BlackRoll ended with the same total points after all judges’ scores were calculated. Remix received higher rankings from 3 out of 5 judges, so he secured the 8th spot.[13]
Judge Elimination Ranking
Rank[14] Colaps FootboxG Dharni Hiss NaPoM Overrall Score
1. ABO ICE Alexinho WinG ABO ICE ABO ICE ABO ICE 1 + 3 + 5 + 1 + 1 = 11
2. Helium WinG Alexinho Alexinho Alexinho Alexinho 5 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 12
3. WinG ABO ICE Osis Osis Osis WinG 3 + 2 + 1 + 5 + 8 = 21
4. BlackRoll KAJI DEN Julard KAJI Osis 7 + 5 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 21
5. Alexinho Osis ABO ICE WinG Remix Helium 2 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 26
6. Julard Helium Helium Helium Helium KAJI 10 + 4 + 9 + 9 + 4 = 36
7. Osis BlackRoll Julard Stitch BlackRoll Julard 6 + 12 + 7 + 4 + 9 = 38
8. Stitch PACMax Remix Steady WinG Remix 11 + 9 + 8 + 10 + 5 = 43
9. PACMax Remix KAJI KAJI Julard BlackRoll 4 + 7 + 12 + 13 + 7 = 43
10. KAJI MaxO Stitch Remix Stitch Stitch 8 + 11 + 10 + 7 + 10 = 46
11. Remix Stitch PACMax momimaru PACMax PACMax 9 + 8 + 11 + 14 + 11 = 53
12. MaxO Julard BlackRoll DEN Steady DEN 13 + 14 + 4 + 12 + 13 = 56
13. DEN momimaru MaxO BlackRoll DEN MaxO 12 + 10 + 13 + 15 + 13 = 63
14. Steady DEN Bly Crepsley PACMax MaxO Steady 14 + 16 + 16 + 8 + 12 = 66
15. Bly Crepsley Bly Crepsley momimaru MaxO momimaru momimaru 16 + 13 + 15 + 11 + 15 = 70
16. momimaru Steady Steady Bly Crepsley Bly Crepsley Bly Crepsley 15 + 15 + 14 + 16 + 16 = 76
  • Colaps's position as the no.2 judge (In Instagram post) is proven by the reaction and analysis videos of "Colaps Japan".[15]
  • If you have any reference to which judges gave the other rankings, please edit them here.
1/4 Final Semi Final Final
                   
       
  ABO ICE  0 Votes
  Remix  5 Votes  
  Remix  1 Vote
    Osis  4 Votes  
  Osis  5 Votes
  Helium  0 Votes  
  Osis  1 Vote
    Julard  4 Votes
  WinG  1 Vote
  KAJI  4 Votes  
  KAJI  1 Vote Small Final
    Julard  4 Votes  
  Alexinho  0 Votes   Remix  3 Votes
  Julard  5 Votes     KAJI  2 Votes


  • Remix revealed that the result of the small final was a 3-2 to him in the podcast with BBXINT.[16]
  • Osis revealed that the result of the final was 4-1, with FootboxG voting for him during a beatbox lesson with one of the wiki editors.

Judge Votes[]

Battle Colaps FootboxG Dharni Hiss NaPoM Total Score
ABO ICE vs Remix Remix Remix Remix Remix Remix 0-5
Osis vs Helium Osis Osis Osis Osis Osis 5-0
WinG vs KAJI KAJI WinG KAJI KAJI KAJI 1-4
Alexinho vs Julard Julard Julard Julard Julard Julard 0-5
Remix vs Osis Osis Osis Osis Osis Remix 1-4
KAJI vs Julard Julard Julard KAJI Julard Julard 1-4
Remix vs KAJI ??? KAJI ??? ??? Remix 3-2
Osis vs Julard Julard Osis Julard Julard Julard 1-4
  • NaPoM revealed in the livestream that he preferred Remix in Small Final more than KAJI, indicating that he voted for Remix in the Small Final.
  • FootboxG revealed in an SBX livestream with PACMax that he voted for KAJI in the small final.

Tag Team[]

Eliminations
Rank Name
1 Jairo
2 Fresh Tonic
3 MiCo
4 Future Monster
5 UMA
6 ZieGer
7 SARSHIANS


Judge Elimination Ranking
Rank[17] Judge No.1 Judge No.2 Judge No.3 Judge No.4 Judge No.5 Overrall Score
1. Jairo Jairo Jairo Jairo Jairo Jairo 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 5
2. Fresh Tonic MiCo Future Monster Fresh Tonic Fresh Tonic Fresh Tonic 2 + 3 + 3 + 2 + 2 = 12
3. Future Monster Fresh Tonic Fresh Tonic Future Monster MiCo MiCo 4 + 2 + 4 + 4 + 3 = 17
4. MiCo UMA MiCo MiCo Future Monster Future Monster 3 + 5 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 17
5. UMA Future Monster UMA UMA UMA UMA 5 + 4 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 24
6. ZieGer ZieGer ZieGer SARSHIANS ZieGer ZieGer 6 + 6 + 6 + 7 + 6 = 31
7. SARSHIANS SARSHIANS SARSHIANS ZieGer SARSHIANS SARSHIANS 7 + 7 + 7 + 6 + 7 = 34
  • (If I remember correctly) Who gave each ranking has not been made public.
  • For the reasons stated above, this article uses the numbers used by Instagram.
  Semi Final Final
             
  Jairo 5 Votes  
  Future Monster 0 Votes  
 
      Jairo Win
    Fresh Tonic Lose
 
 
Small Final
  Fresh Tonic 4 Votes   Future Monster  Lose
  MiCo 1 Vote     MiCo  Win


Judge Votes[]

Battle Chris Celiz FootboxG Frosty HIRONA River' Total Score
Jairo vs Future Monster Jairo Jairo Jairo Jairo Jairo 5-0
Fresh Tonic vs MiCo Fresh Tonic Fresh Tonic Fresh Tonic MiCo Fresh Tonic 4-1
Future Monster vs MiCo ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ?-?
Jairo vs Fresh Tonic ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ?-?

Loopstation[]

1/4 Final Semi Final Final
                   
       
  Matej  4 Votes
  808Banon  1 Vote  
  Matej  4 Votes
    SyJo  1 Vote  
  Cardona  0 Votes*
  SyJo  5 Votes*  
  Matej  0 Votes
    Yaswede  5 Votes
  Josh O  0 Votes
  Yaswede  5 Votes  
  Yaswede  3 Votes Small Final
    Raje  2 Votes  
  Duncan  1 Vote   SyJo  1 Vote
  Raje  4 Votes     Raje  4 Votes


Judge Votes[]

Battle BizKit Robin Frosty Slizzer Tioneb Total Score
Matej vs 808Banon Matej Matej Matej Matej 808Banon 4-1
Cardona vs SyJo SyJo SyJo SyJo SyJo* SyJo 0-5
Josh O vs Yaswede Yaswede Yaswede Yaswede Yaswede Yaswede 0-5
Duncan vs Raje Raje Raje Raje Duncan Raje 1-4
Matej vs SyJo SyJo Matej Matej Matej Matej 4-1
Yaswede vs Raje Yaswede Yaswede Raje Yaswede Raje 3-2
SyJo vs Raje Raje ??? Raje ??? ??? 1-4
Matej vs Yaswede Yaswede Yaswede Yaswede Yaswede Yaswede 0-5
  • Slizzer mixed up his voting signs in SyJo vs Cardona, accidentally voting for Cardona instead of SyJo, whom he intended to vote for.
  • In Swissbeatbox's reaction livestream, Kristóf announced that the score of the small final was 4-1 in favor of Raje, with Frosty and BizKit voting for Raje.
  • In Yaswede's reaction video, he stated that the score was 5-0 in his favor. This was also confirmed by Kristóf in Swissbeatbox's reaction livestream.

Producer[]

Seeding Round
Rank Name
1 SyJo
2 Kaos
3 Antrix
4 KBA
  Semi Final Final
             
  SyJo 1 Vote  
  KBA 4 Votes  
 
      KBA Win
    Antrix Lose
 
 
Small Final
  Kaos 2 Votes   SyJo  Win
  Antrix 3 Votes     Kaos  Lose


Judge Votes[]

Battle Jayton Robin Frosty Pash Tioneb Total Score
SyJo vs KBA SyJo KBA KBA KBA KBA 1-4
Kaos vs Antrix Antrix Antrix Kaos Kaos Antrix 2-3
SyJo vs Kaos ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ?-?
KBA vs Antrix ??? KBA KBA ??? KBA ?-?
  • KBA stated in CLAM loopstation community that he knows that Robin, Frosty and Tioneb voted for him in the final. However, he does not know who either of the Mad Twinz voted for.

Crew[]

Seeding Round
Rank Name
1 Kowler Rangers
2 me0ne
3 Sound of sony Ω
4 The Young Drug
Final
Kowler Rangers Win
me0ne Lose
Small Final
Sound of sony Ω Win
The Young Drug Lose

7 To Smoke[]

Name Score Results
NaPoM 7 Won: Mighty, BlackRoll, PACMax, Remix, ABO ICE, Bookie Blanco, MaxO

Lost: MaxO, Remix

Mighty 0 Won:

Lost: NaPoM, Remix, BlackRoll

MaxO 5 Won: NaPoM, PACMax, ABO ICE, BlackRoll, Bookie Blanco

Lost: Remix, BlackRoll, NaPoM

PACMax 0 Won:

Lost: MaxO, Remix, NaPoM

ABO ICE 1 Won: Remix

Lost: MaxO, BlackRoll, NaPoM

BlackRoll 4 Won: ABO ICE, Bookie Blanco, MaxO, Mighty

Lost: MaxO, NaPoM

Bookie Blanco 0 Won:

Lost: MaxO, BlackRoll, NaPoM

Remix 4 Won: MaxO, Mighty, NaPoM, PACMax

Lost: ABO ICE, NaPoM

Judge Votes[]

Challenger King
Mighty (1 Vote) NaPoM (4 Votes)
MaxO (3 Votes) NaPoM (2 Votes)
PACMax (Lose) MaxO (Win)
ABO ICE (0 Votes) MaxO (5 Votes)
BlackRoll (2 Votes) MaxO (3 Votes)
Bookie Blanco (2 Votes) MaxO (3 Votes)
Remix (4 Votes) MaxO (1 Vote)
Mighty (0 Votes) Remix (5 Votes)
NaPoM (0 Votes) Remix (5 Votes)
PACMax (0 Votes) Remix (5 Votes)
ABO ICE (3 Votes*) Remix (1 Vote*)
BlackRoll (5 Votes) ABO ICE (0 Votes)
Bookie Blanco (1 Vote) BlackRoll (4 Votes)
MaxO (2 Votes) BlackRoll (3 Votes)
Mighty (1 Vote) BlackRoll (4 Votes)
NaPoM (3 Votes) BlackRoll (2 Votes)
PACMax (2 Votes) NaPoM (3 Votes)
Remix (2 Votes) NaPoM (3 Votes)
ABO ICE (1 Vote) NaPoM (4 Votes)
Bookie Blanco (2 Votes) NaPoM (3 Votes)
MaxO (1 Vote) NaPoM (4 Votes)
  • In ABO ICE vs REMIX, Eon did not cast a vote.

Prizes[]

The 1st place winners of every category (except 7 To Smoke) each received an RC-505mkII with a carrying case, Roland RMC B-10 Microphone Cable, V-Moda Crossfade 3 Wireless Headphone, and a hoodie. The top 3 for every category also received cash prizes :

Solo[]
  • Julard (1st Place) : $13,000
  • Osis (2nd Place) : $4,000
  • Remix (3rd Place) : $2,000
Loopstation[]
  • Yaswede (1st Place) : $10,000
  • Matej (2nd Place) : $3,000
  • Raje (3rd Place) : $1,500
Tag Team[]
  • Jairo (1st Place) : $7,000
  • Fresh Tonic (2nd Place) : $3,000
  • MiCo (3rd Place): $1,500
Crew[]
  • Kowler Rangers (1st Place) : $7,000
  • meOne (2nd Place) : $3,000
  • Sound of sony Ω (3rd Place) : $1,500
Producer[]
  • KBA (1st Place) : $3,000
  • Antrix (2nd Place) : $1,200
  • SyJo (3rd Place): $800

Cash prizes were split between participants for the Tag Team and Crew categories.

The 1st place winner of the 7 To Smoke event (NaPoM) received $1,000 and a direct qualification to GBB 2025 Solo category.

Gallery[]

References[]

  1. https://www.instagram.com/p/C1mXE4dt0Bt/?hl=es Accessed January 19th, 2024.
  2. https://www.instagram.com/p/C2SGppYNbaD Accessed January 19th, 2024.
  3. https://swissbeatbox.com/newsfeed/gbb-2024-wildcard-competition-rules-and-application/ Accessed January 21st, 2024.
  4. 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 @swissbeatbox "Here you have all the qualified Solo 👤 participants thus far!! 🔶 #GBB24TOKYO We still have 3️⃣ more to go!! Are you excited for this edition of GBB?! 🔥🏯" Accessed May 24, 2024.
  5. https://www.le-florida.org/evenement/florida-beatbox-festival-2024/ Accessed November 21, 2023.
  6. https://beatboxcanada.com/events
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 @swissbeatbox "Here you have all the qualified Tag Team 👥 participants thus far!! 🔶 #GBB24TOKYO This one is going to be LIT!! 🔥🏯" Accessed May 24, 2024.
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 @swissbeatbox "Here you have all the qualified Loopstation 🎧 participants thus far!! 🔶 #GBB24TOKYO Can you believe that GBB is happening in Tokyo again?! 🔥🏯" Accessed May 24, 2024.
  9. @swissbeatbox "Unfortunately BreZ 🇫🇷 will not be able to partake in GBB24 🔶 therefore we will have 808banon 🇺🇸 taking his place! Please give some support to @brezbeatbox regardless as he has been elevating the GBB level for many years now 💪" Accessed May 14, 2024.
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 @swissbeatbox "Here you have all the qualified Producer 🔊 participants thus far!! 🔶 #GBB24TOKYO Time for this category to shine for the 2nd time!! 🔥🏯" Accessed May 24, 2024.
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 @swissbeatbox "Here you have all the qualified Crew 👥👥 participants thus far!! 🔶 #GBB24TOKYO ...and that’s the last category for this year!! 🔥🏯" Accessed May 24, 2024.
  12. https://www.instagram.com/p/C8ZrRumC9VL Accessed June 21st, 2024.
  13. https://www.instagram.com/p/DB4Dp1RIie9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Accessed November 3rd, 2024.
  14. @swissbeatbox 🔊 The solo judge results for the @grand.beatbox.battle eliminations are here.
  15. Colaps' reaction & analysis video to GBB24 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7BGMGpL1kBKcWxr0OjGfqFmLz4bb8QIG
  16. https://youtu.be/lsCLPQGYhCs?t=2473
  17. @swissbeatbox 🎤 Who’s #1?!🔥 Tag Team Rankings Revealed!
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