International B-Boy Championships

B-boying or Breaking, also called Breakdancing, is a style of street dance that originated among African-American and Puerto Rican youths in New York City during the early 1970s. The dance spread worldwide due to popularity in the media, especially in regions such as South Korea, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, and Japan. Now, b-boying has gained much popularity around the world with countless competitions crowning the best bboy crews and solo bboys. Many consider Battle of the Year, UK B-Boy Championships^[1] and R-16 Korea to be the 3 major international bboy competitions which determine the best bboy crew in the world. Along with crew battles, solo, or 1 on 1 battles, have also gained much popularity around the world. UK B-Boy Championships, Battle of the Year and R-16 Korea are also well known for their 1 on 1 b-boy championships. However, Red Bull BC One is argued to be the most coveted competition to crown the best solo b-boy due to their audience and popularity worldwide.

International Crew B-boy Championships list

Year	Battle of the Year (BOTY) International	UK B-Boy Championships World Finals	R-16 World B-Boy Masters Championship
2016		Red Bull BC One All-Stars
2015	Flooriorz	not held	Team Russia
2014	Predatorz	The Ruggeds	Gamblerz
2013	Fusion MC	Morning of Owl	Morning of Owl
2012	Vagabonds	Jinjo	Massive Monkeys
2011	Vagabonds	Vagabonds	Jinjo
2010	Jinjo	Vagabonds	Jinjo
2009	Gamblerz	Skill Methodz/Endangered Species	All Area Crew
2008	Top 9	Top 9	Gamblerz
2007	Extreme Crew	T.I.P.	Rivers
2006	Vagabonds	Pockémon
2005	Last For One	Project Soul
2004	Gamblerz	Project Soul
2003	Pockémon	Skill Methodz/Havikoro
2002	Expression Crew	Project Korea
2001	Wanted	USA All-Stars
2000	Flying Steps	Suicidal Lifestyle
1999	Suicidal Lifestyle	Bag Of Trix
1998	Rock Force	Spartanic Rockers
1997	Style Elements	Second To None
1996	Toys in Effect	Second To None
1995	/ The Family
1994	Vlinke Vuesse
1993	Always Rockin Tuff
1992	Battle Squad
1991	Battle Squad
1990	/ TDB

Success by country

Note: The following table only takes into consideration Battle of the Year, UK B-Boy Championships and R-16 Korea

Country	BOTY	UK B-Boy	R-16	Total Championships
Korea	7	6	6	19
France	6	3	0	9
USA	2	3	1	6
Germany	5	0	0	5
Britain	2	2	0	4
Russia	2	1	1	4
Japan	1	1	1	3
Hungary	1	1	0	2
Canada	0	1	0	1
Italy	1	0	0	1
Switzerland	1	0	0	1
Netherlands	o	1	0	1

International Solo B-boy Champions list

Since 2014, eight solo international B-Boy competitions joined together in the creation of the World BBoy Series and a new masters event called Undisputed to determine the supreme individual B-boy world champion. The World B-Boy Series is the world's first B-Boying competition connecting eight different events around the world. They include Red Bull BC One, UK B-Boy Championships, Battle of the Year, R-16 Korea, Notorious IBE, Silverback Open Championships, Freestyle Session, Chelles Battle Pro and Outbreak Europe. In 2015, UK B-boy Championships was not held and Silverback Open Championships was added to the World Bboy Series. Freestly Session and Silverback Open Championship are also part of Pro Breaking Tour's Championship Series established by the Urban Dance & Educational Foundation. ^[2]

Year	BC One	R-16	BOTY	IBE	Chelles	Outbreak	Freestyle Session	Silverback	UK B-Boy Champs	Unbreakable^2	Undisputed
2016					Soso				Sunni
2015	Victor	Menno	Menno	Sunni	Mounir	El Niño	Victor	Victor	not held	Sunni	Victor
2014	Menno	Issei	Alkolil	Tonio	Menno	Kleju	El Niño	Thesis ^1	Lilou	Bruce Almighty	Lilou

¹ Thesis did not qualify to Undisputed due to Silverback Open Championships not being part of the World Bboy Series in 2014.

² Sunni and Bruce Almighty did not qualify to Undisputed since Unbreakable was not part of the World BBoy Series until 2016.

Until 2013, the main international solo b-boy events were Red Bull BC One, UK B-Boy Championships, Battle of the Year and R-16 Korea.

Year	Red Bull BC One	UK World Solo B-Boy Champions	BOTY International 1 on 1 Battle	R-16 World Solo B-Boy Battle
2013	Hong10	Menno	Menno	Issei
2012	Mounir	Kareem	Niek	Issei
2011	Roxrite	Morris	Niek	Taisuke
2010	Neguin	Flying Buddha	Thesis	Niek
2009	Lilou	Morris	Lilou	Roxrite
2008	Wing	Kosto
2007	Ronnie	Menno
2006	Hong10	Mouse
2005	Lilou	Roxrite
2004	Omar	Physicx
2003		Ruen
2002		Super G
2001		Sonic
1999		Tim Twist
1998		Evo
1997		Evo
1996		Evo

Success by country

Note: The following table only takes into consideration Red Bull BC One, Battle of the Year, UK B-Boy Championships and R-16 Korea as well as other Undisputed event starting from 2014.

Country	RBBC1	UK B-Boy	BOTY	R-16	Other Undisputed events	Total Championships
USA	4	5	1	1	4	14
Netherlands	1	2	4	2	1	10
Britain	0	5	0	0	1	6
France	2	0	1	0	2	5
Korea	3	1	0	0	0	4
Japan	0	0	0	4	0	4
Russia	0	2	1	0	0	3
Algeria	1	1	0	0	0	2
Belgium	0	1	0	0	0	1
Brazil	1	0	0	0	0	1
Denmark	0	1	0	0	0	1
Poland	0	0	0	0	1	1

Undisputed

The World B-Boy Series is the world's first B-Boying competition connecting eight different events around the world. Since 2014, the 8 solo B-Boy champions of these international events will meet in a new masters event called Undisputed and battle to establish who is the supreme champion, who is "Undisputed".^[3]

Undisputed Champions list

Year	Location	Name	Crew	City
2015	Marseille, France	Victor	MF Kidz/Squadron	Kissimmee
2014	London, England	Lilou	Pockemon	Lyon

World BBoy Series 2015

Events participating in the 2015 World BBoy Series.

• Freestyle Session / Pro Breaking Tour, USA
• Battle of the Year, Braunschweig, Germany
• R-16 Korea, South Korea
• Silverback Open Championships / Pro Breaking Tour, Philadelphia, USA
• The Notorious IBE, The Netherlands
• Outbreak Europe, Slovakia
• Chelles Battle Pro, Chelles, France
• Red Bull BC One World Finals, Rome, Italy

To qualify to Undisputed, b-boys had to win 1 of the 8 World B-Boy Series events. In the event that one b-boy won multiple championships, the next highest ranked b-boy would qualify.

• Victor Silverback Open Championships, Freestyle Session and Red Bull BC One winner
• Menno R-16 Korea and Battle of the Year winner
• Mounir Chelles Battle Pro winner
• Kleju qualified as third highest rank among non-winners
• Alkolil replaced Issei as fourth highest rank among non-winners
• Fleau replaced El Niño as fifth highest rank among non-winners
• Thomaz replaced Kareem as sixth highest rank among non-winners
• Kid Colombia replaced Sunni

Issei () had originally qualified as highest rank among non-winners but was unavailable for competition. El Niño () and Kareem () had both qualified to Undisputed by winning Outbreak Europe and being second highest rank among non-winners respectively. However, both got injured prior to the competition. Sunni (), the Notorious IBE winner, was also ruled out due to an injury.

World BBoy Series 2014

Events participating in the 2014 World BBoy Series.

• The UK B-Boy Championships, UK
• Freestyle Session / Pro Breaking Tour, USA
• Battle of the Year, Germany
• R-16 Korea, South Korea
• The Notorious IBE, The Netherlands
• Outbreak Europe, Slovakia
• Chelles Battle Pro, France
• Red Bull BC One World Finals, France

Bboys who competed for Undisputed

• Menno Chelles Battle Pro and RedBull BC One winner
• Issei R16 Korea winner
• Kleju Outbreak Europe winner
• Alcolil Battle of the Year winner
• Lilou UK Championships winner
• El Niño Freestyle Session winner
• Gravity qualified as highest rank among non-winners
• Spin replaced Tonio as second highest rank among non-winners

Tonio () had originally qualified to Undisputed by winning The Notorious IBE earlier in the year. However, due to visa complications, Tonio had to withdraw from the competition. As a result, Spin will be replacing Tonio for being the second ranked among non-winners.

References

1. B-Boy Championships Retrieved August 18, 2013
2. Pro Breaking Tour Retrieved November, 2015
3. Undisputed Official Website Retrieved February 20, 2014

External links

• R-16 Official site
• UK B-Boy Championships Official site
• BOTY Official site
• Undisputed World Bboy Series Official site