International B-Boy Championships

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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, The Notorious IBE, UK B-Boy Championships^[1] and R-16 Korea to be the 4 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.

In 2014 the most renowned international solo Breaking competitions joined together in the creation of the Undisputed World BBoy Series and a masters event called Undisputed Masters to determine the supreme individual Breaking champion. The events included in the Undipsuted World B-Boy Series are UK B-Boy Championships, Battle of the Year, R-16 Korea, Notorious IBE, Silverback Open Championships, Freestyle Session, Chelles Battle Pro, Outbreak Europe, Taipei BBoy City, Green Panda Festival and Legits Blast Winter. Former events for Undisputed include Red Bull BC One.

Year	Red Bull BC One	UK BBoy Champs	Battle of the Year	R16	IBE	Battle Pro	Outbreak	Freestyle Session	Silverback	Unbreakable2	Taipei Bboy City	Legits Blast Winter	Green Panda	Nordic Qualifier	Undisputed
2019	Menno	Kid Karam	Zeku	Shade	Phil Wizard	Lil G	Victor	not held	not held	Zoopreme	Illz	Victor	Alkolil	Grom	Zoopreme
2018	Lil Zoo	not held	Dany	not held	Phil Wizard	Issei	Cheerito	not held	Victor	Stripes	Onel	Greku	Lil G		Phil Wizard
2017	Menno	Sunni	Onel	not held	Kuzya	Lussy Sky	Victor	Thesis	Issei	Kill	Vero	not held	Thesis		Victor
2016	Issei	Sunni	Bruce Almighty	Issei	Victor	Soso	Kuzya	El Niño	Thesis	Kuzya	Issei	not held	not held		Thesis
2015	Victor	not held	Menno	Menno	Sunni	Mounir	El Niño	Victor	Victor	Sunni	not held	not held	not held		Victor
2014	Menno	Lilou	Alkolil	Issei	Tonio	Menno	Kleju	El Niño	Thesis 1	Bruce Almighty	not held	not held	not held		Lilou
2013	Hong10	Menno	Menno	Issei	Issei					Menno
2012	Mounir	Kareem	Niek	Issei	Killa Sebi					Menno
2011	Roxrite	Morris	Niek	Taisuke	Niek					Neguin
2010	Neguin	Flying Buddha	Thesis	Niek	Hill					Thesis
2009	Lilou	Morris	Lilou	Roxrite
2008	Wing	Kosto			Wilson
2007	Ronnie	Menno
2006	Hong10	Mouse
2005	Lilou	Roxrite			Menno
2004	Omar	Physicx			Abd-L
2003		Ruen			Airdit
2002		Super G
2001		Sonic
2000
1999		Tim Twist
1998		Evo
1997		Evo
1996		Evo

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 events.

Country	RBBC1	UK B-Boy	BOTY	R-16	Other Undisputed events	Total Championships
USA	4	5	2	1	13	25
Korea	3	1	1	6	2	13
Netherlands	3	2	4	1	1	11
Japan	2	0	0	6	3	11
Britain	0	8	0	0	1	9
France	2	0	2	0	3	7
Russia	0	2	1	0	2	5
Ukraine	0	0	0	0	4	4
Cameroon	0	0	0	0	1	1
Canada	0	0	0	0	3	3
Algeria	1	1	0	0	0	2
Denmark	0	1	0	0	1	2
Greece	0	0	1	0	1	2
Poland	0	0	0	0	2	2
Venezuela	0	0	0	0	2	2
Belgium	0	1	0	0	0	1
Brazil	1	0	0	0	0	1
Morocco	1	0	0	0	0	1
Portugal	0	0	1	0	0	1
Philippines	1	0	0	0	0	0

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".^[2]

Year	Masters event	Location	Name	Crew	City
2019	Undisputed V	Marrakech, Morocco	Phil Wizard	Wizards/United Rivals/7 Commandoz	Vancouver
2018	Undisputed IV	San Diego, United States	Victor	MF Kidz/Squadron	Kissimmee
2017	Undisputed III	Prague, Czech Republic	Thesis	Knuckleheads Cali	Phoenix
2015	Undisputed II	Marseille, France	Victor	MF Kidz/Squadron	Kissimmee
2014	Undisputed I	London, England	Lilou	Pockemon	Lyon

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.

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
• Alkolil 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.

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