World BBoy Series

The World B-Boy Series is a b-boy championship series established in 2013 that connects eight different renowned solo international b-boy competitions worldwide.[1] At the end of each year, since 2014, the winners of each solo event meet in a new masters event called "Undisputed" and compete to establish who is the "Undisputed" champion.[2] Before 2014, each international b-boy competition would crown their own individual world champion but with the creation of the World B-Boy Series and Undisputed, a supreme world champion can be crowned.[3]

Undisputed utilizes a round-by-round judging system, which allows participants to see the judges decisions after every round. The competition is set for 3 rounds, (5 in the finals) but can end if a dancer beats his opponent in 2 rounds.[4] The first round of Undisputed is a round-robin tournament where each contestant battles the other b-boys of the group. Contestants are seeded into two groups and the top two contestants of each group advance to the semifinals.

World BBoy Series events:


1 UK Bboy Championships was not held in 2015.
2 Silverback Open Championship joined the World B-Boy Series in 2015.
3 Unbreakable joined the World B-Boy Series in 2016.

Undisputed winners

Year Location Name Crew City
2016 Prague, Czech Republic tbd
2015 Marseille, France United States Victor MF Kidz/Squadron Kissimmee
2014 London, England Algeria Lilou Pockemon Lyon

World Bboy Series winners

Year BC One R-16 BOTY IBE Chelles Outbreak Freestyle Session Silverback UK B-Boy Champs Unbreakable2
2016
2015 United States Victor Netherlands Menno Netherlands Menno United Kingdom Sunni France Mounir United States El Niño United States Victor United States Victor not held United Kingdom Sunni
2014 Netherlands Menno Japan Issei Russia Alkolil France Tonio Netherlands Menno Poland Kleju United States El Niño United States Thesis 1 Algeria Lilou Portugal Bruce Almighty
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.

World BBoy Series 2015

Events participating in the 2015 World BBoy Series.

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.

Issei (Japan) had originally qualified as highest rank among non-winners but was unavailable for competition. El Niño (United States) and Kareem (United States) 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 (United Kingdom), the Notorious IBE winner, was also ruled out due to an injury.

Undisputed World BBoy Masters 2015

The 2015 Undisputed World BBoy Masters event will be held in Marseilles, France on Saturday, December 12, 2015.

Judges:

Group A

Seed Bboy Wins Rounds Votes
A4 Netherlands Kid Colombia 2 6 28
A3 Russia Alkolil 2 6 27
A1 Netherlands Menno 2 6 25
A2 Poland Thomaz 0 0 10

Group B

Seed Bboy Wins Rounds Votes
B1 United States Victor 2 6 31
B2 Poland Kleju 2 6 26
B4 France Mounir 1 4 23
B3 Canada Fleau 1 2 10

Knockout Stage

Individuals in bold won their respective battles.

Semi-finals Final
  Netherlands Kid Colombia L  
  Poland Kleju W  
 
      United States Victor W
    Poland Kleju L
  United States Victor W
  Russia Alkolil L  

World BBoy Series 2014

Events participating in the 2014 World BBoy Series.

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.

Tonio (France) 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.

Undisputed World BBoy Masters 2014

The first round of the event was operated under a round robin system. Within two groups of four, each contestant met all other contestants in turn. After the first round, the top 2 dancers of each group advanced to the semi finals. (KO system). The winners of the semi finals me in the Undisputed 2014 Final.[5] In case of a tie in the group stage, the number of rounds won from the 3 battles per judge go into consideration.

The 2014 Undisputed World BBoy Masters event was held in London, England on Sunday, December 14, 2014.

Judges:

DJ:

Host:

Group A

Seed Bboy Wins Rounds
A2 Netherlands Menno 3 9
A4 United States Niño 2 5
A1 Poland Kleju 1 3
A3 United Kingdom Spin 0 1

Group B

Seed Bboy Wins Rounds
B3 Algeria Lilou 2 6
B2 Russia Alcolil 2 6
B1 United States Gravity 1 4
B4 Japan Issei 1 2

Knockout Stage

Individuals in bold won their respective battles.

Semi-finals Final
 Algeria Lilou W  
 United States El Niño L  
 
     Algeria Lilou W
   Netherlands Menno L
 Netherlands Menno W
 Russia Alcolil L  

Undisputed BBoy Rankings

The World BBoy Series uses a ranking system to rank its participants. Making it the top 16 b-boys of an event earns a b-boy 4 points. Top eight earns 6 points. Making it to the semifinals and finals earns 8 and 10 points respectively. Winning an event earns a bboy 14 points. In 2015, due to Chelles Battle Pro only having 8 competitors, the winner Mounir (France) received 12 points.[6] B-boys are not limited to the number of events he or she can participate in.[7]

Bboy Rankings

Rank Bboy Crew Points Events won
1 Netherlands Menno Hustle Kids/Def Dogs 66 4
2 United States Victor MF Kidz/Squadron 60 3
3 Japan Issei FoundNation 50 1
4 United States Gravity 5 Crew Dynasty 48 0
5 United States El Nino Squadron 46 2
6 Poland Kleju Polskee Flavour 44 1
7 United Kingdom Sunni Soul Mavericks 44 1
8 Russia Alkolil Original Breakers Circle 44 1
9 United States Kareem Fallen Kings 38 0
10 Morocco Lil Zoo Lhiba King Zoo 24 0

Country Rankings

Rank Country Bboys Points Events won
1 United States USA 21 300 5
2 Russia Russia 11 128 1
3 Netherlands Netherlands 8 122 4
4 Japan Japan 8 112 1
5 France France 13 100 3
6 South Korea South Korea 12 98 0
7 United Kingdom United Kingdom 5 84 1
8 Poland Poland 4 70 1
9 Brazil Brazil 6 38 0
10 Ukraine Ukraine 6 38 0

References

  1. ↑ Retrieved March, 2014
  2. ↑ Retrieved February 20, 2014
  3. ↑ Retrieved November, 2015
  4. ↑ Retrieved November, 2014
  5. ↑ Retrieved December 8, 2014
  6. ↑ 2015 Results, World BBoy Series Official Site, Retrieved November 21, 2015
  7. ↑ Lifetime Undisputed Bboy Ranking, World BBoy Series Official Site, Retrieved November 21, 2015

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