SpeshFX's map of 2025 national beatbox champions

As we start 2026, it is unquestionable still that the Grand Beatbox Battle is the pinnacle of beatboxing competition. In terms of YouTube views, performance quality, and live attendance, Swissbeatbox has maintained its stranglehold on the community.

With that said, I wonder if the national championship has returned to its perch as the most important beatbox event going.

I'm not speaking of any particular national championship, but the institution of the national beatbox championship. With the Beatbox Battle World Champs falling behind the Grand Beatbox Battle in the collective beatboxing imagination, the promise of representing your country is nice but not nearly as central to the promise of the national championship.

Instead, the national champs offers rare stage time when it seems that beatboxers complete their growth and evolution online before they even plug a mic into an amp. The national champs offer local community when the GBB is an ocean or two away. The national champs offer beatboxers a chance to measure themselves against peers rather than idols. All in all, the national championships remain a crucial cog in the beatboxing infrastructure.

So I went and made the following interactive map of every national beatboxing champion in 2025. Click on any flag, and you can see the names of that country's national beatboxing champion.

By my count, 40 countries hosted national championships. There was a wide range of competition categories offered across the world, including Solo, Loopstation, Tag Team, Crew, Youth, and Women. (Some countries hosted Under-18 categories and others hosted Under-14. For clarity, I combined those categories and list them as Youth.)

14 countries hosted just a solo battle. Japan also hosted just one category, but, uniquely, they only hosted a loopstation championship, as most of the solo energy there has been directed toward BeatCity.

France led the way in terms of competitions offered, crowning champions in every category but Youth. My understanding is that they did the loopstation battle as a standalone event to manage time, which I think is very clever.

There were a handful of repeat champions, but most of the champions are brand new, which is awesome for them.

For what it's worth, it is now 2026, three years after the last Beatbox Battle World Championships. Bee Low said at the the end of the 2023 world champs that he has every intention of hosting another edition, and with the event happening every 3-5 years (usually), it's time to start keeping tabs of who is qualified for the world champs. I don't have anything to report, but maybe Bee Low will announce a date soon.

If I missed your national championship, please get in touch! I would love to add your country's details to the map. Similarly, I will be updating a 2026 map in real time as the year goes along. If you want to make sure that your new national champion(s) gets their due, please get in touch as well.

Update: Thanks to BroxysBBX for getting in touch about the Paraguay Champs! I added that information to the map.

Recent Event Roundup: Venezuelan Champs

Over the course of making the 2025 national champions map I came to appreciate just how many countries in the Americas host national championships. The 10 held across North, Central and South America top every other region except Europe (17!).

This Enormous region is coming together in July 2026 for the Maestro Beatbox America battle, which made the 2025 national championships in smaller beatbox countries all the more important. Today we hear from KZong, an organizer of the national beatboxing championship in Venezuela, which went down last month.

Speaking before the event over Whatsapp, KZong explained that "With this national [championship] we are trying to ensure that people representing the country can leave and represent us at the [Maestro] tournament in Chile next year, 2026."

KZong and his fellow organizers crowned Blizz the 2025 champion of Venezuela, but their mission goes far beyond helping beatboxers qualify for international battles. They see beatbox as community organizing.

Our mission for the community is professionalism, so that brands can invest and make it rewarding for our beatboxers that compete, but also for our academy and its educational model to be [more broadly] accepted, because if you’re holding a book, if you’re holding a microphone, you’re not picking up a gun.

In the original iteration of SpeshFX, I spoke with Trung Bao about the struggles of building and maintaining a beatbox community. Many Vietnamese leaders left the scene after shouldering the burden of hosting the national champs, and who can blame them? Hosting events costs money, takes time, and largely precludes you from battling yourself. All of which is important context to understand the top feeling KZong had after the 2025 Venezuelan Beatbox Champs was relief.

Well, mainly I’m quite happy that the event is finally finished. It feels like I’ve gotten a big weight off my shoulders, not solely in monetary terms but also in terms of responsibility, because I’ve competed for more than 10 years.

My first experience of professional beatboxing, was in the national [championship] more than 10 years ago, and my mission since then has been to transmit the ideas and feelings of the new generations and new people who are coming in, making us like a bigger and bigger family, and to continue growing and professionalizing the art form that we all love. And, well, the mission is always the same: to make this self-sustaining and, little by little, bring more people in.

Congratulations to the entire Venezuelan beatbox scene!

KZong shared his thoughts in Spanish. Thank you to Sam Russek for translating.

Upcoming Calendar: Wild Cards

• Beatcity Japan 2026: Solo Men/kids submissions until December 21,2025.
• Beatcity Japan 2026: Tag-Team/Loopstation/Solo Women/Crew submissions from January 19 until February 19, 2026.
• Grand Beatbox Battle 2026 Opens January 1:
  • Solo and loop submissions until March 1
• Tag Team submissions until March 14
• Crew and Producer submissions until April 12

Upcoming Calendar: Events

• Beatbox Insanity New Year Beatbox Battles 2026: Online. January 3, 2026.
• Spanish Beatbox Championship: Zaragoza, Spain. January 4, 2026.
• YouReady Tournament: Vienna, Austria. January 10, 2026.
• Jairo Live Show with SpiderHorse: Shibuya, Japan. January 17, 2026.
• La Cup: Mantes-la-Jolie, France. February 20, 2026.
• FentaMan Loopstation Championship 2.0: Online. February 21, 2026.
• Ohio Open Beatbox Battle: Akron, Ohio. March 7, 20226.
• Japan Loop Championship: Tokyo, Japan. March 15, 2026.
• Florida Beatbox Battle: Agen, France. April 24-25, 2026.
• BeatCity Japan: Tokyo, Japan. May 5-6, 2026.
• SpiderHorse @ Aarhus Vocal Festival: Aarhus, Denmark. May 14-17, 2026.
• German Beatbox Championships: Berlin, Germany. May 16-17, 2026.
• Motion Beatbox Battle: Southampton, UK. July 18-19, 2026.
• Maestro Beatbox America: Bogota, Colombia. July, 2026.
• Grand Beatbox Battle: Warsaw, Poland. September 24-26, 2026.

If I missed any upcoming events or Wild Cards, hit me up on Instagram, I’m @HateItOrLevitt or @SpeshFX. You can also email speshfxpodcast@gmail.com.