This is a huge GBB qualification with 4 teams being able to qualify into GBB! The winner of the Solo, Tag team, Crew, and Loopstation category will qualify to GBB2026!

Participants:

Solo:

Ver.Φ, RTR, s1on, Corey, Riku Matsushima, Gz7v, Bookie Blanco, Adi Kerang, Viva, Bly Crepsley, Waddle

Area Prelims Redemption: Akky, Yuichi, NeoN, MarioHash

*CJ (2nd wildcard) and RTAB (8th wildcard) dropped out.

Tag team:

SARSHIANS, Fruit Baskets, RUSY & KOKI, UMA, SHMIX, Blue Mountain Beatbox

*Future Monster (2nd wildcard) dropped out.

Crew:

NOVEL VINTAGE, orbitt, THE PORTCITY, Sound of Sony Ω

*Barcode (3rd wildcard) dropped out.

Loopstation:

TAMRO, Raje, Sora', Taro, MOKBAY, Duncan

Predictions:

Note, these are predictions and I could be wrong. I have my own biases and opinions.

Solo:

Area Prelims Redemption: NeoN

Seeding:

Riku Matsushima | 2. Adi Kerang | 3. Bookie Blanco | 4. Viva | 5. Gz7v | 6. Bly Crepsley | 7. Waddle

1st Round:

Rika Matsushima vs NeoN | Winner: NeoN

Adi Kerang vs Waddle | Winner: Adi Kerang

Bookie Blanco vs Bly Crepsley | Winner: Bookie Blanco

Viva vs Gz7v | Winner: Gz7v

Top 8 Bracket:

Quarterfinals:

Ver.Φ vs NeoN | Winner: NeoN

Corey vs Bookie Blanco | Winner: Bookie Blanco

RTR vs Gz7v | Winner: Gz7v

s1on vs Adi Kerang | Winner: Adi Kerang

Semifinals:

NeoN vs Bookie Blanco | Winner: Bookie Blanco

Gz7v vs Adi Kerang | Winner: Gz7v

Finals:

Bookie Blanco vs Gz7v | Winner: Bookie Blanco

Tag team:

Elimination:

UMA | 2. Fruit Baskets | 3. SHMIX | 4. SARSHIANS | 5. RUSY & KOKI | 6. Blue Mountain Beatbox

Top 4 Bracket:

Semifinals:

UMA vs SARSHIANS | Winner: UMA

Fruit Baskets vs SHMIX | Winner: SHMIX

Finals:

UMA vs SHMIX | Winner: UMA

Crew:

Top 4 bracket:

Semifinals:

NOVEL VINTAGE vs Sound of Sony Ω | Winner: Sound of Sony Ω

orbitt vs The Portcity | Winner: orbitt

Finals:

Sound of Sony Ω vs orbitt | Winner: orbitt

Loopstation:

Elimination:

MOKBAY | 2. Raje | 3. Sora' | 4. Duncan | 5. Taro

Top 4 bracket:

Semifinals:

TAMRO vs Sora' | Winner: Sora'

MOKBAY vs Raje | Winner: Raje

Finals:

Sora' vs Raje | Winner: Raje

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u/0bdex_code — 4 months ago

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Beatcity Japan is the next GBB challenger series that will happen next, being on May 5 and 6.

The people who are qualified in the solo category of Beatcity Japan are 7 wildcard winners, 4 regional qualifers, and an Area prelim that is yet to be decided.

The 4 people who are regional qualifiers are automatically top 8 in the bracket. However the wildcard winners need to do a seeding round. After that, the 7 wildcard winners and the Area prelim winner will have to battle to get into top 8.

I feel like it's unfair for the wildcard winners as they have to do a elimination and a battle to reach top 8, yet for the regional qualifiers, they are automatically in the top 8.

I feel like a better way to make it more fair to all the participants is have everyone do an elimination and then a top 8 bracket.

It's not just solo but also loopstation category. The winner of Japan Loopstation Championship is automatically in the top 4 while the rest of the wildcards have to do an elimination.

My guess is that they want to have a chance for Japanese people to get into GBB, which is totally understandable especially with other GBB challenger series like Africa/Mena and APAC targeting specific regions to have the chance to qualify into GBB, but I don't think the format is fair. Even in other GBB challenger series, beatboxers who are qualified besides wildcard still need to follow the same steps as everyone (like German Beatbox Championship: Global or Great North Battle 2024).

What are your thoughts about this? I would love to hear what other people have to say about it.

Source: https://beatbox.fandom.com/wiki/BeatCity_Japan_2026

u/0bdex_code — 4 months ago

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u/0bdex_code — 4 months ago