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Silverback Open Championships


Silverback Open Championships is an international b-boying competition held annually in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Silverback Open Championships, sponsored by Silverback Bboy Events as well as energy drink company Monster Energy, has been regarded as one of the main International B-Boy Championships held every year. It is part the Urban Dance & Educational Foundation's Pro Breaking Tour and Undisputed's World B-boy Series. It has featured some of the best and most well-known b-boys and b-girls around the world and received praise throughout the b-boy community for having a high level of competition and for having a warm welcome to guests and b-boys alike. Starting in 2015, Silverback Open Championship partnered with the World B-Boy Series to help crown the Undisputed b-boy champion at the end of the calendar year.

The Silverback Open Championships ’16 took place on October 8th and 9th 2016 at the YSC Sports complex outside of Philadelphia as part of the 2016 Pro Breaking Tour’s Champions Series. The event was organized by Silverback Bboy Events and paid $100,000 in cash prize money, plus trips for several winners to the Freestyle Session World Finals in Los Angeles, as well as a trip to compete at Undisputed in Prague, Czech Republic for the 1-on-1 Open winner. A panel of seven judged the 1-on-1 Open, the 3-on-3 Open and the 1-on-1 Bgirl with two alternates in case a judge happened to be in the same crew as a competitor. The preliminary battles expanded the judging panel to five judges for each cypher.

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Winning b-boys: Ukraine Kuzya, United Kingdom Sunni, and South Korea Pocket.


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