ExperienceUGF x MDLBEAST Radio Dance Battle: Two Nights, 32 Dancers, One Champion
Beast House gave its floor to the street for two nights in June. Thirty two of Saudi Arabia's dancers battled across 12 and 13 June 2025, and CZ went home with the title.
Watch the videoThe format: no hiding place
The rules were built for pressure.
Day 1, the preliminaries. 32 dancers, 16 battles, one round each, 60 seconds to make a case. No tie-breakers. Win it in your minute or go home.
Day 2, the finals. 16 dancers, 15 battles. From the round of 16 to the semifinals every dancer got two rounds of 45 seconds, trading back and forth, with an extra 45 seconds each if the judges could not split them. The final went further: three rounds each, two minutes and 15 seconds of dancing per finalist, with a timer running in full view of the crowd.
Both nights ran from 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM, with dancers called at 4:30. Turn up late and your opponent advanced without you.
The conduct rules were just as blunt: no disrespect, no physical contact, respect for the judges, the DJs and the staff. Break any of it and you were out on the spot.
The judges, the DJ, the MC
Four judges called it: Bboy Willy, Nate, Brookie and Bboy Fire. DJ Ush ran the music both nights, and Maki from Onipiliph hosted, keeping the crowd in it between rounds.
The dancers
The 32 who entered: Ghost The Dancer, Young, Edy, Kodrey, Snwwby, AL Yámi, Obama, Jimmy, Byfu, Hell, Silly, Sawi, Zaki, Wysha, iKKi, Bolandi, JAX, YAWA, Luffy, RED, CZ, Cybrog H, Awlo, Abdullah Yusuf, Lily, Scorpion, Uzi, Sultan, Salman, JAYJAY, Youjeen and Taka.
Names worth remembering. This is the roster the Riyadh scene is built on right now.
The champion: CZ
CZ took the title, coming through a bracket that cut 32 down to one over two nights, and finishing in the format that gives nobody cover: three rounds, 45 seconds at a time, the crowd close enough to touch.
Who UGF are
The Underground Fellas have been doing this since 2008. The crew is 14 dancers, choreographers and DJs, and its record is not a modest one.
Six consecutive first-place finishes at Red Bull BC One Saudi Arabia, from 2009 to 2014. The World BBoy Classic championship in 2013. The first Saudi dance crew invited onto So You Think You Can Dance on MBC4, reaching the quarter-finals in 2014. More than 300 shows around the world, over 150 million views on YouTube, and choreography on music videos including “Burbs” at 70 million views and Ayed’s “Come All of You” at 35 million.
They have worked the King Fahd Stadium, the Al-Nassr coronation in front of 80,000 people, embassy programs from 2010 to 2021, and festival openings across the Kingdom and beyond. In 2025 they judged Red Bull BC One Saudi Arabia.
That is the crew that built this battle with MDLBEAST Radio, and it shows in how it was run.
Why MDLBEAST Radio was in the room
This is the part of the job the station cares most about. MDLBEAST Radio is built on the communities that make the music and the movement in Saudi Arabia, and a battle like this is where that work is obvious.
Being in the room is the easy half. The harder half is what comes next: airtime, a platform, a stage with real production behind it, and a push toward the level where this stops being a weekend and starts being a career. The talent in the Kingdom is not in question. What changes things is who shows up to back it, and how often.
MDLBEAST Radio keeps showing up.
This is just the beginning
Two nights, 32 dancers, four judges, one champion, and a room that stayed loud from the first minute to the last. The floor at Beast House proved the obvious thing: Saudi street dance does not need an occasion to be worth watching, it just needs a stage and a timer.
More to come.
Listen to MDLBEAST Radio across the Kingdom on 104.8 in Riyadh, 98.1 in Jeddah, 97.4 in Dammam and 87.6 in Abha, or listen live.
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