History of "Battle Of The Year"

In 1990 Thomas Hergenröther had organised the first forerunner of the BOTY in Hannover (Germany). The event was supported by his group Burning Moves. There were 9 crews and 400 visitors to find out who is the best B-Boy crew. Up to the present the figure of visitors has grown to approx. 4000 visitors accordingly the number of organisation staffs and supporting teams has grown. In 1991 MZEE started their supporting work.

In 1995 From HereTo Fame GmbH has become one of the promoters of the battle (MZEE is a division of FHTF). Thomas Hergenröther is responsible for the contents of the event (dancing crews, DJs, judges, hosts,..) while FHTF realises and organises the event.

BOTY becomes more and more international and that means more and more popular. So the capacity of the venues grows and every year there are some more key men in the BOTY-team. One of their aims is to integrate young and motivated people. And it's necessary to do it because it is getting harder and harder to fulfill all the claims.

In summer 1999 Thomas Hergenröther and the main staff of the event split up with the From HereTo Fame GmbH and found a new agency with SMO (Münster) which hold the event in the year 2000 together with Thomas Hergenröther and which is a well known German event agency putting their main emphasis on youth culture and trendsport events like for example the "Münster Monster" - Skateboard Worldchampionships.

Since janurary 2001 the new full event partner is the Backspin Magazine/ Falk & Petering OHG which now in association with the "Battle of the Year" Headoffice/ Hergenröther & Ilsemann GbR is the event organizer.

After in the year 2000 the BOTY took place at the EXPO 2000 in Hannover with almost 10.000 attending spectators and artists from all over the world, in the year 2001 the BOTY found a new location and city with the Volkswagen Halle in Braunschweig. About 9.000 people attended the 2001 event. After mostly positive feedback from 2001 the BOTY Team decided to stay in Braunschweig in the same location for the following years! Since then the BOTY feels very home and welcome in the whole city of Brauschweig.