After the dust settling from C2C's four year dominance is was clear something special was needed to keep the creative musical team momentum and Kireek filled that position perfectly!

Kireek are the first Asian team from Japan to ever take the team title and consist of two members DJ Yasa (2006 World Final runner up) and DJ Hi-C. What was really enjoyable about them was their musical choice, they took full advantage of their musical culture and delivered it and remixed over phat Drum and Bass style beats which were manipulated in so many styles! Kireek delivered a very entertaining, action packed six minutes with beaming smiles from their faces throughout the performance, it showed resemblance of the Craze and ATrak set back in 2000 as they flowed between each other, it was perfection visually as well as audibly and most importantly you didn't have to force yourself to understand!

With Tuntablists constantly focusing on being technically great there's usually a very important but simple ingredient being over looked and that's musical appeal! C2C (Coup 2 Cross) a four man team from France came into the competition at the right time and proved just how important that balance is! Atom. Pfel, 20 Syl and Greem are true musicians and although there was criticism about them using customised records throughout their performance, you have to appreciate the detail and timing of these geniuses at work!

C2C's 2nd defense was more like a party set than a competition performance. With dynamic introductions that requested a crowd response they played on our emotions and within the first 2 minutes of their performance I knew they were the winner's! C2C took customised records to another level since there was so much music being selected, covering virtually every genre. They must have spent as much time in the studio developing this as they did practicing. Tuntablists like to make bold statements that they are musicians but there's lots more to manipulating records cleverly for six minutes, C2C have worked out what that is and they can firmly back it up.

With two title defenses firmly under their belt the choice of defending a third time doesn't usually enter many World champions minds, only DJ Craze managed to pull off such a challenging feat back in 2000, so when C2C announced they were back for a third time I was very excited and just didn't know what to expect! Most competitors base their sets around urban music, C2C however explored outside of this field and were bold enough to compose Jazz, Samba and Blues head nodding master pieces whilst constantly displaying a very visual well choreographed performance. In my personal opinion this was the most musically creative routine in the team championships to date! Billy Biznizz summed it all up by announcing "There is nothing more to be said!" as C2C exited the stage!

After blasting the competition out of the water over the past three years C2C announces a fourth title defense, I certainly didn't know what to think since 2005 was such a ground breaking performance surely that was their peak? With $10.000 being generously donated by stylus sponsors Ortofon this would be a great excuse to grab some extra pocket money while making history with a fourth title victory!

Sticking with tradition they started off with a big dynamic intro with choreographed movements it doesn't take long to see where they going with this as they remind us with a special cut down tribute of the favorite bits of their past winning performances this takes up a total of 3 minutes and is very clever, this left them to indulge us with a very musical head nodding and foot taping scratch vocal piece, the finale was a well choreographed set of sampled of horns that each member has in a different key as they take turns to cut in this is a excellent ending when you consider these guys are on tour performing a busy schedule which does restrict your creativity! C2C managed to overcome this through perfect planning, so congratulations C2C for becoming the first team in DMC history for winning the DMC Team title for an unprecedented four times!

With all the merging teams and title defenses in past years the 2002 Team championships sought new blood since there wasn't a Team Champion to defend the title!

France has always had a great history of placing runner ups throughout DMC'S events and after injecting bold statements and perfect flowing yet refreshing melodic master pieces, there was no doubt which team had earned the 2002 title! Birdy Nam Nam were also the first team to exploit customised records to the full and Crazy B finally had a world title which proved you should never give up on your dreams!

Not content with winning the team titles individually the Scratch Perverts and Allies teamed up to form the ultimate team, consisting of a now down sized Perverts, Prime Cuts and Tony Vegas alongside Craze and Infamous. This international arrival guaranteed unrivalled victory over their competitors, and if you look back at the championships from previous years it was pretty obvious this was going to happen. These guys were so influential to the scene around that time they just delivered what they do best!

Back in the UK, at the Millennium Dome in fact, Craze and A-Trak seek revenge on the 1999 Teams Championships where they placed 2nd! Taking full advantage of the amount of entrants a country is allowed, Craze and A-Trak split from the Allies to form this international World Champion duo. Their set was packed with insults, visual tricks, humor and technique but most importantly a fluent performance full of funk (yep, you could nod your head!). This is what you expect from two World Champion heavy weights whose musical choices were based around creating various Drum and Bass master pieces as they dominated the decks and made it look too easy. Craze also defended his third World title that year too, how he managed to prioritise and practice for both events and achieve total success is still unsurpassed in the competitions history!

To meet with the Increase and demand of its turntablist competitors and audience DMC decided to introduce the DMC Team Championship. This event was originally introduced back in 1992 and followed the performance rules and judging criteria as the traditional World DJ Championship, this event would also opened up new opportunities like a choice of any mixer, allowing a maximum of 4 without effects, of course the beloved Technics Turntables remained the only difference being that a maximum of 6 could now be operated by four Turntablist's!

Staged in the home of Hip Hop at the Hammerstein Ballroom New York this event was open to more than one entrant per country, this was perfect for the UK's mighty Scratch Perverts since they were previously beaten by The En4cers for the UK title and took full advantage of this second chance! Their performance showed much more creativity within the original 4 man crew that consisted of Tony Vegas, Prime Cuts, MR Thing and First Rate. One of the most talked about and inspiring techniques the Perverts brought was the feedback tone, this was done by connecting the headphone output into the mic channels input and turning the volume up which increased the frequency allowing them to play some stunning musical pieces. The second technique was the Euro Scratch, a very awkward technique to master but once conquered it allows you to chop your scratches up just like Transforming but 4 faster! It's these techniques that the Perverts delivered on point that night with doses of insults and humor that earned them the 1999 World title!