pitch fight are a 14-piece all female identifying competitive a cappella group formed in 2015 by rafaella barratt and aliak bedirian. in their first year of existence they competed in the voicefest 2016 and since then have gone from strength to strength. in their most recent year, pitch fight have appeared on national television in sky one's "" and became runners up in the icca 2018 exeter quarterfinal under the musical direction of emily khatib, having also picked up awards for catt hurman's "outstanding choreography" and äyanna christie-brown's "outstanding solo". they then went on to place fourth in the icca uk final 2018, again winning the "outstanding soloist" award and just two weeks later became voicefest 2018 finalists. in august of 2018 they debuted at the edinburgh festival fringe alongside their brother group academy a cappella with their joint show "academy and pitch fight present: buy one, get one free" which was sold out for its final two performances. in 2019, pitch fight once again qualified for the icca uk final by placing as runners up in the exeter quarterfinal, along with picking up the "outstanding choreography" award for the second year in a row. pitch fight are returning to the edinburgh fringe in august 2019 with their aca-brothers, academy, to perform "romeo & juliet: an a capella tragedy".