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There is no world governing body for breakdance, it’s owned by the street.
So the opinion of these self aggrandising dickheads means nothing.
Just what Big Street wants you to think...
I just looked up a clip of the number two spot, B-Girl Riko. She's incredible. Placing this clown in the number one spot is an insult to all breakers with talent, skill, and style. What a joke.
I can only assume it’s like boxing. We all expect a knockout and to be entertained, but the reality is usually adding up technical points
That’s exactly what it was. The title only gave points for non-Olympic events. And since the vast majority of events with the best breakers were focused on qualifying for the Olympics, all of those points from the best breakers got excluded. Basically, she’s the only breaker in her country who won a non-Olympic event (because all the people better than her were busy trying to qualify for the Olympics,) so it went to her by default.
I love all the people who suddenly have opinions on breakdancing drama, like it matters at all. This ain't the Last Jedi, let it go, you don't need to hold on to this damage forever.
Okay but as someone who has niche hobbies its absolute pain to see a niche sport suffer this much from some random clown.
Ranked #1…. Lol do they have eyes? I know a couple of highschool kids that can put her to shame. Did they see her olympic performance… it was a joke and now its a bad joke.
to be fair she got everyone talking about breakdancing. its provocative.
#1 funniest?
she killed breakdancing for sure
So... as someone who doesn't know anything about the olympic performance or otherwise, what's going on here? Was her performance strange compared to normal break dancing? Did they score the dancers using some arcane formula that she happened to hit every highlight of, without regard to whether it looked good or was entertaining?
She literally scored all 0’s at the Olympics. I’d say she fell flat on her face, but even that would’ve probably earned more points than her performance. It was a sort of Billy Madison moment.
The controversy was all because she basically voted herself into the competition; No governing body existed for Australia (where she was from) so she created the organization to decide who got to go to the Olympics. They held tryouts, and she (since she made the organization and was in charge of the tryouts) made a point of excluding anyone who was better than her.
She basically only made it to the Olympics because of blatant nepotism, and then made a fool of herself. Her stated reason was that she saw who she was up against, realized she didn’t have a chance in a straight skill-based competition, and decided to do something more “experimental” instead. Basically, she said she was hoping to cinch it with creativity instead of skill. In reality it was just cringe, and she looked like an idiot.
So her getting #1 is because she fell into a weird sort of loophole; The rank only considers scores for competitions that aren’t Olympic. And nearly all of the 2024 competitions were focused on qualifying for the Olympics. She only attended one non-Olympic competition, but she won it because all of the best breakers were focused on the Olympics. So since she won that competition, she was handed the title of #1.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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