Please don’t misunderstand me. I think breaking is absolutely a competitive field. But adapting such things into a “measurable” art comes with difficulties. They have had to repeatedly tweak the scoring of artistic swimming and gymnastic floor routines because there were ways to game the system at the cost of interesting performances. I’d like to think they learned from their experiences there, but new art forms come with new challenges especially when different groups are responsible for them. Better performers (in my opinion as someone who doesn’t understand the scoring criteria) made it to the top in the end, so something is working. But there are going to be hiccups along the way. “Raygun” making it into the Olympics is one such hiccup, and whether it’s the overall scoring and interpretation of such (which in other international competitions have not netted her zero points) or an Oceania-specific problem is something I can’t say. My overall point has been that I don’t see this as simple a “Raygun” issue due to factors outside of her control that have enabled her and have somehow given her competitive advantages. (Which is ironic as hell phrasing, I know.)
