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It was mildly interesting to watch (listen) to this perspective. He's right: I don't care much about Breaking as a sport. It turns out the scene in Australia is tiny and the people who do it are amateur. For Raygun, she had to do three dance battles in a field of eight women to qualify as Australia's entry into the Olympics. Which globally is a very low bar.
To sum up the video:
Yes, she sucked. But it isn't like Australia was ever going to do well in this event no matter who we sent.
Dancers in the Australian breaking scene can't afford to travel to global events and get good.
I found this strange. He said himself that she had to do 4, and then just...discounted one of them, for some reason? It was a field of 15, that got cut down to 8 in a process he didn't explain, except to say that it wasn't the normal group stage.
I'd add a third important bullet point to your summing up: that the points system breaking uses is not necessarily just rewarding the flashiest physical dancing. And that while she is bad, she's not necessarily as bad compared to other dancers—within the point system used—as you might expect as a complete amateur watching her and watching some other Aussie.
He discounted the preliminary dance, I assumed because it was not a battle. But I'm not going to go back and check. It wasn't that interesting. 😀