The winning breakers - one bgirl and one bboy - qualified for the Olympic Games 2024 in Paris. Bgirl India from the Netherlands and Bboy Dany from France took the win. They secured their spot, next to Bgirl El Mamouny and BBoy Billy from Morocco who won the African Championships in May 2023, for the Olypmic Games 2024.
My work as a judge started off in early 2022, when I did the certification for the Threefold and Trivum Judging System created by Storm and Renegade. Here, I learned not only about the idea and process behind the two judging systems, but got a closer and detailed education about evaluating breaking as an artform and athletic discipline.
Soon, I was invited to judge the Belgium Championships Vlaanderen, various ranking battles in the Netherlands, the Undisputed Qualifier 1on1 and Crewbattles at the IBE 2022, the WDSF Breaking for Gold (BfG) European Championship in Manchester, the BfG World Series in Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2023, the Moroccan National Breaking Championships 2023, and finally the BfG European Games in Poland.
To be judging these competitions is an important job, as it can influence a dancer's career. Together with the whole judge panel and organizing team, we do have numerous discussions about judging, but we never talk about the battles or dancers we are judging in the event we are currently judging - to not influence any opinios.