its a hard balance. The issue you have is that new observers don’t know anything about it so it really helps to have opinionated commentary. However at the same time its common to not be biased in commentary and its not really a done thing to commentate about the weakness of a given breaker or try to predict an outcome for the viewer.
If the IOC weren’t such asses about the viewing rights it would have great to have more commentary options and some more opinionated with time to break down the judging system for newer viewers.

There were some interesting narratives that an opinionated commentary could have provided for the viewer. There were a couple of relatively big shocks in the semi-finals with Danny Dann beating Victor via some incredible musicality and Victor misjudged how his first round went which meant he did a short 3rd round and lost. In the other semi final Shigekix (the favourite) did some excellent stuff but was heavily marked down for repeating material from previous rounds which was a product of how hard his group was. That was a group where crowd favourite Hiro10 came last because despite his explosive style he wasn’t well rounded, particularly creative and he lacked the musicality in his power (the spinning moves) that Shigekix has.

It’s a shame these little dramas couldn’t be explained better to the audience.

eh? BGirl Nicka is a fantastic breaker, what are you talking about. This IS hip hop.

people get medals for jumping into water.

tell me you didn’t watch the breaking competition without telling me you didn’t watch the breaking competition.

I saw a kid kick a ball against a wall outside and it hit him in the face. I can’t believe football is an Olympic sport, how stupid.

such hypocrisy. There’s plenty of established Olympic sports that wouldn’t pass your purity test if they were new.

that’s not true. The Oceania event was judged by a panel of Olympic accredited judges which included bboying legends like Moy and Skim. The only controversy and conspiracy theorists have left to dig around is how the window for registration was very short, but they had funding issues in setting up the qualifier which caused delays.

why did you only watch the start? There was plenty of incredible performances.

Judging methods are very unique and interesting if you care to learn.