A total of 153 participants started in the girls’ group. After the selection rounds, D. Banevič took first place in his group. No one challenged her more seriously in the playoffs. In the quarterfinals, our athlete beat the German representative Pauline Nettesheim – Bgirl Pauline with a dry score of 2:0 (7:0, 7:0). The same situation occurred in the semi-finals, where D. Banevič became the opponent of Swami Mostalac Rizzitiello – Bgirl Swami from Mexico – 2:0 (7:0, 7:0).
In the final, three rounds were danced and here, after a break of several years, all the dots were put on the i. Dutch athlete Dewi Sardjoe – Bgirl India, who has been training for the Paris Olympics for the past two years and finished fourth, has avoided big competitions and encounters with capable opponents.
However, the system of the very first tournament after Paris led to a meeting between Bgirl Nick and Bgirl India in the finals. The meeting ended with a clear victory for Nicka – she won all three rounds in the final. The final result is 3:0 (5:2, 6:1, 6:1).
Dominika Banevič won The Legits Blast tournament for the third time, having previously won it in 2023. and 2021 On Saturday, dancing, as the commentators of the competition put it, “almost on home ground” because of the great support of the gathered community, Bgirl Nicka demonstrated a traditional break style, top-level technique, avoiding any mistakes, doing everything very cleanly.
The Lithuanian athlete combined the different elements of the break in an interesting and organic way, so even after the competition, the specialists praised her for the consistency and even intensity of each round.
As in Paris, Dominika Banevič did not lack relaxation and a good mood for a long day of competition in Saturday’s competition.
World Sports Dance Federation (WDSF) break consultant, international category judge Martin Gilian – Bboy MG, who is holding the competition in his hometown, invited famous names to Slovakia this year – both dancers and judges.
This year, the athletes were judged by the legendary Poe One (who also refereed the Lithuanian Break Championship in the spring), Katsu One from Japan, Paulina from Poland, Kate from Ukraine, Thesis from the USA, Junior from Brazil, Moy from the USA.
It is interesting that, according to the organizer M. Gilian, Lithuania was represented so abundantly for the first time in “The Legits Blast” break competition among 90 countries – in addition to D. Banevič, 7 other young dancers started.
And although no one has yet managed to achieve such high results in other groups, according to Mindaugas Radvila – Bboy M, head of the Break League of the Lithuanian Sports Dance Federation (LSŠF), who accompanied the young breakers to Slovakia, the less experienced dancers took both inspiration and experience, and their strength It will be possible to try it again in Banska Bistrica in a year.
2024-08-25 22:24:50