Breakdancers compete for Hong Kong crown, as B-Boys’ final goes to the wire and injury thwarts B-Girl
- The four breakers who competed for the city at the Asian Games all reach their finals at the Hong Kong Breaking Team Qualifier
- B-Boy C Plus and B-Boy Think go to a tiebreaker, while B-Girl Lady Banan struggles with an injury from the Games in Hangzhou
Hundreds of spectators watched on during the two-day Hong Kong Breaking Team Qualifier finals, as the city’s top B-Boys needed a tiebreaker to separate them and a women’s finalist forfeited a shot at victory because of a knee injury.
Olympian City Mall transformed to accommodate the finals on Saturday and Sunday. Among the 16 contestants who reached the final day of competition – eight men and eight women – four were competing fresh from dancing in the Asian Games.
Wong Chiu-wai (B-Girl Lady Banan), Chan Ka-yi (B-Girl Lady Little) and Sze Ka-yam (B-Boy C Plus) had reached the round of 16 in Hangzhou, while Tsang Tsz-wa (B-Boy Think) was eliminated in the preliminaries. And the four dominated the final day of competition in West Kowloon, earning spots in their respective finals.
Lady Little and Lady Banan – nursing a knee injury she suffered in Hangzhou – earned 2-0 wins over semi-final opponents Helen Ho Pui-yee (B-Girl Pui Yee) and Cheung Lai-yi (B-Girl Ifree) respectively.
They were then level at 1-1 heading into the final’s last round, but Lady Banan opted out of the final battle to avoid aggravating her injured knee, giving the trophy to her opponent.
“My goal for today was just to reach the last day of competition, but I did not expect to go to the final, so I am OK [with the result],” she said.
