Badminton to return to "traditional" scoring
22/03/2003 : Badminton÷Õ scoring system is set to return to its
ø·raditional?system, following a vote at the International Badminton
Federation÷Õ Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), held in Eindhoven, the
Netherlands, earlier today.

The Badminton Association of England (BA of E) led the campaign for the EGM,
dissatisfied with the manner in which a decision to change the scoring
system was taken following the 2002 IBF Annual General Meeting last May.

The BA of E claimed that IBF Council did not act as directed by the AGM when
it chose a scoring system option that had not been proposed to the AGM, and
was concerned that the new scoring system (3 x 15 in men÷Õ singles and men÷Õ
doubles; 3 x 11 points in women÷Õ singles, women÷Õ doubles and mixed
doubles) was perceived as discriminatory to women.

Today at the EGM, which was chaired by IBF Vice-President Tom Bacher, the
delegates resolved that IBF Council had indeed not acted as the AGM
requested and so the scoring change made at the 2002 AGM was annulled.

There was a second proposal from the Badminton Association of England in
which they pushed for a change to a best of 5 games to 9 points system
across all events. However, the BA of E announced that, to ensure full
support for the future scoring system to be used, they would not press for a
vote, and their resolution then received no seconder.

Therefore the official badminton scoring system will revert to the
ø·raditional?system: namely best 3 x 15 in all events, except women÷Õ
singles, which will be played under a 3 x 11 format.

The new system will come into effect from 15 April 2003, with dispensation
on request to IBF being available to certain organisers to vary this date.






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