A brief introduction to the badminton tournament system
Round-robin tournament
The team competition of badminton adopts more single round-robin tournaments. But generally also use group, stage by stage method, because the round-robin tournament game number of games, long time, in the number of teams or the number of participants in a larger number of times is not applicable. The round-robin method of play is that all teams in the same group take turns playing each other once.
The ranking of the match is based on the number of wins, or if two teams have the same number of wins, the winner of the match between the two teams will be ranked first. If there is a tie between three or more winners, it is decided by the number of net games they have won throughout the stage (single events are decided by the number of net sets won). Once there is a tie between two, the winner of the match between the two is placed first. If there is still a tie between three or more, the net wins and net points will be calculated again accordingly. If there is still a three-way tie in net win points, they are ranked by drawing lots. Therefore, in a round-robin tournament, when the participants are evenly matched in terms of skill level, every game, every set and every point in the match will most likely have a bearing on the final ranking.
If there are two teams (or participants) from the same organisation in a group, the matches between them should be arranged first, so as to avoid “watering down” each other in the later rounds and playing fake games. Even so, in the round-robin tournament, it is still impossible to prevent the phenomenon of ball-fixing or “watering”, which is a disadvantage of the round-robin tournament system.
Single elimination tournament
Badminton competition of single event, generally are used in single elimination tournament, because the number of participants in a tournament, the game can only be used in single elimination tournament. Single-elimination tournament method is the participants in accordance with the number of 2 multiplier (4, 8, 32 ……) to fight against each other. The winner moves on to the next round, the loser is out immediately, and half of the participants are eliminated in each round. So the whole game is fast and furious. Any negligence on the part of the contestants may result in their immediate elimination.
The arrangement of the rounds of the competition is related to the intensity of the competition and the gradual escalation of the competitive level of the competition, so the rounds of the competition are required to be arranged for one round per day (or evenly distributed). If this is not possible, then extra rounds should be scheduled in the first few rounds, and the semi-finals and finals, which are close in level, should never be scheduled on the same day.
Seeding and Drawing In. Knockout rounds are highly opportunistic. In order for the outcome of the tournament to be reasonable, it is necessary to seed the higher level entrants as evenly separated. Contestants from the same unit must also be evenly separated to meet at the end.
Mixed system of round robin and elimination
In order to make the game end in a shorter time, but also to make the results of the game is more reasonable, in many tournaments on the round-robin and elimination tournament used in combination. Generally in the first phase of the group round robin, the second phase of the elimination. For example, the Thomas Cup, Uber Cup, Sudirman Cup, and World Badminton Grand Prix Finals are all mixed round robin and knockout tournaments. (b) The World Badminton Grand Prix Finals.