Badminton Votes To Change Scoring System From 2027

Badminton's world governing assemblage has voted to alteration nan sport's scoring system, calling it "an important milestone for nan early of badminton".

Matches presently travel a best-of-three games format pinch nan victor of each crippled being nan first to 21 points.

From 4 January 2027 each crippled will beryllium reduced to nan first to 15 points.

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) says nan reduced crippled clip will create tighter games pinch much excitement arsenic good arsenic reducing subordinate fatigue and nan chance of injury.

The 3x15 scoring strategy was voted done astatine nan BWF's yearly wide gathering successful Denmark.

"We are building a athletics that speaks to nan adjacent generation, while continuing to put successful nan agelong word early of our players," BWF President Khunying Patama Leeswadtrakul said.

"The 3 by 15 scoring strategy is intended to present much breathtaking and competitory badminton, improved scheduling, much accordant lucifer durations, and imaginable benefits for subordinate use and recovery."

The determination came aft a play of testing, analysis, and consultation, pinch 5 different scoring systems looked at.

While immoderate stakeholders did definitive reservations, Leeswadtrakul said: "We cognize that alteration tin raise concern, particularly successful a athletics pinch specified beardown traditions. But this determination does not alteration nan basal quality of badminton.

"The skill, nan tactics, nan beingness and intelligence demands, and nan play of nan athletics will remain."