Tie Score Dilemma

Discussion in 'Rules / Tournament Regulation / Officiating' started by mndtrcks, Apr 13, 2005.

  1. SteveStanley

    SteveStanley Regular Member

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    IBF rules don't dictate all the details, that's why it cannot be used against or for benefit of this situation.

    As Mag said, one would not continue the game before it's clear what the decision on the set, no one is a mind reader so no one should make any assumptions. Assumption is never good. :rolleyes:

    In my experience of playing badminton for almost 25 years, when there is no umpire, whoever is going to serve should make sure that the set has been decided and clear, I would not serve until the opponent makes up their mind - waiting is not enough. This is not an IBF rule, but just the informal rule that I've been using. Again, this is not an official rule, but just from my experience of playing badminton, off course different places/locations/countries may have different informal rules.

    It was even more confusing before, because we used to set at 13-13 and 14-14.
     
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    3rd set, down 13-14 ... your players got to 14-14 ... don't you think at this crucial point, you'd want to be ABSOLUTELY sure if 15 or 17 wins the game? There's a choice to be made at that point in the game, and barring officials, personal responsibility, etiquette takes precedent.

    The ideal situation (both parties knowing) didn't happen. If you really want to follow IBF rules, the gist is: the first to 14 decides, right? They assumed 17, your girls assumed 15. They got to 14 first.

    Both sides gambled, your girls lost. Get ready for the next tournament. I'll wager you won't garner much support for this case. No offense.

    -dave
     
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  3. Benasp

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    in my little 6 years of playing i never have probleme with this, i mean the other team always knowed that they need to set the number of point. and i'm so happy to want the prolongation that i have no trouble to say it :p, it's not that big of a descision 1 or 3 lol, me i always take 3 except if i would have been to 14-14 by extreme luck versus a better opponent.

    in your case there no place for a lawyer, both team did wrong, just to bad your lose period.
     
  4. Papa Smurf

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    Well i think mndtrks girls were being a little deceptive with the scoring, but thats if you hit a shot, that you know went out, but your opponent called it in. Thats their bad. If it were recreational, i would point it out. But who here in a tournament, honestly would stop and correct the other team? "Please, take this point away from me, i dont want it". It may not have been ettiqutte, but you do not point out your opponent's mistakes. Those other girls KNEW they had the option to set, because they brought it up afterwards.

    Just imagine this. Youre in the finals of some tournament where first prize is $2000 US. Its game point and you just hit a shot which u knew went out, but your opponents are standing around looking confused because they didnt see it, so they dont know what to call it. 90% of the people here would keep quiet, and hope they call it in. The other 10% of the people here would be one of those jack@$$es who go "if you didnt see it, you have to call it in". Simply the rules say whoever gets to 14 first calls, it is not the responsibility of ur opponenets to remind you.
     
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    No, but I honestly think you cannot continue playing if you don't know to how many point it should be set. This is rule 7.5
     
  6. mndtrcks

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    None taken...this is why I am here in this forum, to ask other peoples opinion which I am taking whole-heartedly. But can you confuse strategy and sportsmanship? Since the IBF rule states in 7.5 that whomever gets to 14 first choose what they will play too, my player(s) opted to not say anything because the best strategy for them in their minds was that they get 2 serves to score one more point to win the game. Is that wrong for them to do that? I think that is a great strategy use especially when your opponent is not smart enough to know their rules, then why are you playing if you do not know the rules? Sportsmanship and etiquette had nothing to do with this but simply strategy to win the game. Their opponents did not say anything (which they both admitted to both their coach and myself) after they lost the point and supposedly the game to protest it after? So in this case their opponents prepared for my girls serve which in my girls mind felt it was an acknowledgment to go on with next serve hence to a game to 15. If there were an IBF rule that states that if there were ever a tie the player(s) who got to 14 chooses either to set or to go to 15; and if no choice was made, the player(s) who got 14 to tie the game must ask their opponent to choose. Wouldn't you lose some type of strategy in a game?

    Sportsmanship is when after the game is done, you would go and talk to the other players to teach the rules by saying something like, you know, you could have set the game to 17. They could have said either, "I knew that but wanted to finish to 15" or "oh, I didn't know you could do that." but not while educating your opponent during a game or tournament. What I told my girls about this was that the other mistakes they made during the game, if you did not make those mistakes, you would have never gotten in this predicament as well as lose the match and the game. A great lesson and experience learned. Thanks for all your opinions. This helps better me as a coach and player.
     
  7. kwun

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    i just want to chime in for my humble opinion.

    by the Laws, a game in badminton is 15 points. it is only extended when there is a special circumstance (ie. 14-14) to extend, or set, to 17. if setting didn't happen, or agreed on, then the game naturally finishes at 15.

    in other words, if both sides do happen to keep silence at 14-14. that means there is no set and the game finishes at at the natural end point of 15. if any player on court decides that they would like to extend to 17, they must speak out. you have the power to speak out, if you don't speak out, you are voluntarily giving up that power.

    i also want to point out that, when one do speak out, the final choice of setting or not, however, still goes to the side who gets to 14 first.

    technically this is what should happen.

    whether one takes advantage of this and use as a tactic is proper ettiquette or not.. well... ;)
     
  8. wood_22_chuck

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    I think I see the point now.

    It may be that I'm am uncomfortable with the "strategy" although professional players also utilize this method ... Lin Dan, Jen Eriksen for example.

    -dave
     
  9. Winex West Can

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    I will put in my 2 cents (or rather 3 cents Cdn) :D

    I think it is good etiquette that regardless of whether you or your opponents got to 14 first, is to enquiry and verify that there is either no setting or setting.

    By keeping quiet, you are hoping to pull a fast one similarily to calling a shot out when it's in (or vice versa). Just because the rules doesn't stipulate what needed to be done doesn't mean that it shouldn't be done.

    In reply to Papa Smurf, I would say that the honest badminton players will call the shots as they are. I do and that's coz I do not want to win by cheating. If I am not sure, then I will keep quiet and if we can't verify then a let is played. That's the principle of good sportspersonship and I think some of our current top players are losing some of those principles.
     
  10. badmonte

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    Rules are rules, everything else is opinions

    In my opinion, the rules state that if tied you have a choice if you scored 14 first. If you do not say anything you have made a choice not to set. In my 25 years of playing and running IBF sanctioned events at a UC in the are, I would have to agree with the notion that it is the responsibility of the players to know the rule. Therefore, when I was tournament director and something like this happened I would ask the parties involved "Who got to 14 first ?" Then I would ask that team "Did you set?" If they said no, I would say then the game went to 15 and you lost, sorry. I wouldn't know how else to call it. The rule also states that a decision has to be made before the next serve is played. So once the serve is played you can't go back and set so you cant replay anything. Simply stated they didn't set, the next serve was played, so you play to 15. If you were a tournament director how could you rule any other way? If you tell them to go back you are now breaking the rule that states you have to make the decision before the next serve is played! That would be wrong!
     
  11. Mag

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    For the sake of argument, let's assume that the opponents were acting based on a questionable "strategy". The fact remains that if you had taught your girls proper court behaviour -- in this case that they must make absolutely sure whether their opponents are setting or not -- the opponents' "strategy" would not have been possible.

    Unfortunately, there will always be opponents that are more prone than others to bend the rules a little. As a coach, part of your job is to prepare your players to prevent and counter such behaviour in others, and to stay focused when it happens. Sometimes a player is subjected to bad calls or "unfair" situations (such as this one), and it is your responsibility teach the players to move on, focus on the next point, next game, next match. Anything else is counter-productive.
     
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    Everything else aside you DO have to ask because the option to set is not yours to begin with and you have to know what the other team decide so you know what you are playing up to!

    The option on the other side is to play straight through or to set (3 points), they have to let you know one way or the other because it is them that decides, you have no say in it what so ever.

    It is my opinion that your team should not have proceeded to serve until they were notified of either straight through or setting.

    Nothing to do with etiquette or gamesmanship, just plain common sense
     
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    If mndtricks team had lost the serve, and the other team won their serve giving them the 15-14, would this problem still have arisen?
     
  14. badmonte

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    Mag and Dill:
    If you were running a tournament how would you handle the dispute? The rule says it has to be done before the next point is played. That did not happen. A point was played. So have to rule on it. The rule book does not say you have to ask, period. If you say that and rule to replay from the point of set 14-14, you are going against the rules. If you say the needed to ask, again you are adding something that is not in the rule book. It may not be great sportsmanship, but it is not illegel. If rule in favor of the team that was at 14 first and say to go back and replay you are breaking one rule and adding to another, which you can't do. Therefore, by the rule, and not personal opinions on sportsmanship, you would have to side with the team that won 15-14. Then educate why that shouldn't happen ever again.
     
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    My point is that it is the oposition that choose what to play to, if that is not done vocaly then you don't serve because you do not know what you are playing up to.

    This is my understanding of the rules, simple as that!
     
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    Dill:
    I understand your point. I agree with you and in a perfect world it would never happen. It happens often in lower level flights of tournaments because not everyone is 100% sure of the rules. But you did not answer the question. How would you rule if you were a tournament director and two teams came to you and explin your justification in accordance with the rules?
    I am interested in finding out how everyone would rule on this matter.
    Again to recap:
    Once the game has gone on to the next point you cant go back, because the rule says it has to be declared before the next serve. So how would you rule?
     
  17. SteveStanley

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    I would ask them to continue playing at 14-14 instead, and whoever got the 14 first has to decide on setting before they resume the play.

     
  18. Papa Smurf

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    Would you still do that if.... instead of bringing it up after 1 point, the other team brought it up after playing 3 points? Say for example, mndtrks kids tied it at 14, then served and won the match 17-16. Now what if the other kids then mentioned that they never got the option to "not set." Would you make them go back to 14-14 and replay? Because having the option to set or not set, would be the same situation.
     
  19. Dill

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    Difference in this instance would be that both teams played past 15 points and if the play was at 14 all then service would have changed hands a couple of times, so there is time to raise an objection during the game.

    In the other instance I would have the players together and discuss both sides of the argument but the team that won have broken the rules by not waiting for the other team to let them know what to set to, they continued play regardless.

    My option would be that having everyone return to the court to play to one point would be silly and that possibly 3 points would not be a good idea either, my prefered option would be to have a game to 5 points without any setting but only if both teams agreed and no objections were raised by either the teams or their coaches. This should be fair and eliminate any quick points or flukey shots and give both teams a chance. It would also eliminate any recriminations afterwards by the players or their coaches, i.e. I had to play more points than the other teams and I was tired in the final.

    If you agree you have nowhere to run and can only blame yourself.

    In the instance of this happening more, then my view is that if you don't know the rules then you have to seek clarification at the judges table, afterall that is why they are there!

    If we have an umpire here I would like to hear their views - I think they would penalise the winners for breaking the rules.
     
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    If they play and won the match 17-16, it means both teams understood that they are playing to 17 and the serves have gone back and forth at least a few times. So, no replay off course.
     

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