Selecting matches for the TV Court

Do you think they have any other choice? Seven out of ten matches in the SFs involved Chinese players. And of course they would choose to broadcast Lee CW's match. That would make WD, XD, MD and MS. Instead of broadcasting the last discipline, which is WS, they chose to broadcast MS again. Well, a match involved one Chinese player is still better than an all-Chinese match right?

 

China vs China is not even at issue here. That's a topic requiring its own thread.

Posts #6 and #14 made sensible suggestions on making better match selections. None of the suggestions involved China vs China.

At issue here is that the over-zealous effort in excluding Chinese players from the TV court led to lower quality matches being shown, to the detriment of the sport of badminton.

 

Hi! I am a new member here and I am very interested in this topic. IMO the organizers tend to prioritize MD and MS compared to other disciplines to be put in the tv court. WD and WS would be the last priority. That's the trend I have observed from the beginning of this year till now.

 

Again, no China vs China match was suggested for the TV Court in the two posts mentioned.

The fact is that not only China vs China matches were not shown, higher quality matches involved Chinese players on just one side were also passed over, in favour of lower quality matches not involving any Chinese players. For specific example, please refer to Posts #6 and #14.

 

Not sure how many times I have to say "China vs China" was not suggested and is not at issue here.

I give up.

 

I am really worried about the players involved. Though chinese players are hard working and very well organised in training, they are the real victims of some of the higher order of certain personals. If they are allowed to play their natural game with their full potential irrespective of their opponents (compatriots or opponents from different countries), then there would not be any discussion here and i would have been one of the biggest fan of china . But because of certain negative practices which very much reduces the attractiveness of the game and pushes away even the strongest badminton fan from them. This tension did not start all of a sudden. It accumulated day by day and it came to this level where every country wants to make their decisions accordingly.

 

I agree with you but without the presence of chinese players the quality of badminton would be lowered. Matches involving chinese players are usually more interesting and competitive.

 

It's not WC or Olympic semifinal. It's only SS.

 

So..?? . What do you want to say?? These decisions won't stop unless 'walkovers' are stopped and completely eliminated.. Otherwise, BWF will come up with some other decisions to tackle this. This is what going to happen.. Just speaking up here or :crying: here won't help. Only when these practices are eliminated, everything will come to normal.

 

It is difficult for BWF to interfere with the negative practices of CBA but at least a match involving China with another country would still be enjoyable to watch.

 

IMO there are two reasons for WSX vs WYH match to be excluded from tv court:

1. Organizers prefer to put MS matches instead of WS
2. Organizers want to include more variation of countries in the tv court

 

It would be fabulous if we had a member or someone connected to the organizing team or BWF.

Where is Rudy?

 

The thing is they almost always include at least one match from each discipline in the TV broadcast - it's clear that this time they didn't just because both the WS SFs were all-Chinese affairs, which is disgusting. And this time they didn't have to worry about walkovers either, as both the WS matches were one after the other - China is brazen, but they're not going to have two walkovers in a row.

As it turns out, the 1st WS was a one-sided affair contrary to my prediction, but the second WS may have made for good viewing but we were cheated out of the opportunity by the idiotic organizers.