Yonex SWISS Open 2021 (Super 300) - Basel, 02-07 March

Discussion in '2021 Tournaments' started by CLELY, Jan 29, 2021.

  1. Bardie

    Bardie Regular Member

    Joined:
    Aug 20, 2008
    Messages:
    217
    Likes Received:
    122
    Location:
    Europe
    I totally agree with you. But if you follow the discussion at 0:50 it seems that the linejudge on the longline (!!) called the shuttle out. The umpire points at that linejudge with his left hand and says "He called it out." Of course it was a big mistake by the umpire not to overrule the linejudge. I think it was a blackout of the linejudge at the longline who mistook the single line with the double line.
    Edit: And by the way . At that court there was no possibility to make a challenge by the malaysians.
     
  2. vixter

    vixter Regular Member

    Joined:
    Mar 18, 2008
    Messages:
    481
    Likes Received:
    59
    Location:
    Netherlands
    It used to be true that all umpires were volunteers, just like you say, but this has changed! BWF already has 8 semi-professional referees and 7 semi-professional umpires. So the sport is moving towards a new era of professionalism!

    https://bwfbadminton.com/news-single/2021/03/11/era-of-semi-professional-umpires-arrives

    “Umpiring has so far been voluntary work, and, while we greatly value those who continue to volunteer with us, we did feel that in certain key areas, it was time to have a stronger engagement with them as this involves a lot of hard work and commitment and time away from their regular jobs.

    “For badminton to have paid technical officials is huge for the sport. It’s something people have been demanding. This is a great way to achieve consistently high umpiring standards.”
     
    #102 vixter, Mar 15, 2021
    Last edited: Mar 15, 2021
  3. samkool

    samkool Regular Member

    Joined:
    Oct 31, 2004
    Messages:
    2,497
    Likes Received:
    1,675
    Occupation:
    too pre-occupied to work
    Location:
    the next world tour tournament
    a change must be meaningful.
    12 full-time paid referee's could cover the entire tournament calendar for an entire year since you only need 1-2 per typical tournament (ref & sometimes deputy ref), and there are rarely more than 5 tournaments going on during the same week. 'semi-professional' means they aren't paying much.

    re. umpires: 7 paid? hmmm... 4 courts in the 1st & 2nd rounds require 12-16 umpires per tournament. 1 in the chair, 1 for serve. that's 8 umpires working at a time and 4 allowing for breaks in the rotation. which tournament gets the paid umpire(s)? which courts? is the paid ump always in the chair and never used as a serve ump? does this guarantee the highest level tournament of the week gets the paid umps? 7 is a meaningless number and doesn't even change the dynamic of 1 single tournament.

    cut out a lot of the other things bwf wastes money on and dead weight personnel. put it towards paid officials in a meaningful way. get new leadership for bwf. people who have the courage make the hard difficult decisions to advance the sport correctly from the top down.
     
  4. vixter

    vixter Regular Member

    Joined:
    Mar 18, 2008
    Messages:
    481
    Likes Received:
    59
    Location:
    Netherlands
    So now they have some paid umpires and then it's not meaningful? How pessimistic. This is a move in a great direction and will surely lead towards more paid umpires in the long run. "Semi-professional" tells us nothing about how much they are getting paid, it just indicates it's not their full-time occupation (yet)
     

Share This Page