My school teams (Purdue university) played in the recreational league NBL like last month in gary, Indiana. To be honest, most of the player doesn't like the rules of playing till 18 or 17 and then allowing substitution or allowing moxed double winner to play more. I won't go into details here. Anyway, most of us is from south east Asia or China, we're not Tennis and I don't think tennis format can be used in badminton. Double players are trained differently with single players in badminton. If we can just stick to the sudirman cup or Thomas/Uber cup style, it's more fun for us than the new format that you offer. That's just some idea from me =). Thanks
yeah. i agree. why American need to always take other people's game and then f*** with it and make it their own? just take the game format as it is, badminton as it currently stand is already a great game. screwing around with it doesn't make it any better.
i highly suggest u rename them as MML Cartoon Classic, MML Disney league and the MM Recreational League, where MM stands for Mickey Mouse. It is considered a fraud to represent badminton when the badminton rules aren't followed. It is comical to see the americans depise chinses fake goods but yet americans invented fake crab meat, fake lobster meat, fake breast, many type of artifical flavors, and now fake badminton.
I hope the organizers are listening. If the participants are dissatisfied, there'll be no future in these leagues. Why mess around with the scoring format when a perfectly good one is available. You don't see tennis leagues play to 4 points per set. I know there may be logistical and/or time constraints but c'mon... Like cooler said, makes it feel Mickey Mouse
Just read through the 4-17 scoring format. What the heck is that? Whoever would come up with such silly idea? It is so confusing just reading it. Beside confusing the players, how do you expect the paying fans to follow the game? BTW, Mr. Donn Gobbie hasn't come back in 7 weeks. Maybe he is not listening.
I found the mixed tie breaker confused. Does NBL allow the same mixed pair to play all mixed games? If not, what if they win all mixed games and do not have enough players to play rest and lost the whole match? If allow the same mixed pair to play all mixed games, then a team only needs one good pair to win the whole thing.
