CCC Handicapped Games are for players of all skill levels
Hi yschin,
These quotes are taken from your post,
POST#64, from this thread.
And it has taken me a few days to think about it before I respond (Not wanting to respond recklessly).
yschin said:
It is a fact that in most other clubs , stronger players tend to play among themselves and the weaker or begineers confine to a court all by themselves.
I would like to explain...
One of the reasons why
CCC Badminton was founded is because I believe it's time for Melbourne to have a '
Community/Social Badminton Club'.
Melbourne has too many '
Segregation Badminton Clubs', and I find that '
Segregation Badminton Clubs' are just
NOT FRIENDLY ENOUGH.
And, as you have put it, in '
Segregation Badminton Clubs' "
stronger players tend to play among themselves" and "
weaker or beginners confine to a court all by themselves".
As you know, I am well known in Badminton in Melbourne because I visit many Badminton Clubs. In fact I have been members(not just casual visitors) of many of them. And I am still currently members of many clubs, even though I find that I frequent them seldom nowadays since I started
CCC Badminton. I still like to be treated as part of their families and therefore I decide to continue to pay for my memberships.
Fortunately I am a skilled player. And they treat me with great respect and with tremendous friendliness.
But unfortunately, they are '
Segregation Badminton Clubs'.
So what's wrong with that, you may ask...
Well, the answer/reason is I find problem/discrimination against my lower skilled friends, who are non-members of the clubs concerned, but they want to come play with me just to pass time.
And you will be quite shocked to hear that I have been told "
How can you bring this friend of yours when he/she is of such low skilled level of play?".
I find this quite upsetting. 
Yes, you may say that those clubs have the right to choose whoever they like (based on skills) but I find it detrimental to the promotion of Badminton, a sport I dearly wish to promote.
yschin said:
Trying to accommodate everyone is always not easy.
I am sure Chris would like to give this a try to add some varieties to the current system. The current system works well but still stronger pair will only occasionally pick a weaker pair and I think to play ‘mixed’ against ‘mixed’ can be more challenging than against a pair that is so much different in standards than your pairing. Even handicaps doesn't make any different but cut short the playing time.
(‘mixed’ – weak + strong)
I devised our
CCC Handicapped Games so that everyone@
CCC can play against each other, regardless of their skill levels.
And I have heard from our stronger players@
CCC that it is not easy to win a game against weaker players if the weaker players have 16 points start.
And this I like... because it now offers a challenge to our stronger players@ccc.
It's like you and me, partnering in Doubles, asking
Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong, if they can beat us if they give us 16 points start.
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However, my suggestion that a player of a particular skill should form a Doubles Partnership with another player of about the same skill is because I think that it is very unfair when opponents keeping hitting shots to the weaker player and leave the stronger player out of the game.
The stronger player of the Partnership just doesn't enjoy it. [/FONT]
Cheers... chris@ccc
I need a new body mate...
