You know what I heard personally from Zhou Mi during SO? She said one day 3 matches, definitely nobody is able to cope with it. Both Zhou Mi and WCH are old, their days in Badminton Arena might be another 1 or 2 years, yet BWF let them suffer by playing qualifying round in Super Series. Based on my own yardstick, Zhou Mi current strength should be ranked 15 or less while WCH should be ranked 20 or less. Why do they need to suffer from BWF poor/lousy system?
BWF 1 to 8 seeding rule is definitely a wrong approach.
(1) If a player with actual strength from 9~16 meets a player within 1~8 ranking in the first round, he/she will only get 2200 ranking points if they lose. If this is the case, the World Ranking will not be able to reflect the actual strength of the player. Therefore, they should change back to 1~16 seeding rule.
(2) Their initial intention is to attract spectators for early round, but what happened is: QF, SF and final matches are losing their attraction because good players are eliminated in the early rounds.