Hi all,
I wanted to ask this based on an experience I had during a league game.
I was playing away so the opposition provided the shuttles for the match; we finished our first 2 rubbers and moved onto playing our third rubber. Right at the start of the game the opponents took a new shuttle and started tipping the feathers - this was not done in any of our other rubbers and it significantly changed the flight of the shuttle (dropped a LOT quicker and slowed it down). They also did not ask us before doing so and even when we asked them not to they did so anyway.
Now naturally both we and our opponents had the same playing condition - we're hitting the same thing at the end of the day; but since we played our first 2 rubbers with non-tipped feathers we were mis-judging the flight. I couldn't find any section in our league rule book about this, but what are your opinions?
Personally whilst I was a little annoyed, I don't think they did anything against the rules, but perhaps this is a little unsporting changing the conditions mid-way in a match?
Cheers
I wanted to ask this based on an experience I had during a league game.
I was playing away so the opposition provided the shuttles for the match; we finished our first 2 rubbers and moved onto playing our third rubber. Right at the start of the game the opponents took a new shuttle and started tipping the feathers - this was not done in any of our other rubbers and it significantly changed the flight of the shuttle (dropped a LOT quicker and slowed it down). They also did not ask us before doing so and even when we asked them not to they did so anyway.
Now naturally both we and our opponents had the same playing condition - we're hitting the same thing at the end of the day; but since we played our first 2 rubbers with non-tipped feathers we were mis-judging the flight. I couldn't find any section in our league rule book about this, but what are your opinions?
Personally whilst I was a little annoyed, I don't think they did anything against the rules, but perhaps this is a little unsporting changing the conditions mid-way in a match?
Cheers
