that would be an understatementah i c... a laps in management of bwf. lol
Bad Scheduling
Like robin7 said, The SS Final should held on end of November. Give the rest the players on December, and the time could be used the some Badminton Association to hold the National Event.
Bad System
The limitation number every nation and no earned ranking points, this tournament more like Invitational rather than YEC event.
Bad Ranking Points System
As I said in 2007 that BWF Ranking Points is favour to journey men/women players, the players/pairs who played in a lot of tournaments.
For illustration :
one player/pair qualified in SS Final with record 8 lost in 1st round and 2 lost in 2nd round, if the results is implemented in WTA system, this player/pair has ranking lower than #100
Bad Scheduling
Like robin7 said, The SS Final should held on end of November. Give the rest the players on December, and the time could be used the some Badminton Association to hold the National Event.
Bad System
The limitation number every nation and no earned ranking points, this tournament more like Invitational rather than YEC event.
Bad Ranking Points System
As I said in 2007 that BWF Ranking Points is favour to journey men/women players, the players/pairs who played in a lot of tournaments.
For illustration :
one player/pair qualified in SS Final with record 8 lost in 1st round and 2 lost in 2nd round, if the results is implemented in WTA system, this player/pair has ranking lower than #100
BWF needs to pour in and offer more prize money....and that may not even work...
..then they have to change the usual date of the BWF World Championships from late summer to end of the yr. Will they be able to accommodate such change??..I seriously think that they should combined the SSMF and BWF World Championship into one tournament, and just call it the World Championship.
By doing that, you have the prestige name of the World Champion that all badminton player want to get. Second, you combine the prize money to make it look even more appealing.
..then they have to change the usual date of the BWF World Championships from late summer to end of the yr. Will they be able to accommodate such change??..
If i recall, IBF (previous name of BWF) used to hold the WB Grand Prix Finals (which also invited only the top 8 players/pairs of the yr) at the end of the yr (til 2005). And with pretty good success. The current SSMF is the "reincarnation" of that WBGP event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Badminton_Grand_Prix
- If BWF were to combine and move the WC date, the national bodies would also have to agree on such schedule change as well as the other SS tourneys date change.I see your point.
However I just think that top shuttlers don't really care about the SSMF is because it's more or less just another tournament. There's nothing to it's name like the World Championship.
To me, there's nothing wrong with having the WC at the end of the season. The super bowl, world series, basketball championship, Formula 1, and so many other sports. The championship is held at the end of the season. Why can't badminton do that?
If you take out the WC in the mid of summer and put it at the end of the year, then you just push all the other tournaments up. The WC date will be the current date of Chino Open which was Nov 17-22.
Before the Super Series was introduced, the tournaments does not have a fix date. They changed from one year to another. If they can turn it into a fixed schedule, why can't they change the order or date of the tournament?
- If BWF were to combine and move the WC date, the national bodies would also have to agree on such schedule change as well as the other SS tourneys date change.
Consider this also. This yr they have the SEA Games and East Asia Games. Those will occur again in 2 and 4 more yrs, respectively. If BWF keeps this SSMF and combine it w/ the WC at the end of the yr, will it not conflict with those 2 regional games??..Don't forget the Asian Games, the last one which was held near the end of the yr (next yr in Guangzhou as well).
But then, in the past, IBF was able to hold the WBGP events despite having those other regional games happening around the same time (granted some of those regional games occurred in other earlier months).
- BWF wants more exposure for badminton through the idea of providing & showing more tournaments. "The more, the merrier" type of mentality...
maybe bwf want to stretch the sponsor money as far as possible.BWF wants to more exposure of badminton, but is it good when there's low turn out of top level players like in this SSMF.
I understand that it's not so simple to just so simple to just change the schedule of events. However BWF needs to do a better job so that a tournament as big as SSMF doesn't turn out to be some kind of joke.