Whenever India is ready to have a SS event, Asia must drop either Singapore Open or Hong Kong Open from the 8 allocated Asian SS spots... The potential badminton business size in India has to far outweigh other considerations. Singapore and HK deserve GP Golds... When the US and Brazil are ready to have SS... Asia has to drop 2 more SS, then drop China Masters and either HK or Singapore [whichever is left at that time]... Ideally, we should have 6 SS in Asia: China Open India Open Malaysia Open Indonesian Open Japan Open Korea Open Note: make China Masters similar to Copenhagen Masters or something... 4 SS in Europe: All England France Open Denmark Open Russia Open Note: drop Swiss Open to a GP Gold Event for a brighter badminton future in Eastern Europe... 2 SS in the Americas: US Open Brazil Open Note: Hey, the Olympics will be in Rio by 2016... Get the South Americans to be more involved with badminton as soon as possible! With a bigger bang in Rio, the South Americans will keep on voting for badminton to still be part of the Olympics forever!
Let me dream for a minute... Turkey Gold GP Iran Gold GP Pakistan Gold GP Bangladesh Gold GP Egypt Gold GP Nigeria Gold GP Congo Gold GP South Africa Gold GP Argentina Gold GP Mexico Gold GP I think badminton pretty much cover the potential growth areas of the entire planet with these Gold GPs... Oh, why Gold GPs? Well unless the rewards are big, the good players from Europe and Asia won't go... Oh, I need to note that the total prize money for a GP Gold has to be higher than today's standards for the trip to be worth it... Super Series hopefully will be $ 5,000,000 total GP Golds.... $ 1,000,000 total. Note: US Open Tennis' total prize money is $ 19,200,000 in 2009
Hmm.. ..i think the likelihood of Taufik winning his first ever AE title is greater than us actually seeing this happen (at least in the near future)...$5 mil prize money for a SS?? A $1 mil (or more) prize money tourney is possible, but i think BWF will need some cooperation/assistance from an oil rich middle east country (of course, if the country is not broke or in debt).. ..but of course, yes, it's a dream of yours..
... well, whether to change the status of a competition between SS and GP Golds would depends on the prize money able to be offered by the member association... sure India should be able to have more sponsor if they are really serious and determined to invest on badminton...
National players are required to perform well before their sponsors get involved . IMHO, in India or in any other countries, sponsorships will only come pouring in, if and only if their players are performing well. In other words, national players are required to perform well before their sponsors are serious, willing and determined to invest in Badminton for them. .
Can you explain the Swiss Open SS then? Did their national team players do well before it got all those sponsorship money?
Face-lift for Super Series http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.asp?file=/2010/1/21/sports/5516018&sec=sports MORE prestige and more money. This will aptly describe the much talked about face-lift for the Super Series next year. The Badminton World Federation’s (BWF) Super Series committee will meet on Saturday to finalise details on how to turn the Super Series, which is in the third season, more appealing to the audience.
So badminton four Grand Slam will be coming next year?! Interesting to wait which countries will be selected to stage the Grand Slam...
The spectators at Hongkong badminton event are always plenty. I think HK deserve to hold the highest level annual event. On the other hand, Singapore event is almost never full, I think Singapore probably have difficulty finding sponsors.
Badminton Grand Slam In my view should go to AE, IO, CO & DO. Australia should be introduced as a SS event to boost the game there as the facilities are first class.
Thanks for the info.. ..similar related thread below: http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75188 Btw, minor correction: The BWF Super Series is now in its 4th season, not 3rd season (started in 2007).
How to turn the Super Series more appealing to the audience . BWF requires more commitments from National Associations (worldwide) to send their best players to participate. Without top players attending, it won't be appealing to the audience. .
It's great if HK Badminton Association is able to manage to get sponsors . If Hongkong Badminton Association is able to manage to get sponsors to help with the funds to stage this kind of tournament, surely BWF would say "YES". Many might not know this: When Malaysia hosted the SS Masters Finals (in 2008 and 2009), the expenditure was greater than income. Rumour has it, that BAM has yet to pay prize monies to their own Malaysian players, although overseas winners have already received their payments. .
And.. ..how would BWF be able to do that if even their supposedly most hyped and most prize money being offered tourney, the SSMF, hasn't even attracted the top players??..
If this is the case, I think the players would prefer not to play in their home country or this is only BAM's case.
We depend on National Associations to promote Badminton worldwide . This is why National Associations need to support/promote Badminton as planned by our BWF. We, BCers and other Badminton fans, depend on National Associations to promote Badminton worldwide. Currently, National Associations are more concerned about their national glories, and therefore not helping BWF much. More prize monies are not what our National Associations want at this moment of time. IMHO, BWF is trying hard to promote Badminton worldwide. But BWF cannot succeed without the help from National Associations to do likewise. .
So.. ..if, as mentioned, the national associations are more concerned abt their own benefit, how are they going to help BWF?? if BWF can't get the national associations on board, how will their goal be achieved? if more prize monies are not what the national associations want/are looking for at this moment of time, then what is? it's looking more like the national associations are the ones "in control" of international badminton..
Home players shall be looked after later, when things improved . Like in most cases, it's best to take care of visitors/guests first. Home players shall be looked after later, when things get to improve. But the important thing was BAM tried. BAM could have easily said "No, not enough sponsorships, so we won't want to host it". We need to be thankful to BAM for hosting the last 2 SSMF's. Melbourne, Australia, was planning to host it back in 2008, but we gave up when we found that we were in danger of losing much money over it. This Melbourne 'Hosting of the 2008 SSMF' matter was informed to BCers during our planning stage. .
National Associations are the ones "in control" of International Badminton currently . Correct: National Associations are the ones 'in control' of our International Badminton players currently. BWF depends on the cooperations from all National Associations. BIG prize monies will only attract players when Badminton players become professional players, moving away from their National Associations. Let's look and compare with other sports; Soccer, Basketball, Golf, Tennis, etc... where professional players participate for themselves, even though they tell us from which countries they originate from. .
