"Making a mess?"' The secret of badminton teaming'There's a fun characteristic hidden in it'
Jul 29, 2024
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This is because the arrangement of each group (group) in the (male and female) singles is different from that of other sports among the five sub-categories of badminton.
The group stages of ball games such as soccer and basketball, which are usually played in international competitions, are grouped in order from the alphabet 'A'. Occasionally, depending on the circumstances at the time of the tournament, there are cases in which three to five group teams are assigned, but the principle of organizing groups clearly from A remains unchanged.
However, unlike knock-out tournaments in international competitions hosted by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) from the round of 64 (or 128), badminton's unique method of organizing groups is applied in the Olympics through the group stage.
In the Olympic badminton singles, the first place in each group advances to the round of 16, and in the doubles, the first and second places in four groups play the quarterfinals tournament.
The phenomenon of 'messy organization' appears only in fasting. It seems that a total of 16 groups, from A to P, have been formed to determine the round of 16, but three groups, B, F, and O, are deployed as virtual groups without players, so there are actually 13 groups. It looks inconsistent like a toothless cog. In addition, in principle, three players in each group are assigned, and in men's singles, four players are organized in two groups.
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On top of that, if one person participates in the men's and mixed doubles like Seo Seung-jae (Samsung Life Insurance) of Korea, one more singles TO will be converted to maintain a total of 172. It is a method of adding men's singles if the overlapping players are men and women's singles if they are women.
Until the 2012 London Olympics, a total of 16 group league methods, A-P, were applied. However, due to the limited number of participants, it was common for only two dalang to compete in a large number of groups. Voices for improvement of the system have grown, and since the 2016 Rio Olympics, a plan has been introduced to give the world's No. 1 to No. 3 seeds and 'failure victory' merit. This is because it was possible to allocate three players from each of the 13 groups if the top three seeds were excluded directly from the quarterfinals.
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In the men's singles, four players in two groups were formed because, in addition to Seo Seung-jae, the number of TOs increased as Vinson Chiu of the U.S. participated in two doubles events, and a total of 39 players in the women's singles added a special refugee team player.
On the other hand, the reason why five groups were included in the men's D group in the doubles, which had to be accurately organized by four groups, was because there were circumstances that could not be laughed out. BWF made the mistake of omitting the doubles group of host France in the process of finalizing the Olympic qualification rankings in May.
As a result, the French side filed a complaint with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), and as the Olympic Games were imminent, one group (two people) was added. After all, a total of 175 people are participating in the French Olympics, up three from the original 172.
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