Discussions , notes, articles regarding the proposed 5 games to 9 points
change to our sport.

This proposal replaces the existing 3 games to 15 points (except for
women's singles) with 5 games to 9 points- with no setting.

The basic purpose is to change to nature of the game to make it 
supposedly faster paced for television and to simplify keeping
track of the score. Many groups around the world are experimenting with
this and are invited to share their experiences here.

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From: mikkelor@ifi.uio.no (Mikkel Orheim)
Newsgroups: alt.sports.badminton
Subject: badminton in Norway, a curiosity (?)
Date: 10 Feb 1995 14:01:54 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
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I would belive this is news to you.
In Norway we play with an alternative counting system wich was introduced this
season (august 1994). The sets are played till 9 points, no exstension. 
Best of 5 sets, one minute break inbetween, changing sides in the fifth set (at 5) 
and very restrictive towards pauses during playing. 
At the beginning we all (the players) found this _very_ akward, and difficult
when it came to tactics and so on. There is introduced a greater factor of 
chance, and many games were played for 5 sets where the favourite won the 
two first easily, then relaxed (mentally it felt like you've allready won), and finally
the last set were played as a game of chance (you get pretty nervous in souch a
situasion).
For singles this has now started to change, but for doubles its still very difficult.
The sets are over in no time, and a comfy lead (7-4) can become a sudden death if 
youre not very alert. Its quite fun playing like this, high tempo, lots of attaccing
rallys, but for double, I would not recommend introducing it.


-Mikkel Orheim
 dep. of informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
 
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