Senergy Badminton Challenge

Make the feathers fly!
 

The Senergy Badminton Challenge is the final event in the Aberdeen Corporate Decathlon.  Badminton, Mountain Biking and Climbing form the Pursuit Sports Series. This event is also part of the Olympic Sports Pentathlon (Canoeing, Mountain Biking, Highland Games, Badminton, Basketball)

The Sport:  The beginnings of Badminton can be traced to mid-18th century British India, where it was created by British military officers stationed there. Since 1992, badminton has been an Olympic sport with five events: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles.

The Challenge: Badminton is a technical sport that requires strength, agility, speed and precision however it is a fun sport that helps build team spirit with plenty of training sessions to help improve your skills. The tournament will be in pool format. The winners from each pool shall go through to the Cup final stages, along with the next best 3 runners up from the pool stages. The next 8 best teams from the pool stages shall go through to the Plate final stages. Then the following next 8 best placed teams shall go through to the Bowl final stages. All final stages are knock-out rounds – quarter-final, semi-final, 3rd/4th playoff and final. **

The event is played in a male doubles, female doubles and a mixed doubles format so you will be dependent on your team mates from the word go.

**NB The format may be revised in the event of team changes close to or on the day of the event.