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 Individual Pursuit Sports Series. This event is also part of the Olympic Sports Pentathlon (Canoeing, Mountain Biking, Highland Games, Badminton and 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 and 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, with the top two from each pool going through to the final stages. The next four best placed teams after, will go through to the semi-finals of the Plate Competition.  All final stages are knock-out rounds – quarter-final, semi-final, 3rd/4th play-off 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.