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  2. Badminton - Wikipedia

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    Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side).

  3. Scoring system development of badminton - Wikipedia

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    In 2002 the International Badminton Federation (BWF), concerned with the unpredictable and often lengthy time required for matches, decided to experiment with a different scoring system to improve the commercial and especially the broadcasting appeal of the sport [citation needed]. The new scoring system shortened games to seven points and ...

  4. Odds and evens - Wikipedia

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    Odds and evens may refer to: . Odds and evens (hand game), a two-player guessing game using fingers Odds and evens (patience), a solitaire variant of the card game Royal Cotillion

  5. Odds and evens (hand game) - Wikipedia

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    Even-Odd as an early form of roulette. This game was known by the Greeks (as artiazein) and Romans (as ludere par impar).In the 1858 Krünitzlexikon it says: [3] "The game Odds and Evens was very common amongst the Romans and was played either with tali, tesseris, or money and known as "Alea maior", or with nuts, beans and almonds and known as "Alea minor"."

  6. Bye (sports) - Wikipedia

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    The Australian Football League, which comprises an even number of clubs, gives each club a bye week in mid-season [a], as well as a bye the week before the finals. In 1915, 1919 to 1924, 1942 and 1943, 1991 to 1994 and 2011, when there were an odd number of clubs competing, each club was given two byes.

  7. Badminton World Federation - Wikipedia

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    The Badminton World Federation, aka BWF, is the international governing body for the sport of badminton approved by the International Olympic Committee. It was founded on 5 July 1934 as the International Badminton Federation with nine member nations: Canada , Denmark , England , France , Ireland , Netherlands , New Zealand , Scotland and Wales .

  8. Badminton at the Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    Indonesia is the second most successful country in Badminton sports after China at the Olympics event. China and Indonesia are the only countries that have ever won gold medals in every badminton discipline. Bolded numbers below indicate a country as the overall winner of Olympic badminton of that year. As of the 2024 Olympics

  9. Round-robin tournament - Wikipedia

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    For an even number or an odd number of competitors, Schurig [20] builds a table with / vertical rows and horizontal rows. Then he populates it starting from the top left corner by repeating the sequence of numbers from 1 up to n − 1 {\displaystyle n-1} .