Download Badminton Eligibility and Rules: Serving, Scoring, Faults, and Lets and more Lecture notes Sport Studies in PDF only on Docsity! ELIGIBILITY RULES: 1. You must have a Runner ID to participate. NO ID, NO PLAY…NO EXCEPTIONS!! 2. No Person shall play on more than one single sex and co-rec. team per sport. If caught doing so by supervisor or official, Player shall be suspended for remainder of season and that game shall be forfeited. Opposing team does not have to protest if caught by supervisor or official. 3. No person shall use false identification in order to participate. If caught, person will be suspended from Intramural Sports and possibly Campus Recreation activities for a period of time determined by the Coordinator of Intramural Sports and Sport Clubs. SPECIFICS 1. Each game is played to 15 points, with players scoring a point whenever they win a rally regardless of whether they served (this differs from the old system where players could only win a point on their serve and each game was played to 15 points). A match is the best of three games. 2. At the start of a match, the shuttlecock is tossed in the air and whichever side the corked end points will be the side that serves first 3. Ladder scheduling will be used for this league Rules of Badminton Singles Serving and receiving 1. You shall serve from, and receive in, the right service court when you or your opponent has scored an even number of points in that game. 2. You shall serve from, and receive in, the left service court when you or your opponent has scored an odd number of points in that game. 3. The shuttlecock must pass over the short service line on the opponents' court or it will count as a fault. 4. You and your opponent will hit the shuttle alternately until a 'fault' is made or the shuttle ceases to be in play. Scoring and Serving 1. You score a point and serve again from the alternate service court when your opponent makes a 'fault' or the shuttle ceases to be in play because it touches the surface of your opponent's side of court. 2. No points will be scored when you make a 'fault' or the shuttles ceases to be in play because it touches the surface of your side of court. The serving right will then be transferred to your opponent. 3. If the score becomes 14-all, the side which first scored 14 shall exercise the choice to continue the game to 15 points or to 'set' the game to 17 points. Service court errors 1. A service court error has been made when a player has served out of turn, has served from the wrong service or standing on the wrong service court while being prepared to receive the service and it has been delivered. 2. If a service court error is discovered after the next service had been delivered, the error shall not be corrected. If a service court error is discovered before the next service is delivered, the following rules apply. 3. If both sides committed an error, it shall be a 'let'. If one side committed the error and won the rally, it shall be a 'let'. If one side committed the error and lost the rally, the error shall not be corrected. 4. If there is a 'let' because of a service court error, the rally is replayed with the error corrected. If a service court error is not to be corrected, play in that game shall proceed without changing the player's new service courts.
