20210126 BWF World Tour Finals

 Tuesday, 26 January

#Today I wanna write about one of the badminton tournament, BWF World Tour Finals. This tournament was held in December. But for 2020, it will be held the last week of January 2021.

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The BWF World Tour Finals, officially HSBC BWF World Tour Finals, which succeeds BWF Super Series Finals, is an annual badminton tournament which is held every December of a year where the players with the most points from that calendar year's events of the BWF World Tour compete for total prize money of at least US$ 1,500,000.

The tournament offers minimum total prize money of US$1,500,000. The prize money is distributed via the following formula:

${\displaystyle Total\ prize\ money\ \times {\frac {Percentage}{100}}}$

Round	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
Winner	8.00%	8.00%	8.40%	8.40%	8.40%
Runner-up	4.00%	4.00%	4.00%	4.00%	4.00%
Semi-finalist	2.00%	2.00%	2.00%	2.00%	2.00%
3rd in Group	1.10%	1.10%	1.30%	1.30%	1.30%
4th in Group	0.60%	0.60%	0.70%	0.70%

Below is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Final event.

Winner	Runner-up	Semi-finalists	3rd in group stage	4th in group stage
12,000	10,200	8,400	6,600	4,800

At the end of the BWF World Tour circuit, top eight players/pairs in the BWF World Tour standing of each discipline, with the maximum of two players/pairs from the same member association, are required to play in a final tournament known as the BWF World Tour Finals.

If two or more players are tie in ranking, the selection of players will based on the following criteria:

• The players who participated in the most BWF World Tour tournaments;
• The players who collected the most points in BWF World Tour tournaments starting on 1 July that year.

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWF_World_Tour_Finals)

#enoughfortoday #qmo