1, Thomas Cup

Thomas Cup, also known as: World Men's Badminton Team Championships. Thomas Cup Badminton (Thomas Cup Badminton, Chinese abbreviation for "soup cup") is the world's highest level of men's badminton team competition, that is, the World Men's Badminton Team Championships, by the former International Badminton Federation founded in 1948. It is held every two years.

When the BWF was founded in 1934, the Englishman George Thomas was elected president. 5 years later, Thomas proposed at the BWF meeting that the time was ripe for organizing a world men's team competition, and said he would donate a trophy for the tournament to be called the "Thomas Cup". ".

2, Uber Cup

Uber Cup is also known as the "World Women's Badminton Team Championships". The Uber Cup system is the same as the Thomas Cup. Before 1982, it was held once every three years, and the tournament used a four out of seven system. Since 1984, the tournament has been held every two years, with five games and three wins.

The trophy was donated to the organization by British badminton player Betty Uber at the 1956 IWF Council.

3. World Badminton Championships

The BWF World Championships, commonly referred to as the World Badminton Championships, is a badminton tournament organized by the International Badminton Federation (IBF) to crown the world's top badminton player. The World Badminton Championships is the world's highest level of badminton individual championships organized by the International Badminton Federation.

On March 18, 2017, at 5:00 p.m., the Badminton World Federation (BWF) held a board of governors' meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where BWF President Paul Eric Hoy announced that Nanjing, China, had been awarded the right to host the 2018 Badminton World Championships.

4. Sudirman Cup

The Sudirman Cup, also known as the World Badminton Mixed Team Championships, began in 1989 and is held biennially in odd-numbered years. The Sudirman Cup is a trophy donated to the International Badminton Federation by the Indonesian Badminton Association on behalf of its people.

The tournament, which is played in a best-of-five format and consists of five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles, is the most important world tournament representing the overall level of badminton and is on a par with the Thomas Cup tournament and the Uber Cup tournament.

The 12th Sudirman Cup was held in Qingdao, China, in 2011, and the 13th Sudirman Cup was held in Malaysia in 2013. 14th Sudirman Cup was held in Dongguan, China, in 2015, and China defended its title to realize the sixth consecutive Sudirman Cup. In the history of the Su Cup, South Korea has won the title three times, while China has won the title 10 times, including a four-peat and a six-peat.

China went 2-3 against South Korea in the final of the 15th Sudirman Cup in 2017, losing the women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles .

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Introduction to the main Badminton World tournament system

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has made public a new tournament system, starting in 2018 It was introduced until 2021. The new tournament system abolishes the top super tournaments, super tournaments and gold tournaments, and divides all badminton tournaments around the world into 2 main grades.?

Grade 1

The first grade (Grade 1) is for the Olympics, the Tangyu Cup, the Sudirman Cup, the World Championships, the World Youth Championships, and the World Youth Team Championships.

Grade 2

Previously, the top super tournaments, super tournaments and gold tournaments were combined into the second grade (Grade 2) and were divided into Level 1~Level 6. The level adjustment also increased some of the prize money amounts, with the highest level of prizes for the top four tournaments reaching millions of dollars.

Grade 2-Level 1

Level 1 is the BWF's year-end finals, with a total tournament purse of $1.5 million.

Grade 2-Level 2

The All England, China Open, and Indonesia Open became Level 2, with prize money reaching millions of dollars, with the Indonesia Open reaching $1.25 million in 2018, second only to the $1.5 million for the year-end finals, and the China Open, which had been held in Fuzhou in previous years, moving to Changzhou.

Grade 2-Level 3

Level 3 has a prize pool of $700,000 for each of the five tournaments.

Grade 2-Level 4

Level 4 is a ****7-stop tournament with prize money of $350,000, including $600,000 for the Korea Open.

Grade 2-Level 5

The tournaments in Thailand, Switzerland, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Spain, Taipei, Macau, India, and South Korea will be Level 5 tournaments, *** counting 11 stops.

Grade 2-Level 6

Like Level 5, Level 6 will be an 11-stop event, with races in France, China, Canada, Japan, Russia, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Netherlands, Germany, and Scotland.

Due to the restructuring of the levels, the original Super Series year-end tournament was based on inviting the top eight in points from the 12-stop Super Series, but next year it will be based on inviting the top eight in points from the 37-stop tournament.

Meanwhile, with the exception of Level 1's year-end race, which is an eight-team event with a group stage first, the qualifying rounds will be eliminated for Level 2 and Level 3, with the top 32 racing directly.