Kevin Sukamuljo Conflict & BWF Cancelling Tournaments again! - The Badminton Experience EP.34
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- Hey Guys! In this episode we discuss the news that Kevin Sukamuljo may be leaving the Indonesian National training, BWF cancelling another 2 tournaments in China, but not the World Tour Finals that are still being played.. - in China!? - and we're answering some of your great questions!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:55 - BWF Cancelling 2 of 3 Tournaments In China Again...
10:19 - The Reason Why BWF Won't Cancel The World Tour Finals
14:34 - BWF Could Have Avoided Cancelling. The 2 Tournaments In China
18:34 - Stories From The European Circuit
23:09 - Where Is The Line On Unsportsmanlike Conduct
27:37 - What Mental State Works The Best During Matches
31:32 - Kevin Sukamuljo Controversy
37:51 - Anything Hans Could've Done Better In His Career
42:23 - How To Get In The Right Mental State On A Day You're Feeling Off
44:56 - Is Anders The Only Top 10 Player Playing With A Light Weight Racket
46:39 - Does Anders Only Use 1 Shirt During A Match
48:13 - Should Badminton Implement VAR
50:25 - Why Is Badminton Not Attracting High End Brands - Sport
Hey guys! Do you Think BWF should’ve let another country host the 2 events that are cancelled in China?? Let us know what you Think would’ve been best for the fans! 👏🏼
India , Indonesia or Malaysia should host it…
OR expose the west to badminton!! Who
CAres of not many tickets sell! But let usa LA , NY or Miami FL three city tour 500Series ! And let espn host it! Mad!! People will watch it if they air it 7pm evening on weekdays and all day weekend just dont have it during football season LOL perfect month is june July August! When ONLY MLB is on and NBA just finished while everyone waits for NFL. I play both tennis and badminton and badminton is WAAAAAY more funner to watch and play! Just BWF doing a poop of a job with it!
other countries definitely should have the chance to host the 2 cancelled event! Indonesia would be happy to host i'm guessing
Yass other country like India should host it
I think that you should definitely stay hard together.
I think Indonesia can organize this "exchange" events very well
Because badminton so popular in Indonesia & lot of fans enjoying croud in arena to watch world class player such as Antonsen, Axelson, Momota, TTY, An Se Young, Minnions, Hoki/Kobayashi, Japanese WD, LKY, Popor Sapsiree, etc
They would manage this event from get sponsor, arena, recruiting umpire, Service/Line judge, match accomodation, promotion etc
And maybe Bali okay for the location Because of G20 summit held in there next November
Nice to get a mention on the show! Keep up the good work boys 🙌
How you are doing
Love the catchy title. This is how you get views! Keep it up Hans and Anton.
Very good episode. The Victor sweather is stylish. The drinking glases are very cool too! :D
Thanks a lot! We're happy you enjoyed it 😀
As usual, good experience from Badminton Experience. Thanks Hanz n Anders.
Actually, the main problem with Coach Herry and Sukamuljowas Sukamuljo felt upset when Herry Gave his statement on media about Sukamuljo's attitude and body language after his lost in Indonesia Open. Kevin felt that it should have been done in private and instead of talked about that in public, it would have been better if the coach asked him what he was feeling that time. On the other hand, The coach felt entitled to give advice since he is te coach and he was just answered the question given by the media.
Nah, Kevin is being childish himself. Coach Herry made the bold statement on Alfian/Ardianto on public, it turned out they performed better. Now, with a player as Sukamuljo's calibre, with better achievement and rank. The way he responded and reacted on the critics was so mediocre and childish. No wonder why he never passed QF on World Champs and Olympic SF.
Thanks!
@@masgalsakti the reason Kevin reacted that way it was because of their problem since 2016. If you know the real issue then you'll understand why Kevin did that.
@@allisall1309 if he didn't have issues with Coach Herry, would he spilled that in public? Did not think so. It's just grudge. Beside, he still couldn't delivered his best performance in 2022. The attitude while playing was not there and people saw it too. Coach Herry was right addressing it publicly because there was no changing in attitude from Kevin. If he was Li Junhui, shown that kind of attiude on the court, the federation and coaches would just thrown him out. Kevin's lucky, he was just being critized not being dumped.
@@masgalsakti it's the frustration bubbling over, some people have tipping point and maybe that's his. I agreed he could've handled the criticism better but let's not act like the whole media circus didn't make things a 100% worse, social media always look like hell after minions lose, the pressure to win is always worse on them than literally all the other ina players so maybe the aftermath of that was probably what made him the most pissed and soured the bubbling frustration he had with the coach.
pbsi seem really keen on keeping both of them in the national team, hopefully the situation under the surface is as good as on the paper :/
And yeah they still couldn't deliver. Marcus had injuries during the first and half year, kevin had dengue fever in august, it took months for these things to surface to public because netizens here will only chalk it up to excuses, that's how bad the pressure is on them. hopefully with all of these gone in europe tour they could slowly go back to the old level
Re Badminton promotion, prize money etc.
Hans mentioned a lack of countries as one reason perhaps but snooker & darts have even less but the prize money & profile seems a lot higher.
I’ve been to the Allenglands a few times albeit 7+ years ago but I felt that there’s a real lack of engagement with the players too. It seems highly unlikely that you’ll get to meet them or hear them in person.
At some stage following Covid perhaps players can meet the fans. Press conferences etc. Have a practice court set aside for some fun & tips, even from high profile former players. Such things can go viral.
Also BWF need to stand back and have a real look at how the general public, general sports fan, western nation companies, etc view our sport.
For anyone that hasn’t experienced the sport their perception is of a pastime type, slow-paced, tippy-tappy game and not the powerful & fast sport we know.
A whole different marketing strategy is required with some outside expertise like Barry Hearn brought in.
Guess some of your viewers watched my recent review of Anders’ racket as I mentioned he’s the only one using a head light racket out of the top 10, hence the question 😂 good episode! See you all at the French open 😊
I am going to be at the French Open as well, hoping to chat with you there :) Cheers mate
Thanks again for the behind the scenes news (Kevin). Is there a badminton news website (in English) that gives recent badminton update info about anything linked to badminton?
Love the podcast!
I'll explain about Kevin & Hery IP's case. At the beginning, Head Coach of Indonesian MD Herry IP never look at or interested at Kevin - Marcus. He always chose or prioritized other players coz he tends to favor tall and huge power or smash players. So at the beginning Kevin Marcus always got coached by coach Ar (Aryono). They always only practiced with coach Chafidz and coach Ar but never with coach Hery. Coach Hery never accompanied them to any matches, and never chose Kevin-Marcus to any big competitions. Like at that time Coach Hery didnt send Kevin Marcus to Europe and China tournaments at 2016. Then he asked them to loose at Final India Open 2016. When Kevin Marcus became the champion of All England without coach Hery's help, then suddenly Coach Hery began personally coached them, accompanied them, started to send them to many tournaments. He never did that before.
And at Indonesian Open 2022 Coach Hery said not good things to media about Kevin. He said Kevin didnt appreciate his partner, the audience, a bit lazy, etc which is not true. But Coach Hery didnt tell that personally to Kevin. So Kevin exploaded with anger coz he spoke to media rather to speak to Kevin, himself.
Thanks for answering my question
hendra-ahsan are technically speaking independent players, but they're still part of the national setup. However, unlike others, they are free to have any sponsorships, pick their own tournaments but of course in return they have to pay for transport & accommodation fees during tournaments i think
Making badminton lucrative is not complicated. All resources need to be put into breaking it into the USA, currently the biggest economy. If it becomes a NCAA sport and kids can earn scholarships to college, that will start the cascade and everything will take care of itself. BWF needs to focus on this goal: make it a NCAA sport. Pickleball is 10x more popular than badminton now with 1/100 of the time. You need competent people in power. Great podcast guys!
US is a lost cause
Great point!
wow im early, seated for my favorite channel
Thanks for tuning in!
I was at the World Championships and Osaka Japan Open and heard the same announcements. It is 100% about Corona. The message was something like "Please avoid cheering vocally. Cheer by clapping to avoid the spread of disease". It was a quite sad as there were many moments where I am sure the crowd would have loved to go crazy. Hopefully this will change next year.
Thanks for letting us know! We agree 100% - Hopefully we can all soon be excited and cheer in badminton arenas again!
Thanks Hans and Anders for the badminton experience :)
You're Welcome! Did you enjoy this episode? :)
Just finished watching the episode and I really enjoyed it.. completely agree with the part that badminton is still miles behind other sports in terms of popularity even though it's one of most physically demanding sport. It's sad that inspite of being a very popular sport in India, the average viewership is very less compared to cricket. I can only imagine what the viewership will be in other other countries where badminton is not very popular. Anyway, Thanks again for being pioneers in promoting our sport through badminton experience
what is your opinion on widening the rubber court side area to prevent stepping and ripping off the outer mat?
Thank you for doing this podcast to make people informed of whats happening inside the sports…
I’m not a fan of antonsen but hearing him with lots of input that can make the sports more interesting to others…
great show
Ahsan and Hendra are professional players. PBSI provide them a special treatment by allowing them to train in national center. I guess it's because they we're WR 2 back then.
Ah ok, thanks!
Yeeeesssss. Suggestions: Make new tournaments.
Super 800: Jakarta Open (Total Prize $1M. Decacorn Comp. from Jakarta GOTO will support this tournament)
Super 900 : Bali Open (Total Prize $1.1M. The biggest company from Indonesia PERTAMINA will support this tournament)
I looked at the Pablo Abian match. Abian was almost as excited and fired up as Antonsen, when he lost to Srikanth earlier this year😂😂😂
Haha true!
How do you schedule your training weeks? Do you do fitness and strength training on the same day as court training?
Wow, I just found out that when the tournament was canceled, the players also lost a lot... as badminton fans, I think the fans are the saddest if the tournament is cancelled, because we are very boring if there is no badminton tournament
The bwf needs to start organizing and investing in making schools of first world countries to play badminton in gym class. This will expose more children to the sport and they'll play it as adults. But most schools at least here in the US just focus on American football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. But a lot of people who had the smallest exposure to badminton in the US will say they enjoyed it, but because it was never played competitivel as a youth/teen, they have no interest in it.
BWF don't do such of thing. The country federation did it. Indonesia BFederation did it since 1980s. In elementary school, badminton took a part in sports curriculum. Survey from sport ministry there are 16millions players in Indonesia (from toddler GenZ - Baby boomers). It's more than football players.!
There are other background ofc, one of them Herry Ip and Marcus Gideon also didnt have a good relationship as well at least in the beginning. As Gideon was also sidelined by Herry IP in junior before eventually suceeding with Markis Kido.
Which is a follow of another controversy with the late Markis Kido and Herry IP. In 2008 Kido didnt want to be coach under Herry IP. He instead asked pbsi to be coached under Sigit Pamungkas and went on to win gold medal in olympics. Herry ip which was part of the preparation of markis and setiawan said he was dissapointed he got 'couped' at the time, and said have move on.
People have been speculating whether there is a connection as remember the incident earlier of marcus gideon and herry ip, because surprise-surprise.......marcus gideon partner at the time was sigit pamungkas son, a guy called agripinna. Allegations at the time mentioned marcus and agripina was asked to practice with the walls, not being sent to all england even though qualified etc. which lead to marcus quiting the national team this was in 2013 and suceeding with markis outside national team.
Back to early kevin as a junior was partnered with a returning marcus by chafidz yusuf head coach md junior and was transitioning transition to senior. This is when he said he was sidelined and mostly trained under Aryono Miranat, kevin went on to mention both coaches are the most influental for his career vs herry. Another incident was when kevin was asked to lost in india final for olympics 2016 qualification etc. Although all players and miranat agreed they should play their best. Even winning all england was something herry ip did not predict or prepare kevin-gideon for (mostly with miranat). Kevin also alleged herry ip have favoritism toward taller players and bias against shorter player like him and gideon.
At least according to the meeting organised by pbsi, they both have forgiven each other and on paper the drama is over and have begun training together again, since for 3 months past kevin only trained under miryanat. With gideon doing double duty sometimes joining training under miryanat or herry ip.
Arguably of course its about the system where coach might not have the priorities of players as they are paid by the federation and sometimes have position above players, and whether a system of independent players with personal coaching team would avoid this kind of conflict as players are not forced to work with coach that might have frictions. Ofc hoping for kevin and herry ip can make the relationship work again.
Thanks a lot!
Please do a show together with Kai Schäfer and Tobias Wadenka!
yes, the cheering thing at the Japan Open was for covid. The spectators were asked to show their support by clapping hands, and not by cheering to prevent the spread of covid
All cramped into a stadium and you’re not supposed to cheer because of “Covid”. Yeah, that makes a lot sense.
Just to respond to your statement @HKV w.r.t. Ahsan & Hendra being independet, a couple of interviews came out recently and Hendra revealed that even though they’re playing professionally, they’ve been allowed to train at the PBSI with the other players.
1. I suspect Chinese players returned to China after Japan Open because they can only apply for visas for the Europe tournaments from China. They cannot apply for the Schengen visa for the tournaments from Thailand or another third country because they are not permanent residents or on work pass there.
2. On engaging China market - it's telling that the BWF teams tournaments for the next 3 years are held in China - Sudirman 23 in Suzhou, 25 swapped to China for India in exchange for India hosting BWC 2026; Thomas Uber 24 in Chengdu. That said, I recall even the sponsor of the Denmark jersey included Chinese text for the brand. You just cannot ignore 1.4+ billion people.
That might be part of the reason too why they returned. And no doubt engaging China market is BWFs top priority, which I definitely also understand. So I don't hope it comes across as us wanting BWF to ignore China completely, that's definitely not our wish.
China has two teams based overseas started this year. One team based in thailand and other based in europe.
I feel smarter every time i heard this podcasts
I hope one day, ShuttleHard can collaborate with Badminton Experience sit together in one podcast.
Love u all
YEAYYY TBE !! 🎉❤❤❤ already made my October 🤣🤣
Great to hear! We look forward to making it even better with the coming episodes! (They’re going to be great!) 🤩🔥
@@TheBadmintonExperience can’t waittt 😱🥳🥳
The Daddies is independent player but the PBSI let them to practice at the national team as sparring partner
Great info! Thanks for letting us know 😀
They are 100% responsible for their expenses, paper works, all applications, air ticket, hotel booking and everything. But since they carry national flag in tournaments or multi national events, federation welcome them at training center and provide court coaching in all tournaments. I guess other federation should copy the same, at least provide court coaching during tournaments.
Which is a privilege not afforded to other pairs.
@@abcddef2112 depends on one potential i guess
@@alaneng2948 it's true. Not every independent badminton player in Indonesia get the chance like the daddies got. I think what PBSI does to daddies is reasonable. Bunch of achievements, good senior and living legend for all entire athletes. And daddies can still manage their top performance with right coaching, meanwhile they're also able to join club badminton league overseas (e.g PBL in india)
It is rather strange that now they are hosting the 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championship Chengdu.
I have a quick question. Where do I see when the next tournament is and who is playing? Any apps or website? 🇩🇰
BWF Badminton4U app has all of the tournament details.
As a Chinese fans I can tell you, Guangzhou is one the best cities on handling covid 19, the biggest badminton city as well, so BWF finals still alive. And I guess players only need to be
quarantined for 1 or 2 days before the matches, but not allow to go out during the matchs. Anonther good news is that Guangzhou still not desided whether to opem the stadium to the audience. As for issue about testing postive, the time for quarantined only basic on your recovery conditon, if get well in 5 days then you can probably go home in a week.
I mean handling not only about eliminating, but also about balance between covid and economy, so don't worry too much about Guangzhou.😁
Question : Hans did some crazy diving in matches to save just one point. Is that really necessary or he just can't help himself?
I think fighting for every point is an important mindset! 😀
@@TheBadmintonExperience is it not an injury risk?
When you're recording a podcast, is there any sign that the time is approaching an hour? because the topic of discussion is always about an hour 😂 how do you manage it? or is it a feeling of guesswork that comes automatically? 😅
Or have you prepared a scenario before?
We actually don't keep track of the time - apparently, we can feel it 😀
BWF seems like a very reactive organization rather than being proactive. Not surprised considering how much badminton has “ grew “ in term of popularity compared to other sports
bwf is a bunch of lazy people!
In my opinion, BWF has been failing the sport. Badminton is almost as old as tennis if we count from the first time formal rules were created and has far more star players from three of the largest countries by population i.e. China, India, and Indonesia. However, there is no question, tennis is far bigger than badminton. The officials and referees are up there with the worst in any sport. They need to change something
Hopefully in denmark open u guys can invite some guest from another country 😁
We definitely plan to!
You need seruni audio SEM-02 mic.
I think BWF should try and focus not only on organising tournaments, but to also work as a marketing agency to promote brands in tournaments and the sport as a whole. To attract countries with high income to spectate badminton, it would be worth it to also have local hype with events and functions on site rather than just on social media. Maybe set up a badminton court at a public square somewhere crowded and let people play with professionals so that the sport seems engaging while promoting the tournament and badminton. There are much more effort needed on BWF's side and that for me feels like a good start. The higher the investment, the wider the audience, the more income the sport will have and thus luxury brands will follow to sponsor tournaments for a bigger prize pool.
AA says that he doesn't deserve to be WR2.. i think he does. When momota wasn't there.. AA was second best in 2020 and he deserved to be WR2 that time.. He's getting the benifits now.. i think he'll remain WR2 for couple more weeks because he was awesome in 2020&21
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The world has moved on except for China. I was also in Thailand during the pandemic and stayed at the same hotel with the same arrangements as you guys (I work in football) for 3 weeks and I have to say it was one of the most miserable experience in my life. And on top of that I served a 2-week quarantine when I returned home. Can't imagine athletes going through that...
National Congress is taking place this year, & rumour has it that there might be a coup amongst top leaders. It's more politically complicated than just China being so conservative about their Zero Covid policy.
In my personal opinion, badminton lack of buzz and lack of enganged fans internationally that can make this sport trended (talk of the town). "Social media only" example, fans in some platforms like instagram, twitter, tiktok mostly are indonesian or malaysian, not long after the latest thomas cup I saw more indian fans join the discussion, while korean and chinese fans have their own forum, I rarely found western fans interact. These is not enough promotion, excitement, engagement that high end international brands need. Cant lie, bwf really bad at promoting tournament, the more hype one tournament the more it will attract sponsors, just like how big excitement for indonesia and malaysia open this year attracted big sponsor for the tournament and added new sponsor for indonesian national team.
Very interesting - thanks for sharing your thoughts! No doubt that there is need to do a better job promoting the sport and creating this "buzz"/excitement for badminton.. Any Ideas on how this could be done? how do we get fans more involved in the sport?
@@TheBadmintonExperience just like what mr. hans (if im not wrong) said before, bwf should focus more on quality over quantity. They should "perfecting" the existing tournament first before added the new one, arrange many tournaments with short time gap between one and another will devaluating it. They need build up the antusiasm and excitement first before held one tournament, make distinc promotion for each tournament, what make it special, what make it different. All of this are hard to achieve within the short gap (time) between the tournaments while the audience's attention got distracted/divided. (I got the impression that all england is more well promoted and distinc than wtf/bwc)
I think media coverage play big part to get fans involvement, it will created discussion and debate between fans (created buzz). From what I know, bwf social media staff already tried some experiments like created some fun badminton challenges, fun tags, fun trends while the tournament be held, but unfortunately the staff is just one person, he cant catches all matches. It also important to promote athletes individually through media to get them more well-known among general people. For example in indonesia before social media era, mostly indonesian only care about thomas cup because its a country againts another country, and then they attended indonesia open to see if indonesian athletes will win, but dont follow the athletes work individually (I think thats why so many spectators but only small amount enganged fans), its get better now since more athletes on social media + a lot online badminton medias appear but still not enough to reach bigger audience (you need to enter the fandom first).
People need a figure to rooting for, to keep their interest and enganged more to this sport, its bwf responsibility to make their athletes well-known and stand out individually. Bwf need to step up their media coverage, hyping up every notable match, give the impression that badminton is an interesting game people do not want to miss out.
Again, its all just my personal opinion, I am open to any discussion and perspective :)
Wasn't the US open (Badminton) cancelled as well??
aa & hkv: to the point of "why are there no big sponsors like rolex / louis vuitton / mercedes / etc...?" why would a luxury brand want to be associated with a sport/tournament where the winner only wins $70,000 (give or take a few thousand... the singles winner earns 7% of $1,000,000), and can't crack $500,000 in annual earnings. that's peanuts in the eyes of a luxury brand. could the winner afford the advertised product(s) regularly as part of their normal lifestyle? a typical professional badminton player cannot. an avg. software engineer will net 3x+ over a 10 year period than tty/momota/axelsen's best 10 years of earnings. how sad.
to the point of int'l fans: the bigger the prize pool, the bigger the int'l audience. people love to watch athletes compete for a lot of money in any sport. it also inspires kids worldwide to take up the sport as a possible career pursuit. the initial zero sum solution is for bwf doubling the prize money while reducing the # of tournaments by 50%.
Very good point! I f badminton didn't promise me anything, why me as a kid having a dream about it. If I don't want to do it in the future, why I should care about it now, why I should watch badminton in the first place then!
What about AirBadminton?
I was so disappointed at the all England. There was nothing around it. The matches are cool, but further there is nothing
That's so sad... It's supposed to be the best badminton has to offer!
Luxury brands sponsor certain sports because of the prestige of the events. Sports like tennis, golf, yatching and F1 all have a history of the rich, aristocrats and royalties participating in the sport itself, and they also are patrons of some of these events. Badminton, which for me, has way more entertainment value than any of those other sports mentioned, does not have the same appeal to these brands. And that is fine, so long as other brands that see value in badminton and the fans that it attracts, which are usually the common folk. Although luxury brands are aspirational, it is the mainstream brands that are willing to pump in the cash for badminton because the fans are the right target for them. This is me speaking as a Commercial Manager working in Sports 😁
Antonsen touched on the Signature of no loud cheerings in Japan. It's more of culture.
funfact: besides getting information and reviews about badminton, I can also practice my listening skills kwkwkw
Personally, after every point I score I make sure to make eye contact with my opponent and then I slide my index finger across my throat while screaming obscenities in Klingon. The umprire has never said anything. Maybe it's because we don't have any.😉
erling harland in badminton!!!
I would love tog get him into badminton as well 😂
ANTONSEN should make more intresting and excitation player to spread develop of badminton
I honestly miss 19 year old Anders Antonsen! 😂
Let's make TBE a luxury brand and sponsor badminton tournaments 😃😃😃
I agree with you that teenagers act stupid.Even in college sports, teenagers act crazy 🤣 .
I know right 😂.. But I guess it’s a phase most of us have to go through 😁
When you were so dorminant for many years , there is nothing bad to say about the coach .
But when the pair is now struggling to perform like it used to be , you start to blame the coach , because of something 2016 incident . This is not valid reason .
The fact that they are not performing are becasue , they are older , injuries , and like it is said , the slower shuttle , they can no longer hv the advantage to play the quick style , it is not as efective as if you play the faster shuttle .
So i suggest the pair to silence , stop talking , start focusing , find the formula to counter the issues , together with the coach .
Well, I'll just accept the fact that badminton will never be famous all over the world
I don't care about kevin, his attitude stink and mocking other players during a match. Fajar and Alfian is getting a much worse criticism from the fans, from
PBSI and their coach and look how they turned everything around.
I seriously think BWF is doing a extremely horrible JOB , like VERY VERY badly handle, i wish some rich billionaire would buy it and repair it ,
They cant get anything right! I think if it was run by someone else their be alottt more millionaire badminton players without sponsors, and over take boring tennis.
Last week 100 series of canada and vietnAm , tbey had NO promotion of it or stream not a single ad or promotion yet have their BWF logo all over the court. Us hardcore fans want to see any badminton as tbeir a HUGE gap between japan and Denmark . They only care for the 500+ and tbe elite players of VA PV KM … poor Watanabe slipped back to back tournaments cause the court js to short. Still havent had a permitted solution for jt…are they waiting for a bigger name to slip?
Your eagle eye is outdated and the how can a sideline judge see a shuttle at speed of 300KM hit a small white ljne or not!
Wiping the floor with $4.99 dollar walmart mops.
Im sure some scientists cAn come up with a water resistant mat! How the hell
Does nba basketball player clean their floors so great?
Badminton drift pays major role! Fix it!!
Chance side during each intermission!!
Shuttles seems slow for men ! Use faster shuttles for women double so we dont have to go through 150 shot ralleys !
Live stream ALL courts!! Stop cutting streams half way! Im TIRED of fishing for streams!! On youtube!!!
Poor badminton player cNt retire after play but have to get a job!! Com’in BWF!! Pay these guys!!! Better! Get better sponsors maybe ESPN! Clothes lines yonex cant be the only major one!
Also stop letting yonex monopolize!! Mizuno is wayyyy better company! Victor li ning! Jnice! !!!
I also have a idea!! Like india PBL other countries shluld do the same! They pyntjese plyer a good amount foe the month they play! Maybe Indonesia and Malaysia should start theirs and then england and Australia follow around! Thats 4-5 league maybe avg 50K 200k for a player extra!! I got many many many other ideas but im runing out of words limit LOL
agreee
Yes
The thing coming from esport. is that bwf is the only provider. In esport , for example CS there is like 3-4 companies doing event, even 2 of them merged. And they do incredible jobs trying to be better than the other event organizers. It's always who will have best entertainment story telling ( with videos ) , content between matches , best line up of casters.
I'm sad to see badminton such a "highlighted sport" to be only from bwf, and it's like athlete are just there and play.
You should definately check Blast Copenhagen by your own eyes Anders and Hans (NOV 23 - 27, 2022) watch only the final) it will be a qualifier for blast world final (in dubai) even if you dont play csgo , the event will be 10x better in terms of entertainment in area than any badminton tournament. even it's better than any top tennis world tournament and it's not even the MAJOR (wich is the most important tournament, each teams receive around 500 k just by participating , it's a nightmare to be able to achieve to participate to a major then there is in-game object that you can buy only during the time of the major (wich support players/teams) . So even if you end up loosing all your groupstage matches you'll get out with roughly 100 k per persons.
2 months ago there was the Cologne tournament (wich is like All england , its not a major but its called " Cathedral of CS" because venue is insane , crowd too).
Check " NAVI vs FaZe Clan: THE WHOLE THING! IEM Cologne 2022" It's final it last 8 hours between the 2 best ranked teams in the world (goes the long way ) . Maintain a 8 hours show with crowd and live it's something way more difficult than any sports event you've seen. I was there on stage it was incredible (intro teams , videos produced during the matches ) the ending.
Also Nicolai " dev1ce" Reedtz is the most accomplished cs athlete " he won 4 majors with astralis (danish teams) he is one of biggest stars and when i talked to him he told me that when he was young he used to train and played against Viktor Axelsen . He stopped badminton after injuries. When he saw me at gym doing some shadow we start to talk about badminton.
He said he is impressed by Viktor the way he wasnt the really best at his age and now he achieved so much . So i asked him : " Would you prefer to be dev1ce or Axelsen? He said he enjoyed so much winning titles but olympics title it's something crazy to get, that we would be really proud to get gold. So he has major respect to Viktor. you should definately do a TBE with him !
As soon as video started, I couldn't help but notice those gigantic thighs of Hans.. 😛😍🦵 I guess, he never skips Leg Day!! 😂