General conditions

• Participants must be present 20 min before their match and maximum 15 min after the schedule time or they will be disqualified
• All players will have to bring their own badminton rackets
• All participants should be employed with an Insurance company / Insurance Broking Company, should be under the direct sponsorship of their company and should hold a valid Qatar ID.
• The participants of mixed doubles can play along with their spouse, colleague or children.

Scoring system

For Singles, Doubles and Mixed doubles matches, the rules are:

• Matches will be played on a knock out basis
• For preliminary rounds, a match will be of single game - 25 points
• For pre quarter finals matches onwards, a match will consists of best of 3 games. First team to score 21 points wins the game.
• The side winning a rally shall add 1 point to its score.
• If a score becomes 20-20, the side which scores 2 consecutive points shall win that game.
• If the score becomes 29-29, the side that scores the 30th point shall win that game.
• The side winning a game serves first in the next game.