The BWF World Tour Finals, officially HSBC BWF World Tour Finals, which succeeds
BWF Super Series Finals The BWF Super Series Finals (named as BWF Super Series Masters Finals until 2009) was an annual badminton tournament held at the end of the year where the players with the most points from that calendar year's twelve events of the BWF Super Series c ...
, is an annual
badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...
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
The BWF World Tour is a Grade 2 badminton tournament series, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It is a competition open to the top world ranked players in singles (men's and women's) and doubles (men's, women's and mixed). The compet ...
compete for total prize money of at least
US$
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1,500,000.
Features
Prize money
The tournament offers minimum total prize money of USD$1,500,000. The prize money is distributed via the following formula:
World ranking points
Below is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the
BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Final event.
Eligibility
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.
]
Results
Performances by nation
See also
* BWF Super Series Finals The BWF Super Series Finals (named as BWF Super Series Masters Finals until 2009) was an annual badminton tournament held at the end of the year where the players with the most points from that calendar year's twelve events of the BWF Super Series c ...
* World Badminton Grand Prix Finals The World Badminton Grand Prix Finals was an annual badminton tournament organized by the International Badminton Federation (IBF) to crown the best badminton player of the year. The tournament only invited the top eight players in the year-end worl ...
References
External links
BWF World Tour official website
{{BWF World Tour Finals
BWF World Tour