The following information is a simplified summary of badminton rules based on the BWF Statutes publication, Laws of Badminton.

In both the Olympic and BWF World competitions restrictions on the number of participants from any one country have caused some controversy because they sometimes result in excluding elite world level players from the strongest badminton nations.

A narrow 5 – 4 Indonesian victory was upheld by the IBF ( BWF ) over Danish protest.

* EBU Tech 3285-s4-Specification of the Broadcast Wave Format ( BWF )-Supplement 4, Link Chunk-first edition ( 2003 )

Associated with Ma Jin, Zheng won the Mixed Doubles title at the 2010 BWF World championships.

Most recently in the YONEX BWF World Championship 2010, she caused an upset over the world number one ranking player, Wang Yihan.

Kota Kinabalu has played host to a number of national sporting events such as the 2002 Sukma Games, international tournaments such as the 1994 Karate World Championships and the 2008 BWF Super Series Masters Finals badminton tournament.

Generally speaking, the F & W movement is perceived as less strident than the BWF, which has close relationships with established para-denominational evangelical organizations such as Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts.

Wei has medaled four times at the BWF World Championships without " striking gold ".

Gao has earned four gold medals ( among nine medals in total ) at the BWF World Championships, three of them in women's doubles with Huang Sui ( 2001, 2003, and 2006 ) and one of them in mixed doubles with Zhang Jun ( 2001 ).

One or the other pair has captured all of the BWF World Championships held since 2000, with Zhang and Yang winning in both 2005 and 2007 by defeating Gao and Huang in the finals.

Xie Xingfang (; Yale Romanization: Je6 Hang6 Fong1 ; born January 8, 1981, in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China ) is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China who has twice won women's singles at the BWF World Championships.

In December, Zhou ended the 2008 season by winning the BWF Super Series Masters Finals, the biggest prize money event in the sport.

BWF files include a standardized timestamp reference which allows for easy synchronization with a separate picture element.

At the start of 2007, the BWF introduced a new tournament structure for the highest level tournaments aside from those in level one: the BWF Super Series.

* International Badminton Federation former name of Badminton World Federation ( BWF ), an international governing body for badminton

It is thus likely that laypeople and clergy espousing the aims of BWF, FRM, and F & W will remain small minorities in the denomination for the foreseeable future.

Having promoted shows in the 1950s with himself in the main event as masked heel Doctor Death, Lincoln led a consortium of independent promoters under the British Wrestling Federation ( BWF ) whose name was used for a rival championship, built around Heavyweight champion Bert Assirati who split away from Joint Promotions in 1958 while still champion.

Although Joint Promotions considered the title vacant and held a tournament for a new champion ( won by Billy Joyce ), Assirati continued to claim it within the BWF.

A member of China's perennial world champion Uber Cup teams, in the biggest events for individual players ( such as the BWF World Championships, the All-England Championships, and the Olympic Games ) Wei and her partners have usually been overshadowed by China's two dominant women's doubles pairs, Gao Ling and Huang Sui, and Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen.

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For many they trump major tournaments for individual competitors such as the venerable All-England Championships, the BWF World Championships, and even the badminton competitions at the Olympic Games.

There is no prize money in Sudirman Cup ; players play for their respective countries and to earn BWF world ranking points and national prestige.

Broadcast Wave Format ( BWF ) is an extension of the popular Microsoft WAVE audio format and is the recording format of most file-based non-linear digital recorders used for motion picture, radio and television production.

Since the only difference between a BWF and a " normal " WAV is the extended information in the file header ( Bext-Chunk, Coding-History, etc ...), a BWF does not require a special player for playback.

BWF is specified for use in MXF by SMPTE standard 382.

This sealed header also acts as a security device and prevents the archived BWF from any unauthorised edits, thus preserving the audio signal for posterity.

It is also standard practice to produce smaller, more easily transported mp3 copies of each BWF, for the purpose of access.

* EBU Tech 3285-s2-Specification of the Broadcast Wave Format ( BWF )-Supplement 2, Capturing Report-first edition ( 2001 )

In the BWF World Championships, first held in 1977, currently only the highest ranked 64 players in the world, and a maximum of four from each country, can participate in any category.

Like the founding of the BWF, that initiative followed the controversial General Synod of 2005 ( in which the denomination in effect endorsed the efforts of same-sex couples to marry ) and seeks to keep churches from leaving the denomination.

BWF files are archived with a digitally sealed ' header ' comprising metadata exported from the Paradisec catalog.

The BWF now governs international badminton and develops the sport globally.

The Thomas Cup, sometimes called the World Men's Team Championships, is an international badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation ( BWF ), the sport's global governing body.

BWF ( Broadcast Wave Format ) is a standard audio format created by the European Broadcasting Union as a successor to WAV.

BWF allows metadata to be stored in the file.

The Badminton World Federation ( BWF ) is the internationally recognized governing body of the sport.

The BWF organizes several international competitions, including the Thomas Cup, the premier men's international team event first held in 1948 – 1949, and the Uber Cup, the women's equivalent first held in 1956 – 1957.

The Thomas, Uber, and Sudirman Cups, the Olympics, and the BWF World ( and World Junior Championships ), are all categorized as level one tournaments.

Top players can collect the world ranking points and enable them to play in the BWF Super Series open tournaments.

The BWF advocates a dual goal of local church renewal and national level reformation.

The BWF faded away in the late 1960s after a campaign of pestilence by a disgruntled Assirati ( vastly superior as a shooter to Crabtree ) in the form of unsolicited appearances and challenges to his successor at BWF shows, eventually resulting in the abrupt retirement of Crabtree in 1966.