The Badminton World Federation, BWF, provides official rules and regulations for both players and officials. It schedules tournaments, ranks players and enforces disciplinary action against rule breakers. Intramural and other sports programs use their regulations as a guideline, but often follow a different standard when it comes to scoring.
Fundamentals
The aim of badminton is to score more points than your opponent. To score a point in badminton one of two things must happen, a fault or the end of a rally. As the server, you earn one point when the receiver makes a fault or the rally ends because the shuttle touches the surface inside the receiver's court. In an official game, the receiving side earns a point in the same manner.
Players often wonder which side of the court to serve from. The rules are simple. The score of the badminton game determines whether you serve from the right service court or the left service court. When the score reads zero or an even number, serve from the right service court. An odd number indicates service from the left.
Official Rules
If you follow the official Laws of Badminton created and distributed by the BWF, each badminton game has 21 points. Outscore your opponent by at least two points, in two out of three badminton games to win the match. A score of 29-all presents the exception to the rule. When this situation occurs, the first side to reach 30 points is the winner.
Each service results in a point. When you receive an interval, a stoppage in play for the players to rest, depends on the score. The BWF permits a 60-second interval when the leading scorer reaches 11 points.
Unofficial Rules
Other badminton scoring rules exist for games on a less than world-class level. The University of Michigan Department of Recreational Sports Intramural Program uses a 15-point game; only the serving side scores a point. Additionally, these unofficial badminton scoring rules permit a side to win by only one point.
The University of Texas at Dallas presents gender dependent badminton scoring rules. It explains a usual game consists of 15 points, while the score necessary to win a women's singles game is only 11 points.
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