The entry list for the Austrian U17 International 2021 has been published and is available at https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/acceptancelist.aspx?id=2FD019F7-14B3-4FA1-81AC-8FA1E022448C.
For selecting the players/pairs the BEC European U17 Ranking from ranking 06/09/2021 has been used.
Please be informed that following the re-start of U17 Circuit tournaments in Europe, the BEC European U17 ranking will be updated as below:
Players will receive points for their participation in U17 Circuit tournaments but the ranking will be rolled onwards without dropping off past weeks/tournaments at this time so that players who were unable to travel and compete will not be unduly penalized, so effectively becoming a ranking of more than 52 weeks. This way of updating the ranking was decided in order to follow the method used by the BWF to update the BWF Junior Rankings (announced on 06/08/2020). The ranking will be updated as described above until it can be unfrozen.
Please circulate the link and the text above about the BEC European
U17 ranking as soon as possible to all participating associations and
add this to your tournament’s website latest this Sunday, together
with the date of the BEC European U17 Ranking used.
Would you also kindly reply to all the withdrawal requests you’ll get
before the withdrawal deadline, asking the associations to withdraw
their players using the online entry system? The entry lists will then
be updated online accordingly.
As the maximum number of entries was not reached, you might want to
play with a different schedule than the provisional schedule initially
published in the invitation, as per regulation 6.4 of the BEC U17
Circuit regulations: ‘’The final frame schedule (with the exact
planned conclusion of all matches) shall be made at least 20 days
before the start of the tournament and shall be published on the
organiser’s website. Such a final frame schedule cannot change unless
special circumstances arise and the referee and the Chairman of the
BADMINTON EUROPE Circuit Commission approve such a change.’’