On May 9, 2009, we organized the first Glenn Dale Badminton Tournament. The format was somewhat peculiar: we decided to play a randomly paired doubles in A (advanced), B (beginner) and J (junior) level, and following a chess like ranking system where all players started out with 1500 points and could gain (or loose) ranking points by scoring. Winning was thus always essential, just making as many points as you could. Here;s a small writeup of the rules. We used K=100 in the ELO system during the tournament.

There are some pictures. Results were as follows: (these are the scores after the finals, which can lead to re-arranged top 4 again)

A levels:

1) MinFeng	1561.0
2) Peter        1550.4
3) Jan          1549.8
4) Rudy		1544.0
5) Doy          1529.6
6) Jon          1469.2
7) Neil         1467.9
8) Aris         1466.1
9) James        1434.4
10) Rob         1427.7

B levels:

1) MarkM	1554.8
2) Manuel	1554.6
*) Neil (->A)	1515.5
3) Gillian	1506.8
*) Doy (->A)    1498.0
4) Frances      1489.7
5) MarkA        1485.6
6) Ben          1471.4
7) Stefanie     1470.0
8) Xavier       1453.6

J levels:


1) Xavier	1537.5
2) Kyle		1525.0
3) Emmanuel	1497.6
4) Jordene	1482.5
5) Thirdy	1478.9
6) Sarah	1478.6