Junior: Age 14 & Under with no previous tournament experience
Scholastic: Age 19 & Under with no previous tournament experience
Competitive Junior: Age 15 & under with previous tournament experience
Open A: Advanced
Open B: Intermediate
Open C: Beginner (little or no previous tournament experience)
Senior: Age 45 & older
Masters: Age 55 & older
*All ages as of July 10, 2010
**Tournament director reserves right to combine/cancel divisions based on entries
**Tournament Director reserves right to change a players division if he/she warrants that a specific players experience warrants.

To qualify for a region, an athlete must be one of the following:
- A full-time resident within the region for 30 days prior to first day of tryouts.
- A full-time student at a recognized academic institution in the region.
- A registered member of a badminton club in Massachusetts, for which you are entering.  The club must be your exclusive “contact” with the sports.  Athletes using the club membership for eligibility may not be a member of a non Massachusetts club.

- The Bay State Games Badminton tournament will offer singles, doubles and mixed doubles events.
- Athletes in Junior, Scholastic and Competitive Junior can enter no more than FOUR events.
- Athletes in Open A, B or C, Senior and Masters can enter no more than THREE events.
- If they meet the eligibility requirements, athletes can enter different divisions (junior, open, senior or master) for different events, but they may not enter in different flights. For example, a junior player can play in scholastic singles and open C singles but cannot sign up for both Open B and C singles. Doubles players who play in multiple age divisions must play with the same partner. The tournament will be formatted so that all players will have at least two matches per event.

*Tournament directors reserve the right to combine/cancel divisions based on the number of athletes.