Super Series - the big twelve

The Super Series is a singles and doubles competition open to all badminton players from Member Associations affiliated to the BWF.
The Super Series is a 12 tournaments series designed to attract the top 32 players from around the world with a minimum of USD $ 200,000 prize money for each tournament. Hosted from January through to December each year the events are usually hosted in pairs in a similar region of the world – in mid January, the Malaysian Super Series kicks off the year ending the circle with the BWF Super Series Masters Finals in December.
The BWF introduced the Super Series format to showcase badminton at a higher level of competitiveness, to increase television coverage for the sport and to increase the star quality and popularity of the top players in the world through a wider television audience.

Players earn World Ranking Points towards their World Ranking according to the special classification of those tournaments which have been nominated by the BWF.

Series Final
The BWF Super Series Masters Finals ends the series for the year and the best eight men’s and women’s singles and doubles players, as well as mixed doubles players are invited to battle it out for top prize money.