A Birdie of a Different Color

We spent Memorial Day with friends at my grandparents' ranch (my grandfather is a Flying Tiger from WWII) where I grew up. It was this fateful day that I found out that they have changed my favorite game!

A group of us had decided to play badminton and Lacy was feeling confident as my partner since she had just taken a class (from the same instructor I had fifteen years or so ago... man I feel old). However, when we started serving, she got confused and told us we were playing the game all wrong. The scoring rules she described were like ping-pong. We got the serving order wrong too, she told us, but went along with it. I told her as soon as I got home I was going right to Wikipedia and find out how crazy she was.

Turns out Lacy was right: In 2006, the BWF changed badminton's scoring to a rally point scoring system. Why doesn't anyone tell me these things???