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Legal movements

   Every part of the body is allowed to touch the shuttleball except for upper limbs,.  The most often parts a player uses are head, feet, knees and thighs

When serving a ball, one foot should be on the ground and the other kick the shuttleball.

Service Area

    The service of a singles game or a doubles game is the same as that of badminton.  Each team has two chances of serving.  When it is a doubles game, the player stands on the right side has to serve one the right area first, and then move to left area to serve again, and so on so forth.  When it is a group game, the players take turns clockwise to serve.  It’s always the player who stands on the right front serves.

Games and Courts

   There are singles, doubles, three-people group and five-people group games.  Singles games and three-people group games are rare now.  When playing a group game, the volleyball court is adopted as their court; while playing a singles or doubles game, the badminton court is adopted.

Rounds and Scores

   The team wins two out of three rounds or three out of five rounds win the game.  One team can get a point when the opponent misses the shuttleball, makes a mistake or breaks the rules.  In the doubles game, one player can kicks sequentially twice or both the players of the same team kick twice in totally.  However, in a group game, no one can kick sequentially more than once, and the kicks in total should be less than three times before the shuttleball goes over the net to the other side.  The exception is these three times don’t count touching the shuttleball by head or chest.

The serve

　Before the game starts, captains from both teams toss or draw the lot to decide the sides of the court and the serve.  Both teams exchange the sides after each round ends.  They also have to decide the sides and serve before the match round.  During the match round, both teams need to exchange the sides when any team gets their 11th point.

Scoring

    The first team getting 21 points and is at least 2 points ahead at the end wins the round. If the score is 20 to 20, it is called deuce.

Reference

1. Rules for Education Cup Shuttleball in Taipei in 2008

2. The latest released rules by Shuttleball Committee of Taipei Sports Association