- Beginners and club players of all ages and skill levels play together in the badminton hobby league in the Verden district, organized by Marcus Migowsky and Volker Renken.
- Due to a “systematic coincidence” in the classification, all participants have a high chance of winning, regardless of abilities, age or physical limitations.
- The sports offering is described as open and supportive of community, especially for people who are new to the region or want to avoid loneliness.
“Winning isn’t everything, but it’s the only thing,” legendary American football coach Vince Lombardi is said to have said. These days, as is the case with many idioms, most people only know the first half of this pithy sentence. This is mainly interesting for popular sports, i.e. people who don’t exactly want to win the Super Bowl. For many, the focus is simply on having fun.
In the Verden district, Marcus Migowsky and Volker Renken have created a sporting offering for people of all stripes. In the badminton hobby league, a community of beginners and club players of all ages and skill levels come together to keep fit, have fun and yes, win.
The highlight? Thanks to their “systematic coincidence”, which they generate via a few magical commands in Microsoft Excel, it is almost guaranteed that every player will be able to celebrate at least once after a game – regardless of their skills with the racket, their age or physical restrictions. If you’re not a legend on the field, you’ll be drawn as a partner.
Entertainment and fun are also available away from the internet. The players, who are represented in a ratio of around 1:3, seem like a big clique – which is very open to newcomers. That’s why this range of sports should not be underestimated, as we regularly read about loneliness in the media, which particularly affects single people and older people.
But it can also affect those who have moved to the Verden district for work and whose only social contact for the time being is their work colleagues. Finding a connection in a new city these days isn’t necessarily a walk in the park for many people.
However, and Migowsky wants to answer a question that many people have asked themselves, badminton is not child’s play: That would be badminton. So that no one makes a mistake on their first visit to the hobby league, the organizer explains: “In badminton you play with each other, in badminton you play against each other.”
From these articles it is clear that the sporting concept of the hobby league does not differ significantly from other popular sports offerings in the region or in Lower Saxony. Both in traditional leagues as well as in sports weeks and other tournament formats in amateur and popular sports, the focus is on the fun of the game, flexible participation conditions and the opportunity to supplement team coffers. Different competition formats, short playing times and a variable group of participants can be found in many offers – such as the football sports weeks in the Osterholz district – as well as in hobby leagues, so that the basic concept remains comparable.
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