At the 2024 AGM, the BCSS legislative assembly approved changing the badminton provincial championship from a single mixed-gender tournament to separate boys' and girls' tournaments. Additionally, the tie structure has been revised from a best-of-11 format to a best-of-7 format.

Both the girls and the boys tournaments will follow the same structure/format:

• Two separate 16 team tournaments will be held: one for boys and one for girls
• There shall be four (4) sections of preliminary round-robin pools (based on the tournament seeding) for each gender, each containing four teams.
• After the round robin play, teams will be ranked one to four in their pools. All teams will be placed into the championships draw based on their placement during power pools.

Motion to be presented at the 2026 AGM - if passed will be in effect for the 2026 Provincial Championship.
1020.0 Badminton – Single player order based on strength

       1022.1.7 Within a tie, an athlete can play up to two matches. If an athlete participates in two matches, it must be either one singles and one doubles C, or  two doubles (A or B) matches.  

• A student-athlete who plays in a singles match (Match 3 or 4) may only play in the doubles C pairing (match 7).
• An athlete in the doubles pairing (either A or B) must play both matches with the same pairing.  A student-athlete cannot play doubles A pairing and then play in double B pairing in the same tie.
• For the doubles C paring, coaches may choose to play one or both of the student-athletes from single matches, or they may choose one or two different student-athletes, they have not played in that tie.  (cannot choose a player who played in doubles A or B pairing)
• The singles A player should be stronger than the singles B player.

The matches will be played in the following order:

• Match 1: Doubles (A vs B)
• Match 2: Doubles (B vs A)
• Match 3: Singles (A vs A)
• Match 4: Singles (B vs B)
• Match 5: Doubles (A vs A)
• Match 6: Doubles (B vs B)
• Match 7: Doubles (C vs C)

• Team Registration (STARS) Deadline: April 8th, 2026 
• Roster Registration (STARS) Deadline: April 22nd, 2026 
• Deadline for Zones to Decline Allocated Berths: May 1st, 2026 
• Zone Championships Completed: May 15th, 2026
• Championship Registration Deadline: May 17th, 2026

Uniforms
All teams/athletes must wear school uniforms for the competition that identifies their school team as part of the artwork. Corporate logos are restricted to a maximum of two logos, and each logo should not exceed the dimensions of a credit card.