Seo Seung Jae (서승재)

Not a direct response to the article but I am wondering if it would be too late to bring the thread title in line with what seems to be the convention on names. It seems to me that calling the thread 'Seo Seung Jae (서승재)' would be more in line with how other player threads have been titled.

And yes, the worst case scenario would indeed suck.

 

Amazing that one person can be coach of both the ntl team and a club team, and players can be suspended from the ntl team if they have contract disputes with the unrelated club teams...conflict of interest, anyone?
Personally I don't get why there are rules to suspend players from the ntl team for something not related to it. However, this seems at first read like Seo was just kind of dumb to sign two different contracts, although I can imagine scenarios where he might have been pressured into signing the first one (coach having a 'discussion' with him about it, for example...).

 

That part is rare, at least in recent memory. Kim Joong Soo was chair of a provincial association while coaching the national team but he was not in charge of any pro team, as far as I can recall. Sung Han Kook was Head Coach of Daekyo when he took over the national team but Ra Kyung Min, who was hired as a Daekyo coach shortly thereafter, admitted she was going to be doing all the coaching and sure enough, within the year, she had taken over Sung's job. Lee Deuk Choon and Kang Kyung Jin were working solely for the BKA as national team coaches and not for any pro teams.

 

I find it interesting that it's even allowed, since the ntl coach could easily give preferential treatment to his club's players. Even subconsciously they're bound to favor them.

 

https://www.badzine.net/2020/02/seo-seung-jae-cut-from-national-team/

 

Will SSJ be allowed to play the events he has already entered, like the German and All England Opens?

 

Ko/Eom would still have to pass the Danes and the Russians in order to be invited.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'avoid the fine'. The fine will still be levied, unless Seo declares to the BWF that he is retiring. The question is whether the BKA will also refuse to enter him in tournaments if he agrees to transport himself across the sea. Such a refusal has precedent, as Ko/Shin know all too well. They obviously did away with the age restriction and with the accomplishment restriction that at one time prevented Eom from competing overseas, but at the same time, we don't know if they will now agree to enter any player who wishes it. Of course, refusing to enter Seo in the All England would be tantamount to forcing him to be fined, unless he can avoid the fine by flying there for a press conference as I believe Ko Sung Hyun did once.

 

I don't know if I understood correctly, but if he is 'released' by KBA, can Canada enter Choi/Seo in a tournament, with them representing Korea?

 

The chart you referenced is based on current world rankings, not on points earned since the qualification period began. This one is more relevant. However, the main difference is that in the rankings I reference, a continental spot has been taken. That could easily change, as the top African and Oceanian pairs are at #51 and #50 respectively and could well be pushed out, considering how many pairs outside the top 50 haven't played 10 tournaments yet. If that happens, the Danes and Ko/Eom would still be chasing the Russians. If the Australians and Egyptians both make it to the top 50, then only 13 spots remain, and then you'd have the Germans and Wang/Cheng to contend with also.

This sounds like a plan for the BKA, but is there a BWF rule you can cite that allows for this? This contradicts your statement that 'all of bwf's legal obligations/jurisdictions are between bwf and member associations', which is obviously consistent with the BWF only accepting tournament entries from MAs as opposed to individual players. If the BKA had access to such a loophole, the BWF would have to break the convention you just cited and go demanding money from Seo directly or it would have to demand that Seo find himself a new MA for the purpose of paying the fine, an option that is ludicrous on its face. Remember that one of the issues when Ko left the national team was an impasse wherein he refused to retire, demanding that the BKA enter him in big tournaments, while the BKA refused to enter a non-national team member under the age of 31 and urged him to retire so there wouldn't be a fine every time he missed an SSP event.

Let's just drop the notion of Seo emigrating, with or without one of his partners. That's never going to happen. The next step is an appeal and assuming that fails, all the Korean media reports say that one BKA official said it was worth waiting & seeing if the BKA changes its mind in May. What we know is that Seo/Chae will have enough points to qualify even if they stop playing for 3 months. There is no way that Tabeling/Piek, Lamsfuss/Herttrich, Gicquel/Delrue, Wang/Cheng, and Alimov/Davletova will all get above the 63,000-point mark by then given that they've all played 15 tournaments already.

 

The link you used was to the 'notional rankings' while the link I used was to the 'Race to Tokyo' rankings. They both apply the same qualifying rules but to different ranking lists. The difference is that the former includes, for example, AE2019 points so disbanded pairs like Ahmad/Kandow and Gondo/Kurihara are further up the list than in the Race to Tokyo. That matters because the continental allotment takes precedence. If Pan Am, Africa, and Oceania all have pairs in the top 50, then there will only be 13 other pairs chosen by the NOC allotment criteria. As it is, there will be a maximum of 15 others, since Canada's spot is secure, but we could have Australia, Egypt, or both or neither by April 28th.

 

So to summarize, what you wrote earlier about "bwf can still levy the fine but kba can can say 'we released him from kba. he does not play for us'" is speculation on a possible legal dispute that the BKA could pioneer, not a statement on how the relationship between the BWF and MAs actually functions.

That is correct that the BWF was not involved. My point was that BWF fine issue came up in reports about the issue because it related to the BKA's demands of Ko. The BKA had rules (which Ko was contesting) that said Ko couldn't be entered in SSP events at age 30. From their point of the BKA, they had only two ways to avoid incurring BWF fines: 1) Ko retires, as Shin, Kim, Lee, and Yoo had; 2) enter Ko in SSP events. The BKA wanted option 1, Ko wanted option 2. But yes, you are correct, that the actual legal case involved getting the BKA to reverse their opposition to option 2. You might think that Ko had some leverage in the case the BKA wanted him to do something for them that would stop them bleeding money. As for Shin, he had already retired so it cost the BKA nothing to deny him entry into tournaments.

In the case of Seo, as long as the BKA has the power to accept the Tokyo invitation, he is unlikely to play hardball. The BWF has new rules about deregistration and retirement which seem to suggest that if Seo were to use either of these, he might need 3 months notice to return to action. The BKA might be able to get away without being fined, depending on how the following regulation is interpreted:

2.7. BWF may waive the penalty as specified in clauses 2.3 and 2.5 in certain exceptional circumstances (such as forced military service or similar), Player suspension (by BWF or Members) and official Player retirement (following submission of official retirement form to BWF)​

Obviously none of these applied in Ko's case but they might apply to Seo, although one report recently seemed to be specifying that Seo was just off the national team and not under suspension and they accepted his papers as a new member of the Samsung team and will be allowed to play domestic events. Given that, it is possible the BWF would not accept an excuse about the BKA owing money for fines.

 

Okay so I read through this thread. Loads of good info. So there can be a case where seo keeps playing bwf events but footing the bills for hotel and transportation on his own? (Assuming bka allows him to play)


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His name is in the All England Open draw which was published earlier today. So I guess they will let him play? Otherwise, they would have withdrawn him.

 

i saw this too so i was wondering...

i think bka knows not to mess up our slim chance of medaling in xd/md (very very small chance i know)..so maybe his punishment is for him to foot his own bill for travel and hotel accommodation? korea is harsh but not letting him compete in olympics would be dumb
realistically, ASY is korea's only chance of medaling.

too bad lyd/kgj didnt perform at a higher level in 2019...