The BWF Super Series was a series of Grade 2 badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It was launched on December 14, 2006 and implemented in 2007. Since 2011, the Super Series includes two levels of tournament, Super Series Premier and Super Series. A season of Super Series featured twelve tournaments around the world, including five of them classified as Super Series Premier. Super Series Premier tournament offers higher ranking point and higher minimum total prize money. Top eight players/pairs in each discipline in Super Series standings are invited to the Super Series Finals held at the year end. BWF announced a new tournament structure in March 2017, BWF World Tour together with the new hosts for 2018–2021 cycle to replace this Super Series tournaments. Features Prize money A Super Series tournament offered minimum total prize money of USD200,000; a Super Series Premier tournament offered minimum total prize money of USD350,000; Super Series Finals offered minimum total prize money of USD500,000. From 2014, a Super Series Premier tournament offered minimum total prize money of USD500,000, with minimum increment USD50,000 each year until 2017. Super Series tournaments offered minimum total prize money of USD250,000, with increment of USD25,000 each year up to 2017. The Super Series offered the prize money regardless of the round from which a player is ousted, unless they went out in the qualification round. Starting in 2008 season, the women's winners received the equal prize money amount as men's winners. The prize money is distributed via the following formula: World Ranking points The Super Series Premier and Super Series tournaments offered ranking points to players based on the round a player/pair reaches. The Super Series Premier tournaments offered higher ranking points, second only to BWF tournaments (BWF World Championships and Summer Olympics). Points would be used for World Ranking and also Super Series standing to decide the top eight players/pairs qualified for the Super Series Finals. Nationality separation Starting in 2007, players from the same nation were not separated in the main draw of the tournaments. All but the top two seeds would not be divided into two draws as they were before. The top Chinese player Lin Dan has criticized the rule change. Since 2010 rules were altered with nationality separation in the first round. Entries Entries must be made five weeks before the start of the tournament. Only 32 players/pairs would play in