The annual Great Southern Badminton Association tournament is attracting shuttlers from all over the region with a field of 90-plus expected for the event at Albany Leisure and Aquatic Centre this weekend. After taking part in the high-level Albany Bicentenary Badminton Tournament in March, local players will be excited to tackle the event which mixes competitors into scratch teams. Also in the field are Kathy Way and Shannen Higgenson, who played together in the bicentennial event. Higgensen and fellow Albany shuttler Vincent Phan were in the M*A*S*H team which won a hotly-contested division one in the Great Southern event last year. The weekend’s event won’t offer that kind of reward, but Watson said she would love to see that standard of event come to the Great Southern again.