New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- The Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Friday announced the draw for the World Junior Mixed Team Championships that will be held at the National Centre of Excellence in Guwahati from October 6-11. Second seeded India will compete in Group H alongside Hong Kong, Nepal, and Ghana. This prestigious global junior team event returns to India for the first time since 2008 and will feature 37 teams from across the world. The tournament format will see the winner from each group advance to the quarter-finals. Top seeds Thailand are drawn in Group A with Denmark, Slovenia, and Cook Islands. Defending champions Indonesia are placed in Group C with Turkiye, Romania, and the Netherlands, while 14-time champions China will face Japan, Singapore, Brazil, and Bhutan in Group E. This year a new relay format will be tested. In this format there will be best of three sets, where a team reaching 45 points in a relay format wins a set. A set will have each of men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles with the first match ending after one team reaching nine points and the next match will start. Earlier, the relay format consisted of a single set with a race to 110-points in 10 matches....