Europe :

Austria, Belgium, Czech republic, Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Wales

• General rules for participation & registration are given on the FISTF World Cup web site
  
  
• The 2017 World Cup will be played with the following number of participants :

• We are so pleased to announce that a record 24 nations will be represented this year, for the 25th Anniversary of FISTF, despite the lack of the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Nordic Countries and Ireland(s).
   
• Final date to register individuals and teams: June 30rd, 2017 at eric.naszalyi@neuf.fr
  
  
• Final date to either fill table with reserves or replace individual players July 31st, 2017. 
• In case of disclaimer, other players could be invited to participate.

• The applying rules are given on the FISTF World Cup web site

• Competition will be played on ASTROPITCHES
  

• For the 25th Anniversary of FISTF, all playing boards are named not just with their number, but also with the names of all former World Champions (open) and with the names of those unfortunate of us who died.
  They are not forgotten and part of our family. We are honoring both this year.
  
  
• Category teams can be amended until the draw planned on Friday 1st September. From the draw, NO change will be possible.

• As for 2012, 2014 & 2015, the competition will be managed through the GMFT software
   
• But this year, players with an internet connection will be able to follow the competition results in real time !
• During the competition, as the scores are registered in GMFT, the results and group's ranking are automatically published on the web site of the competition !
• Moreover, competition planning is also available and players can retrieve their personnal timeline (playing & refereeing) with a search of their name in the planning table !
   
• As a training players can use right now the WC2015 Result Web Site wich presents the full competition data of the San Benedetto's World Cup

• The head referees of the competition are :
  

  • Chris AGGELINAS
  • Emmanuel GORGETTE
  • Juan Carlos GRANADOS
  • Marcus TILGNER

• The Individual draw will be done live on Facebook Wednesday August 30th from France Miniature, being supervised by the USA Team !
  
  
• The Team draw will take place on Friday night during the Gala diner