A player may participate in only one individual competition category (Open, Veterans,
Women, U20, U16 or U12).
The Top 8 players inthe World Ranking as of June 30th, with maximum 2 per country, automatically qualify for the individual WC.
If there are more than 2 players from one country in the top 8, then we move to the 9th ranked player, etc…
After that process, each federation sends a list of players divided in three:
Those who are qualified by the World Ranking (they may come or not)
The top 2 of their national ranking (or the 2 that will play in the individual competition
in each category)
A list of reserves
Once the deadline for nomination has passed, the FISTF will choose up to 24, 32, 48 or 64 players maximum (for Open and Veterans) per category by taking the reserves, firstly from those countries with no players qualified by the World Ranking, then from those with one qualified by the World Ranking, then two qualified by the world ranking, and so on.
The FISTF Board may still invite some players to the competition.