This inaugural event will be held from Jan 8 to 14, 2000 as part of the Orbis World Bridge Championships. Six senior teams have been pre-selected and invited by the WBF to play in this exhibition event.

There will be ten qualifying rounds of 20 boards; the Finals will start on Jan 13 and will consist of 3 sessions of 20 boards.

Participants

1: North America

Jim Barrow, Marc Law (Playing Captain), Sandra Law, Hugh MacLean John Potter, Richard Potter

2: European Seniors Champions: France

Pierre Adad, Maurice Aujaleu, Claude Delmouly, Jean-Marc Roudinesco

3: Reigning World Champions

Karl Rohan (Austria, Playing Captain), Franz Baratta (Austria), Moshe Katz (Israel), Nissan Rand (Israel), Christo Drumev (Bulgaria), A. Tanev (Bulgaria)

4: Zone 7: Australia

Neville Moses (Playing captain), John Ashworth, John Brockwell, Robert Evans, John Mottram, William Westwood

5: Zone 1: Poland

Janusz Nowak, Julian Klukowski, Andrzej Wilkoz, Aleksander Jezioro, Stefan Szenberg

6: Zone 6: China

Gu Xuehai (Playing Captain), Li Jin, Tang Houzu, Lu Zhenting, Lu Yulin