• Format

The Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup and d'Orsi Trophy will be played as a single complete round-robin with all teams playing each other.  At the end of the round-robin the first best ranked teams will be admitted to the knock-out stages.  Quarter-final, Semifinal and Final KO matches will be played. 

The 10th World Transnational Open Teams will take place during the second week, starting at 10.00 in the morning on Sunday 4th October.  The format will be Swiss Teams.  It is normally played as 10-board matches (5 per day) for 15 qualifying rounds (150 boards).  

The Quarter Final will be played on Wednesday 7th October, the Semi Final on Thursday 8th October, the Final on Friday 9th and Saturday10th October.  If 120 teams or more enter the Championship, the KO stage (phase) will commence with a round of 16.

Players eliminated from the Round Robin of the Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup & d’Orsi Trophy will be able to enter the World Transnational Open Teams Championship free of charge provided they enter as a complete team.  Players eliminated from the Quarter-final can drop in the WTOTC free of charge provided they enter as a complete team.

 • Programme

This is the provisional programme.

 • Entries - Registration

Right of Entry

Zonal Qualified teams for all three championships (in addition to the Host Teams).

• Zone 1 – 6 teams
• Zone 2 – 3 teams
• Zone 3 – 2 teams
• Zone 4 – 2 teams
• Zone 5 – 1 teams
• Zone 6 - 3 teams
• Zone 7 – 2 teams
• Zone 8 – 2 teams

If any Zone does not fill its quota the first berth will be offered to Zone 1, the second to Zone 6.  Each participating member NBO must play against all other participating member NBOs.  Entry and subsequent refusal to play will result in disqualification.

To be eligible for participation in the 2015 World Teams Championships each player, non-playing captain, coach, trainer and other team official must comply with the WBF Laws and Rules & Regulations.  In addition the players and non-playing captains must comply with the conditions of eligibility set forth in the WBF Eligibility Code.

Registration

All entries must be made electonically via this website (not by email).

 • Entry Fees

Players eliminated from the Round-Robin and Quarter-final of the Open, Women's or Senior Teams may form new Open teams and will receive free entry provided no players who have not participated in these events are added.

In the event that a team is made up from players who have not participated in the three main events, with players from these events added to the team, the charges will be as follows