| The Championship consists of a qualifying
stage, semifinals, a final and a playoff for
third place. The winners of the final will be the new World Junior
Champions: they will receive the Ortiz-Patiño Trophy and
silver replicas for each player and the non-playing captain. Those
failing to qualify will be able to participate in a Swiss
Pairs contest to be arranged exclusively for young people.
This is the sixth event of the series that was
inaugurated in 1987 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As a biennial
competition, it was held in 1989 in Nottingham, Great Britain; in 1991
in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; in 1993 in Århus, Denmark; and in
1995 in Bali, Indonesia. The host country won the Championship on the
first three occasions, but this tradition was broken in 1993 by Germany.
The reigning World Junior Champions are Great
Britain; the first country to win the title twice. |
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