[1][2] The tournament served as a qualifier for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

[3] Australia won the tournament for the eleventh time, finishing ahead of New Zealand at the conclusion of the pool stage.

[4] Australia were the ten-time back-to-back defending champions.

The winners of the Cup earned an automatic place at the 2020 Olympic Games.

[6] In March 2019, Stirling Hinchliffe, MLA for Sandgate and Minister for Local Government, Racing and Multicultural Affairs announced that the Government of Queensland had invested $2.5 million into the Kalka Shades, the home of the Rockhampton Hockey Association.