Today, 16 top teams from around the world compete for the coveted Hui Weng Chun Challenge Trophy and title as Tens champion.

HSBC Bank, a name globally recognised and synonymous with rugby had been the tournament's main sponsor from 2005 to 2012.

Yearly, a total of 16 top teams from all over the world are invited to participate in this prestigious tournament which is played over two days.

The COBRA 10s in its early years was mainly contested by local clubs and several invited foreign teams.

The RNZIR won it for seven consecutive seasons until most of them were shipped back to New Zealand, thus allowing the curiously named Bunnies to take the title in 1985.

The Police took it for two consecutive seasons but the stragglers of the RNZIR, in their final year in Malaysia, wrested the trophy for one last time.

That year Australian champions, Randwick of Sydney, defeated a very strong Marist St. Joseph of Samoa in a thoroughly fascinating encounter.

When the first fully international version of the COBRA 10s was introduced in 1992, the Kuala Lumpur Stadium in Cheras became the new home of the Tens and for subsequent tournaments till 1997.