On December 28, 2021, the EGLSF announced that Vienna had won the most votes of its members in exceptional (online assembley) pandemic context after the cancelation of 2020 EuroGames in Düsseldorf and modified 2021 Copenhagen.
[8] Additionally, recreational activities and new sports made their EuroGames debut, including roller derby, table football, roundnet, racketlon, darts, and padel.
[13] The organizational team consisted of approximately 15 people, led by the co-presidents Maria Schinko and Gerhard Marchl, but the event’s delivery was made possible with the dedication of hundreds of volunteers.
[4] Key goals of the organizing team were to attract FLINTA individuals (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans, and asexual people)[14] and participants from Central and Eastern Europe to Vienna.
Approximately one-third of participants were female-identified or non-binary, and more than 200 came from Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and other countries in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.