[3] Qualifications for the World Games 2017 were held at the WAKO Continental Championships that were organized by each WAKO Continental Federation/ Confederation as follows: To ensure that all Continents will be represented by the best athletes in each weight class, athletes will be selected as follows: The remaining one place in each weight class will be split evenly to 6/6 as follows: The following tournaments were used as qualification tournaments for kickboxing at the 2017 World games: The African Kickboxing Championships 2016 (K1 Rules style) which was held from the 21 to 25 December 2016 in Rabat, Morocco, served as qualification of African Kickboxing Confederation Athletes for 2017 World Games.

[6] The 2016 Asian Kickboxing Championships K1 Rules (stage two of the qualifications) were held over three days in Cheongju, Korea during October 2016, by the Asian Kickboxing Confederation (WAKO Asia) on the occasion of the Cheongju World Martial Arts Masterships with the participation of 16 member federations which competed in 12 weight categories.

[7] The European championships which was held from the 23 to 30 October 2016 in Maribor, Slovenia, was part of the K1 WAKO qualifying system for The World Games 2017.

[9] The American Continent has the right for 18 vacancies in 12 official categories at K1 Rules (8 for men and 4 for women) for the IWGA World Games 2017.

The Orbita Hall located in Wroclaw hosted martial arts during The World Games 2017.