It featured teams representing Canada, Japan, Russia, the United States and Romania.

In May of that year Japan won the second edition of the Super Powers Cup in Tokyo, where the entire tournament had been staged, beating Russia 29–12 and Canada 34–21 in the process.

In 2005 the tournament was renamed the Super Cup and the participants were again changed, with Romania taking the place of Russia.

The United States beat a Romanian team missing many of their France-based professionals 23–16 in the third place play-off.

The competition was discontinued in 2005 after the IRB undertook a new Strategic Investment programme, with funding instead going to several new tournaments including the Pacific Nations Cup, featuring Japan (since 2006), Canada and United States (since 2013), as well as the IRB Nations Cup and IRB Tbilisi Cup, involving European, African and South American teams.