Participants are mostly b-list celebrities like musical artists, actors, and TV hosts, but there are also known athletes that have ongoing professional careers in winter sports, like three-time Olympic luge champion Georg Hackl and the Jamaican Bobsled Team.

[citation needed] The typical racing woks are the ordinary round-bottomed Chinese pans, usually directly imported from China.

Due to the rather risky nature of the sport the participants wear heavy protective gear, usually similar to ice hockey equipment.

Wok Worldcup) which is aired as special edition of Raab's show TV total on the German television channel ProSieben.

Under German law that allowed the network to treat the massive corporate sponsorship of the event as incidental advertising which didn't count against Germany's strict rules regarding time limits for TV commercials.