In September, unified Chinese rules were codified for international competitions.
[4][5] In team event, China Shanxi Jiexiu won the championship with 94 table points.
This event was a competition held by a private company and it was not certified by WMO.
The new World Champion again comes from China: Ms. Linghua Jiao won the competition with 32 table points (acquired in 9 sessions).
[7] The follow-ups were both Europeans – the same held true for the country ranking, which was calculated as a team score of the best three national players from each country: China ranked first with 85 table points, followed by France (78 TP) and Denmark (77 TP).