Teams regularly switch boats during the competition, emphasizing the importance of the sailors' skill and strategic abilities.

[3] The World Match Racing Tour in its current format started in the year 2000.

[5] In 1997, Russell Coutts and his Team Magic won the Fabergé Egg and the US$250,000 prize money.

Brut left as a sponsor after that, leaving the match racing series in a state of limbo.

Great Britain's Royal Jeweler's, Garrard & Co. created the World Match Racing Tour trophy in 2011.