match continues with the puck in the place where it was, otherwise a new face-off is made. World Table Hockey Tour In 2003/04, the first worldwide league, EuroLeague (EL), was created. 6 tournaments formed the league, The tournaments were Helsinki Open, Oslo Open, Riga Cup, Swedish Masters, Moscow Open and Czech Open. The league has changed name to World Table Hockey Tour (WT), and consists every year of around 15 tournaments. The original 6 tournaments (B6) were still regarded as the most important tournaments, and were called the Big Six tournaments. After the main tournaments were called SuperSeries, and at season (2021/2022) there are planned 6 SuperSeries tournaments (in Slovenia, Latvia, Sweden, Estonia, Czech Republic and Russia). ITHF World ranking The World ranking table sorts players by their actual rank points. The ranking is sum of player's best results in last two years. Points, which player gets for participating in any reported tournament are counted on the basis of: level of the tournament, number of players beaten and world ranking of players beaten. A winner of the World Championship gets always 1010 points and a winner of Europe Championship and North America Championship gets at least 610 points. World ranking with a reduced coefficient calculated points to six years. In the world ranking is more than 10 000 players from more than 50 countries and six continents, organized through about 520 clubs. ITHF ranking - nations Rank points of a country is sum of its five best players. The table below shows top ten nations as of September 28, 2021. Complete table ITHF ranking - open ITHF ranking - ladies See also Table hockey games Air hockey Stiga An equivalent for soccer football is Table football (or "foosball"). Notes External links International Table Hockey Federation Table hockey