Team World Explained

World Team or Team World is a designation for a sports team in many competitions. It is usually equivalent to a "rest of the world" team, which is pitted against a particular territory.

Competitions featuring a world team

Competition	Sport	Contributing regions	Notes
	Ice hockey	non-North American	From 1998 to 2002, the game featured a Team World versus Team North America	[1] [2]
Laver Cup	Tennis	non-Europe	Team Europe vs Team World	[3]
2013 CrossFit Games	CrossFit	non-USA	The 2013 edition of the CrossFit Games competition features a Team USA vs Team World	[4]
MLB All-Star Futures Game	Baseball	non-USA	Held since 1999	[5]
NBA Rising Stars Challenge	Basketball	non-USA	Format between 2015 and 2021.	[6]
NBA Africa Game 2015 NBA Africa Game 2017 NBA Africa Game 2018	Basketball	non-African	The inaugural NBA Africa Game (2015) featured Team Africa facing Team World	[7]
	Curling	outside of North America	Team World or Team Europe against Team North America
NBB All-Star Game	Basketball	non-Brazilian	Equipe Mundo (Team World) against Equipe Brasil (Team Brazil), based on player nationality
Arnold Palmer Cup	Golf	non-USA	Format since 2018: Team USA vs International Team; originally Team USA vs. Team Europe. All individual players are college/university golfers, with teams based on player nationalities and not the locations of the players' institutions.

Note that in the above sports there also exist national teams taking part in other competitions

All-World's Team

Some "Team World" or "World Team" teams are all-star teams with rosters drawn up from the world's players as an honors project.

See also

• Team North America
• Team Europe

Notes and References

1. Web site: NHL All Star Game: North America Vs. The World . 23 January 2015 . Dave Stevenson . Fansided . Sports Illustrated .
2. News: HOCKEY; North America All-Stars Conquer World . Joe Lapointe . 19 January 1998 . New York Times .
3. News: Laver Cup.
4. News: Announcing the Roster for Team World . 29 August 2013 . CrossFit . CrossFit Games .
5. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-should-do-better-with-the-futures-game-instead-of-burying-it/ MLB should do better with the Futures Game instead of burying it
6. https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2015/2/13/8037547/2015-nba-rising-stars-challenge-results-score-world-121-usa-112-andrew-wiggins NBA Rising Stars Challenge 2015 final score: Team World rules Team USA, 121–112
7. News: Team World triumphs in inaugural Africa Game . https://web.archive.org/web/20150807234938/http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=13359564 . dead . 7 August 2015 . 1 August 2015 . ESPN .
8. Brown, Gerry, and Morrison, Michael (eds.; 2003). ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac. New York City: ESPN Books and Hyperion (joint). .