 Each stop of 24 has the teams divided into six pools of four, each pool plays a round-robin and the top two teams from each pool plus the 4 best third places move on to the round of 16, then quarterfinals, semifinals and the final game, however, never has a stop has had 24 teams entered.After a stop, each federation is given a score based on its best team's final ranking.After all stops have ended, the federation with the most points is declared the champion.