World Games

Each World Games slot is contested against other ARISF disciplines vying for the same athlete-quota and venue capacity. Justifying inclusion means demonstrating proven format duration, predictable broadcast windows, audience reach and operational simplicity for the host city.

The institutional manifestation is a multi-cycle dossier the international federation must maintain — past attendance, broadcast minutes, social-engagement reach and host-LOC satisfaction — refreshed every four years with current evidence rather than legacy claims. Without that record, pétanque is reduced to advocacy, which does not survive contested program decisions.

Competition Calendar and Results Integration capture every sanctioned petanque competition with format duration, attendance and broadcast minutes, building a continuously refreshed dossier the IWGA Sports Committee can audit. Athlete Profiles and historical results provide narrative material for broadcasters and the LOC's program planners.

World Games qualification typically combines continental championships, world-championship results and ranking-based positions, with quota balancing across continents and gender. Athletes plan training cycles around these pathways, federations plan funding around quota expectations and the IWGA needs early certainty for visa and accreditation timelines.

Opaque or manually maintained standings invite disputes and last-minute substitutions. Institutionally the federation must publish the qualification rules, run them automatically against verified results and make the resulting standings authoritative across all stakeholders simultaneously.

Qualification Tracking encodes the World Games qualification regulations and computes live standings from verified competition results, automatically applying continental quotas and gender-balance rules. Athletes see their qualification status in real time; federations and the IWGA receive the same authoritative standings without parallel spreadsheet reconciliation.

Host-city LOCs need standardised data feeds — entry lists, schedules, accreditation, results — that integrate with their multi-sport games-management systems. Each federation that delivers misaligned formats or late data increases operational cost and erodes goodwill for future inclusion.

The institutional manifestation is a games-time data contract: pétanque must deliver the same data shapes, on the same timelines, with the same reliability as long-established World Games sports, despite operating with smaller secretariat capacity than most.

Team Management consolidates entries, accreditation data and travel parties for the host LOC, while Results Integration publishes live and post-competition results in standard games-data feeds. Pre-event venue, schedule and athlete-service data export to host-city systems in formats aligned with IWGA operating standards.