The 2025 WMRT season will comprise two levels of events – ‘World Tour’ events and ‘World Championship’ events. All events will be organised under World Sailing rules as ‘Open’ match racing events allowing both men and women teams, as well as mixed teams to enter. The ‘World Championship’ level events will award higher points and usually prize money of at least USD75,000.
Championship format 2025
The 2025 Match Racing World Championship will be awarded to the
winner of the WMRT Final/ Shenzhen Bao’an Match Cup in China,
December. The prize purse for the WMRT Final will be US$200,000 as
advertised.
Up to 16 skippers may be invited to the WMRT Final including;
- The top 10 placed skippers from the WMRT leaderboard counting their best 4 results after the penultimate event (Bermuda Gold Cup 2025)
- The 3 highest ranked skippers on the World Sailing Match Racing Ranking taken from the 1 October 2025 World Sailing rankings release.
- The 2024 defending WMRT/Match Racing World Champion
- 2 wild card invitations to be determined by WMRT Organising Committee
The following rules will apply for any series-score ties;
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- If there is a series-score tie between two or more skippers, each skipper’s race positions shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first point(s) where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favour of the skipper with the best position(s). No excluded scores shall be used.
- If a tie remains between two or more skippers, they shall be ranked in order of their scores in the last race. Any remaining ties shall be broken by using the tied skippers’ scores in the next-to-last race and so on until all ties are broken. These scores shall be used even if some of them are excluded scores.
