The blue team knows how to mix Italians, French, Quebecois, Swedish and Swiss at the World Games 2003 in Montreal.

Since 1989, the World Games in Inter-Crosse have been held every year. Their goal is very simple: hundreds of players from all every the world gets together for a big tournament.

The particularity of these games is that no one knows before the opening ceremony who he or she is going to play with!

The teams are being decided during the meal. That is how people get mixed up, a French with a Swedish and vies versa with all nationalities! The communication is not always easy but this cultural mixture is really worse living. It is a really sympathetic way of learning about other Inter-Crosse techniques. The evenings are always fun…
It often happens that at the end of the last game, people
exchange a little something traditional from their country...

This tournament is a real Inter-Crosse party , and it is a gret occasion to get to know people from all over the world...

Leffe Pils, the youngest of a family with four children, son of a fisherman, he was born on the Prince Edouard Island. He is the "King of the Penguins".
In 1997, when he was travelling in the Northern Hemisphere, Leffe met in Helsinborg in Sweden some Inter-Crosse players in a Burger King... He enjoyed this sport so much that a few weeks later, he and his friends founded the "Inter-Crosse and Lacrosse Society" from which he became the mascot.

Official biography of Leffe Pils: Intercrosse and Lacrosse Society

Since 2001, Leffe Pils and his tree friends (Tobias Almén, Therése Eriksson and Mikael Eriksson), in quality from the King of the Penguins and the Senior Penguins, present at each World Games the Penguin Award. It is the world award festival of Inter-Crosse.

Tereza Koubova succeeded Hélène Putod as Pinguin of the Year 2007.

Within all the awards that are given out, the "Penguin of the year" is the supreme award. The four members of the Jury say that the "Penguin of the year is the player that has the best penguin spirit. He accomplishes to the perfection all the values of Inter-Crosse during the game as well as outside the World Games."

For the second time since its creation, it is a woman that became the "Penguin of the year" on the 29th of July 2007. In fact, the czech player Tereza Koubova got her award on the Ceremonial closing of the XIX° World Games in Ratingen (Germany) from Leffe Pils himself.

Know more about the Pinguin Awards: Intercrosse and Lacrosse Society

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THE NEXT WORLD GAMES

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The next World Games will take place in august 2008 in Priedviza, Slovaquia.

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THE PAST WORLD GAMES

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Adult World Games : (16 and over)

Place 2007: Ratingen, Germany. 2006: Kiev, Ukraine. (cancelled) 2005: Malmö, Sweden. 2004: Sursee, Switzerland. 2003: Montreal, Quebec. 2002: Swombathely, Hungary. 2001: Spa, Belgium. 2000: Prague, Czech Republic. 1999: Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. 1998: Régina, Canada. (cancelled) 1997: Manchester, United Kingdom. 1996: Montreal, Quebec. 1995: Prague, Czech Republic. 1994: Vejle, Denmark. 1993: Bruxelles, Belgium. 1992: Milan, Italy. 1991: Båstad, Sweden. 1990: Cambridge, United Kingdom. 1989: Prague, Czech Republic. 1988: Lons-le-Saunier, France. 1987: Jambes, Belgium.

Pinguin of the Year Tereza Koubova, Czech Republic Hélène Putod, France Markus Henriksson, Sweden José Guiot, Switzerland Sylvain Perron, Canada Urban Müller, Switzerland

Junior World Games : (under 16)

2003: Corsica.
2001: Louvain la Neuve, Belgium.
1999: Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
1998: Czech Republic.
1996: Denmark.
1994: Quebec.
1992: France.
1990: Italy.