The 2020 GC World Team Championship Tier 1 is being held at Nelson from Monday 6 to Sunday 12 January 2020. There are eight four-player teams from New Zealand, Egypt, Australia, England, South Africa, USA, Sweden and Ireland.

The New Zealand team is Duncan Dixon, Edmund Fordyce, Joshua Freeth and Felix Webby.

The championship started with block play. There are two blocks of four teams. Each test consists of eight best-of-three matches. Block play ended Wednesday and NZ won all three tests losing only two matches.

Full results are at https://croquetscores.com/2020/gc/world-teams-championship-4

Read the Stuff article at https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/118613887/croquets-gc-greats-descend-on-nelson-for-world-championships

The Swedish team spend several days playing at United Croquet Club where they also played a team of Canterbury U17 players on Thursday 2 January. Results of this match is at https://croquetscores.com/2020/gc/sweden-v-canterbury-u17

The original posting had some errors:
1. The location was incorrectly given as Napirt
2. USA is participating, not the Finland
3. The Swedish team practiced at United, not Finland