

The Railroad Park in the heart of the city is the start and finish of Duathlon and Orienteering competitions. TWG 2022 will also have the Sloss Furnaces Park, with the impressive backdrop of a former ironworks plant, as an exceptional competition venue. The renovation of the Birmingham Jefferson Civic Complex will also be completed by then, providing the athletes with optimal conditions for competition. The arena will provide a great setting for the opening ceremony on 7th July 2022 and the closing ceremony on 17th July. However, The World Games will benefit to some extent from the postponement of the Games to 2022, because by that time the new Protective Life Stadium, which was planned independently of the event, will be completed. Birmingham is following the basic principle of the IWGA that no new sports facilities need to be built to host the Games. Other additional sports invited by the BOC are Duathlon and Wushu.Ī total of 23 competition venues will be used for TWG 2022. Flag Football is represented as an additional sport for the first time, and the BOC can count on the support of the National Football League. New disciplines are Drone Racing (Air Sports), Canoe Marathon (Canoe), Breaking (DanceSport), Parkour (Gymnastics), Men’s Lacrosse and Mixed competition in Tug of War. Softball (women), for the first time since 1985, is again presented on the main stage in 20 the teams competed in the invitational sports programme. In 2017 Kickboxing was an invitational sport in 2022 this martial arts sport will be part of the official programme for the first time. In addition, there will be cooperation with the Olympic Channel which will ensure that, as with TWG 2017 in Wrocław, the stories of the Games are transmitted to all parts of the world. The production company ISB will produce the television signal and is selling the worldwide broadcasting rights. The athletes will compete for the gold medals of The World Games in 223 medal events. Thirty-four sport are included in the ten days of competition. The distribution between women and men is about 50:50. For the first time, the Iroquois team in Lacrosse will represent an indigenous ethnic group.

The hosts expect around 3,600 athletes from over 100 countries. The Birmingham Organizing Committee (BOC), led by CEO Nick Sellers, aims to ensure a high level of inclusion through its partnership with the Lakeshore Foundation, a training facility of the Olympic and Paralympic Federation. In addition, disabled athletes (1 per gender) will compete in Archery within their regular Target Compound competition. One of the special features of this event is that, for the first time in the history of The World Games, one discipline that belongs to the para-sport sector is included in the programme: Wheelchair Rugby. The World Games celebrated their première in 1981 in Santa Clara, California, and now, a little more than 40 years later, the Games return to the USA.


This edition, originally planned for 2021, is postponed to 2022 because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. (It's quicker if you don't use MIDI tracks and different tempos.The 11th edition of The World Games will take place in Birmingham, Alabama, USA from 7th to 17th July 2022. It takes a while to set up the Ardour project and the script config accordingly, but once done, it works quite well. OSC is used to communicate with Ardour and Mididings to handle MIDI input. When switching to the song, the script changes Ardour's play head to the song's location marker. In this case, a song can be placed at a different location on the timeline with its own tempo marker and a location marker. This is useful if you are using MIDI and require different tempos for different songs. Songs are also assigned location markers in the script. Multiple tracks can be assigned to a song. You tell the script which tracks in Ardour correspond to which song and the script mutes/unmutes the appropriate tracks based on the song you select. I created a script that is able to switch between songs in an Ardour session if it is set up correctly, using a MIDI controller.
