The International Tournament featured contestants from various countries around the world. The very first international tournament, The Olympic Games Tournament, took place at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California from July 15 to 18, 1996 to commemorate the Centennial Summer Olympic Games, which opened on July 19 in Atlanta, Georgia. All the players who participated in the tournament spoke English. There were only nine contestants from nine different countries and the winners of the three semifinal matches got to qualify in a one-day final. From May 5 to 9, 1997, the show traveled out of North America to Stockholm, Sweden for the second International Tournament where Magnus Harenstam was the show's announcer. The categories were revealed in Swedish before being translated into English. It was the only international tournament to still have a three-day semifinal match and a two-day final match. From February 12-16, 2001, the third international tournament took place at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada for another three semifinal matches and a two-day final match.