The second edition of the Junior World Team Championship took place in the same hotel as in 1998, in the close vicinity of the famous Copacabana beach. The format changed radically. Boys' and girls' groups were factually split and there were three set of medals awarded: one for winning boys' section, one for winning girls' section and one for best overall result (couted as a sum of scores of boys and girls), the latter of course taking into account only nations to field teams in both categories. The line-up was even shorter than that of 1998. Poland were the only European team to arrive, and the players they sent were actually not the best of their age in Poland. Still the gap between them and Brazil "A", the second seeds was clear 200 points. Venezuela were seeded as third. Actually only six nations arrived but as much as 13 teams entered the competition since Brazil fielded seven (sic!!) teams setting a record that may well become part of Guinness Book of Records and is highly unlikely to be ever beaten.

Poland took first place earning huge three-point gap over the peloton, as expected. They won 2-0 four times and 1½-½ once. Bustamante Montoni of Venezuela was the only player to be honoured to held Poland's player to a draw. The run for silver was extremely close. Venezuela took second position ahead of Uruguay by virtue of better Buchholz. Brazil "A" came in disappointing fourth. The only player to score perfect 5/5 was Paweł Blehm at Poland's board #1.