XIII International Martial Arts Festival «Baltic Sea Cup» for the prizes of Ministry of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region took place in an abridged version for some reasons not connected with the organizers and all events took place in one day. The performances of the demonstration teams were commented by the heads of federations, famous athletes and coaches: Michael Rachlin, Alexander Chernigin, Nikolai Valuev.
In the team Taekwondo WTF tournament participated 7 teams from Russia, Belarus, Finland and Kyrgyzstan. For the first time at the Festival was tested a variant of the team tournament in the «non-stop» fighting. At the same time the men followed one another without a pause, the total score was conducted virtually without any judicial intervention, only dispassionate Electronics recorded the striking and fighting was not interrupted even for a second.