INTERKULTUR always strives to offer new types of competitions in order to respond to the choir’s necessities at the best. Thus the number of events is continuously increasing. They are divided into 3 main groups:

1. World Choir Games, World Choir Championships, Continental Choir Games (Asian Choir Games)
2. Grand Prix of Choral Music
3. International competitions 

In order to use a fair rating system for the world ranking list the system was revised again in 2013 and adapted to the new types of events. It will be applied backdated to all events which took place since 2000. 

The most important changes are: 

• The significance of children and youth categories was increased.
• The winner of a Grand Prix will be up rated.
• Different evaluation criteria for the Champions Competition and Open Competition have been established.
• All participants of the Grand Prix of Choral Music appear in the world ranking list and receive an additional factor.
• Grand Prix of Choral Music will be considered as competition of the highest level. 

Due to the new rating system the score and/ or the placing of all choirs might have changed even if a choir participated long time ago!

The reasons: 

• Improved system and new evaluation criteria
• 8 separate lists now specify the results of all participations in each category since 2000 (instead of 2010 as before).
• PC based calculation which accounts for all fractional digits (instead of manual calculation with rounding off). Possible manual arithmetic errors have been corrected automatically. 

New since October 2012:

A separate ranking for Chamber Choirs and Vocal Ensembles. Choirs of this kind find themselves from now on not in one of the other 7 lists any more. Hence there are 8 separate lists which show the level of achievement according to the type of choir or musical genre. 

New from January 2013:

Spiritual is added to the separate ranking for Pop, Jazz and Gospel. An identification mark next to the respective separate ranking indicates in which category the choir took part, i.e. (P) for pop. 

INTERKULTUR thus offers an improved and more fair world ranking list which completely accounts for all performances since 2000. This also applies for the eight separate lists.

The World Rankings as of April 2011 you can found here.