Another change of 'personnel' occurred for this year: Slovenia made a reappearance but the Czech Republic and Malta did not participate, dropping the numbers back to six countries. Slovenia's return was met with instant success in the first heat. Less fortunate were the team from Lumino, Switzerland, who decided to withdraw from Heat 9 following an injury to one of their competitors. This was not the first time a team had withdrawn from a JSF event, as in the ill-fated Christmas Special of 1982 the Belgian team of Blankenberge did likewise.

Another first - and considering a large chunk of the appeal of Jeux Sans Frontières was in its constant decampment to somewhere new in Europe, a rather sad one - was that the whole series was transmitted from one location, a 7000m² arena in Turin, Italy, with presenters from each country taking turns to front the programmes. In each competition, there were three standard games: the first, eighth and ninth games. The remaining games were devised by the participating countries.

In Spain, Cuando Calienta el Sol returned for a second series, now renamed the Grand Prix del Verano (Summer Grand Prix). The format was also tweaked, with the number of teams competing each week being reduced from four to two, a change that held for the remainder of the series run until 2009.

JSFnetGB Series Guide pages researched by
Neil Storer and Alan Hayes
with Ischa Bijl, Julien Dessy, Sébastien Dias, David Hamilton, Denis Kirsanov, Paul Leaver, Philippe Minet,
Christos Moustakas, David Laich Ruiz, Marko Voštan and JSFnet Websites