The rules of the men's table tennis team competition are best-of-five sets, and each set is a best-of-five set. The first set is doubles, and the second, third, fourth, and fifth sets are singles.

The men's team competition usually adopts the competition method of the World Table Tennis Men's Team Championship (Swaythlin Cup). It consists of three players selected from a team and a captain (who can be part-time role by the team members or full-time role by other personnel). Each player appears 2 times.

Before the game, the captains of both teams should draw lots to determine the choices of A, B, C and X, Y, Z, and submit to the referee a list of teams to which each athlete is assigned a letter.

The current game order: the first game is doubles A:X; the second game is singles B:Y; the third game is singles C:Z; the fourth game is singles A:Y; the fifth game Field for singles B:X. Each game is a best-of-three series. When a team has won three individual matches, the match shall end.

Seeded players:

The number of "seeded players" is mainly determined based on the number of teams or people participating in the competition, generally 1/6 to 1/2 of the number of participants. , that is, an average of 6 to 12 players will be assigned a seed; at the same time, the number of "seeds" should be a power of 2, such as 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.

The positions of "seeds" should be arranged as follows according to regulations: the first seed should be arranged at the top of the upper half; the second seed should be arranged at the bottom of the second half; the third and fourth seeds should be arranged at the bottom. The fifth to eighth seeds should be inserted into the bottom of the upper half and the top of the lower half respectively; the fifth to eighth seeds should be inserted into the bottom of the odd quarter and the top of the even quarter respectively.

If there are more seeds (9-16) and so on (the seed position number can be found in the seed position table). In fact, the "seeds" of the knockout rounds are evenly distributed in each "district".