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History
2012 WSH better known as Bridgestone World Series Hockey, was the first season of the hockey tournament World Series Hockey, a professional league for field hockey in India. The tournament was to take place from 17 December 2011 to 22 January 2012 but later was postponed to 29 February 2012 The inaugral season of the WSH was won by Sher-e-Punjab by defeating Pune Strykers 5-2  in the final at Mahindra Hockey Stadium, Mumbai and thus became the first champions of WSH.Chandigarh Comets' drag-flicker Gurjinder Singh was named WSH Rockstar Player of the tournament 19 goals in 15 matches who also shared the golden stick with Pakistan national field hockeyteam|Pakistan's Syed Imran Warsi for 19 goals apiece.After 59 matches & 327 goals.

Format & Rules
All the matches are of 70 minutes each but instead of two halves, the games are divided into four quarters of 17-and-a-half minutes each to give more rest to players during a game. Each team can have a maximum of 25 registered players out of which 18 can play. Time-outs (2 minutes) can be called by the teams, once in each half although are not mandatory. There are video umpires in all games and video referrals can be only called by umpires either at their own or as requested by a team (one per match) for goal line decision only. Each team has five penalty shoot-outs where 5 players are nominated. Each player, with the ball on the 23 m line, the goalkeeper/defending player on or behind the goal‐line between the goal posts, starts with the umpire's signal and has a maximum of 8 seconds to score a goal with only the goal keeper defending the goal. A penalty stroke is awarded in case of intentional foul by the goal-keeper and used only in the knockout stage.

Competition
World Series Hockey will be a multi city franchise-based league with the players allocated to the teams based on the internationally accepted and practiced draft system. World Series Hockey consists of 8 teams representing 8 cities/states of India. The Event will be played in two phases over 34 days and consist of a total of 59 matches.

League Phase
Each team will play the other twice; home and away and thus will play 14 league matches; 7 home and 7 away. The League Phase will consist of 56 matches and will be played from the 29 February to 2 April. Points in the league phase were awarded as follows: 3 points for a win, 1 point each for a draw. Top four teams qualify for the semi-finals. If at the end of the league phase two or more teams have the same number of points, Then Goal difference,: Higher number of wins, Head to head record Etc.

Playoffs
The 4 teams with the best record after the league phase qualify for the playoffs. In the Semis, the No.1 team plays the No. 4 team, and the No. 2 team faces No. 3 team. The Final is played between the winners of each of the semis. The team which wins the Final are declared the Champions.

Venues
Following eight venues will host the matches of eight franchises on a home and away basis: Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bhopal, Jalandhar, Chandigarh, Bangalore and Chennai will host the matches of eight franchises on a home and away basis. Originally, nine venues were selected and upgraded with floodlights, replay screens, and scoreboards but organisers decided not to have any matches in Hyderabad.
 * Dhyan Chand National Stadium, Delhi
 * Bangalore Hockey Stadium, Bangalore
 * Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium, Chennai
 * PCMC Hockey Stadium, Pune
 * Mahindra Hockey Stadium, Mumbai
 * Sector 42 Stadium, Chandigarh
 * Surjeet Hockey Stadium, Jalandhar
 * Aishbagh Stadium, Bhopal

Discipline
Jarnail Singh Red card (Karnataka Lions)(Two Match Suspension),& Bikash Toppo (Pune Strykers),Rajpal Singh, (Delhi Wizards),Arjun Halappa (Karnataka Lions),Tariz Aziz (Sher-e-Punjab)(Each One Match Suspension).