Don't tell Ontario, but the world's biggest broomball tournament is coming back to where the sport started.

The 2016 World Broomball Championships will be hosted in Regina in November. Don Black, president of the Saskatchewan Broomball Association, said there has been a longtime "ongoing dispute" between Saskatchewan and Ontario on who recorded the first broomball game in the world.

"We have, out of the StarPhoenix, a recorded game in Perdue, Saskatchewan in 1909, and it was on an ice surface, regulation ice surface, and there were rules," Black said. "There is some record in Ontario a little bit earlier than that, but it was played out on a football pitch. And so not really the broomball as we see broomball. So it goes back and forth."

Regardless of who started the sport, Regina is hoping to showcase it to the world when it hosts this fall's championship tournament. 

"It is a very fast sport," Black said. "We only use the red line now for an offside. It's basically the same setup as hockey. Years ago, we used to be a very physical sport, but it's now become more of a finesse sport."

Black was in Japan for the 2014 world championship — which is played every two years — to place a bid to host it in Saskatchewan. When they sealed the deal, he said it was a special experience.