The 42^nd edition of the awards was organised by the Hungarian Design Council and funded by the National Office of Intellectual Property, and took place during Budapest Design Week from October 8 to 17.

This year's Budapest Design Week theme is New Standards, with a particular focus on sustainability and social responsibility.

As well as the design award, winners were selected for the product, visual communication and student work categories by a jury of nine experts.

The design award winner was decided by assessing each product's formal quality, user-centric design, market competitiveness and compliance with sustainability criteria.

The LITE version of the teq table was launched at the Teqball World Championships in December 2019, and is designed to help make the sport more accessible, being most commonly used by grassroots players.

It has the same dimensions as the original Teq ONE and Teq SMART models which are used for competitions, but is cheaper, lighter and suitable for both indoor and outdoor use with its fibreglass reinforced polyester tabletop.

All three teq tables have lockable wheels and a foldable structure for ease of moving and storage.

The Teq SMART table won the design award in 2019.

Teqball's co-founders - FITEQ President Gábor Borsányi, chairman Viktor Huszár and vice-president György Gattyán - expressed their delight at clinching this year's prize.

"It is truly an honour to receive this award for the second time in three years and we want to thank the Hungarian Design Council and National Office of Intellectual Property for the recognition," they said in a joint statement.

"We are constantly trying to innovate and find ways to make teqball more accessible.

"The TEQ LITE table is achieving exactly what we had hoped for when we launched it just under two years ago.

"It can be found in over 100 countries across all five continents and it is having a considerable impact on the development of our sport by engaging new players in new countries every day."

The Hungarian Design Council and the National Office of Intellectual Property President Gyula Pomázi said this year's entries to the competition across the board were impressive.

"This year's entries for the Hungarian Design Award are mature and of a high standard," Pomázi said.

"It is obvious that as a result of the emergency situation, the developments have not stopped, moreover, there is an increasing proportion of domestic production and more and more companies presenting their own product range.

"Many of them are developing products and concepts not only for the Hungarian but also for the international market.

"We hope that the awards will also help to ensure that these results are not only a success in Hungary, but also recognised across borders."

Teqball combines elements of football and table tennis, and is played on a curved teq table with players unable to use their arms or hands.