Rules

Last updated September 2, 2026

Competition and Participants

1. The Tour de App competition (hereinafter the "competition") runs from September 14, 2026 to April 4, 2027.
2. The organizer of the competition is students can grow, z. s., Company ID 26678586, with its registered office at Křenová 89/19, Trnitá, 602 00 Brno, file number L 10772 kept at the Regional Court in Brno (hereinafter the "organizer").
3. The competition is open to students at schools corresponding to upper-secondary education in the Czech Republic who have not yet completed upper-secondary school with a school-leaving exam and who meet the age limit of up to 26 years (counting age as of the last day of the competition, inclusive).
   1. The organizer reserves the right to permit participation in the competition to a pupil attending a school at the lower-secondary (grade 6–9) level. However, the organizer must be informed of this fact by email at info@tourdeapp.cz.
4. Teams of two or three members may take part in the competition.
5. The competition consists of three parts: the Nomination Round, the Competition Round, and the Grand Final.
6. Individual teams may register from September 1, 2026 to December 4, 2026 (inclusive) via the registration form, which will be available on the competition website from the start of registration. Participants will be informed of any changes to this deadline.
7. The number of teams that a single school may register is not limited.
8. The number of teams registered for the competition is not limited.
9. A team may be composed of students from different schools, but the team must be registered under the name of a single school.
10. The composition of a team remains the same for the entire duration of the competition. The organizer may grant an exception under the following provisions:
    1. A team that registered before the assignment was published (i.e., before September 14, 2026) has the right to change its team composition at any time before publication, and also up to one week after the assignment is published.
    2. A team that registered after the assignment was published (i.e., from September 14, 2025 inclusive) may change its team composition only once, within two weeks of registering for the competition.
    3. Any further changes to team composition are possible only with the organizer's prior consent, in justified and exceptional cases (e.g., adding a third member to a team that previously had two members).
11. After registering for the competition, a team must pay an entry fee of CZK 250 or EUR 10, according to instructions sent to the email address provided during registration, in the billing details section of the registration form.
12. The amount of the fee may change depending on the terms of the so-called Referral Program (see below).
13. The organizer reserves the right to restrict access to the competition systems for teams that have not paid the entry fee.
14. Participants submit their completed solutions during each part of the competition in the Tour de Cloud submission system, together with an MIT license for the organizer, unless stated otherwise.

Evaluation

1. The results of each round of the competition are always published by means of:
   • a public leaderboard, which shows the ranking of all advancing teams in the given round, including only the total number of points earned and the team's ranking in that round,
   • individual results published in the Tour de Cloud submission system, which include a detailed evaluation of the team for the given round.
2. When evaluating completed solutions, the following are assessed in particular:
   • the functional part of the application (hereinafter "FX"),
   • the user-friendliness of the application (hereinafter "UX"), and
   • additional supplementary tasks that are part of the assignment.
3. As part of the Grand Final, the evaluation will also include a presentation of the completed assignment.
4. FX is evaluated primarily by means of:
   • automated tests (hereinafter "AT"), which:
     • in the Nomination Round are run independently by the participants using Tour de Cloud,
     • in the Competition Round are run by the organizers and used as part of the manual evaluation,
   • manual evaluation, in which testing is carried out using pre-prepared scenarios.
5. UX is evaluated by means of manual testing, primarily in the following categories, a detailed breakdown of which will be published together with the individual results for the given round:
   • Overall design and clarity of the application
   • Visual consistency and adherence to technical standards
   • Appearance and design
   • Adherence to the brand identity defined by the assignment
   • Navigation, structure, and other design patterns
   • User experience and handling of elements specific to the given round's assignment
6. The point score achieved in the Nomination Round or the Competition Round may carry over into the following round.

Nomination Round

1. The Nomination Round takes place online from September 14, 2026 to January 15, 2027 (inclusive).
2. The assignment for the Nomination Round will be published in Tour de Cloud.
3. The assignment will be divided into several phases, which will be published gradually over the course of the Nomination Round.
4. In each phase, tasks will be published whose completion results in the opening of the following tasks.
5. Phases may also include tasks that are not evaluated automatically and whose completion requires a waiting period (with no possibility of further progress on tasks in the meantime). The waiting period will never exceed 7 days.
6. Each phase has a set date by which it must be tested in order for the competing team to achieve the maximum number of points for that phase. When the AT is run repeatedly, the best result achieved is counted.
7. The 40 teams with the highest point score achieved in the Nomination Round advance to the Competition Round.
8. The organizer reserves the right, in justified situations, to adjust the number of teams advancing to the Competition Round depending on the quality and quantity of the completed solutions.
9. The results of the Nomination Round will be published at the Nomination Round Announcement and subsequently on January 28, 2026.

Competition Round

1. The Competition Round takes place online from February 8, 2027 to March 5, 2027 (inclusive).
2. The general assignment for the Competition Round, together with instructions, will be published on February 8, 2027 by email to all advancing teams.
3. Each team is assigned its own client, based on:
   • the team's ranking,
   • the team's language skills and language preferences.
4. During the Competition Round, teams have the opportunity to arrange a meeting with this client, at which they will jointly discuss the required functionality of the application being built. The meeting may also include a demonstration of the application's current state.
5. During the Competition Round, teams are entitled to meetings with a mentor, with whom they can discuss their application and ask questions aimed at improving the quality of the final application. Mentors are not clients, however, and therefore do not know the assignment. It is therefore necessary to prepare for the meeting.
6. The 20 teams with the highest point score achieved in the Competition Round advance to the Grand Final.
7. The organizer reserves the right, in justified situations, to adjust the number of teams advancing to the Grand Final depending on the quality and quantity of the completed solutions.
8. Individual results, which may be appealed, will be published on March 7, 2027.
9. Each team has the right to file an appeal against the individual results of the Competition Round, under the following conditions:
   • the appeal may be filed up to and including March 10, 2027,
   • the appeal may only be filed via the form designated by the organizer,
   • each appeal must include:
     • a screenshot of the functionality or correct solution in the application running on the organizer's servers, for the evaluation category in question as stated in the individual results,
     • the screenshot must also include the address bar,
     • a description of the steps by which the user reaches the given solution.
10. All appeals will be processed no later than during the weekend following the end of the submission deadline. The last version of the appeal saved in the organizer's system and submitted within the time limit will be used for the assessment.
11. The point evaluation after an appeal has been resolved is final and may not be further appealed.
12. The results of the Competition Round will be published on March 14, 2027.

Grand Final

1. The Grand Final will take place in person in Brno at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, between April 2–4, 2027.
2. The Grand Final consists of two parts, with only the five teams with the highest point score advancing to the second part.
3. The organizer reserves the right, in justified situations, to adjust the number of teams advancing to the second part of the Grand Final depending on the quality and quantity of the completed solutions.
4. The first part of the Grand Final will take place on Saturday, with a time limit of approximately 10 hours allotted for it. The second part of the Grand Final will take place on Sunday.
5. The specific form of evaluation for the first part will be clarified at the Grand Final.
6. The results of the second part (the competition's final results) are not directly dependent on the point score from the first part. The final ranking is decided by an expert panel composed of selected representatives of the organizer. The expert panel is entitled to take into account the point score achieved in the first part of the Grand Final when determining the final ranking.

General Rules of Conduct During the Competition

1. By registering for the competition, participants undertake to complete all competition tasks personally, independently, honestly, and to the best of their knowledge.
2. The use of language models (LLM-based, e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, ...) and agents found within the development environment (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Augment, Cursor, …) is permitted unless expressly stated otherwise. If a team uses a language model (LLM) in places where it is prohibited, the organizer reserves the right to deduct points or to disqualify the team from the competition. We strongly recommend that you always understand the code you generate.
3. Participants are prohibited from opening another team's competition solution without that team's permission, from uploading malicious code into other solutions or into the submission system, or from carrying out any type of attack against systems that directly affect the main competition, the organizer's internal systems, or the systems of affiliated competitions. If such conduct is discovered, the organizer reserves the right to disqualify the team without prior warning and, in serious cases, to proceed in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Criminal Code of the Czech Republic.
4. If a participant breaches the rules, the organizer reserves the right to penalize that participant or their team in a manner corresponding to the severity of the violation. In the case of a particularly serious breach of the rules, the participant or their team may be excluded from the competition.
5. Participants or a team may likewise be penalized for conduct that, while not in direct conflict with the rules of the competition, nevertheless violates the basic rules of decent and sportsmanlike behavior by its nature. This applies in particular to disrespectful or vulgar behavior toward organizers or other participants, disparagement of the competition's good name, and violations of the basic rules of fair play.

Referral Program

1. When registering a new competition team, it is possible to enter the unique code of an already-registered team that referred this new team. This code can be found, among other places, in the Tour de Cloud submission system.
2. If a team uses another team's valid unique code during registration, it becomes entitled to a discount on the entry fee.
3. To take part in the referral program, a team must have paid the entry fee.
4. The team that earns the most points in the referral system by the end of registration wins a prize determined by the organizer. In the event of a tie, a team will be selected according to a method determined by the organizer.
5. There is no legal entitlement to this prize, and the organizer reserves the right to cancel the Referral Program.

Final Provisions

1. The organizer reserves the right to change the rules of the competition.
2. In all matters not expressly regulated by these rules, the organizer shall decide. Its decision is final.
3. Participants will be informed of any amendments to the rules. If they disagree with a change, they may, within 7 days of publication, contact the organizer via info@tourdeapp.cz. The organizer will assess their submission and take any steps necessary to preserve the fair conduct of the competition.

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