Rules

Competition and contestants

1. The Tour de App competition (hereinafter referred to as the “competition”) runs from October 13, 2025, to March 29, 2026.
2. The competition is organized by students can grow, z. s., ID No. 26678586, with its registered office at Křenová 89/19, Trnitá, 602 00 Brno, file number L 10772, registered with the Regional Court in Brno (hereinafter referred to as the “organizer”).
3. The competition is open to students of secondary schools in the Czech Republic who have not completed secondary school with a school-leaving examination and are under 26 years of age (including the age on the last day of the competition).
   • The organizer reserves the right to allow students attending a school at the level of lower secondary school to participate in the competition. However, the organizer must be informed of this fact by email at info@tourdeapp.com.
4. Teams of two or three members may participate in the competition.
5. The competition consists of three parts: the Nomination Round, the Competition Round, and the Grand Final.
6. Individual teams can register from October 13, 2025 to December 12, 2025 (inclusive) using the registration form, which will be available on the competition website from the start of registration. Competitors will be informed of any changes to this deadline.
7. There is no limit to the number of teams that one school can register.
8. There is no limit to the number of teams that can register for the competition.
9. A team may be composed of students from different schools, but the team must be registered under one school.
10. The composition of the team remains the same throughout the competition. The organizer may grant an exception in accordance with the following provisions:
    • A team that registered before the assignment was published (i.e., before October 27, 2025) has the right to change the composition of the team at any time before publication and, if necessary, for one week after publication of the assignment.
    • A team that registered after the assignment was published (i.e., on or after October 27, 2025) may change the composition of the team within one week of registering for the competition.
    • Any further changes to the team composition are only possible with the prior consent of the organizer, in justified and exceptional cases (e.g., adding a third member to a previously two-member team).
11. After registering for the competition, the team must pay an entry fee of CZK 250 or €10 according to the instructions sent to the email address provided during registration in the billing information section of the registration form.
12. The organizer reserves the right to deny access to the competition systems to teams that have not paid the entry fee.
13. Competitors submit their solutions during each competition section in the manner specified in the Nomination Round assignment, educational articles, and Tour de Cloud submission system documentation, unless otherwise stated in the assignment.

Evaluation

14. The results of each round of the competition are always published using:
    • a public results table, which contains the ranking of all teams advancing from that round, showing only the total number of points scored and the team's ranking in that round,
    • individual results tables, which contain detailed evaluations of teams in that round. These tables are only available to the competing teams and are password-protected.
15. When evaluating the solutions, the following are assessed in particular:
    • the functional part of the application (hereinafter referred to as "FX") and
    • the user-friendliness of the application (hereinafter referred to as "UX").
16. As part of the Grand Final, the evaluation will also include a pitch of the completed assignment.
17. FX is evaluated using
    • automatic tests (hereinafter referred to as "AT"), which
      1. in the Nomination Round are run independently by the competitors via submission systems,
      2. in the Competition Round are run by the organizers and are used in manual evaluation, and
    • manual evaluation, with testing performed via an internal application that allows browsing of competition applications according to pre-prepared scenarios.
18. UX is evaluated through manual testing in the following categories, the detailed breakdown of which will be published along with the individual results for each round:
    • Overall design and clarity of the application
    • Visual consistency and adherence to technical standards
    • Appearance and design
    • Adherence to the brand identity defined in the assignment
    • Navigation, structure, and other design patterns
    • User experience and processing of elements specific to the assignment for the given round
19. Between the main rounds of the competition, points are transferred as follows:
    • The final score in the Competition Round includes the team’s Competition Round score plus 10% of their Nomination Round score.
    • The final score in the Grand Final includes the team’s Grand Final score plus 15% of their Competition Round score.

Nomination round

20. The nomination round will take place online from October 27, 2025, to January 16, 2026 (inclusive). Contestants will be informed of any changes to this date.
21. The Nomination Round assignment will be published on October 27, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. Central European Time on the competition website (specifically in the "Assignment" section).
22. The assignment is divided into six phases.
    • Phases 1 to 5 are evaluated based on AT, which competitors must run themselves through the submission system.
23. Competitors have the opportunity to download the AT with all the test data that we use in the production environment of our systems.
    • The final phase of the assignment is evaluated manually.
    • Each phase has a set time period during which competitors can complete it without losing points. More precise time periods will be published with the Nomination Round assignment.
24. Each phase has a set date by which it must be tested in order for the competing team to achieve the full number of points for that phase. When the AT is restarted, the best result achieved is counted.
25. If a team reruns the AT after the deadline, a one-time 20% deduction is applied to the new result. The team will receive the better of the two scores – either
    • their original score, or
    • the new score after the 20% deduction.
26. The 40 teams with the highest scores in the Nomination Round will advance to the Competition Round.
27. The organizer reserves the right to adjust the number of teams advancing to the Competition Round in justified situations, depending on the quality and quantity of the solutions developed.
28. The results of the Nomination Round will be announced at the Live announcement of the nomination round results and subsequently on January 28, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. CET on the competition website and via other communication channels.

Competition round

29. The competition round will take place from February 9, 2026, to March 6, 2026 (inclusive).
30. The general assignment for the competition round will be published on February 9, 2026, via email to all advancing teams.
31. Each team will be assigned its own client based on
    • the team's ranking,
    • language skills, and language preferences.
32. The 20 teams with the highest scores in the Competition Round will advance to the Grand Final.
33. The organizer reserves the right to adjust the number of teams advancing to the Grand Final in justified situations, depending on the quality and quantity of solutions submitted.
34. Individual results will be published on March 9, 2026.
35. Each team has the right to appeal the evaluation of the Competition Round under the following conditions:
    • appeals may be lodged between March 9, 2026, and March 12, 2026, CET inclusive.
    • appeals may only be lodged using the form provided by the organizer.
    • each appeal must include
      1. a screenshot of the functionality or correct solution in the application operated on the organizer's servers for the given evaluation category listed in the individual results,
      2. the screenshot must also include the address bar,
      3. a description of the procedure by which the user arrives at the given solution
36. All appeals will be processed no later than during the weekend following the deadline for their submission. The latest version of the appeal stored in the organizer's system and submitted within the time limit will be used for assessment.
37. The score after the appeal has been processed is final and cannot be further appealed.
38. The results of the Competition Round will be published on March 16, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. CET

Grand Final

39. The Grand Final will take place in Brno over one weekend in March 2026, with a possible start on Friday. The exact date and venue will be specified by the end of the Nomination Round of the competition.
40. The Grand Final consists of two parts, with only the five teams with the highest scores advancing to the second part.
41. The organizer reserves the right to adjust the number of teams advancing to the second part of the Grand Final in justified situations, depending on the quality and quantity of the solutions developed.
42. The first part of the Grand Final will take place on Saturday and has a time limit of 10 hours.
43. The results of the second part are not directly dependent on the points scored in the first part. The final ranking will be decided by a panel of experts composed of selected representatives of the organizer. The panel of experts is entitled to take into account the points scored in the first part of the Grand Final when determining the final ranking.

General rules of conduct during the competition

44. By entering the competition, participants agree to complete all competition tasks personally, independently, honestly, and to the best of their knowledge.
45. The use of language models (based on LLM, e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) and agents located in the development environment (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Augment, Cursor, etc.) is permitted during the competition.
46. Competitors are prohibited from opening other teams' competition solutions without the permission of the team concerned, uploading malicious code to the submission system, or carrying out any type of attack against systems that directly affect the main competition, the organizer's internal systems, or the systems of associated competitions. If such behavior is detected, the organizer reserves the right to disqualify the team without prior notice and, in serious cases, to proceed in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Criminal Code.
47. If a competitor violates the rules, the organizer reserves the right to penalize the competitor or their team in a manner commensurate with the seriousness of the offense. In the event of a particularly serious violation of the rules, the competitor or their team may be excluded from the competition.
48. Similarly, competitors or teams may also be penalized for conduct that, while not in direct violation of the competition rules, nevertheless violates the basic rules of decent and sporting behavior. This includes, in particular, disrespectful and vulgar behavior towards the organizers or other competitors, defamation of the competition's good name, and violation of the basic rules of fair play. 

Referral program

49. When registering a new competition team, it is possible to enter the unique code of an already registered team that recommended the new team. This code can be found in the Tour de Cloud submission system.
50. To participate in the referral program, the team must have paid the entry fee by the end of the Nomination Round.
51. The team that earns the most points in the referral system by the end of registration (see paragraph 5) wins a prize determined by the organizer. In the event of a tie, the team will be selected according to a method determined by the organizer.
52. There is no legal claim to this prize, and the organizer reserves the right to cancel the referral program. 

Final provisions

53. The organizer reserves the right to change the competition rules.
54. In all matters not expressly covered by these rules, the organizer will decide. Its decision is final.
55. Competitors will be informed of any changes to the rules. If they disagree with the change, they may contact the organizer via info@tourdeapp.com within 7 days of publication. The organizer will review their request and take any necessary steps to ensure that the competition remains fair. 

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