Conditions

Terms and Conditions of Participating

The Levels

The contest is open to primary and secondary school students who are learning English at school.

Terms and Conditions

Registration is made through the school by the coordinating teacher. Individual entries are not accepted. Each school nominates a coordinating teacher to organise the contest at the school.

Schools must register at least 30 participants or pay the equivalent fee (300€). This minimum number of participants is required to cover the incompressible costs of organising the event.

Participation fees

The participation fee is €10 per student.

These fees are used to finance the organisation of the contest, the development of the training app including the events such as the CLASS Challenge and the purchase of the prizes. The Big Challenge does not benefit from any subsidies and is entirely financed by participation fees, from which 21% VAT must be deducted.

These fees cover :

• Creation, printing and dispatch of registration pack and posters
• Questions prepared by qualified English teachers
• Management of the database of all participants for the calculation of the score and the elaboration of the three rankings.
• Printing of 60,000 pages of results listings
• Purchase, manufacture and storage of prizes (112 pallets this year)
• Preparation of the 3,000 parcels by a service provider
• Delivery of these 3,000 parcels within 24/48 hours to the sites
• Current business expenses (offices, wages, etc.)
• Development of the contest’s functionalities to ensure that all students can take the exam at the same time.
• Development of teacher account functionalities to manage results in near real time
• The cost of servers based in Europe for secure data storage

Plus the costs for the App included in the participation: 

• Development and Maintenance of the App
• Creating and adding more questions to the app every week so it stays interesting
• Developing and running the events such as the CLASS Challenge
• Server costs so thousands of students can play simultaneously without delays in the game

We are experiencing very significant cost increases for all of the above. The cost of sending parcels has also risen sharply, notably as a result of the increase in fuel prices.