You must read the official rules in full before participating in the tournament.
Registration and participation in the tournament implies acceptance of all the conditions of these official rules. Participants are deemed to have read these rules.
CESIM ELITE QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT (hereinafter "the qualifying tournament") is an online tournament organized by CESIM OY (hereinafter "CESIM"), a company registered in Finland in the Finnish trade and companies register (Yritys- ja yhteisötietojärjestelmä) under the number (Y-tunnus) 0748851-2 and whose registered office is at Kalevankatu 16 B 3, 00100 Helsinki.
The tournament aims to provide students with an educational experience through the use of training solutions (management simulations) developed by Cesim.
Students (hereinafter "participants") registered in a Indian higher education institution and aged over 18 at the time of registration.
Participants cannot register in more than one team.
Each participant must have a valid email address in order to validate their participation. They must also have internet access.
Each team must be composed of no less than 3 participants and not more than 5 participants.
Team members must be students from the same higher education institution (hereinafter "institution").
CESIM reserves the right to check the validity of the registration information submitted on participants at any time. CESIM also reserves the right to refuse participation, or to disqualify participants and their team at any time. The submission of incorrect or misleading information will automatically lead to a refusal to participate or a disqualification.
Registration of the teams must be made before January 20th , 2022.
The qualifying tournament begins on February 1st , 2022 and officially ends on February 28, 2021.
The competition will consist of 2 rounds. Round 1 will be conducted online from 1st of February to 15th February. Results of Round 1 will be declared on 15th February.
Top 12 teams from Round 1 will compete in Round 2, which will be conducted from 20th February – 28th February 2022. The team ranking and information on the selected teams will be revealed on February 28, 2022. This event marks the official end of the India qualifying tournament.
CESIM reserves the right to make changes to the organization of the tournament.
An international competition will be organized online in June 2022
Two (2) places for this international competition are reserved for the winning teams of the "CESIM ELITE INDIA”.
Registration fees of Rs. One Thousand Two Hundred only including tax (Rs. 1,200) are required per registered team.
Each team is responsible for paying the registration fees within the given deadline.
CESIM reserves the right to cancel the registration and participation of the teams concerned in the event of non-payment before this date.
CESIM will evaluate the teams on their performance at the simulation session (s) organized as part of the tournament. The criteria taken into account by the jury will be revealed at the opening of the tournament.
CESIM reserves the right to modify the evaluation criteria used to decide between the teams at any time.
The jury is made up of CESIM members and its exact composition remains secret until the announcement of the final ranking.
The jury may be assisted by any person of their choice.
CESIM may, at its sole discretion, disqualify a team and / or one of the team members, if the team or one of the team members does not comply with these rules or adopts any behaviour deemed reprehensible.
In the event of suspected fraud, CESIM reserves the right to carry out any verification deemed necessary. Any fraud noted will result in the immediate and final disqualification of the participant or the team without notice.
CESIM reserves the right to take legal action against any team and / or any member of the team if the team and / or one of the members of the team tries to disrupt the organization of the tournament.
The Cesim team is responsible for the organization of the tournament.
You can contact the organizers directly by email at the following address: varun.patil@cesim.com
The organizers will not respond to requests from participants for items that would allow one team to gain an advantage over other teams. In this case, participants risk disqualification from the tournament.
CESIM ensures the protection, confidentiality, non-alteration, availability and security of the personal data entrusted. The personal data collected will be processed by CESIM for the purpose of organizing the tournament in accordance with the applicable legislation on personal data.
The profile of the participants on the sim.cesim.com platform (hereinafter "the platform") will be created from the personal data transmitted by the team members.
The personal data likely to be collected from participants concerns:
- First name (s)
- Last name (s)
- Birth date
- Degree in which the participant is enrolled
- Educational institution
- Email address
- Photograph
It is possible to unsubscribe from any communication for marketing / advertising purposes.
The personal data likely to be collected on the team members concern:
- First name (s)
- Last name (s)
- Job title
- Institution
- Email address
- Phone number
- Photograph
Only the persons authorized by CESIM can access the personal data transmitted for the purposes mentioned above.
Personal data will be kept for a period of 1 year after the end of the tournament.
Certain information collected may be published on the dedicated site of the international competition organized in June 2022. These include the names and surnames of the tournament winners and their accompanying academic, as well as a photo if applicable.
The participants acknowledge having the right to access, modify or delete their personal data, by simple email to elite@cesim.com.
In accordance with the context of the tournament, the names and surnames of the participants will be accessible by all registered participants.
Any use of the platform (in particular the forum functionalities) to convey racist, violent, xenophobic, malicious, obscene or illicit remarks is prohibited.
By using this platform, participants agree not to:
- download viruses or other harmful code,
- publish content likely to incite hatred or violence, threatening content, pornographic content, content containing nudity or gratuitous violence, or any other form of inappropriate content,
- disseminate information or content likely to upset the sensitivity of young people;
- carry out illegal activities, in particular and without this list being exhaustive, infringe rights on software, brands, photographs, images, text, video, etc.
- publish content allowing the identification of any person, including by disclosing their address or telephone number or by violating their privacy.
- violate the general conditions of use of the platform or realize any fact that can be qualified as indecent or corresponding to an incitement to commit certain crimes or offenses.
By using the platform, the participant declares:
- that he is the owner of the content he publishes on the platform.
- that the publication of such content does not violate copyright or privacy law.
The author of a message is solely responsible for what he says.
The participants assign free of charge and without limitation to CESIM the reproduction, representation, adaptation and translation rights attached to the elements provided within the framework of the tournament (videos, slogans, presentations etc.), on all media. These rights are assigned for the whole world (all countries), and in particular, without this list being exhaustive, for internal or external communication purposes (brochures, website, social networks, etc.), as well as for PR and press relations and for commercial, promotional and advertising purposes, in particular with regard to the products and services marketed by CESIM. These rights are assigned for the legal duration of the intellectual property right applicable in each country concerned.
The participants declare by the acceptance of these official regulations, to hold all the rights and all the authorizations necessary for the peaceful enjoyment by CESIM of the transferred rights. The participants declare that they are not bound by any agreement with a third party of any kind whatsoever, having the object or effect of limiting or preventing the implementation of this authorization.
The participants authorize CESIM to reproduce and exploit their image fixed in the context of photographs for the provision of promotion and communication of CESIM ELITE TOURNAMENT, as well as the international competition in connection with this event.
This authorization entails the possibility of making any modification, adaptation or deletion deemed useful for the initial fixing of the image. CESIM is authorized by this clause to use, publish, reproduce, adapt or modify, alone or in combination with other materials, by all means, methods or techniques currently known or to come, the image transferred.
This authorization is valid for use for a period of 1 year worldwide (all countries) on all material and immaterial media, in all formats known or unknown to date, and in particular, without this list is not exhaustive: paper support (prints of photographs), catalogs and various editions, CDROM / DVDROM and other digital supports known and unknown to date, all audiovisual support and by all means inherent to this mode of communication, internet (including in particular and without limitations: Intranet, Extranet, Blogs, social networks), all reception vectors combined (smartphones, tablets, etc.), press media (television advertising messages, cinematographic advertising spots), internal communication media, promotional media (POS, ILV , poster campaigns in all places, all sizes and on all supports (urban, airports, stations, public transport, etc.)), supports intended for the for sale (merchandising products: postcards, posters, t-shirt, etc.), right of integration into another work / multimedia work.
It is understood that the communication media reproducing the image of the participants may be difficult to remove from social networks and sharing sites used by CESIM (such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, YouTube, etc.), and the participants agree that these communication media may remain on social networks and on sharing sites as they were originally published, even in the event that the above five (5) year term has elapsed.
The participants declare by the acceptance of these official regulations, to hold all the rights and all the authorizations necessary for the peaceful enjoyment by CESIM of the transferred rights. The participants declare that they are not bound by any agreement with a third party of any kind whatsoever, having the object or effect of limiting or preventing the implementation of this authorization.
This authorization to exploit the image right is granted free of charge.
Any dispute, question and / or complaint regarding the tournament must be received no later than seven (7) days following the date on which the winning teams were announced.
Disputes, questions and / or complaints must be sent in English to the management of CESIM at one of the following addresses:
- by email: elite@cesim.com
- or by post: Cesim Oy, Kalevankatu 16 B 3, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
The jury in charge of evaluating the results will meet and a response will be sent by email within seven (7) working days of receipt. Any decision of the jury will be binding and final and no participant will have any other right of appeal or appeal.
All disputes arising from the competition will be governed by Finnish law and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent Finnish courts.
CESIM reserves the right to change the schedule, modify or cancel the tournament, without the teams and / or participants members of the team, as well as any other interested person (referrer, establishment, etc.) being able to claim compensation.
In the event of cancellation of the tournament, CESIM undertakes to reimburse the registration fees within thirty (30) working days following the date on which the cancellation was announced.
CESIM reserves the right to modify these rules at any time, in particular and without this list being exhaustive, for all purposes of organizing the tournament or for reasons of compliance with any new applicable legislation and / or regulations.
Any modification must be incorporated into these rules and must be announced on the platform as soon as it is published.
In the event that one of the clauses of these regulations is declared null or void, this nullity has no effect on the validity of the official regulations themselves.
CESIM cannot be held responsible for errors in participant registrations, platform and simulation malfunctions, invalid email addresses or connection problems during the tournament.
CESIM ELITE TOURNAMENT, its concepts, content and documentation, its appearance, its logo and any other graphic element, as well as its organization are and will remain the exclusive property of CESIM. No rights are transferred under the participation.
CESIM is a registered trademark on which the company CESIM has an exclusive right of exploitation. Any reproduction, use or affixing of the said mark without the prior authorization of CESIM is prohibited. The data, the programs, the texts, the information, the logos, the visual identities, the musical samples, the images animated or not (in particular the videos) and their formats appearing on the platform are the exclusive property of CESIM and are protected as such by the provisions of intellectual property law. Any user agrees not to use them and not to allow anyone to use these contents for illegal purposes. Any representation or reproduction, total or partial, permanent or temporary, on a computer medium and / or paper, and by any process whatsoever, of one or other of the elements of the platform or the services offered, without the CESIM's prior and express agreement is prohibited, and constitutes an act of counterfeiting, which may result in civil and / or criminal convictions.
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