Rules and program

Aliante 2010 Competition Rules

1. The competition is designed for all secondary schools students between the ages of 15 to 19 (born in the period of August 1^st, 1990 – May 31^st, 1995), who are residents of the Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom.
2. The competition is designed for teams consisting of two students. However each team may also have a reserve member who will be used in the event that an original team member is unable to participate in the next round.
3. 3. Team members must be citizens of countries stated in the paragraph 1.
4. Students who have already taken part in previous years of Aliante, including the winners, are allowed to register as well.
5. Each team must have its own e-mail address and all participants must be able to communicate in English. Knowledge of English will be checked before the final. If the team doesn’t pass, it will be replaced by a substitute. 

Aliante 2010 Competition Schedule

The Aliante 2010 competition consists of three rounds:

1^st round of knowledge based questions will take place exclusively via the Internet. Competitors have to correctly answer 20 questions no later than 21^st March 2010 before 23:59 CET. Answers submitted after the deadline will be void. Correct answers to at least 15 questions are required to go through to the 2^nd round.

2^nd round of knowledge based questions will take place from 22^nd March 2010 to 29^th April 2010. In the 2^nd round teams have to answer 35 questions in writing (in printed form or on CD) and then send them to the address below by 29^th April (the date of the postmark is decisive):  

National coordinators together with professional political scientists will evaluate the written answers. All answers must include the information about used sources in that way to be possible to verify them (complete internet link, title and author of the book and the page number, etc.)!

3^rd round - the international final will be held in Georgia, at the Sachkhere Mountain Training School, from the 28^th June to 2^nd July 2010. In total, 40 teams will go through to the final. From each country there will be at least one team - provided that it has been able to answer 2^nd round questions to the satisfaction of the national coordinators and political scientists. The other 30 teams will also be chosen according to 2^nd round question answers in each country, but the maximum is 6 teams from each country (example of the count  here).

If a team is unable to participate in the final, that team will be replaced by another team on the basis of the professional jury evaluation (the next highest scoring team).

The final will focus not only on physical and mental strength, but also on the ability to cooperate on an international level under severe conditions as well as general knowledge.

20 international teams consisting of four competitors will be created by impartial draw from the initial 40 teams. The original two-member team will be joined by an additional team from another nation. The national composition of the four-member teams is not specified in any way. One team may, for example, be composed of Lithuanian and Slovakian members, another of Polish and Czech members, and a third of Lithuanian and Hungarian members. The team assignments will take place 2 weeks before the final and the teams will then be notified by e-mail. They will have an opportunity to get to know each other before the final itself in Georgia.

The winners of Aliante 2010 will be the international teams that finish in the top 7 places according to the final results.

The final program is prepared in cooperation with the GeorgianArmed Forces.

Detailed Schedule of Aliante 2010

When the finalists are announced, they will be provided with the list of things that each finalist must have. If the finalists do not have all the required items, the whole team may have points deducted.

1. Transportation to the final, namely in the form of reimbursement of return tickets or by providing transport (microbus, flight tickets, train, etc.), and insurance for finalists.
2. Food and accommodation at the international final.
3. Transportation, food, accommodation, admission, and insurance for the winning teams that participate in the Winners’ trip.