ARTICLE 1. PURPOSE 
1.1. Quatre Vents, a limited liability company having its head office at 22 rue de Maubeuge, 75009 Paris, Paris trade register number 437 814 858; the French Track and Field Federation (Fédération Française d'Athlétisme), a public interest non-profit organisation governed by French law (loi 1901) and assignee of the public sector, having its head office at 33 avenue Pierre de Coubertin 75640 Paris cedex 13; and EDICAS (publisher of Journal des Grandes Ecoles, Grandes Ecoles Magazine, etc.), a limited liability company having its head office at 98/102 rue de Paris 92100 Boulogne Billancourt, registered in the Nanterre trade register under number 434 244 455 00011: hereinafter referred to as the "Organisers", organise on Saturday 2 June 2012 the World Academic Sport Challenge, a campus relations and recruitment event featuring a track and field meet (hereinafter referred to as the "Decathlon"), a 10 km relay, a women's and men's football tournament, a 4 * 100 m relay for Corporate Partners, a Supporters' Prize, a "Meet a Corporate Partner" Prize, a Brass Band Prize, a Cheerleaders' Prize, a Mascot's Prize, a Tug o' War Prize (hereinafter referred to as the "Supporters' Challenges"), and a Careers Fair with the Corporate Partners. 

1.2. Information on the Challenge (including its updates) is available at www.wasc-2012.com 

1.3. How to enter the Contest:
• The Challenge is open to residents of France and other European countries. Competition is exclusively open to students from select universities and grandes écoles (i.e. members of the French Conférence des Grandes Ecoles). Click here for the list of schools eligible to enter.
• The main purpose of the World Academic Sport Challenge is to bring together engineering and business graduate students from French, English, German, Belgian, Dutch, Polish and Russian universities, and employees of the official Corporate Partners (GDF SUEZ and SHNEIDER ELECTRIC [hereinafter referred to as the "Partners"]) at a track and field meet on Saturday 2 June 2012 at Stade Charléty.

ARTICLE 2. ENROLMENT
• Decathlon participants
Any given group of students from the same school/university may enrol for the 2012 World Academic Sport Challenge. Each school/university enrols, using both a team form and individual team member forms, on the event website (www.wasc-2012.com). To be valid, athlete applications must be accompanied by a Track and Field Federation license, University Sports Federation license, or a doctor's certificate of "medical fitness to compete in track and field" or of "medical fitness to compete in football", depending on the sport enrolled for. Team members must state the event in which they will compete. It is possible for student replacements to compete on the day of the Challenge on the strict condition that the replacement is of the same gender as the originally-enrolled athlete. Enrolment runs from Tuesday 6 December 2011 to Monday 30 April 2012 at 12:00 noon.

• Participants in the individual long race (10km)
Any team partially or totally made up of students, graduates (of any year), Corporate Partner employees, sponsors, the press, and the media may enrol in the individual long race. Team must have the proper number of school delegates for each of the events. Last year's teams counted 15 to 30 students from each school or university. Each team must include at least 3 women. Enrolment conditions are the same as for Decathlon competitors, with the exception of the enrolment deadline: 16 May 2012.

• Supporters and job candidates
Any student or recent graduate from one of the target schools or universities may attend the Challenge as a supporter in the "Supporters' Challenges", or as a job candidate at the Careers Fair. Enrolment is on the event website (www.wasc-2012.com). Enrolment runs from 6 December to 1 June 2012.

ARTICLE 3. TEAM SELECTION
 • Decathlon
The 2012 World Academic Sport Challenge is equipped to offer a competition of 64 teams in the Decathlon. Five to ten of those teams will be from universities outside of France. Teams will be selected based on the following criteria:
* respect the team composition rules: at least 3 women per team, at most 3 students majoring in sports per team, including a maximum of 2 men
* organisation of preliminary sports events at the school/university
* number of supporters and alumni enrolled and actions carried out to keep them informed
* alumni interested in meeting with GDF SUEZ and SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

ARTICLE 4. DECATHLON: RULES AND TEAM ENROLMENT
• Team composition:
To be eligible for the World Academic Sport Challenge, each team must have the proper number of school delegates for each of the events. To give you an idea of what this entails, the 2011 teams comprised some 15 to 30 students from each school or university, including the mixed men's and women's football team.
Whatever the size of the team, it must include at least 3 women.

Teams must not have more than 2 students majoring in sports, including a maximum of 2 men.

•Events and competition rules:

 
The 2012 World Academic Sport Challenge reserves the right to modify these events or add a bonus event. 

Teams not respecting the gender diversity rules (mixed relay and 10 km relay) will not be allowed to start an event and will be considered absent. 

There are severe team penalties for being absent from an event (cf. following paragraph), whereas placing last in an event does not entail any penalty.

The terms and conditions of the football tournament will be prepared by the organising committee of the World Academic Sport Challenge. It is available upon request from pauline.pasquier@cdmge.fr

• Ranking and prizes: The 8 top finishers of each event will add points to their school/university's total score, as stated in the following table. The table also states the penalty points deducted for absence:

After the Decathlon, the 10 Decathlon teams with the most total points from all the above-mentioned events will receive prizes for the student and/or sports unions their school or university.

ARTICLE 5 FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT OFFICIAL RULES 

5-1. Practical details of the football tournament

Teams that will compete in the tournament:
- 80 male teams among whom 6 partners teams
- 24 female teams among whom 1 partners team

Each team is formed by 5 players and 2 substitutes.

Every team contains 5 players and 2 substitutes with a maximum of 2 Sport Science Students for the men’s tournament and 1 Sport Science Student for the female tournament.

• Timing

- Matches will be played for 10 minutes without interruption.
- Matches on all the fields will begin and end SIMULTANEOUSLY. A host will announce the beginning and end of each match by loudspeaker.
- Time is based on the Stadium clock

• Fields

All elimination matches will be played on Stade Charléty’s main and annexe pitches, which will be divided into four fields.
From quarterfinals to finals, matches will take place on the main pitch.

• Rules

- Matches are refereed by official referees.
- Throws-in are made with the foot.
- Goal kicks are taken by the hand
- Goalkeeper can take the ball with his hands in his 10 meters area.
- If no players from either team kick the ball, goals made from a throw-in or from a goal kick will be denied.
- Because of the small size of the field, offside rules will not apply.
- In case of any foul in the ten meters area, there is automatically a penalty. Penalties will be taken from the 10 meters line.
- Punishment: in case of hard play, the referee can decide to give a yellow or a red card. A 2nd yellow card given to a player means a red card:
o Yellow card: the player has to leave the field during 2 minutes with no substitution allowed
o Red card: the player has to leave the field until the end of match with no substitution allowed.
In case of extremely aggressive behavior, the referee can decide to exclude a player from the whole competition (football tournament and decathlon).

- No time-outs will be allowed for substitutions. The player coming on the pitch must wait for the player going out to be out of the pitch. The amount of substitutions is unlimited.
- Screw-in studs are strictly forbidden for the entire tournament. Moulded studs are allowed.

• Choice of the side of the pitch

The allocation of the field is done before the beginning of the match. Before any player enters the field, the referee will toss a coin with the team captains. The winner will have the opportunity to choose which side of the pitch he wants to play on or the kick-off.

A host will announce the beginning and end of each match 10 to 15 minutes before the kick-off by loudspeaker. There will be a summary table next to the scoreboard.

• Elimination rounds ranking

The team scores 3 points if the match is won and 0 point if the match is lost. Each team will receive 1 point if there is a tie.
The number of points given to each team will rank them from 1 to 6 during the elimination rounds of the female tournament and from 1 to 5 for the male tournament.

If some teams tie, the general goal average will be used as a tiebreaker. If there is still a tie, the team which scored the most goals wins. If there is still a tie, we will look at the result between the two teams (individual goal average). If despite all this, there is still a tie, we will have a penalty shoot-out as a tiebreaker (see the next paragraph).

• Penalty shoot-outs

If there is a perfect tie following the elimination rounds, there will be a series of tiebreaking penalty shoot-outs: a first series of 3 penalty kicks, then if the tie persists, "sudden death" (the first team with an unsuccessful penalty loses the match, based on both teams having an even number of penalty kicks if the adverse team successfully kicks).

Penalties will be taken from the middle of the 10 meters line.

5-2. Male tournament

Male teams are randomly divided in 16 groups of 5 teams each to play the elimination rounds. Each team will successively play against the four others of its group.
Partners teams cannot be in the same group.

The two first teams of each group will be qualified for the round of 16. The final draw is determined at the beginning of the tournament: round of 16 depends on the groups and ranking in the group.

During the main draw, if at the end of the match there is a tie, then we will have a penalty shoot-out as a tiebreaker (see § “Penalty shoot-outs”)

5-3. Female tournament

Female teams are randomly divided in 4 groups of 6 teams each to play the elimination rounds. Each team will successively play against the five others of its group.

The two first teams of each group will be qualified for the quarterfinals.

The final draw is determined at the beginning of the tournament: quarterfinals depend on the groups and of the ranking in the group.

During main draw, if at the end of the match there is a tie, then we will have a penalty shoot-out as a tiebreaker (see § “Penalty shoot-outs”)

• Secondary modalities

Matches, players coming on and getting out of the pitch

Elimination rounds are explained in the captains’ briefing.

Players entering and leaving the pitch must carefully follow these rules:
- 5 minutes before the beginning of the match: Teams must be in the waiting area, that is to say the surroundings of the pitch where they are about to play.
- 3 minutes before the beginning of the match: Teams must place themselves behind their own goal-line.

- At the final whistle of the previous match: The new teams enter the pitch.
- After more than a 5 minutes delay, the team loses the game 3-0.

• Scores and ranking

Scores of the matches will be uploaded in real time on the match boards in front of the scoreboard. These boards will be the reference for the group scores and rankings. They will be notified once all the matches of a group ended.

• Nurses’ station & first aid

There will be a first aid station on both pitches. A Nurses’ station and fixed first-aid station will be located in the changing rooms.

ARTICLE 6. CONDITIONS FOR ACCOMMODATION, MEALS AND TRANSPORTATION 
To facilitate their participation, transportation to Paris and accommodations for Friday and Saturday nights will be taken care of. 

ARTICLE 7. OTHER EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES
British, German, Belgian, English, Polish and Dutch schools and universities will be pre-selected to enrol for the World Academic Sport Challenge this year. Of those, five to ten will be chosen to compete. For a limited number of students who want to attend, transportation (to France Friday, return Sunda) and accommodation on Saturday night will be provided. Their Saturday schedule will be identical to that of the French students. An international village will be held inside the Career Fair, so that they can exchange in English with GDF SUEZ and SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC. On Sunday, they will have spare time to sightsee in the French capital before returning home in the evening (departure times will vary according to country).

ARTICLE 8. TEAM MENTORING
Each school/university selected for the Decathlon, each group of supporters and each group of job candidates will be mentored throughout the day by an employee from one of the Corporate Partners. Students will be expected to respect any instructions given for the day to run smoothly.