This is the Tournament Portal for our 2025 Fall West Tournament which will be held in Blagoevgrad on November 8th-9th.
Registration
Registration for the tournament opens on October 8th and closes on October 22nd.
Participants should complete all the necessary documents and upload them to their Team folder by the 22nd of October. Please, don’t wait until the last moment.
Transfer your registration fees, 35 BGN (17.90 EUR) per student, to the BEST bank account mentioning the school’s name and town in the “основание” until 22.10.2025.
All payments must be made in BGN. Please, carefully follow all instructions regarding registration as described in the registration email.
Host Site
The tournament will take place in FLHS Lyudmil Stoyanov in Blagoevgrad.
Accommodations
From this year, BEST Foundation will only arrange accommodation if requested. For detailed instructions, refer to the registration email.
BEST reserves up to two nights of accommodation for all participants. BEST commits to negotiating accommodation costs at or under 42 BGN (21.47 EUR) per student per night. Participants have to pay for their own accommodation costs while BEST covers the costs of all judges for up to one night in a hotel and up to one chaperone.
All payments must be made in BGN.
Hotels
Judges and Team Coaches will receive emails with their hotel allocation for the weekend. Please refrain from communicating with the hotels directly and contact BEST instead if you have questions or concerns.
Travel
All teams are required to bring a chaperone who will be legally responsible for their team’s safety when traveling to and competing at the venue. Chaperones are required to be aged 18 or over and to be fluent in Bulgarian.
Teams are encouraged to apply for a travel scholarship. Coaches can fill out the scholarship application form by clicking here. Teams allocated scholarships will be reimbursed after arriving at the tournament venue. Please read our scholarship terms and conditions for further information BEFORE applying for a scholarship.
The school is close to both the train and the bus station and the most convenient way of getting there is by walking:
Route from the train station to the school
Route from the bus station to the school
If needed you can use taxi as the Blagoevgrad taxi’s prices are max 5-6 leva, only if you travel to more distant destination:
Taxi Numbers:
OK taxi- 073 88 21 21
Mega shans taxi- 073 88 22 22
Tip top taxi- 073 88 88 88
For any information or concerns regarding transport in Blagoevgrad, contact development@bestfoundation.bg
Judging
We welcome all high school graduates or above with C1 or higher English to judge at our tournaments. If you are new to BEST and our tournaments, visit our Judging Basics page!
Coaches, you must register if you are judging, too, and don’t forget to include your judges when you fill out your team roster spreadsheet (see below).
Our Judge sign up form can be accessed by following this link.
We will reimburse all judges for their transport if they use trains or buses, but we strongly encourage taking the most affordable option when possible (usually trains). Please purchase your ticket back from the tournament location as well, as we cannot reimburse you without being presented with tickets. We will provide food at the tournament site, and we will also cover one night of hotel accommodations for regional tournaments.
Coaching
BEST Coaches should download our Coaches’ Checklist and make sure their teams are up to date.