This is the Tournament Portal for our 2026 Fall West Tournament which will be held in Blagoevgrad on November 7th-8th.
Registration
Registration for the tournament opens on October 7th and closes on October 21st.
Participants should complete all the necessary documents and upload them to their Team folder by the 21nd of October. Please, don’t wait until the last moment.
Transfer your registration fees, 20 EUR per student, to the BEST bank account mentioning the school’s name and town in the “основание” until 21.10.2026.
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 30 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.
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, fluent in Bulgarian, and not high school students.
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 a taxi as the Blagoevgrad taxi’s prices are about 4 EUR, 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
Press Releases
(BG) Pre-Tournament Press Release
(EN) Pre-Tournament Press Release
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.
Tournament Schedule
To Be Announced
Debate Motions
Varsity
Prepared Motions
THW give the World Health Organization full authority to independently manage the response to health crises, superseding state authority in regions with a high incidence of epidemics.
Infoslide:
There is currently an active Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, which was declared an international health crisis by the WHO on May 17, 2026. As of now, there are 515 confirmed cases in the DRC, 91 deaths, and 283 people in critical condition in hospitals. There is also an ongoiong pandemic in Russia in fears of the possible plague.
This house believes that it would be in the interests of the EU to establish a Belt-and-Road Initiative style infrastructure development program in developing countries
THW Remove All UEFA's Limits on Football Club Spending (which includes transfer and salaries).
Impromptu Hints
Bulgaria, Media, Morality
Novice
Prepared Motions
This house regrets the glorification of the "golden era" of sports
Infoslide:
The 'Golden Era' of sports refers to the often mythologised ideal where previous generations of players are seen as better than all the succeeding generations after them, and newer players are seen as less 'deserving' of greatness, comparison, or praise because they play in 'less tough' or 'gritty' eras. Examples of 'golden eras' in sports include Michael Jordan in Basketball, Sugar Ray Robinson in Boxing, and Babe Ruth in Baseball, among others.
THS medical tourism.
THS age related quotas for parlamentary seats.
Impromptu Hints:
Bulgaria, Media, Feminism