Jeux du Commerce West, JDC West Business Competition or informally, JDC West is an annual business competition featuring top business schools and students from across Western Canada, as well as the largest undergraduate business competition in Western Canada. The first competition, hosted by UBC, occurred January 20-23, 2006, and attracted over 400 students. JDC West was modeled after Jeux du Commerce and allows the competition to move from host university/city to host university/city each given year.
Structure
Each university sends one team of 50+ representative students to participate respectively in one of 10 Academic Competitions, 1 Parliamentary Debate, 1 Athletic Competition or 1 Social Competition. Points are awarded and accumulated towards a team being declared "School of the Year".
Academics
There are 10 core Academic Competitions. That being said, an organizing committee may add any number of additional academic cases, providing that the core academic cases (listed below) are included. Each competition has 3 students from each team participate. In each case competition participants have a fixed amount of time to review the facts and prepare before presenting to the industry judges and experts.
Current academic events for JDC West are: Accounting Business strategy Entrepreneurship Finance Human resource management International business Business Technology Management Marketing Not-for-profit business strategy (added in 2009) Taxation (removed for 2019) Operations management (added for 2019)
Debate
Each debate team has 4 students. They have 30 minutes to review the proposal before presenting. As it is in parliamentary style, one team is designated Team Government and the other Team Opposition.
Athletics
The hosting school chooses the sport each year. The teams include both male and female competitors.
2006: Indoor Soccer (Futsal) 2007: Handball 2008: Dodgeball 2009: Volleyball, Westcoast Kickball, Inner Tube Water Polo, Relay (6 × 200) 2010: Indoor soccer played on two 190 x 90’ fields on FIFA-sanctioned Polytan artificial turf. 2011: Inner-tube water basketball & Ultimate Frisbee 2012: Flag football & Yukigassen 2013: Doctor Dodgeball & Netball 2014: Floor hockey & Tchoukball 2015: European handball & Schtick Disc 2016: Dodgeball & Floor ringette 2017: Korfball & DBL Ball 2018: Quidditch & Tchoukball 2019: Tsegball & D-Hoops 2020: Boccer & Circle-rules football 2021: No athletics due to Covid-19 restrictions 2022: (eSports) Rocket League
Social
Each social team has 4 students - two males and two females. The social portion of the JDC West competition is arguably the most arduous on its competitors who are on-call for ten social challenges to be completed in less than 48 hours at any time of day or night. These entertaining challenges are known to include spirit, mental and physical challenges that bring the 4 students together in a way no team sport could. These challenges test students adaptability, enthusiasm and team work to the extreme.
Additional awards
Participation - Focuses on the spirit of each school during the competition weekend. The team that cheers the hardest, shows up for the most events, and is the life of the party takes the prize.
Charity - Has two awards. One for the number of hours that school commits to their charities of choice and the second for the amount of dollars raised for their charity of choice.
Participating schools
The following schools are or have been participants in JDC West: