JDC West

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. Since 2006, JDC West has adopted a structure that allows for the competition to move from host university/city to host university/city each given year.

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Each university sends one team of 46+ 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
* Management Information Systems
* Marketing
* Not-for-profit Business Strategy
* Taxation

Debate

Each debate team has 4 students. They have a fixed amount of time to review the proposal before presenting. As it is in parliamentary style, one team is designated "Team Government" and the other "Team Opposition".

Athletics

Each athletic team has a minimum of 6 students, with at least 2 athletes of a minority gender. The first day is round robin, followed by a tournament. In 2009, the sports teams will be comprised of 8 students, with a minimum 5:3 gender ratio requirment.

*2006: Indoor Soccer (Futsol)
*2007: Handball
*2008: Dodgeball
*2009: Volleyball, Westcoast Kickball, Inner-tube Water Polo, Relay (6 X 200)

ocial

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 eight social challenges to be completed in less than 48 hours at any time of day or night. These entertaining challenges are known to include athletic, spirit, and food competitions and thus often draw a crowd.

Additional awards

Additionally, teams are awarded for participation, charity and organizing committee support.

Participating schools

The following schools have participated in JDC West:

The 2009 games in Edmonton will see an expansion of JDC West to include The University Of British Columbia Okanogan.

Furthermore, a combined Ontario team made up of Schulich School of Business, Ryerson University Ted Rogers School of Management, and University of Toronto Commerce students participated in 2006 and 2007 and Team REFAEC - comprising of a number of schools from the Original "Jeux Du Commerce" competed in 2006.

History of the Games

History of JDC

The original Jeux du Commerce, Francophone for Commerce Games started as a Business Student Competition in 1989 in Eastern Canada by Patrice Bourbonnais, a student at HEC. Jeux du Commerce grew throughout the years and became a one of the largest events hosted by REFAEC. In 2003, Yannick Denis-Trudel, the president of REFAEC at the time had a vision to expand "the games" to the rest of Canada. In an attempt to unify the country under the Jeux du Commerce banner, he took on the task of inviting a group of delegates from across Canada to visit the games and see what they were all about. Students returned to their schools excited, but lacked a bit of direction in terms of establishing the games in their own regions. The year after, Yannick made another attempt to get the rest of Canada excited about the games and created a competing team called "Team Rest of Canada" or "Team ROC". The intention was to allow those visiting the games to actively take part in the games, rather than just watch from the sidelines. Student's went back to their respective schools with an excitement to bring Jeux du Commerce to their respective regions. At Roundtable 2005, one bid to host the event in the Western Region by students from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Co-Lead by Jeff Potter and Nik Laufer-Edel. Another bid was put forth for the Ontario region by Guelph Humber. The Western bid was approved by the presidents of the western business schools of the Canadian Business School Council and allowed JDC West to take it's first steps to be actualized.

In 2006, over 1,200 business students from 13 Eastern universities in Canada chose to compete. 18 years after its inauguration, the JDC has become a prestigious annual event noted for its academic excellence and superior teamwork development. Like JDC West, JDC consists of Athletic, Social, Debate and Charitable components. Following the success of 'Jeux du Commerce' a desire was expressed to create similar games in Western Canada, ultimately leading to a Commerce Competition on a national scale. The Western Games were dubbed "JDC West". JDC West has exemplified professionalism and excellence, while focusing on the unique challenges facing a Western Canadian business student. The academic structure of the competition will be maintained, encouraging students to strive for excellence and professionalism, while continuing the goodwill and good sportsmanship that JDC has been known for.

Competition venues

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Year
Location
Host School
Students competing
School of the Year
Theme
Winning Team Captain
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2006
Vancouver, BC
University of British Columbia
Sauder School of Business
> 400
University of British Columbia
Sauder School of Business

"Sustainability"
"Mike Tung"
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2007
Vancouver, BC
University of British Columbia
Sauder School of Business
> 450
Simon Fraser University

"Business Ethics"
"Jasmine Cumberland & Lejla Pekaric"
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2008
Lethbridge, AB
University of Lethbridge

> 450
University of British Columbia
Sauder School of Business

"Managing Responsibly in a Global Environment"
"Tory Nash"|
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2009
Edmonton, AB
University of Alberta

> TBA
TBD

"Inspiring Innovation"
"TBD"
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2010
Prince George, BC
University of Northern BC

> TBA
TBD

"Ingenuity"
"TBD"||

External links

* [http://www.jdcwest.com JDC West]