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| Which boat will row fastest in May term? | |
| 1st Men |   | 60% | | | 2nd Men | | 16% | | | 1st Women | | 16% | | | 2nd Women | | 8% |
Total: 25 members' votes (7 comments...) |
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| How will the boat race go? | |
After the 0-5 humiliation at Henley today with the women and children, how will the men fare?
Pick once for the Blues and once for the Reserves. | Cambridge by more than 1 length | | 19% | | | Cambridge by less than 1 length | | 63% | | | Dead Heat | | 6% | | | Oxford by less than 1 length | | 6% | | Oxford by more than 1 length
| | 6% | | | Goldie by more than 1 length | | 63% | | | Goldie by less than 1 length | | 22% | | | Dead Heat | | 3% | | | Isis by less than 1 length | | 6% | | | Isis by more than 1 length | | 3% |
Total: 32 members' votes (15 comments...) |
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| How will First and Third men do at the Eights Head? | |
| Top 50 | | 3% | | | 51-100 | | 0% | | | 101-150 | | 7% | | | 151-200 | | 48% | | | 201-250 | | 24% | | | 251-300 | | 7% | | | Best Cambridge College crew | | 7% | | | Top 5 Cambridge College crews | | 69% | | | Overtake more crews than overtake them | | 38% | | | Fail to make it to the start | | 10% | | | Sink | | 10% | | | Blade clash | | 66% | | | Beat BPBC | | 38% | | | Beat BPBC by 100 or more places | | 10% | | | Beat Dev Squad | | 7% | | | Correctly steer under the 2nd lamp post at Hammersmith Bridge | | 59% |
Total: 29 members' votes (27 comments...) |
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| All things considered, the best venue for a training camp would be... | |
| A sports resort in Spain with no boat in sight | | 3% | | | the Cam | | 3% | | | Ely | | 3% | | | the Thames at Kingston | | 3% | | | the Tideway | | 15% | | | Peterborough | | 3% | | | Dorney | | 0% | | | Docklands | | 0% | | | Dublin | | 6% | | | A lake in Southern Europe | | 47% | | | English Channel | | 3% | | | at home, in bed, sleeping | | 15% |
Total: 34 members' votes (15 comments...) |
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| How will First and Third ladies do at the Women's Eights Head? | |
| Top 50 | | 3% | | | Top 100 | | 12% | | | Top 150 | | 61% | | | Top 200 | | 27% | | | Best Cambridge College crew | | 3% | | | Top 5 Cambridge College crews | | 76% | | | Overtake more crews than overtake them | | 24% | | | Fail to make it to the start line (injury/illness/traffic in Putney/boat blown off trailer) | | 12% | | | Sink | | 6% | | | Blade clash | | 45% | | | Get under the 2nd lampost at Hammersmith Bridge | | 39% |
Total: 33 members' votes (10 comments...) |
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| How should we select crews? | |
Do ergs Float? Should we seat race? Is strength relevant? Or given the popularity of a previous poll, should democracy be allowed to flourish? You choose: | Seat Racing | | 22% | | | Pairs Matrix | | 22% | | | Sculling trial | | 5% | | | Bodyweight-adjusted 2k erg test | | 7% | | | absolute 2k erg test | | 2% | | | 10m erg test | | 0% | | | Max Bench Press | | 2% | | | Democratic Web Poll | | 7% | | | Previous term's lard consumption | | 7% | | | Formal Hall pulling prowess | | 15% | | | By default because there are more available seats than rowers | | 7% | | | Fiat racing. | | 2% |
Total: 41 members' votes (28 comments...) |
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| How will First and Third do in the bumps? | |
If you add together all participating crews... | Up 16 or more | | 0% | | | Up 12 - 15 | | 3% | | | Up 8 - 11 | | 18% | | | Up 4 - 7 | | 48% | | | Up 1 - 3 | | 15% | | | level | | 6% | | | Down 1 - 3 | | 0% | | | Down 4 - 7 | | 3% | | | Down 8 -11 | | 0% | | | Down 12 - 15 | | 0% | | | Down 16 or more | | 6% |
Total: 33 members' votes (9 comments...) |
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| Iain Law | |
Select all that apply | is the webmaster | | 10% | | | is Welsh | | 10% | | | does a great job | | 87% | | | should set the riggers higher | | 26% | | | has coached me | | 68% | | | should coach us more | | 77% | | | keeps his ooooooutside hooooound aroooooound the blade | | 71% | | | banksteerers are for girls | | 23% | | | should come to the Lents dinner | | 74% | | | is not wearing any pants | | 32% | | | (mostly for the girls) is fit | | 39% | | | Who's Iain Law?!! | | 3% |
Total: 31 members' votes (5 comments...) |
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| Should the Badger Song be in the bop ? | |
Badger Badger Badger Badger
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Mushroom Mushroom ... Total: 22 members' votes (18 comments...) |
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| In which seat will John 'not rowing this term' Earl be in the Lent eight? | |
| Bow | | 28% | | | Cox | | 72% | | | Ironic Four | | 0% |
Total: 18 members' votes (11 comments...) |
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| What food would you like at Lents Dinner? | |
I thought i'd take a bit of member input to see what people want. Choose 1 soup, 1 main course (or vegetarian) and 1 dessert, please. | Roast Plum Tomato Soup | | 52% | | | Cullen Skink | | 16% | | | Wild Mushroom & Tarragon Soup | | 32% | | | Collops of Venison Loin - Wild Mushroom & Bacon Sauce | | 29% | | | Breast of Guinea-Fowl wrapped in Parma Ham with Noodles - Tomato & Garlic Sauce with Pesto | | 29% | | | Scotch Sirloin Steak - Bearnaise Sauce | | 35% | | | Baked Mediterranean Vegetable Pancake - Parmesan Sauce (V) | | 0% | | | Baked Gnocchi in a Cheese, Wild Mushroom & Sun-Blushed Tomato Sauce topped with Mozzarella Cheese (V) | | 3% | | | Red Wine, Artichoke, Fried Courgette & Chive Risotto (V) | | 3% | | | Chocolate Marquise - Orange Sauce | | 61% | | | Caramelised Dutch Apple Steamed Pudding - Chantilly Cream | | 29% | | | Pannacotta with Roast Plums in Brandy | | 6% |
Total: 31 members' votes (5 comments...) |
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| What's the best bit about Lent term rowing? | |
| It's cold | | 66% | | | It's wet | | 52% | | | Everyone's ill | | 48% | | | Some days it never really gets light | | 69% | | | It's windy | | 62% | | | Head of the Nene | | 52% | | | The river's in flood | | 59% | | | All your kit is always wet | | 55% | | | Bumps is before the end of term and the next fortnight's a bit of an anti-climax | | 38% |
Total: 29 members' votes (18 comments...) |
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| I have never.... | |
PLEASE CLICK IF YOU WOULD HAVE TO DRINK (IE IF YOU _HAVE_ DONE THE THING) | been swimming in the Cam | | 68% | | | worn a boat club thong | | 29% | | | been sculling | | 79% | | | been sculling inside the boathouse | | 18% | | | liked salad | | 82% | | | quiched | | 56% | | | eaten quiche | | 74% | | | slept atbh | | 32% | | | slept in St John's | | 21% | | | owned a rabbit which was not alive | | 6% |
Total: 34 members' votes (13 comments...) |
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| Who would win a First and Third Committee version of Pop Idol? | |
Although I doubt Simon Cowell would approve... | Dan | | 4% | | | Aileen | | 0% | | | Andrew L-C | | 83% | | | Tom C | | 0% | | | Honey | | 0% | | | Chris | | 0% | | | David | | 0% | | | Abbie | | 0% | | | Alla | | 0% | | | Danae | | 0% | | | Jo | | 0% | | | Tom S | | 0% | | | Andrew F | | 4% | | | Rachel | | 9% | | | Matt | | 0% | | | Iain E | | 0% |
Total: 23 members' votes (11 comments...) |
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| Which new features would you most like to see on the website? | |
We all love our website, but what would make it better and get that all important hit-count up? | Expanded technique guide with video clips | | 47% | | | Online games | | 26% | | | Java mobile phone downloads (e.g. rate watch) | | 26% | | | Rowing-based trading game (cf Bumpsdaq) | | 44% | | | Updatable incest chart | | 65% | | | Kit ordering | | 59% | | | More rower career stats/comparison | | 38% | | | Nice photos of the committee | | 15% |
Total: 34 members' votes (10 comments...) |
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| Which pairing will be the scandal at this term's BCD/Bop? | |
Carnage as usual, but who will hit it off? | Rupert + Little Jenners | | 29% | | | Henners + one of his 'targets' | | 24% | | | Danae + Tom + Alla + Eton Boy | | 57% | | | Matt Byrne + novice | | 14% | | | Rachel + LMBC | | 24% | | | Zoe + Phil | | 5% | | | Stone + Miss Johnson | | 14% | | | Claire + a coach | | 5% |
Total: 21 members' votes (33 comments...) |
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| Which FaT/BPBC boat will complete the Fairbairns course in the shortest time? | |
| BPBC 1st VIII (crew unknown) | | 49% | | | BPBC 2nd VIII (crew unknown) | | 2% | | | FaT Fairbairn VIII (Thorne, Holland, Chamberlain et al.) | | 11% | | | FaT Low Commitment VIII (Grundy, Peacock, Lea-Cox et al.) | | 13% | | | FaT Grad VIII (Copland, Cuthbert, Miller et al.) | | 15% | | | FaT Gents VIII (Bullock, Dunleavy, Minch-Dixon et al.) | | 0% | | | FaT Women's Fairbairn IV (Powell, Russell, Dennis, Sampson, Lee) [+1 min as shorter course] | | 11% |
Total: 47 members' votes (39 comments...) |
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| After their win at Queens' Ergs, how will the Novice Women fare in Clare Novices ? | |
The 1st Novice Women won Queens' Ergs by over half a minute.
But will that translate into rowing ability on the water?
Will the age-old proverb | Winners | | 76% | | | Finalists | | 17% | | | Semi-Finalists | | 7% | | | Quarter-Finalists | | 0% | | | Knocked out before QF | | 0% | | | Click here if you think they'll have at least one crabbing incident | | 76% | | | Click here if you think they'll hit the bank at least once | | 38% | | | Click here if you think they'll get a DQ | | 3% |
Total: 29 members' votes (19 comments...) |
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| Who should be in the Fairbairn VIII? | |
Everyone knows how difficult the captain's job is. We can make it easier for him by democratically selecting the Fairbairn VIII. You should pick 8 rowers and a cox (unless you have a radical new strategy). Bear in mind availibility and motivation issues. | Bullock | | 0% | | | Byrne | | 24% | | | Chamberlain | | 84% | | | Clouting | | 24% | | | Coker | | 49% | | | Colvin | | 35% | | | Dunleavy | | 5% | | | Holland | | 86% | | | Ingram | | 57% | | | Koryczan | | 14% | | | Lea-Cox | | 54% | | | Miller | | 8% | | | Milos | | 41% | | | Minch-Dixon | | 5% | | | Noble-Nesbitt | | 0% | | | Mycroft | | 32% | | | Peacock | | 49% | | | Sankey | | 16% | | | Silvey | | 27% | | | Thorne | | 65% | | | Walker | | 19% | | | Duan | | 16% | | | Earl | | 41% | | | Munro | | 30% | | | Wong | | 11% | | | Fisher | | 27% |
Total: 37 members' votes (54 comments...) |
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| Which is the best track to listen to for maximum erging performance? | |
(and should therefore be in the bop) | Eye Of The Tiger (Survivor) | | 50% | | | The Way (Divine Inspiration) | | 7% | | | Castles in the Sky (Ian van Dahl) | | 3% | | | Right Here, Right Now (Fatboy Slim) | | 20% | | | Don't Stop Me Now (Queen) | | 20% | | | Hey Boy Hey Girl (Chemical Brothers) | | 0% | | | Gay Bar (Electric Six) | | 0% |
Total: 30 members' votes (22 comments...) |
