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| BOAT CLUB | |
We all know there are lots of rules about Boat Club, but with which of them do you agree? | 1st RULE: You do not talk about BOAT CLUB. |   | 39% | | | 2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about BOAT CLUB. | | 43% | | | 3rd RULE: If someone says _stop_ or goes limp, taps out the outing is over. | | 21% | | | 4th RULE: Only eight guys to a boat. | | 32% | | | 5th RULE: One boat at a time. | | 25% | | | 6th RULE: No shirts, no shoes. | | 50% | | | 7th RULE: Outings will go on as long as they have to. | | 96% | | | 8th RULE: If this is your first night at BOAT CLUB, you HAVE to row. | | 57% |
Total: 28 members' votes |
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| Will the women's boat club gain the Lents Headship within the next 3 years? | |
After their fantastic performance this Lents, it's not that far away. Can they do it in 3 years? Total: 37 members' votes (16 comments...) |
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| Name the new novice VIII | |
Something eye-catching, flash, witty. Something like... | Ricardo | | 26% | | | Camilla | | 3% | | | Will Thorne | | 3% | | | kss@firstandthird.org for formals | | 10% | | | Break bows here (with a dotted line around the bow section) | | 23% | | | Nimbus 5000 | | 3% | | | GO ON BRYN! | | 3% | | | Eat my bows | | 0% | | | Nick Kingsbury | | 0% | | | David Jones | | 0% | | | The Munro (welcomes freshers 8/9 at a time) | | 3% | | | Penetrator | | 0% | | | Nothing, it will have to be replaced within a year | | 0% | | | The Bathtub | | 0% | | | Log | | 0% | | | Sir Martin Rees | | 15% | | | FiT FaT VIII | | 0% | | | Crab Central | | 0% | | | We don't need sponsors | | 3% | | | No name but a comical face with sharks teeth and evil eyes | | 10% |
Total: 39 members' votes (9 comments...) |
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| For Valentine's Day I gave... | |
Tick all that apply. | Card | | 81% | | | Chocolates | | 42% | | | Dinner | | 50% | | | Flowers | | 15% | | | Maxim | | 15% | | | Underwear | | 19% | | | Head | | 35% |
Total: 26 members' votes (7 comments...) |
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| Where's Ditton? | |
Some people refer to the Ditton end of the reach as the | Top of the reach | | 32% | | | Bottom of the reach | | 68% |
Total: 37 members' votes (35 comments...) |
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| Rampant boaties - what inter/intra-boatclub carnage have you been involved in? | |
We've all been to formal hall lots of times. I'm sure most of us have tried it on with an unsuspecting member of the opposition. But with members (past or present) of how many boatclubs have you actually been successful? | First and Third Trinity BC | | 84% | | | Caius BC | | 31% | | | Christ's College BC | | 28% | | | Churchill College BC | | 9% | | | Clare BC | | 34% | | | Clare Hall BC | | 3% | | | Corpus Christi College BC | | 13% | | | Darwin College BC | | 6% | | | Downing College BC (shame on you) | | 9% | | | Emmanuel College BC | | 16% | | | Fitzwilliam College BC | | 6% | | | Girton College BC | | 16% | | | Homerton College BC | | 34% | | | Hughes Hall BC | | 3% | | | Jesus College BC | | 25% | | | King's College BC | | 3% | | | LMBC (tut tut) | | 31% | | | Lucy Cavendish BC (?!) | | 3% | | | Magdalene BC | | 13% | | | New Hall BC | | 19% | | | Newnham College BC | | 22% | | | Pembroke College BC | | 41% | | | Peterhouse BC | | 25% | | | Queens' College BC | | 16% | | | Robinson College BC | | 9% | | | St Catharine's College BC | | 19% | | | St Edmund's College BC | | 3% | | | Selwyn College BC | | 19% | | | Sidney Sussex College BC | | 9% | | | Trinity Hall BC | | 13% | | | Wolfson College BC | | 6% | | | Black Prince BC | | 50% | | | CUBC | | 13% | | | CULRC | | 16% | | | CUWBC | | 22% | | | Leander | | 3% | | | Rob Roy BC | | 16% | | | Any other town club | | 13% | | | Any Oxford club | | 22% |
Total: 32 members' votes (1 comment...) |
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| In which boat will the first men race the Lent Bumps? | |
So far they've taken out BP2 and BP3... | Black Prince 1 | | 31% | | | Any one of the other Black Princes | | 6% | | | A novice shell | | 17% | | | A different boat every day | | 11% | | | Fair Maid of Kent | | 36% |
Total: 36 members' votes |
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| What constitutes 'cooperation' in the incest chart? | |
A line == a pull. But what is a pull? | Touching | | 4% | | | Kissing | | 4% | | | Kissing with tongue (sometimes called 'French kissing', but not by me) | | 54% | | | Shagging | | 11% | | | Marriage | | 4% | | | Mixed double outing | | 21% | | | A stroke | | 4% |
Total: 28 members' votes (1 comment...) |
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| Who do we hate most? | |
| Caius | | 15% | | | Downing | | 53% | | | LMBC | | 32% |
Total: 34 members' votes (25 comments...) |
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| What's the highest rate you've ever clocked? | |
Bonus points for small boats | less than 40 | | 14% | | | 40-45 | | 18% | | | 46-48 | | 32% | | | 49 | | 0% | | | 50 | | 0% | | | 51 | | 0% | | | 52 | | 9% | | | 53 | | 0% | | | 54 | | 5% | | | 55 | | 5% | | | 56+ | | 18% |
Total: 22 members' votes (9 comments...) |
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| New Year's Resolutions | |
This year, I resolve to | train more | | 73% | | | train less | | 3% | | | win blades | | 27% | | | qualify for/row at Henley | | 27% | | | take a break from rowing | | 3% | | | take up rowing again | | 23% | | | do all the stretches my physio tells me to do | | 37% | | | wash my kit | | 40% | | | spend less time on this website | | 30% | | | spend more time on this website | | 10% | | | stomp | | 40% | | | get a (new) job | | 33% | | | smile more | | 30% | | | buft | | 40% | | | win the fancy dress prize at Cardinals | | 3% | | | drink more (alcohol) | | 17% | | | drink less (alcohol) | | 27% | | | not make any resolutions | | 10% |
Total: 30 members' votes |
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| Who delivered more Christmas presents this year ? | |
| Father Christmas | | 33% | | | St. Nicholas | | 6% | | | Santa Claus | | 11% | | | Kriss Kringle | | 0% | | | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | | 11% | | | Royal Mail | | 39% |
Total: 18 members' votes |
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| What is your 2k PW? | |
That's Personal Worst if it's not obvious - only counting pieces you started with the intention of doing a flat out 2k, and discounting any you didn't finish | 10:00+ | | 0% | | | 9:40-9:59 | | 0% | | | 9:20-9:39 | | 0% | | | 9:00-9:19 | | 4% | | | 8:50-8:59 | | 4% | | | 8:40-8:49 | | 4% | | | 8:30-8:39 | | 4% | | | 8:20-8:29 | | 7% | | | 8:10-8:19 | | 0% | | | 8:00-8:09 | | 0% | | | 7:50-7:59 | | 7% | | | 7:40-7:49 | | 14% | | | 7:30-7:39 | | 11% | | | 7:20-7:29 | | 4% | | | 7:10-7:19 | | 21% | | | 7:00-7:09 | | 11% | | | 6:50-6:59 | | 7% | | | 6:40-6:49 | | 0% | | | 6:30-6:39 | | 4% | | | 6:20-6:29 | | 0% | | | 6:10-6:19 | | 0% | | | 6:00-6:09 | | 0% | | | <6:00 | | 0% |
Total: 28 members' votes (29 comments...) |
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| Which of these have you experienced on an ergo? | |
Following on from our discussion of personal worsts, which of these have you done on an ergo? | Thrown up | | 48% | | | Got buttock cramp | | 72% | | | Shat your pants (preferable to rowing for LMBC) | | 4% | | | Had sex | | 20% | | | Passed out | | 4% | | | Given up | | 72% |
Total: 25 members' votes (4 comments...) |
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| I won the Fairbairn Cup... | |
| In 1956 | | 10% | | | In 2004 | | 19% | | | For second boats | | 24% | | | For novices | | 5% | | | For Fours | | 10% | | | In my single scull | | 67% |
Total: 21 members' votes |
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| How often do you wash your kit? | |
| More than once a week | | 29% | | | Once a week | | 24% | | | Once a fortnight | | 29% | | | Once a month | | 9% | | | Once a term | | 3% | | | When it rains | | 6% |
Total: 34 members' votes (11 comments...) |
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| What is your 2k PB? | |
| >8:20 | | 6% | | | 8:10-8:19 | | 0% | | | 8:00-8:09 | | 0% | | | 7:50-7:59 | | 12% | | | 7:40-7:49 | | 3% | | | 7:30-7:39 | | 3% | | | 7:20-7:29 | | 0% | | | 7:10-7:19 | | 0% | | | 7:00-7:09 | | 6% | | | 6:50-6:59 | | 12% | | | 6:40-6:49 | | 9% | | | 6:30-6:39 | | 15% | | | 6:20-6:29 | | 18% | | | 6:10-6:19 | | 9% | | | 6:00-6:09 | | 3% | | | 5:50-5:59 | | 0% | | | 5:40-5:49 | | 0% | | | <5:39 | | 3% |
Total: 33 members' votes (37 comments...) |
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| Allegiance? | |
| Black Prince BC | | 44% | | | First and Third Trinity BC | | 56% |
Total: 50 members' votes (6 comments...) |
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| HoR4s. Select all the options that you think will occur | |
| FaT Men beat BPBC Men | | 10% | | | FaT Women beat BPBC women | | 20% | | | FaT Men finish higher than they start | | 65% | | | FaT Women finish higher than they start | | 75% | | | FaT Men have a positive net overtaking record | | 55% | | | FaT Women have a positive net overtaking record | | 45% | | | FaT men overtaken by BPBC Men | | 15% | | | FaT Women overtaken by BPBC Women | | 5% | | | FaT Men best college crew | | 25% | | | FaT Women best college crew | | 10% | | | FaT Men get under the 2nd Lamppost | | 60% | | | FaT Women get under the 2nd Lamppost | | 45% | | | FaT Men have a huge blade clash | | 45% | | | FaT Women have a huge blade clash | | 50% | | | FaT Men have a huge blade clash with FaT Women | | 10% |
Total: 20 members' votes (7 comments...) |
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| Which rowing term made you snigger most as a novice? | |
| Stroke | | 38% | | | Cox box | | 0% | | | Entry | | 8% | | | Rack | | 0% | | | Pull | | 0% | | | Shaft | | 46% | | | Scull | | 0% | | | Rudder | | 8% |
Total: 13 members' votes (9 comments...) |
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| It is rumoured that most rowers are scientists. Are you? | |
You need not base this entirely on your degree although I think it will be clear for most | Scientist | | 65% | | | Artist | | 18% | | | Both | | 12% | | | Neither | | 6% |
Total: 34 members' votes (13 comments...) |
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| How should the novices be taught to row? | |
| From backstops | | 23% | | | From frontstops | | 42% | | | Slowly | | 35% |
Total: 26 members' votes (25 comments...) |
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| Who should the club back as Sports Personality of the Year? | |
| Ben Ainslie | | 7% | | | Freddie Flintoff | | 11% | | | Kelly Holmes | | 50% | | | Amir Khan | | 4% | | | Colin Montgomerie | | 7% | | | Matthew Pinsent | | 14% | | | RTT | | 7% |
Total: 28 members' votes (8 comments...) |
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| Simple: | |
| Bowside | | 45% | | | Strokeside | | 45% | | | Darkside | | 10% |
Total: 29 members' votes (5 comments...) |
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| Favourite Film Trilogy | |
| Godfather | | 12% | | | Lord of the Rings | | 42% | | | Back to the Future | | 15% | | | Matrix | | 0% | | | American Pie | | 8% | | | Star Wars (original) | | 12% | | | Indiana Jones | | 8% | | | Kill Bill | | 4% |
Total: 26 members' votes (44 comments...) |
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| Vote for the Champagne Moment in the BPBCCC FaTBCCC match | |
(if you can remember!) | Crawford surviving his first ball | | 38% | | | Garrod hitting the game's only six | | 0% | | | the only Aussie on show (Nigel Kaye) getting the only duck | | 5% | | | Lea-Cox winning it for FaT off the last ball of the match | | 10% | | | Ingram's sense of humour failure after a dubious lbw decision | | 38% | | | Other (state below) | | 10% |
Total: 21 members' votes (9 comments...) |
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| Which Olympic sport would you like to see in 2008? | |
Clearly there is a lack of erg games in the current Olympic timetable. Which one would you most like to see there? | 10m erg test | | 35% | | | One arm lowest split | | 0% | | | Feet out highest rating | | 18% | | | Arms only 2k | | 18% | | | Underwater erging | | 6% | | | Armchair erging | | 6% | | | Beach erging | | 12% | | | Synchronised erging | | 6% |
Total: 17 members' votes (1 comment...) |
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| London hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 is... | |
| a good idea | | 81% | | | a bad idea | | 14% | | | something I'm not sure about | | 5% |
Total: 21 members' votes (10 comments...) |
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| What are the most annoying things about using non boat club gyms? | |
Anyone who's ever used a gym - even a posh one - in the holidays will have come across some of these... | People who can't row to the extent that it's painful rather than funny | | 41% | | | Fat smelly people wearing inappropriate kit to erg in thus showing the room their ugly butt cracks when they erg | | 18% | | | The fact that there are 100s of running machines but only 3 ergs stuck in the corner | | 35% | | | The fact that you can't see the tv's from the ergs | | 41% | | | People who look at you like you're mad when you spend more than 3 minutes on the erg | | 24% | | | No bench pull | | 53% | | | The ranks of sad looking people on the running machines - why don't they go for a proper run | | 24% | | | Lack of natural light as the gym is always in the basement | | 12% | | | People who sit on weights machines in between their reps and just stare into space - don't they know some of us are in a hurry!!! | | 18% | | | People who don't have the faintest clue about rowing telling you that you've got useless technique | | 18% | | | Something else - see below | | 29% |
Total: 17 members' votes (5 comments...) |
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| Daddy or Chips? | |
| Total: 21 members' votes (2 comments...) |
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| Favourite Poll | |
| FaT | | 36% | | | North or South | | 7% | | | Vault | | 0% | | | Dancing | | 29% | | | Lech Walesa | | 7% | | | /. | | 21% |
Total: 14 members' votes (1 comment...) |
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| Which is your favourite part of the stroke? | |
| Blade entry | | 0% | | | Connection | | 17% | | | Leg drive | | 25% | | | Back through | | 4% | | | Finish | | 21% | | | Extraction | | 0% | | | Hands away | | 4% | | | Bodies over | | 4% | | | Slide | | 0% | | | The bit where your hands rise up to go over your knees | | 25% |
Total: 24 members' votes |
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| What is your favourite weights exercise? | |
Select as many of your favourite exercises from the list as you want (apologies if I have forgotten any of your favourites). | Deadlift | | 23% | | | Clean | | 41% | | | Shoulder Press | | 23% | | | Bench Pull | | 50% | | | Bench Press | | 59% | | | Incline Bench Press | | 5% | | | Leg Press | | 59% | | | Leg Extension | | 36% | | | Leg Curl | | 27% | | | Calf Raise | | 9% | | | Squat | | 41% | | | Hack Squat | | 9% | | | Forward Lunge | | 14% | | | Backward Lunge | | 9% | | | Diagonal Lunge | | 9% | | | Plie Lunge | | 9% | | | Pelvic Lifts | | 14% | | | Other core exercises | | 32% | | | Hip Flexor | | 5% | | | Hip Abduction | | 5% | | | Side Leg Raises | | 5% | | | Toe Press | | 9% | | | Bicep Curl | | 32% | | | Lat Pull | | 27% | | | Cable cross-over | | 18% | | | Tricep Dip | | 14% | | | Triceps Extension | | 23% | | | Wrist Curl | | 5% | | | Press up | | 32% | | | Chin ups | | 50% | | | Sit up | | 50% | | | Dumbbell Fly | | 23% | | | Incline Dumbbell Fly | | 14% | | | Shoulder Shrug | | 9% | | | Seated Row | | 32% | | | Back Extension | | 14% | | | Overhead Press | | 9% | | | Rear Deltoid Raise | | 5% | | | Military Press | | 5% | | | Upright Row | | 9% | | | Back Butterfly | | 9% | | | Leg Pull-In | | 5% |
Total: 22 members' votes (11 comments...) |
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| What is your favourite type of land training? | |
| Long erg | | 13% | | | AT erg | | 4% | | | 6x500m | | 9% | | | Heavy weights | | 30% | | | 200 reps | | 22% | | | Circuits | | 4% | | | Running | | 4% | | | Lard consumption | | 13% |
Total: 23 members' votes (15 comments...) |
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| Favourite summer regattas | |
Summertime, and the living is easy. Apparently.
Choose up to 4 regattas - based on whatever criteria you choose (e.g. previous wins, beer tent quality, course, weather on past visits, all of these, etc.) | Kingston Amateur | | 22% | | | Bedford Quarts | | 61% | | | Molesey | | 28% | | | St Neots Saturday | | 11% | | | St Neots Sunday | | 17% | | | Peterborough Saturday | | 39% | | | Peterborough Sunday | | 22% | | | Royal Canadian Henley | | 33% | | | Gloucester | | 11% | | | Bristol | | 17% | | | Ross | | 6% | | | Cambridge Autumn | | 11% |
Total: 18 members' votes (1 comment...) |
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| Favourite boat class? | |
| 8o | | 26% | | | 4x | | 0% | | | 4- | | 17% | | | 4+ | | 13% | | | 2x | | 4% | | | 2- | | 17% | | | 1x | | 17% | | | Laser | | 4% |
Total: 23 members' votes (4 comments...) |
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| Categories to be included in FaT Top Trumps | |
| 500m Ergo Score | | 44% | | | 2k Ergo Score | | 69% | | | 2k Ergo Score as percentage of WR | | 34% | | | Bumps Races Done | | 63% | | | Bumps Up | | 31% | | | Net Bumps Record | | 75% | | | Blades | | 38% | | | ARA Status | | 34% | | | Pots (etc.) Won | | 53% | | | Versatility (Get a point for each of Bowside,Strokeside,Cox,Sculler) | | 53% | | | Year of Novicing | | 63% | | | Age | | 72% | | | Height | | 81% | | | Weight | | 88% |
Total: 32 members' votes (25 comments...) |
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| Henley time! | |
If you could spend the day anywhere, it would be... | Leander | | 0% | | | Stewards | | 50% | | | Regatta | | 5% | | | Remenham | | 0% | | | Corporate hospitality at Fawley | | 10% | | | Barn Bar | | 0% | | | Gin Palace | | 5% | | | All of the above | | 0% | | | Boat tent | | 30% |
Total: 20 members' votes (4 comments...) |
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| How will First and Third do in the bumps? | |
If you add all the crews' results together... | Up 13 or more | | 3% | | | up 9 - 12 | | 3% | | | up 5 - 8 | | 41% | | | up 1 - 4 | | 38% | | | level | | 3% | | | down 1 - 4 | | 7% | | | down 5 - 8 | | 0% | | | down 9 - 12 | | 0% | | | down 13 or more | | 3% |
Total: 29 members' votes (5 comments...) |
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| Favourite Seat? | |
| Bow | | 13% | | | Two | | 11% | | | Three | | 5% | | | Four | | 3% | | | Five | | 5% | | | Six | | 16% | | | Seven | | 24% | | | Stroke | | 13% | | | Cox | | 5% | | | Launch | | 3% | | | Toledo | | 3% |
Total: 38 members' votes (32 comments...) |
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| The best 2nd May VIII song | |
| Total: 33 members' votes (19 comments...) |
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| That's very kind, I'll have a... | |
| pint of lager | | 8% | | | pint of bitter | | 28% | | | glass of white wine | | 3% | | | glass of red wine | | 3% | | | vodka and bitter lemon | | 0% | | | G and T | | 18% | | | lager shandy | | 3% | | | bitter shandy | | 0% | | | orange juice | | 0% | | | orange juice and soda | | 3% | | | whisky | | 5% | | | rum and coke | | 3% | | | archers and lemonade | | 5% | | | archers and pineapple | | 5% | | | guiness | | 8% | | | lemonade | | 3% | | | lucozade | | 0% | | | smirnoff ice | | 3% | | | barcardi breezer | | 3% | | | latest trendy alcopop | | 3% |
Total: 39 members' votes (8 comments...) |
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| Ergos... | |
| Total: 34 members' votes (7 comments...) |
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| Which was the better 2nd May VIII? | |
It must come down to these two, but who pips it.
Find their result histories...
Here (2002)
Here (1999) | 2002: Walker, Goldmanis, Byrne, Peck, Jane, Clouting, Thorne, Davies, Adams (Up 4) | | 31% | | | 1999: Remoundos, Fisher, Blackburn, Goodson, Sherrington, Peck, Ingram, Case, MacGregor (Up 3) | | 69% |
Total: 29 members' votes (22 comments...) |
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| Fantasy May VIII | |
Pick the crew before Dan gets round to it. 8 rowers and a cox, please. | Andrews | | 74% | | | Bullock | | 6% | | | Byrne | | 0% | | | Chamberlain | | 82% | | | Clouting | | 15% | | | Coker | | 21% | | | Colvin | | 62% | | | Davies | | 94% | | | Earl | | 15% | | | Garrod | | 0% | | | Grundy | | 29% | | | Holland | | 91% | | | Horler | | 0% | | | Ingram | | 71% | | | Koryczan | | 0% | | | Lea-Cox | | 53% | | | Milos | | 21% | | | Mycroft | | 12% | | | Newton | | 0% | | | Patterson | | 0% | | | Peacock | | 15% | | | Rose | | 15% | | | Sankey | | 3% | | | Silvey | | 0% | | | Eton Boy | | 82% | | | Thorne | | 0% | | | Walker | | 3% | | | Watton | | 0% | | | Duan | | 6% | | | Earl | | 32% | | | Fisher | | 9% | | | Lee | | 9% | | | Munro | | 18% | | | Murphy | | 44% | | | Nanayakkara | | 6% | | | Wolf | | 0% | | | Wong | | 9% |
Total: 34 members' votes (40 comments...) |
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| Love is... | |
| Blind | | 17% | | | In the air | | 17% | | | A verb, not a noun | | 14% | | | All around | | 14% | | | A Big Scary Animal | | 38% |
Total: 29 members' votes (19 comments...) |
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| Which are your favourite regattas/heads in the May Term? | |
Choose your favourite four; nb this is just regattas during the summer term/up to HRR. | CUCBC Small boats | | 30% | | | Head of the Cam (when in summer) | | 0% | | | Notts City | | 20% | | | Oxford City bumps | | 10% | | | BUSA | | 5% | | | Bedford | | 35% | | | Summer Head2Head | | 5% | | | City Sprints | | 45% | | | Cambridge Champion 8s Head | | 0% | | | 99s regatta | | 20% | | | Peterborough May (1000m) | | 10% | | | Peterborough May (500m) | | 5% | | | Docklands | | 5% | | | CUCBC May races | | 80% | | | HWR | | 20% | | | Marlow | | 10% | | | HRR | | 40% |
Total: 20 members' votes (27 comments...) |
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| Which is your favourite Tetris shape? | |
| Square | | 11% | | | J | | 5% | | | L | | 11% | | | S | | 0% | | | Z | | 5% | | | T | | 32% | | | I | | 32% | | | Q | | 5% |
Total: 19 members' votes (7 comments...) |
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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...) |
