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While Manchester's 'Legends never die' keep hold of their top position, GCU's 'Crazy Brick Mover' move up to second from third, GCU's 'JIT Engineering Company' climb to third from sixth, Minnesota's 'UMN Gopher 2' slide down to fourth from second, Manchester's 'Greenfield' drop down to fifth from fourth and GCU's 'IT takes four' jump up to sixth from ninth. NUS's 'Blue Skies' slip out of the top six from fifth to seventh.
At this stage of MERIT we expect commotion of a great range in the percentage improvement. The ranking isn't stable, and there will be more disorder to come, but getting the decisions balanced will improve ranking.
The 294 points gap between first and sixth is not an enormous difference and can be easily bridged. While the leaders from Manchester improved by 21%, GCU, now with three in the top six, seem to be consolidating their effort with improvements of 25%, 23% and 28%.
All the teams are still learning and all are still developing their strategy. How they now play their hand is the key.
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The inaugural edition of the MERIT University Tournament is underway!
At this early stage, its hard to make any predictions, but from the evidence of trialling, we could be in for an interesting game.
The teams that are at the top are usually those that have run the most trials. This will have developed their understanding of what they are doing. As the other teams develop their understanding they'll catch up. There will be great upheaval and change in the league table positions. Team scores can change by as much as 20% in both directions in a single round so every team in is still competing.
We look forward to the turbulence in the pecking order.
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We are happy to confirm that the prize for the MERIT University Tournament Champions 2023 will be:
£2,000
Registration closes 24 February 2023, and we do recommend Registering as soon as possible in order for the Teams to make the most of Trialling (pricing starts at £250 per 4 person team).
We appreciate that it may take a bit of time to cut through your finance department's red tape. If this is the case, please complete the Registration form, and enter 'Pending' in the Purchase Order number box. We will then be able to give the Teams access to Trialling while giving you a bit more time to finalise the accounting details.
For the game's current status and submission timetable, please Click here for the MERIT University Tournament 2023 game page