Has the final whistle gone?

Arup's 'They think its all over' have ousted MTR's 'New Lines New Minds' to head up the leader board.

Arup are the current reigning MERIT 2012 Champions and clearly aren't going to give up their title easily. The two MTR teams hold second and third place with a trip from Hong Kong to Loughborough for the Final looking likely.

Mott MacDonald, always competitive have recovered from a slip in Period 9 and returned to the top six with 'MM Money Makers' in 4th, and the last two places in the top six are now held by AURECON's 'Global' and 'Unicon' so AURECON may again have two teams in the final.

Arup's 'The Ovaheads' are stealthily creeping up now at 7th from 9th, but squeezed out of the top six this time are Amey MDP now in 8th with Atkins India's 'VIRTUS' in 9th who are joined by their colleagues 'NOVA' in 10th.

With a 19% improvement, ‘AECOMeritocracy’ are big movers from 22nd to 11th, Sinclair Knight Merz’s ‘Prop’ are lurking at 13th having improved from 19th, and NPS's 'Norse Warriors' with a 15% improvement have leaped from 60th to 45th.

AURECON's 'AurecANZ' have surged from 42nd to 15th with a huge improvement of 24%, could AURECON be plotting to have three teams in the final?

With two rounds to go the top three have consolidated their lead but the rest of the places are up for grabs with only 60 points covering 4th to 10th place.

The biggest improvement this round was 24%. Repeating this level of improvement over each of the two remaining rounds rules no team out. Serious times concentrate minds and focus we expect some imaginative tactical moves that will change the rankings.

Its not all over... yet!

Preliminary results, subject to change.