It's still turbulent with two teams returning to the top six: Greenwich's 'Continuous Flight' rise four places to third and Cape Town's 'Prestige World' rise three to sixth. Slipping out are Loughborough's 'Team Poseidon' dropping to seventh from second and Oxford Brookes' 'OB-One' dropping to ninth from fifth. Still holding first place is Glasgow Caledonian's 'Cali Construction' but with a very slightly reduced gap to Hong Kong Poly U's 'BRE Team 4' who rise one place to second. Deakin's 'AGBA' stay at fourth and Bond's 'Bond Agents rise one to fifth. So in the top six at the moment are; one Scottish team, one Hong Kong team, one English team, two Australian teams and one South African team. So the Global Student Challenge is living up to its name of being global.

There is movement outside the top six too with Chongqing's 'Oath Keeper' rising four places to eighth and only 32 point behind the sixth place.

So with one round to go it's too early to say that the top six are secure with movement of four and five places in both directions I wouldn't be rash enough to predict the final top six, it is still game on.

The last round is always one of tension. The leaders are being chased, probably being cautious, afraid of making errors or bad decisions. The chasers are free to be courageous and take risky decisions that they might not have otherwise, but there is little to lose. It is time for decisions which if successful are described as courageous if unsuccessful described as foolhardy.

But remember your forward work load needs profits to be valuable the tactic of bidding low to get work at any price is not a sensible tactic.

Good luck to you all, can't wait to see next week's results.

Period 9 results

Preliminary results, subject to change. (Teams with a negative % have requested late submission or have been asked to resubmit)

Top 10

Team's improvement