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The top four retain their places in the same order MTR's 'Professional Passionate Engineers'; Atkins Asia Pacific's 'Prevail'; MTR's 'Synergy' and Arup's 'AgRUP of MEN' all consolidating with percentage improvements above the average of 10%. Then it becomes more turbulent with Aurecon's 'Invictus' slipping from 5th to 9th and Vic Roads' 'MNW' slipping from 6th to 7th. 'MNW' are still well placed only 37 points behind 6th place, as are 'Invictus' only 111 behind 6th place. Replacing them in 5th and 6th are Mott MacDonald's 'Buckingham Palace' and Arup's 'It's all Ova now' both with a rise of two places. Also well placed are Mott Mac's 'Motts of Steel'; Atkins Asia Pacific's 'Awesome' and 'Metis'; Atkins' 'Methodical Chaos'; Atkins India's 'Sigma'; Aurecon's 'The Aureconquerors' and Mott Mac's 'Ronald Mott MacDonald' where a differential improvement of 10% could propel them into the top six.
The top six are wondering how to defend their position, no time to take risky decisions. The chasers will be more inclined to take risks and this could produce big movements downwards if they get them wrong, and upwards if they get them right.
We get just as excited wanting to know who will be the finalists. The top three are looking solid but they could make errors of judgement and open the door. The other three places are less clear. There is one round to go where the right analysis, the right conclusions, the right judgement of risks and the right decisions will determine the finalists. Teams much further down unlikely now to make the final will be playing for pride to see how high up the final order they can finish. Good luck to all.
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The top four have consolidated their position with MTR's 'Professional Passionate Engineers' and Atkins Asia Pacific's 'Prevail' holding onto places 1 and 2, MTR's 'Synergy' have leapfrogged Arup's 'AgRUP of MEN' into 3rd . This means that the first three places are held by teams from Hong Kong. Aurecon's 'Invictus' climb two places to 5th and are back into the top six. Vic Roads' 'MNW' slip one to 6th only 70 points ahead of Mott Mac's 'Buckingham Palace'. The other high ranking Mott Mac team 'Motts of Steel' slipped from 6th to 13th now 233 points off position 6th. However the average performance improvement was 9% and recovery is very possible in one of the two rounds left.
Of the top six only Vic Roads are new to MERIT and all the others have had teams in MERIT finals. Arups are the only previously winning sponsor in the top six. Mott Mac lurking in 7th are also previous winners.
Overall 36 teams improved their position with the biggest movers being Atkins' 'Astron' and Amey's 'Pace' both moving up 13 places.
The standard deviation of the percentage improvement increased from 5% to 6% indicating greater variability, normally this increases in the last rounds as some decisions become a little wild as teams try to depose the leaders who are sitting there wondering how to defend their position Two rounds to go, there will be greater movement.
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The Sponsors Award is competed for by sponsors who enter at least three teams. In the lead after Period 10 is Mott Mac closely followed by Atkins and Arup and Aurecon.
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With three Periods to go the big change in the top six is that Vic Roads' 'MNW' move up to 5th displacing MottMac's 'Buckingham Palace' who slip from 6th to 8th. MTR's 'PPE' consolidate in top position only 67 points ahead of Atkins Asia Pacific's 'Prevail' who move up to 2nd from 3rd swapping places with Arup's 'AgRUP of MEN' in 3rd but there is only two points between them. MTR's 'Synergy' hold their 4th place. Last year we had two MTR teams in the final and they travelled to Loughborough to take part coming second and third. Could we see two MTR teams again? MottMac's 'Motts of Steel' slip from 5th to 6th. At this point there are three Hong Kong teams, two UK teams and one Australian team in the top six. Still outside the top six but threatening are Aurecon's 'Invictus' but only 37 points behind, a further 8 points back are MottMac's 'Buckingham Palace' so although slipped from Period 8 are by no means out of it.
The average of the % improvement was 11% so to make a relative movement teams had to do better than this. The big movers upwards were: Arup's 'It's all Ova now' up 4 places to 9th; Atkins' India's 'Sigma' up 7 to 13th on top of a rise of 5 places in Period 8 they look to be on a roll; URS's 'endeavoURS' up 8 to 14th; Arup's 'YAP up 7 to 19th; Atkins' 'The Resistors' up 5 places to 22nd; and the biggest gain of Period 9 is Atkins India's 'QUIXOTIC DESIGN INC' up 21 places to 26th. Both of the Atkins India's teams did well this Period so we may well see one in the Final matching their performance last year. They could, of course, do better and get both into the Final. Inevitably some teams moved in the other direction but they could turnround they just need to analyse the decisions that have shaped their performance and review their strategy.
With three periods to go and movements as big as 21 places it's still game on. The top six aren't secure yet. The standard deviation of the % performance improvement was 5% same as last period. We're expecting a greater variation in the performance figures as teams take more risky decisions in the run in, this could produce bigger movements than those that we've seen. Good luck to every team.
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In the sponsors award, which goes to the sponsors with the best three performing teams, Mott MacDonald continue to hold the top spot, but Atkins have now climbed over Arup into the second spot.