p9 graphMTR's 'New Lines New Minds', Arup's 'They think its all Ova' and MTR's 'New Lines New Minds Enginetic' all hold station at the top as we enter the final three 'Early Years' periods of MERIT 2013.

p7 graph1MTR’s New Lines New Minds still hold firm in first place but Arup’s ‘They think its all Ova’ have speeded past MTR’s ‘New Lines New Minds Engenetic’ into second place. With Atkins HK’s ‘NOVA’ having slipped to seventh, AURECON’s ‘Unicon’ move up to fourth, with the biggest improvers at the top, MottMac’s ‘MM Money makers’ now claiming fifth place climbing over Amey’s ‘Amey MDP’. We’ve had an Atkins HK team in the last two finals at Loughborough so ‘NOVA’ need to tread careful, especially as AURECON’s ‘Aurecon Global’ are snapping at their heals.

p7 graph1At period 7, the third round of MERIT, the two teams from The Mass Transit Railway, Hong Kong , ‘New Lines New Minds’ and ‘New Lines New Minds Enginetic’ hold positions one and two which they have occupied from the beginning. This is the first appearance of teams from MTR in MERIT and they have clearly done their homework on how to succeed. Perhaps it’s the number of trials they ran that has given them the edge or perhaps it the rumour from Hong Kong that they’ve built their own model to analyse MERIT decisions! If so, it is a very good model. An Arup team, ‘They think its all Ova’ are lying third. Arup have form in MERIT being the reigning champions having won in 2012, they also won the sponsors prize in 2011. So there is some experience there.