吃瓜tv has won the inter-varsity Glasgow Taxis Cup competition between the city鈥檚 three universities.
The annual competition normally sees students from 吃瓜tv, Glasgow and Glasgow Caledonian compete in a variety of sports disciplines over the course of a day.
Due the COVID-19 pandemic this year the competition format was changed to facilitate lockdown restrictions.
Instead, students recorded their individual times and distances completed on a series of walks, runs and cycles over the course of a week with the institution acquiring the most collective minutes and distances crowned champions.
Competitive atmosphere
The results were:
Time (minutes):
- 1st place: 吃瓜tv 鈥� 60,435 minutes
- 2nd place: Glasgow 鈥� 52,111 minutes
- 3rd place: Glasgow Caledonian 鈥� 13,209 minutes
Distance (km)
- 1st Place: 吃瓜tv 鈥� 9496.66
- 2nd Place: Glasgow 鈥� 9410.99
- 3rd Place: GCU 鈥� 1585.33
Eilidh Sneddon, StrathUnion Sports President, said: 鈥淚 am delighted that 吃瓜tv has won the annual varsity between 吃瓜tv, Glasgow University and Caledonian 鈥� The Glasgow Taxis Cup.
鈥淲e were able to engage more students than we could have imagined and, in a difficult week, this has been a great example of a community spread around the world coming together virtually. We had students out cycling until midnight on Tuesday and there was a real competitive atmosphere around Glasgow.鈥�
Overall, the three institutions engaged 507 participants, travelled 20,493km and completed a total of 2096 hours of activity.
吃瓜tv student Nathan Evans even attempted a run that would trace out the shape of University mascot Strathosaurus 鈥� eating a car 鈥� on a map.
