Physics Relay 2003
                      ==================


                              RESULTS
                              -------
             		        		         Position:

      Team                        Time Corrected  Mixed Ladies Age/Gender

1  4  Real Physique              15.41
2  5  Spark Plug                 16.09
3  15 Bates Motel                17.00  15.19         	 	 1
4  9  The Axiom of Choice	 17.07              1
5  8  The Hairy Ball Theorem     17.43  16.15       	         3
6  12 Chaplaincy A               18.06
7  3  Physics Staff              18.22  15.47                    2
8  13 Chaplaincy B               18.58  17.43                    4
9  11 The Weiner Saussages       19.00
10 14 Comps                      19.31
11 7  Geography                  20.43  18.36       2   	 5
12 2  Library Shelvers           21.03              3
13 6  CSALTers                   22.40  20.04       4            6
14 1  Library Laggards           23.57 	20.31			 7
15 10 The Ham Sandwitch Theorem  24.09                  1

 (See the start list on the web site (http://www.hep.lancs.ac.uk/relay/index.html)
    for full details of team members)

                 Physics Relay Committee Message
                 -------------------------------

  What a great day! I suspect the recent good weather contributed to
 this year's great turn out of 15 teams. It certainly contributed to
 the hard ground which saw off a Boy's Brigade mallet that Rob was
 using to drive in the flags. We were rather short of them this year
 as the ground staff keep losing them apparently. Luckily I had some
 South Ribble Orienteering Club tapes with me to make up for it,
 although they are harder to see from a distance.

  OK, now I have to own up to messing up the age corrected calculation
 again. As usual it was down to the last minute entries not getting
 into the spreadsheet correctly. Observant readers will note that
 Physics Staff, who were awarded the prize have dropped to second,
 behind a bunch of Psychos - Bates Motel, continuing the tradition
 that the last team to enter wins a prize (three years running I make
 it). They will have to be content with an honorary victory as I know
 for a fact that at least a quarter of the prize has already been
 consumed.

  Even so with the aptly named `Real Physiques' winning the open prize,
 Physics have a first and a second place so that is not that bad!

  I think maths were hoping  they could win all four prizes this
 year. It is certainly a first for a single department to have an
 entry in each class. In the end it was their ladies who did them
 proud with wins in the ladies and mixed classes.

  Thanks as ever to all the helpers on the day who ensure everything
 runs smoothly. I have already mentioned Rob, then there was Marilyn
 doing the timing, and Peter, James, Tim and Brian all on traffic
 control. This year the organisation was done entirely by the High
 Energy Physics group - clearly a group of highly energetic physicists!

            Hope to see many of you again next year!

Alex Finch
26/6/2003

Team prizewinners:

Open:   Real Physiques	             (Physics)

   Derek Wright, Ian Mercer, Ed Mc Cann, Andriy  Bandrivskiy

Mixed:  The Axiom of Choice	     (Maths)

  Tamara Gunner, Mark Latham, Raquel Menezes, Daniel Farewell


Ladies: The Ham Sandwitch Theorem    (Maths)

 Innes Sousa, Catherine Fulwood, Julia Tawn, Jan Heffernan

Age/Gender Corrected: Bates Motel    (Psychology)

  Eugene Subbotsky,Charlie Lewis,Steve Dewhurst,Robert Lowe