With the C&G Football Tournament drawing to a close City & Guilds College Union seems to have picked the last few weeks of term to run no less than three further inter-departmental competitions.

First up is the long awaited (and long in planning) C&G 'Olympics' (set for 13th March), which will see teams of up to eight people enter to compete in a series of competitions ranging from 5-a-side football to doughnut eating. Live! has learnt that the last meeting of the C&GCU Executive Committee approved several hundred pounds worth of subsidy for the Olympics which perhaps explains why the organisers (the C&G Active group) have settled on a fixed entry fee of £4 per person regardless of the number of events entered.

Plans for an inter-departmental Paintball tournament are still under consideration, with the event pencilled in for the 16th March. With news of the event first broken by the C&G Media Group in the December issue of Guildsheet the competition appears to have been a long time in the planning, and there are still significant doubts about whether it will go ahead.

An inter-departmental Karting race, however, now looks virtually inevitable. Pencilled in for Monday 18th March the competition should see teams of 10 squaring up in a 2 ½ hour endurance race. "It's like a formula 1 race," gushed Neil Madhvani, C&GCU Honorary Secretary (who seems to have become responsible for the event), in an e-mail earlier today. "Teams can be 4-10 people," added Mr Madhvani, "but we really aim for 10 players a team, that way getting the price down to something that is affordable." Live! has learnt that the pricing will be approximately £18 per head, minus any subsidy that might be applied on a departmental basis.

Despite these (pretty surprising) signs of activity on the normally quiet competitive front, many within C&GCU appear to be concerned that the organisation is biting off more than it can chew. Confronted with ideas for a 'pentathalon' type event to find the 'best engineer' in a number of categories several people seem to have put their feet down. "I think this is an idea for the autumn," said C&GCU Treasurer Oliver Pell, while Chem Eng Soc Chair Padraig McCloskey observed that "there are loads of good ideas flying around at the minute, which is obviously a good thing, but isn't it more important to concentrate on actually getting some of them off the ground..."