The Inter-College Sports Competition kicked off last Tuesday, February 18th, with thousands of freshers flocking to Logan Park in what might be the University’s only wholesome O-Week event.
With word that Vice Chancellor Grant Robertson (more affectionately known as Daddy Grant) was making an appearance, Critic Te Ārohi’s sportiest reporter was sent to check it out. Shockingly, Critic was met with a shit-tonne of freshers playing sport in the first, and probably only, time that they will wear their hall t-shirts (Studholme’s House of the Dragon and Cumby’s CocaCola themed shirts are pretty sick though).
Like any other time you’ll see first years on campus this week, the inter-college competition kicked off with packs of freshers showing their new-found patriotism in a dick-measuring contest of who could chant the loudest. This was tastefully accompanied by countless people blasting Fetty Wap on shitty Bluetooth speakers and ‘Not Like Us’ being played a record number of times.
The sport itself started with what can only be described as a “tomfoolery relay”, including hopping, leap-frogging, and sack racing. The latter must’ve been run in preparation for the coveted Inflaty 180 at half-time of the Highlanders game on Saturday. Besides this, tug of war was the only other event Critic really watched – or rather, that we could keep track of. Studholme allegedly won, but similar to the friends you make plans to flat with in O-Week, this reporting is subpar and maybe a bit confusing.
Carrington resident Chad told Critic that tug of war was the best event of the day, in his humble opinion. He said it was “very lively” with “lots of testosterone in the air for that one.” Chad was open-minded about other events on the O-Week agenda, saying he’s not fond of any event in particular but instead just wants to get out there and meet people. Critic reckons this is a yarn and Chad has been perfecting a design for an egg-proof toga all summer.
In the end, the freshers we spoke to concluded that sport was the real winner on the day. Daddy Grant and Uni senior management showed up to put on a hall-fees-funded sausage sizzle, in what might be an attempt to get the ODT to write a positive article about O-Week. The sausages were pretty good! Allegedly. Hopefully we don’t get accused of subterfuge for stealing hall food this time.