That last finding evaporates the hope that the Department of the Built Environment has this year managed to rake in a very special cohort of students. So it is not so much thanks to the soundness of the constructions which the freshers had to fabricate this afternoon as a business case, but to new rules of play.

In the past the constructions were subjected to water for prolonged periods of time and disintegrated one by one. Now the groups rush towards the firemen at a tremendous pace so that nearly all of the structures are spared a watery Armageddon. While this ensures that the participants are not soaked through and through, the event does lose some of its entertainment value.

Nor do the constructions seem to suggest that there is a new Gaudí or Le Corbusier now showing himself or herself to the world at an early stage. What it boils down to in the end is that you construct something by means of a few pieces of cardboard, a strip of plastic and some duct tape that can resist a 10 Bar jet of water. Although this occasionally results in a fine pointed shape, some groups do not get any further than holding up no more than a simple cardboard rectangle.

Group 15 actually succeeds in coming up with a fun variant of this. After several meters that group splits up into two subgroups, each hanging on to their own piece of cardboard, so that the waylayers manning the hoses get confused and both groups reach the finish line virtually unscathed.

Extra materials could have been earned that afternoon through games. What the spectators get to see by way of results, is a row of miniature hats, six water guns arranged like a firing squad and a bunch of inflatable hammers, which add little sturdiness to the constructions, however.

The day’s yell: "Yell, yell, yell, we're doing it very well!".

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