Fed up of that dingy, hobbit room in Botolph? Want some peace from the bin-busker right outside your window in X? Out of luck in a dark dungeon of Newnham House? NOW is your time. It's time for change.
From 9.00 am, Monday 9th March 2015 join us for LIVE updates from the biggest event in the Corpus calendar. (Well, it certainly is for poor ok263 - Oscar - who's been up late all week revamping the majestic ballot site) ROOM BALLOT AWARDS: To spice things up, this year we'll be giving awards for Room Ballot Achievements... - 'Greatest Room Review' - 'Longest Room Review' - 'Shortest Room Review' - 'Most annoying' - Person who takes longest to choose - 'Ballot Gambler' - First to go on reserve list. - Ballot tactician. - Room grab of the year - 'Most predictable' - first to choose the same room as before - Most unexpected choice - Ballot King of 'Procrastiwaiting' - 'Ballot flop': First to forget the ballot entirely (surely no-one...) - 'Best Room of the Year' (Expect a Corpuscle poll vote!) - 'Worst Room of the Year' - 'Best value room of the Year' INSIDER PREDICTION NO.1: Expect Y (library court) and P staircases (Old Court) to go fastest. All Y staircase rooms to go first - 2/1 odds. We'll also be highlighting some of the best and worst rooms available in this years ballot, scouring the twitter and facebook ballot gossip, ballot reviews and constant(ish) live updates! And PLEASE get in contact with us! Just click the button in the top right corner. :) Roomy Love xoxo P.S. if this actually takes until 9. pm on Wednesday 11th March, as the Room ballot allocates, then I'll have lost another week of work to 'procrastiwaiting'. Sooo, choose quickly!
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Another reader comment: "After the positive response to the use of the term 'procrastibaking' at JCR hustings last week, I feel a word should be invented to denote the action of sitting with a book open on the desk and a deadline rapidly becoming a little too close for comfort; furiously refreshing the ballot order; then stalking people's new rooms and subsequently doing no work. Suggestion?" 17:21
We've had several comments about the room ballot blog idea today and it's really receiving mixed reviews. One third-year commented: "I can't believe no-one's done this before! Every year, I'm glued to the room ballot and this just makes it better!" However others are less impressed. Another third-year commented: "[The room ballot blog] is possibly the single most pointless and pathetic thing I have ever seen. I just don't get it." What do you think? Let us know by contacting us here! 16:39
An anonymous rascal has sent us the following message: "Dear commentators, Your readers may be interested in this PDF: It explains how the points are allocated! Contrary to this exhibit the worst location according to the GWH point sytem is T-Street. The difference in location between T-Street and Old Court is valued in the GWH Pointing system at £130 per term! Is this fair? Lobby your JCR committee for change if you think not! (That said, if you live in T-Street, you probably spend more time walking between there and college each term than it would take you to earn £130 at minimum wage... :P) Yours faithfully, An anonymous rascal." Clearly an anonymous rascal didn't notice the bonus 72 renovation points allocated to T-street this year. 15:36
My patience is being tried again, my friends. A certain first-year lawyer is taking his sweet (or shall I say salty?) time. Make haste! For your many spectators are awaiting the next move in the massive chess game that is the room ballot! I personally recommend the random room approach. First, make your way into New Court. Then fall asleep just outside the post room. If someone wakes you up, ask their room number. Then choose that room! If it's not available, repeat until you can. 16:30
When making a spreadsheet of which rooms I'd like to live in next year I quickly realised that it was necessary to make a similar list of rooms that I would like to avoid as far as possible. Though H2 features on that list, here are some others worth a mention: D7b - bad enough that Paul Gordon will make you a cup of tea in commiseration, but is it really that bad? Anna Hollingsworth who is "the person who-chose-D7b-OMG-why-would-you-do-that" points out that "D7b is a wonderful property in a top location (technically between James Buxton and God, I guess)." There has been no higher praise. Literally. 6TS 12 - has the title of the room with the fewest number of points, though it seems the room ballot system need updating (surprise surprise) because the room now has a sink. So maybe 6TS 12 would have more points than: Benet 28 - currently occupied by Will Taylor who was at the bottom of the 2nd year ballot (poor guy). He states "If you're the unfortunate soul at the bottom of the ballot, all I can suggest is start working for a prize room..." The (out of reach) rotting fish is a key bonus, clearly. Botolph 10 - though the room has more points than most of the rooms on this list I thought it would be worth a mention since "Botolph 10 is a cave designed for hobbits." as Nikolai Bode thought. There are few positive reviews and many more negative eg "I almost cried when I found out this was my room... You probably will as well." from Mee. R4 - despite being one of the worst rooms points-wise this room has garnered some good reveiws: "a great little room!" with features like "more storage space than is accessible - literally" and "a multitude of electrical sockets". The furniture includes "1 dissident coffee table which flat out refuses to be useful in any occasion or to fit appropriately anywhere in the room - the room's much needed protagonist." Unfortunately this room has already been taken in the ballot today. I'm sure it was the coffee table that sold it. So here are some rooms I'd (personally) rather not get... But let us know which ones we're missing! 14:41
Over the years, this room, situated on the ground floor of New Court, facing Trumpington Street, has received mixed reviews. In 2012, Mike Aizlewood commented: "H2 is not a good room: some say it is the worst in college and they're probably not far wrong!" Noise, a tiny desk and being used as a rubbish bin for passers-by have been the main complaints. However, in 2013, Ed Gent seemed to see the room in a different light. He said, "I feel I need to come to the defence of this much maligned room, which is really a pretty good room but which has some unfortunate features." So who are we to believe? Let us know! See the room page here! |
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