A year ago, Warwick came away from the Global MBA Trophy in Athens with a 15th place, and dropped to third in the league.  A year on, they have a chance of overtaking London Business School to go top if they can beat them on the waters off Rhodes.

Third- place in the league Cranfield will miss out on having the same chance.

Meanwhile, Insead and MIP are strongly fancied this year: If they can do well here, repeat their 2010 results in the ABC cup and put on some sort of a result at Cranfield, then the Sailing League competition could be wide open.

The Global MBA Trophy, now in its sixth edition moves from its long time home in the waters off Piraeus, Athens to the historic and beautiful island of Rhodes in the Dodecanese.  The regatta village opens on Thursday 28th, with racing starting on Friday 29th, and the prize – giving and gala dinner on Saturday 30th.

Crucial to the MBA sailing league, the regatta moves for the first time to a two – division format, meaning that there are only 10 boats competing for the trophy,  and so only 10 points on offer to the participants and crucially, only 11 points to those who miss out.

The full list of participants, along with their current league position, and number of points (low points is best) before Rhodes is shown below:

Cranfield, Bocconi rise,  Rotterdam fall down the rankings.

An all British podium:

1 London Business School

2. Warwick Business School

3. Cranfield Business School

Despite their very poor showing at the Bocconi regatta, London Business School had enough in the bag to be able to weather their 18th place and still end 2010 as MBA SAiling League champions.

Bocconi’s first place improved on their 2009 result of 10th, and means that they rise six places into the top 10, lying 8th overall.  Cranfield’s second, along with their 5th in the Cranfield regatta means that they rise five places to take a spot on the end of year podium.

Warwick’s steady performances through the year, and their 5th place in Sta Margharita earn them second overall.

On the downside, Rotterdam give up their second place, and drop to 4th as their 19th place in Italy wrecks their chances.

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