Photo: Luc Mackay It was all in the hopes of being the last person with their hand on a $20,000 car that they could be driving home in. That person ended up being David - but he was not planning to keep the car for himself. More than 1000 University of Canterbury students entered a competition to win a blue hybrid Suzuki Swift worth $20,000.
Ten students were drawn at random - and spent the afternoon competing for the car. Starting at 2pm, the students had to physically have a hand on the car at all times to remain in the race to win it. Student association spokesperson Luc Mackay told Checkpoint at 4.
30pm that four students remained. The others had been eliminated during a series of challenges. "It's very intense," Mackay said.
"We are eliminating them round-by-round. It's getting very, very tense down here but it's very exciting." One of the "meaner" challenges was having the competitors eat an entire raw onion - while keeping one hand firmly on the car.
"We were very generous, we took the skin off and we took the horrible ends off but yes, they had to munch through an entire raw onion." Surprisingly, Mackay said, all the students soldiered through - with one managing to eat it in just three bites. "It was absolutely insane, everyone went crazy.
" Another challenge involved the students putting on their contestant shirts with the use of just one hand. "Someone unfortunately took their hand off in that first round and they were eliminated." Photo: Luc Mackay And what about if.
