Up to Leeds at the end of last week for a pitch. Plenty of competition on this one as we’re up against DDB, CHI, Fallon and possibly one other (some reports suggest). We got the train up to Leeds the night before so as not to have last minute travel worries. Bumped into Fallon in the hotel bar – they had the same plan. They were pitching before us in the morning but they’re clearly a lot more rock’n’roll than we are. Most of us were in bed by midnight but the Fallon team were still drinking at 2.00am, according to the W+K hard core boozers.

While Fallon were at the clients’ offices pitching, we had a chance for a last presentation run-through at the hotel. Here are Chris Groom, Jon Campbell and Matt Boffey getting their game faces on. Or something like that.

Ben boring Boffey:

We should hear later this week who’s through to the next round. After sending Boffey to sleep in the run-through, Ben’s performance picked up significantly in the actual pitch, so don’t write us off just yet. Fingers crossed…