The competition was organised by the Teekkari Committee of the predecessors of TEK, the Engineering Society in Finland and the Central Union of University Engineers and Architects. The honorary chief judge was Honorary Teekkari Ossi Törrönen.
There were five teams, representing each of the student unions or teekkari associations of the technical universities and faculties back then: Otaniemi, Oulu, Lappeenranta, Tampere and Kemistklubben from Åbo Akademi. The team from Otaniemi won.
Mandatory equipment for the teams included, among other things, counterweights due to the land uplift in the Vaasa region. As for the jäynäs, the Oulu team, for example, attached signs saying “Private event” to the doors of restaurants to promote sobriety. The Otaniemi team established the Vaasa Technical Playschool on the market square of the city.
DiA-kunta, predecessor of the TEK Magazine, reported that Vaasa had probably been chosen as the location for the jäynäs because a new technical faculty was planned in the city. Science and technology education did start in 1990.
Sources: DiA-kunta 8/1986 and Ossin paremmat lässyt (Ossi Törrönen, 1987)
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