 Walking, taxis, thumbing lifts, airplanes and other forms of transport are what over 50 teams of DCU students will be searching for this Thursday and Friday. But there's only one problem, they can't pay for any of it. DCU's Beg Barrow Steel is taking place this year on the 2nd and 3rd of February. Each team was trying to get to Rome by 5pm on Friday, with the first team there being crowned the winners. However, this year was the first year that Beg Barrow Steel went from being a society-run event to an SU-run event. So Beg Barrow Steel was an event that I set up, it was always my concept and something that I wanted to grow and see where we could go with it. Obviously in the first year we started off going to Cork, but I always had the idea and vision of it going across Europe and I just wanted to take that with me and next year we'll see where we go as well. It's a transition that'll be going on for a few years, but I've given a lot to ESOC over the years. Many events at their own have come from me, so it's yeah, so that's why it's kind of my personal thing Beg Barrow Steel is, but Beg Barrow Steel, or sorry, ESOC will survive, whatever they should be able to anyway. There's a lot of order events on throughout the year, so they should be able to keep themselves occupied. Many of the students taking part have similar emotions about how the task will go. Probably scared about getting no money, people might just not give us money. They've been stuck in an airport, not been able to go out of it. The checkpoints aren't at the airport, it's like to go to Big Bend, not to London, just to get from the airport to Big Bend, back to the airport, the train station, or whatever, to get on like collecting money. Then obviously just the whole trail of it's gonna be class. Getting stranded somewhere with nothing, our battery's running dead, having no money, having nowhere to go, only God to help us. The next couple of hours I'm most scared of not actually making it, or not like getting anyone to help us out. But the thing that I'm most excited about is the fact that we don't know where we're going, and we don't know what's gonna happen, like I couldn't end up anywhere, you know, so I'm excited. I'd have fairly dodged your breakfast sign, but scared of having a long journey without a battery, wouldn't know what's gonna happen. But I'm just posing to get there early, hope we get there. Over 50 teams of two will leave DCU's new bar this morning, in the hopes of being in Rome tomorrow evening. Each team has raised at least €250 from November, and it has been DCU's most successful year with the bag borrower seal. The people with the most amount of money will get a 15, 10, or 5 minute head start depending on how much they raise. Well, we had about 1,600 raised when we got the head start, but now we have over 2,000 raised. So we're continuing as we go along. Even today, we know people are gonna donate more money, so as we go along, there's gonna be more donations, hopefully, as the fundraiser continues. As they were saying, it's how we use the five minutes, so if we use it wisely, then hopefully it'll benefit us then in the long run. And it'll just leave less panic than 200 people scrambling off at the same time. It'll be easy to get out there quicker and on our own. Emily Crowdy, DCTV News.