Who will win the 2026 Regatta?

Eight of the associations point (with varying degrees of conviction) primarily to themselves when it comes to who they see as the winner of this year’s Regatta.

That said, seven of the associations agree that last year’s winners from Apollonia (the Dental School’s party committee) are the ones to beat if you want to stand a chance of taking home the Golden Bedpan.

“Apollonia, in particular, still seems to be everyone’s biggest rival this year,” says Lucas Schmidt, chair of Juridisk Selskab (Legal Society). Corpus (the student social committee for Sports and Public Health Sciences) also highlights Apollonia as their main rival, particularly because Apollonia has a couple of players from last year’s winning team in the line-up.

One of them is Apollonia’s captain, Anna Victoria Schelde Røge, who hopes to repeat the 2025 victory.

“I predict that 2026 will be an exciting race. The standard is really high. Our best guess, however, is that we’ll be the ones ending up with the Golden Bedpan on the raft, but we’ve still got a couple of associations in mind. It’s definitely Psychology and Corpus. We’re hoping to beat them in a possible final,” she says.

Keep an eye on PSYK and Corpus

Several student social committees agree that PSYK (Psychology) and Corpus are both in with a chance of winning. And if you ask PSYK themselves, they also have great faith in their own abilities – almost too much, it seems.

“We definitely believe in ourselves the most. We’re afraid of just HOW good we might be. It’s scary,” PSYK writes, before they, level-headed, identify Corpus and Apollonia as their main rivals for the victory.

This year’s debutants from the science and technology association and lecture group, TÅGEKAMMERET, have also noticed the psychology students.

“From the judges’ training, it looked like PSYK or Apollonia,” says Søren Kjærsgaard, one of TÅGEKAMMERET’s Regatta managers.

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The student society for VIA Campus N, Ambrosia, which last took part in 2024, is struggling to name a clear favourite, but highlights Corpus as a possible winner of the title.

“It’s a tough one, with so many teams competing without experienced sailors this year, but a cautious guess might be Corpus,” Ambrosia points out to Omnibus.

Underdogs from FUT and PROFUS

Aside from Apollonia, Corpus and PSYK, there's a lack of potential winning bids from the associations. But at FUT (the engineering students’ social association), which has reached seven of the last eight finals, the message is clear.

“We’re going to win. Our biggest rival is Kurt Strandbar (DMJX’s student social committee), because they were such good judges last year,” says FUT sarcastically, referring to the fact that Kurt Strandbar doesn’t look like a team that’s actually competing for victory in the Regatta.

At Profus, last year’s runners-up and the student social committee at VIA Campus C, there’s also great confidence in their own abilities.

“We believe we will win the 2026 Regatta,” says Mathias Ballegaard, chair of Profus. The association has also done rather well, reaching four finals in a row, though it has not managed to take the Golden Bedpan away from AU.

Honourable mention – The track record points to Umbilicus

Somewhat surprisingly, none of the societies mentions Umbilicus (Medical Friday Bar), nor do the medical students themselves. The organisers are keeping their cards close to their chest and haven’t responded to Omnibus’s enquiry. But it would lack historical awareness to write off Umbilicus entirely, given that the club has won the regatta five times in the last eight years.

Political Science and its society, PF (Politological Society), also tend to fly under the radar compared to other associations, despite becoming second twice in the last three years. However, unlike UMBI, the Politological Society has made it clear that they are ready to take up the fight.

“We’re hoping to go all the way this year,” they say.