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=== Selection Process ===
The selection process for the Games is called ''The Race'' (also known as ''La Course''). It constitutes in a list of events that the executive committee attend and expect people who want to do the Games to go to. The events vary between parties, improvisation or trivia practices, sports days, etc. To participate in the race, students must buy a race shirt and fill out an interest form. Another way of getting selected to be a part of the delegation is by getting involved in the preparation of the machine or entrepreneurship competition.
== Traditions ==
=== '''Jean Jacket''' ===
[[File:Eng Games 2019 Academic Competition.jpg|thumb|Delegates wearing their jean jackets, as they should.]]
At Eng Games, every school has a specific item, often called ''delegation item'', that participants are required to wear at all times and at all events. Other school's items include a kilt for Concordia, a bandana for Sherbrooke, a flag for Polytechnique. McGill's item is a sleeveless jean jacket with the McGill Eng Games logo in the back. Participants can then add all sorts of patches and pins to it to make it their own. Jean jackets are the only delegation item that isn't identical for every delegate. In fact, the jackets are usually bought at thrift stores or brought by a delegate, which causes the jackets to vary in color, size and design.
=== '''Grape Day''' ===
Each school that participates in Eng Games also has a ''delegation drink'' for which the recipe is kept only by the chief(s) and parrains. McGill's drink is called Grape Day and can typically be found at the Eng Games [[Blues Pub]] at the end of the summer, and at any other event organized by Eng Games throughout the year. Like every delegation drink, it is mixed in an 18L water barrel and usually passed around the room by someone who is considered in charge of the Grape Day. Furthermore, when students are given their jean jacket at the delegation inauguration, they are invited to drink some Grape Day as a symbol of their entrance in the MGCIL family.