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Originally Posted by thatprogrammer
2056 went from not existing (2006) to picking 1114 as the #1 seed at the Toronto regional (2007). This is probably because they went from not being a team to being a team  (Note, 2056 actually did a bunch of great practices in their rookie year that I spoke to them about. PM me or *even better* someone on 2056 so you can find out about them). |
I think 2056 deserves an award for least improved team of all time, simply because they can't possibly do better.
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Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell
Admittedly this is completely biased as it is my old team, but I think 1058 fits this pretty well despite not being that well known. Plus I love talking about the team's history so this should be fun.
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I agree. 1058 has had a great few years and this year was just incredible.
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Originally Posted by smitikshah
Sam posted our team history above, but going back to OP I just wanted to highlight some things that helped us change:
1.) Biggest thing was restructuring the team. As opposed to leads in each area with one mentor to help them all which resulted in loss of communication between the subteams, we decided on one captain and one co-captain + secretary/treasury positions to facilitate school related paper work (they consulted the two mentors). The captain and co-captain communicate with the subteams (via the subteam leads)- about progress. With a small team we found the previously mentioned system doesn't work that well, and personally for our team the latter seems to be a really good fit so far.
2.) Sponsors - By showing the school that we were able to get out there and promote ourselves, the school took a bit of favoring to us.
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I'm extremely biased, but I think my former team's (4761's), business team has had one of the largest transformations in a short time. 2013 and 2014 we had no real business team and a relatively small budget. From 2014 to 2015, we tripled our budget and won the entrepreneurship award twice. From 2015 to 2016 we nearly doubled our budget again (though a lot of it was from going to CMPs) and we won a District Chairman's award and DCMP Chairman's award and our business team was able to do all of this with only 3-4 people.