[thoughtful]

This year as we are a second year team the captain (me) was chosen by a teacher and some senior student. Though i think it should be done by student vote, with a set rules for qualification. THe nice thing about our team is that we have these sub team leaders and a board like thing, but every sub team leader has to approve his decision by his team through a vote and than he tells us what his team wants.

This works pretty good, most of the people are happy and involved. For decisions that whole team cannot be involved in mostly management decisions the board or the sub leaders and captain can decide through voting.

In my opinion democracy is always the best, but make sure your team doesnt go on the wrong track.