The DS Apprentice: The Boardroom - Week Four

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r0ry101

28-06-2011

Welcome to the fourth boardroom for the DS Apprentice.

Shortly, we'll be finding out who won the task and the losing team will then fight for survival.

I just would also like to say thank you so much to aliyah for covering for Pete while he was away, but he is now back for the boardroom.

The boardroom will begin shortly.

cheekypeter

28-06-2011

Yes thank you Aliyah, and good luck candidates.

anactoria

28-06-2011

Good luck to everybody on both teams!

Tyjet

28-06-2011

Good luck, guys!

gav016

28-06-2011

Good luck

pothuthic

28-06-2011

Good luck all

r0ry101

28-06-2011

Well, certainly an interesting task and one which I think challenged teams, you both did well but one of you has done better, but first

Team Footprint, how did the task go?
Good team leader?

Tyjet

28-06-2011

I think the task went absolutely brilliantly for us, much better than I was expecting it to after I read the list of items!

gav016

28-06-2011

He was excellent. Really organized, good at motivating everyone and not afraid of working hard. No complaints from me at all.

Carlisle156

28-06-2011

The task went really well.

r0ry101

28-06-2011

Originally Posted by Tyjet:
“I think the task went absolutely brilliantly for us, much better than I was expecting it to after I read the list of items! ”

Sounds you were very happy with the task; how did you go about finding items? Divide up who gets what or have everyone look for all items? Both Carlisle and Gav helpful?

Tyjet

28-06-2011

Originally Posted by r0ry101:
“Sounds you were very happy with the task; how did you go about finding items? Divide up who gets what or have everyone look for all items? Both Carlisle and Gav helpful?”

Everyone looked for everything and if we found an item cheaper, we just updated our little list. Both Carlisle and gav were very helpful, yes

r0ry101

28-06-2011

Originally Posted by Tyjet:
“Everyone looked for everything and if we found an item cheaper, we just updated our little list. Both Carlisle and gav were very helpful, yes ”

Sounds like you're very happy, let's see if you can pull it off with the results.

Hermes, how did the task go for you? Good team leader?

pothuthic

28-06-2011

I think we did well yes, I tried hard as PM and hope I do well

anactoria

28-06-2011

I think the task went better than we expected - we sourced all the items at (I like to think) the lowest prices possible, and I think whether we win or lose, we can be proud of it?

As a team leader, Poth was initially surprisingly good - he was enthusiastic and he came up with ideas about where to look. However, I did feel that this faded quite a bit, and he didn't seem to have much strategy.

pothuthic

28-06-2011

Yep I did go off a bit yesterday due to a drama exam, I hope the others liked me as pm

r0ry101

28-06-2011

Originally Posted by pothuthic:
“I think we did well yes, I tried hard as PM and hope I do well ”

How did you organise it all Poth? Everyone look for everything or people take certain items?

Originally Posted by anactoria:
“I think the task went better than we expected - we sourced all the items at (I like to think) the lowest prices possible, and I think whether we win or lose, we can be proud of it?

As a team leader, Poth was initially surprisingly good - he was enthusiastic and he came up with ideas about where to look. However, I did feel that this faded quite a bit, and he didn't seem to have much strategy.”

I see, do you feel Poth ran out of steam a bit?

pothuthic

28-06-2011

Originally Posted by r0ry101:
“How did you organise it all Poth? Everyone look for everything or people take certain items?

I see, do you feel Poth ran out of steam a bit?”

I did Everyone look for everything,We focused on one or two of the items towards the end.

pothuthic

28-06-2011

I am actually starting to enjoy this show

I honestly thought I have settled in better now

anactoria

28-06-2011

Originally Posted by r0ry101:
“I see, do you feel Poth ran out of steam a bit?”

Maybe? I do get that he has other commitments, obviously, and school should always come before DS. But I think he gave up fairly early - he said that we didn't need to look any more yesterday evening - and he didn't seem that enthusiastic when he was here yesterday?

That said, I still appreciate his efforts on Sunday night - I think he pointed us in the right direction.

r0ry101

28-06-2011

Originally Posted by anactoria:
“Maybe? I do get that he has other commitments, obviously, and school should always come before DS. But I think he gave up fairly early - he said that we didn't need to look any more yesterday evening - and he didn't seem that enthusiastic when he was here yesterday?

That said, I still appreciate his efforts on Sunday night - I think he pointed us in the right direction.”

Wow, didn't need to look yesterday evening? Poth, that doesn't seem great when you still have so much time left, seems like a very bad idea!

pothuthic

28-06-2011

Originally Posted by r0ry101:
“Wow, didn't need to look yesterday evening? Poth, that doesn't seem great when you still have so much time left, seems like a very bad idea!”

I made a mistake with that, I just said that i was happy with all the items but if they felt we could improve then still look

r0ry101

28-06-2011

Ok, I think it's time we got some results.

First up, Peter and Elaine, can you give the figures for how much Footprint and Hermes spent on the Origin CD, the Kilt and the bottle of Jagermeister

pothuthic

28-06-2011

Nerves :/

cheekypeter

28-06-2011

TEAM FOOTPRINT (Tyjet's team)

Jagermeister (£12.99)
Origin (53p),
Kilt (£6.59)

TOTAL SO FAR: £20.11

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