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Prospect:
I really don't think this team should have lost. However, I think the right two were picked for the bottom two - with only two posts apiece (at time of writing, 16:48 :p) it's pretty difficult to choose between you two.

Kazanne, you came online quite late into the task and told the others that you would have helped with the graphics but saw that someone else had covered that. Given my comments about the slightly poor standard of them, I'd have maybe liked to have seen you at least offer some designs to the group - although I understand this may have offended them, they could have just been suggestions, because right now I can't see much evidence of your effort in this task. I wasn't really sure about your suggestion of a swimming animal either for a tennis team, unless you were just putting out a general sports team idea - in which case I was impressed with your idea to incorporate it with a water safety message.

Lucas, in your two posts one of them was the idea of a soft toy for children, but you admitted in this post that this was an "easy" market to use. The other post contained an "oops xo" with regard to your poor effort. Therefore I wasn't too dazzled with your input in this task. For this reason alone, you're fired.

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Prospect:
Flamingjoe - 9 posts isn't really enough for a task, but at least it wasn't three. When I went through the thread all I could surmise of your posts is that you were commenting on other teammates' efforts - without contributing any of your own. I really want to see you contribute something of your own next time, now that you've survived.

Raph - I find this decision difficult because your team gave warnings as to when you wouldn't be available, whereas the other team had members that were completely AWOL and it wasn't fair on them. You made a telling error when you posted later on in this task: you said "you guys did really well". Even this alone suggested to me that you weren't really a part of the team effort here, and for that reason, you're fired.

For our sports team we decided to choose a team called Cowes Sports FC, they are located in the Isle of Wight and play their football in the Isle of Wight Football Association, which is a division of the Hampshire Football Association. Their football strip consists of blue and white stripes, which explains why the mascot is wearing the shirt he is. Our mascot himself is a very dashing young guy that goes by the name of Calvin Cow. The member we chose to help us out for this task was Josy, who helped us out with the graphics side of things as none of us knew much about that.

Calvin:

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Merchandise:

The first piece of merchandise we decided to go for was a Football, for obvious reasons. As you can see good old Calvin is on there along with the clubs badge.

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The second piece was for a Top Trumps Cards set. Most of the top football teams have them and they are really popular. A great centre back that I have seen in action many of times for Cowes Sports is featured on this particular card.

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Our third piece of merchandise is a Flask. We all know that alcohol is overpriced at football stadiums, plus you can only buy it before the match kicks off and at half time, well now the millions of Cowes supporters around the Isle of Wight don't need to worry about such a thing as they can fill up their flask before they leave the house and sneak it in unnoticed. As the Turtle himself once said:

"It's a cold, rainy day. The sky is grey, there's a nip in the air. You've gone to watch your favourite team, the Cowes, play. You have taken your three children with you, all are a little bit hyperactive from the coca cola you bought them (despite mum saying no fizzy drinks, but she's not there). So you buy them a toy, football, and keyring each to keep them quiet and use the hip flask (full of whiskey) to ease the pain of the annoying kids, Cowes losing at half time and to warm your chilled body up. "

We also wanted something a bit different.

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And last, but not least, we have a keyring. The Keyring itself is a map of the Isle of Wight, where Cowes Sports are based, and you will also see Calvin having a good time there in the centre of the County.

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