Loukas' Entry 
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Drew's Story So Far..
Fresh and feeling roaring to go from his victory of Elimination 9, Drew began his Apprentice journey on a bad note. Kate asked the group to get into a list from 1 to 13 for the first task, Hot Topics. Initially Drew asked to be 7th on the list but Lewis accidentally left Jordan off the final list and put Drew down twice instead, both in 3rd and 7th. In the rush to fit Jordan in, Drew was left 3rd meaning he had to create a buzzing thread in the serious debates area of the forum, which he declared a war zone. After the first rocky 20 minutes of the competition, a post by Kate changed Drew's chances, after reflecting on the category Kate thought it was best not to involve serious debates and stated that the category would change to general chat. Off Drew went to general chat where he made an excellent thread all about the different breeds of dogs, which got 60 replies.
Who could resist a face like that?*
Drew remained in the competition after the group were asked to vote for who they thought should leave
Then came the teams, with Jake being captain of Team Elite, it was inevitable Jake would pick Drew first. With Drew thinking Jake had picked a great team the all male team began with Task 2, The Bus. Drew thought the team would benefit from a unique idea, an idea the British public have never seen before - tailgating. All systems were go on the tailgating idea until InOne announced his idea of a café bus blowing Drew's plans right out of the water. With Drew feeling slightly annoyed that he had wasted loads of time and effort into an idea that the group didn't go for, he headed off for the night at 12:07am. The next day Drew began work on creating a menu and a logo for the café bus. Team Elite lost the first task after only presenting Drew's menu and logo. Drew easily escaped the boardroom as his work made up Team Elite's presentation.
Task 3 was called Let's Talk Business and called for each team to create business cards for the mods, admin and Lord ShuGrr himself. Team Elite had a rough start to this task after nobody came forward to be project manager, this lead to loosing a massive chunk of time. Eventually Lucas put himself up and stated that everyone should all to go with whatever we felt comfortable with. Drew was left confused, as he wasn't sure what information should be on a business card. He decided to create business cards for Marc & MTVN. Lord ShuGrr liked Drew's work however his team lost yet again, bring down team morale.
With Team Elite down yet another member, Natalie was asked to break up the testosterone by jumping ships and joining the team. Task 4 called for the teams to work together to devise a brand new original forum game, the task was called Get Your Game On. This was finally Drew's time to shine as he put himself up for project manager. His first idea was a cooking based game, Drew thought it would be hard to judge as there is obviously no form of tasting photos online, instead he opted for it to be judged on presentation, humor, creativity etc. This however was not the final idea, Drew asked the team to keep thinking then Jake then came up with the teams final idea TiBB Monopoly. Project Manager Drew thought for the idea to work the team would have to do loads of explaining about how it could work. After 22 pages of discussion and work the team were happy with what they created! Drew showed strong characteristics of a good team leader in this task and it paid off as Team Elite won the poll with a huge 83.33%.
Task 5 saw the team choose a forum member to research and present a TiBB version of 'this is your life' about them, in a task was simply called This Is Your Life. Drew quickly suggested the group do it about Z, which was a great idea because Z was happy to share, even calling himself an born oversharer. As work was almost complete the atmosphere in the Elite camp began to turn sour as Drew wouldn't show me the work he created. The group discussed nothing about the layout, the colours or anything. Drew had decided he would do it single handedly. Drew even accused me of causing drama LOL
Team Elite were then no more as the final 7 came together to form Team Grandeur. Task 6 saw the team members split into subteams, 2 groups of 2 and a group of 3. They had to create a Pitch to present to a group of 'investors' (forum members) for a new feature to replace the defunct Music Box in the Fun and Games part of the forum. Drew's team consisted of himself, Natalie and Jake, they called themselves Team Ozil. Drew began the discussion by stating 'There's quite a wide option of things we could do with this.' Then their discussion then became a little too quiet and even Lord ShuGrr had to step in.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord ShuGrr
Oi, you lot, get your bloody arses in gear, this is a bloody disgrace. Bloody bloody bloody.
But in all srsness y'all are gonna have to work like crazy tonight to even match the other teams. |
The subteam then got their fingers out of their arses and finally began working, with the deadline looming the team went into over drive. Drew's idea was to merge ******** and Last.fm. Their last minute work pulled off as they got 24 points from the investors, however this wasn't enough to keep them out of the boardroom as me and Jordan won with 28 points. Drew survived the boardroom and was ready to begin task 7.
Task 7 was a real adventure, no seriously, it was called Ad Venture. Candidates became an 'ad agency' and were asked to create a series of adverts for TiBB. The group decided to split the workload evenly with everyone getting to produce an advert each. Drew's role in the task was to create an advert for the ever popular Pub Quiz however Drew had felt like he had pulled the short straw. Drew was unable to produce the work, he wasn't on the computer over the weekend because he had been busy. This led to Pothuthic finishing Drew's advert to get himself some more points. Drew survived the boardroom yet again but this time by the skin of his teeth, if it wasn't for Vanessa's sudden exit he could have been toast.
Will Drew survive another firing? How far can he go? We'll soon find out
* me