mBezel victorious in tightly contested York Apprentice
Produced by York Student Television, released under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license
The Apprentice York 2009 reached its conclusion on Saturday night, as Team mBezel took home the top prize of £1,000 to split between its four members.
After nearly a week of testing challenges, Team Vivacity followed as runners-up.
The winning team held a successful ‘Woodstock Warm-up’ event in Vanbrugh bar. The event ran in competition with the ‘Mr. York’ contest held in Derwent bar by Vivacity, and the Vibe Jazz and Arts evening held in B Henry’s by Calibre.
The event ran by mBezel won by a margin of only 14 people.
Suraj Gangani, President of York Entrepreneurs, hailed the quality of the event. He said: “This year’s event was absolutely awesome, the teams were excellent and it came down to a nail biting finale with just fourteen points between competitors.”
Despite achieveing general success this year, the York Apprentice event did not escape criticism. On the Tuesday of the competition the teams were challenged to provide a service on campus. Despite the teams achieving approval from the York Entrepeneurs’ Committee, many were later rejected on the basis that they hadn’t fulfilled the criterea of the task, leading to what meant contestants felt was a confusing end to the day.
Following a champagne reception launch event, that featured speeches by former series two Apprentice contestant Syed Ahmed, Pro-Vice Chancellor Dr. Chris Henshall and the Lord Mayor of York John Galvin, the teams engaged in a range of challenges throughout the week.
In addition to the services task, teams were challenged to market a non-alcoholic drink brand and create a television advert for it.
YUSU President-Elect Tim Ngwena, a member of winning team mBezel, said: “It feels good to have won the competition.. so there’s a great sense of relief and satisfaction in winning.”
He continued: “As for winnings, I’ve just finished my degree so I’m sure I’ll find something to spend it on over the next month.”
Credits for YSTV: Anna Bucks, Alex Muller and Chris Northwood
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You only got one movement of my pec dance and 20 seconds of Dan’s brain! To be fair he is an intelligent guy, shame about his fourth place finish though…
Guten Tag, liebe Ventilatoren.
Of all the talent shows I’ve entered and judged, I’ve never been involved in one with so much on offer from my fellow contestants!
I must Congratulate every competitor for their efforts. I am not ashamed to have lost to such talent! But the most important value I took from that night was the way in which those, like myself, who didn’t come in the top three handled their defeat! Especially the man with the biggest ‘brain’ on campus, Dan Taylor I believe his name was. Apparently he is almost a big a celebrity as I am (almost) and must be used to both success and rejection. This was obvious from his reaction at being told he was to finish fourth; the selfless appreciation he showed for those who had supported him all night (There were alot of people clapping for him. A slow ‘tumbleweed’ clap in England is a good response right?).
He even appeared to be crying at one point (I can only assume in admiration of his more successful opponents), and then red faced, teary eyed had to run out of the bar because he just couldn’t control his emotions (even more admiration for his opponents I suspect).
What a man! I will remember such humility if I am unsuccessful at the next ‘Der Deutsche Fernsehpreis’!
Remember; when the Sun’s out, Gun’s out!
I love you all as much as you love me!
The Hoff
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Yours
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