In this vein, one of the final events is a team competition, Iron Chef-style, pairing students with guest chefs.
That would see them come into the Celtic League umbrella with a 15-team competition featuring seven home games and seven away for each side.
Focusing its efforts to build a strong internal IT team amidst intense competition looks like a wise move.
Their club is, in some ways, a farm team for the competition.
But Bates is one of many who believe Murray - now a main man in the GB Davis Cup squad following Tim Henman's retirement from the team competition - will go a lot, lot further.
Compact ball courts that had seen raucous competition of a team sport played like soccer went silent.
Hearts have never played the Catalan giants and have never beaten a team from Spain in European competition.
Ba's former side Newcastle United became the first high profile team to exit a competition famous for upsets.
You even had a team take part in robotics competition so students can learn with their hands by building and creating.
The Gallaghers showed me wonderful newspaper cuttings evoking a vanished world in which the factory hooter was sounded triumphantly to celebrate the village team's victory in a competition in Belfast.
Elder, who has previously played League football for Brentford and Brighton, has now targeted a return to the Shrewsbury first team - but knows he faces stiff competition for a place.
"I think we can do it because I don't see a strong team like Arsenal in this competition, " said Hinkel.
Europe has won five of the last six installments of the biannual team competition, including a stunning comeback victory at the last meeting in Chicago last year, when McGinley was vice captain to Jose Maria Olazabal.
Warren Gatland's side opened with a 26-19 defeat by Grand Slam-chasing England - the only unbeaten team in the competition - but recovered with a 24-6 win against Scotland at Murrayfield before winning in Rome.
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While many offer leg support, a team from University of Pennsylvania recently took silver in an engineering competition for its TitanArm prototype, a powered upper-body exoskeleton that, as the picture above shows, allows you to out-rep anyone at the gym.
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There's nothing better than competition to improve a football team quickly.
This led Four-Kings Intel, favourites for the Counter-Strike competition, to field a team with some members that do not usually play for the professional clan.
Britain is entering a team for the first time in the Warrior Games - a Paralympic-style competition - and the prince is known to be a supporter of the competition, after he met UK troops who took part as individuals last year.
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Structured in a rally format instead of the more tradition, non-stop Baja endurance competition, the NORRA Mexican 1000 offers Team SRI a unique opportunity to demonstrate the capabilities of the EV1 thanks its multi-day schedule and a series of off-road Special Stages linked via on-road transit sections.
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One of the oldest shops in England is bucking high street trends and competition from supermarkets thanks to a team of Norfolk volunteers.
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Bopara is the role-model for the next generation - a boy who scrambled 10 team-mates together from his inner London state school to enter a Capital Kids competition run by the Lord's Taverners, which they won.
Saints, who are chasing their fourth win in a row in the competition, ran in eight tries in a one-sided win over the team they beat in the 2007 final.
But, as a team, we had a lot of fun getting outside the workplace and enjoying a little friendly competition.
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That's the bright idea of a team of researchers from MIT, anyway, and it's now been shortlisted in a competition designed to find a new tourist attraction to be built in London for the 2012 Olympics.
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Izbasa averaged 15.191 to give Romania gold, a consolation after winning bronze in Tuesday's team competition.
Nova is locked in a competition with David Phelps to be the team's fifth starter.
Despite going into the final day of competition with a commanding lead, Team USA could not hold off the inspired comeback of Team Europe.
The team have not reached that stage of a major competition either 50-over or 20-over cricket since 1992 but Pietersen believes they have a good chance following warm-up victories over Bangladesh and South Africa.
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Poulter was instrumental in Europe's comeback against the U.S. in the latest installment of the biannual team competition, as they recovered from a 10-6 deficit to retain the trophy in what was known as 'The Miracle of Medinah' in October.
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