Maya muttered to herself as she watched her team bickering.“What was that?” Wayne asked smugly.“Nothing.”Thirty minutes into the elimination challenge and her group had already fallen noticeably behind. The contestants had to work within their teams to design and decorate a cake for a client’s retirement party. Two representatives from each team had met with the client and taken the ideas back to the others. While Lucia and Alice had handled that task, Shannon and Damien had begun gathering balls of fondant, layers of cake for carving, and other supplies.The problem for Team Vaughn began when the four of them got behind one worktable. They disagreed drastically over design, taking up far too much time deciding what to do. Then when they finally started work, they were too rushed. Damien’s fondant work was sloppy, and the faster he tried to go the worse it got. Alice tried to micro-manage the team and as a result didn’t seem to be getting any of her own tasks done. Shannon let Alice walk all over her, first in the design phase and then while implementing the idea.
