Team Selections
As with the previous season of the show, Trump hand-picked the candidates. Furthermore, Trump personally selected Tarek and Allie to be the very first project managers and to draft their own teams before the first task is issued. This is the first time in the history of The Apprentice that the teams were not formed by a certain set of characteristics, such as gender (Seasons 1, 2, 4) or educational status (Season 3).
Because this process was conducted after only preliminary introductions, some reasoning for certain selections had been somewhat arbitrary—such as Tarek picking Dan because he was a father, or Allie picking Tammy because she had the qualities of "a real tiger". For the first time since the original season of the show, the successful project managers would not exempt from firing, therefore everyone had to do a satisfactory job in order to be safe.
Using alternate selections, one at a time, both of them picked their respective teams in the following order:
| Synergy | Gold Rush | |
| PM | Allie | Tarek |
| 1 | Tammy | Dan |
| 2 | Andrea | Bryce |
| 3 | Michael | Charmaine |
| 4 | Sean | Leslie |
| 5 | Roxanne | Theresa |
| 6 | Stacy | Lee |
| 7 | Pepi | Summer |
| 8 | Brent | Lenny |
Read more about this topic: The Apprentice (U.S. Season 5)
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