Once upon a time, a little yellow single-celled organism was searching around for some food for his friends, the other little yellow single-celled organisms. He found a tree full of bananas, and it became the most holy food for them; only apples (or babbles, as they would pronounce them) came close afterwards, but the bananas stayed on top forever. They could continue to eat bananas without anyone noticing, until capitalism.

A bunch of Americans found out about the bananas, and decided to eat them as well. The organisms weren't too happy about that, but the Americans only wanted to sell bananas to them for ridiciously high prices. The organisms agreed on the deal, because they just couldn't live without bananas. The Americans founded a company called United Fruit Company, which would later be known as Chiquita Brands International.

After the deal, the little yellow single-celled organisms were living in peace again, even during both World Wars and the Cold War, but their rest was disturbed again in the 21st century when an American/French film crew decided to use them for a movie. The company, who named theirself Illumination Entertainment, had a big plan with them, and they even gave them a name that will always be recognized, the Minions!

Illumination Entertainment became a subsidiary of Universal Studios, a rich and famous American company. The film, called Despicable Me and released in 2010, became a hugh success, and the Minions became rich. A sequel would follow 3 years later, and that made them even richer. In 2015, the Minions will finally get their own movie, suprisingly called Minions, where they will finally be main characters. Despicable Me 3 is scheduled for 2017.

One of the Minions was a big fan of cycling, and decided to found a cycling team with the money he earned from the movies and the bananas. He, however, did not have enough money to it, neither did all the Minions together. They first asked Universal Studios to sponsor them. They decided to help, but they didn't offer enough money to fund the entire team. Then Chiquita came to rescue, and offered an amazing amount of money for the team, accompanied by a giant raise in the price of the bananas. Team Chiquita-Universal was born!

Main sponsors: Chiquita Brands International, Universal Studios
Minor sponsors: Illumination Entertainment, Gameloft
Equipment and Jersey: Minion Cycling Inc.
Team anthem and Team commercial:

Team game: Despicable Me: Minion Rush

General manager: Dave the Minion
Team manager: Stuart the Minion
Directeurs sportifs: Kevin the Minion, Jerry the Minion, Carl the Minion
Mascots: All 99999999999999999999999 Minions (could be more, I lost count)

Name	Nationality	Age	Average	Wage
Rashaan Bahati	USA	32	68	50000
Marco Bandiera	Italy	30	69	50000
Nathan Brown	USA	23	69	85000
Sébastien Chavanel	France	33	70	50000
Tareq Esmaeli	Qatar	27	71	50000
Mike Friedman	USA	32	70	50000
Mark Griffith	USA	28	67	55000
Chad Haga	USA	26	73	90000
Alex Howes	USA	26	71	50000
Carter Jones	USA	25	72	95000
Roman Kilun	USA	33	71	60000
Fabio Montenegro	Colombia	32	72	65000
John Murphy	USA	28	71	55000
Fredy Piamonte	Colombia	32	71	50000
Gert Rajala	Estonia	26	70	55000
Jakob Rathe	USA	23	71	70000
Bjorn Selander	USA	26	73	95000
Wim Stroetinga	Netherlands	29	70	50000
Nathan Wilson	USA	23	68	65000

	Bucks Country Classic	Win
	Cigar City Brewing Twilight GP	Top 5
	CT Team Standings	Top 10
	Tour of Utah	Top 5
	Vuelta a Guatemala	Stage win

One of the first thing you should do when you make a cycling team is creating a jersey. A few Minions were working on it, and now, they'll finally present their creation. But first, to kill the suspense, something else.

Some Minions were appointed a role within the team. Unfortunately, not all of them could be given a role as manager, so all the Minions are appointed as mascots. Watch out for yellow invasions along the route!

We also found 2 new minor sponsors. Illumination Entertainment, part of co-sponsor Universal Studios, decided to give some extra money to the team, mainly for marketing purposes. They also made an offical team anthem, and a commercial. They can be found at our website (second post in this thread, red.). The other minor sponsor will be Gameloft, a French game developer, who made our official game. It can also be found at our webstie.

So, that's it for now. Although I have the feeling I've forgotten something...
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Oh yeah, the jersey.