In our past contests, some teams found it fun to merge towards the end to try to move up on the team leaderboard. We are in full support of healthy competition in the fight to relieve hunger! Because our system for keeping track of team scores and updating the leaderboard depends upon having the correct teams listed, we allow team mergers until approximately 48 hours before the end of the contest. To merge two or more teams, the team captains of all involved teams must notify us of your intention to merge in a group email or DM, indicate the new team name, and wait to receive acknowledgement from HCWvsHunger@gmail.com or the @HCWvsHunger Twitter account with an updated listing on the website before you publicly announce your merged team. This is necessary to ensure that no donation records get lost in the merger process and that donors are able to locate the merged team when they wish to contribute.