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= Great Math Team T-Shirt War of 2021 = The Great Math Team T-Shirt War of 2021 was an armed conflict between multiple members of the Morse High School Math Team during November 2021. Conflict initially centered around the design for the Math Team T-shirt, although it subsequently evolved into a class war. Although fighting has ceased, the conflict is considered by most historians to have never been fully resolved.

Background
In early November 2021, Declan Wright, an esteemed chaos theoretician and political analyst, independently began work on a design for an official Math Team T-shirt. Either subsequently or simultaneously, Otto Hibl, then-President of the Morse Class of 2025, began an alternative design. Historians are currently undecided on whether this was an example of historical "convergent evolution", or if President Hibl wanted to counter Wright's growing influence among the Class.

By November 5th, both parties had finished their initial designs, and began advocating that other members of the Math Team purchase theirs as opposed to the other. At this stage, the conflict was merely a propaganda war, but as it was the beginning of direct contention between the belligerents, historians place November 5th as the conflict's official beginning.

Conflict
The first 10 days of the Great Math Team T-Shirt War proceeded with only minor fighting on the outskirts of the social sphere. However, on Monday, November 15, Wright sent an email to the entire Math Team, including Hibl, where he claimed victory and requested that the Math Team order his T-shirt.

The Morse Math Team was led (officially) by Jeff Schurz, whose position as "Coach" had roughly equivalent powers to a chancellor. At this point, Schurz stepped in and endorsed Wright's design, likely in an effort to bring a swift end to the conflict and avoid all-out war.

However, this was ineffective. Tensions rose over the next two days as Hibl realized that his T-shirt was 50% more expensive than Wright's, and that public opinion was swiftly turning against him. At this point, he hastily assembled the Anti-Communist League and ordered a full deployment. Late on Wednesday, November 17, under the cover of darkness, Hibl sent out a covert email strike, titled "The fight for freedom against Declan's plan to turn math team to communism". The strike was sent to most of the Math Team, and he stated the following:

With this, the Great Math Team T-Shirt War had fully evolved into a class conflict, Hibl's Anti-Communist League representing the aristocracy, while Wright's more affordable option was aimed towards the lower classes. The next day, in an attempt to broker a ceasefire agreement, Captain Iris Hennin founded the Math Team Group Chat. Her Alternative Liberation Front presented a third option. These attempts initially failed, with Wright giving a long, impassioned speech on the battlefield about the merits of his proposal, and Hibl retaliating with a brief assault.

Resolution
NGO operative Natalie Emmerson attempted to bring both parties to a mediated discussion, tentatively endorsing Hennin's Alternative. Hibl finally relented, initially seeming to agree to the terms of the newly-created Emmerson Treaty in its original form, which proposed to drop the issue entirely. Wright, however, refused to back down. He eventually agreed to a discussion of terms with Hennin, while remaining hesitant to sign any agreement without an overwhelming majority of public opinion. Fighting ceased, and while Wright continued to protest the results, historians are mostly in agreement that this constituted an unofficial conditional surrender, thus ending the conflict.