Awesome...

The smaller team has been growing and maturing.

Zach and Trevor used template method to refactor our "balancing" code that has been around since the dawn of time. They figured out the template method refactoring and how to apply it.

The Mordor team (as christened by our brother team, the Shire) applied the "Compose Method" refactoring (from refactoring to patterns) all week. The point about the content of the method being at the same level is a good way to think about this. Many of our methods became smaller and more readable.