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I've been pondering this and I'm not sure there's an ideal solution—it's the "nuts" part that's a problem.

Depending on the size of your class, a set of surveys might work. There are a few different approaches you might take:

• Create one survey that contains all of the questions to be asked for each person/team. Then, use Add content>copy to create a copy of that survey for each person and team. You would need to edit the survey's title to indicate which person or team that survey is for. You could also use the Access tab settings to restrict surveys by team. The advantage of this is that you can use survey>Reports>Item Analysis to see aggregate answers for each student or team. The disadvantage is that setting it up will be tedious.
• If you use Learning Object Repositories (LORs), you can create a content template that contains the evaluation survey. You would then publish this template and make it available to your course. The advantage of using a content template is that you can insert tokens into the survey, such as one for the name of name of person/team being reviewed. Instead of duplicating the survey as in the previous suggestion, you would use Add content>Add from template to select the survey from the template. The next step would ask you for the value to be substituted for the token—in this case, the name of the person or team being reviewed. The advantage is that this might be faster to set up. However, you would still have one survey per person or team.
• Instead of using one survey per person or team, you could have one survey for all evaluations (for the class, or one per team). The first question on the survey would be a fill-in-the-blank item that asks the student for the name of the person or team they are reviewing. If you have a small number of student or teams, you could use a multiple-choice or drop-down question instead and provide a list of students/teams to be chosen. This would be faster than individual surveys, but prevents you from being able to use the Item Analysis to view aggregate data. You could use Utilities>Export Submissions to download a spreadsheet of responses for filtering and analysis in Excel. Another disadvantage is that there is no way to restrict a student from submitting more than one evaluation for a person/team, or an easy way of seeing if they have responded for each person/team they are supposed to.
• Another approach would be to use a discussion forum with moderation enabled. With moderation enabled, only course editors can view posts. Students can't view posts—including ones they submit—until the post has been approved by a course editor. In this scenario, you would create a post for each person/team to be reviewed (making sure it's approved) then ask each student to reply to those posts with their feedback. As the posts are moderated, they should not be visible to students. This approach is probably the least work to set up and results in an easily-scannable set of feedback. Disadvantages are that there is no aggregated numerical data as with surveys and that you must be very, very careful when setting this up so that posts are not exposed.

That's what I can think of. I would probably go with one of the survey approaches myself. It's worth noting that there's no way in ANGEL to use any of the approaches to automatically assign a grade to the person being reviewed.