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i dont think so but if i were to name it it would be VIRTUOSO meaning winner

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yea
we kinda wanted to to be FACON X but one of our mentors once said
"its the FALCONATOR!!!!" so that stuck

-team 270

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You could name it Smokey this year... or Flame... :D

j/k don't throw that wrench! :eek:

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One of my FTC teams spent weeks struggling to get a problematic design to work. Finally, less than two weeks before our first event, they stripped the robot down to its components and started from scratch. The name of their new robot? "Plan B". I loved it.

"Captain Hook" has a big steel -- well, you know -- hook, and "Chopsticks" picks up rings using a gripping device that looks like -- any guesses? -- chopsticks. "Plan B" is funnier, though.

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each year we(team 418) try and name our robots so that it correlates with the game or robot in some way, and so that is has a 'f' or "f" sound in it. we then replace that "f" wiht a "PH" standing for out team name: Purple Haze
2008: ZePHyr
2007: PHunky's Dillema
2006: Mary PHender
2005: RaPHael
2004: PHlappy

we are still waiting for the year to name it "PHatty" or "PHailbot"

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Team Daytona's entry for Overdrive is (rather naturally) the
Robot of Tomorrow (a.k.a RoT).

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Ours is Blizzard IX. Next year it will be Blizzard X. It helps when your name gets known and stays stable.

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2004: RoboCharles (Our school's name is The Charles Finney School)
2005: Optimus Prime (?!?)
2006: Charles III
2007: Charles IV
2008: Charles V

Yay for one less thing to fret over!

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We've been making a serious effort to make our robots resemble various animals. The names correspond to each theme.

2007 - Tube-A-Saurus Rex
2008 - BallFrog

Simply putting eyes on our robots has given them tremendous personality, and made them more popular with our sponsors, community, and visitors to FIRST events. We have hundreds of pictures of little kids petting our robots. Those are good pictures to have for the Chairmen's Award... :)

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Yes, I like that not only in a robot, but a team. Having a consistent yet slightly different name each year will help with your reputation.

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ours has been Wiki since last season.

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We always come up with a name for our bot, usually having something to do with the bot itself. In 2004 when the robot was practically held together with zip-ties we picked up the name Zippy. In 2005 when a victor shorted and started sparking on just about our fist time testing the completed bot we named it Sparky. 06 because we used oh so many zip-ties again and our bot was quite box shaped we went with Zippy-Cubed or Z3 for short. Last year we considered it basically a miracle that the bot both got done on time and also managed to be underweight so we went with Lucky. This year when we managed to finish the robots design we already started making jokes about what to name the bot, using a 16-pound hammer to hit a ball over the overpass was quite distinct, and because we just love trying to dance we named this years bot Hammertime.

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last year our robot was princess consuela.

this year, heathcliff southie.

southie after the woman who started the FIRST robotics program at our school..and heathcliff after the most beautiful person in the world.

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1646;s robot doesn't really have an official name yet. I am personally pushing for the name Victor, but Scopinox is floating around too.

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Team is Sparky 384 and each years robot is a version of Sparky (2.0, 3.0, and so on into infinity). Sparky was chosen because our bot was so "hand made" the first year we thought sparks would just shoot out of the back of it.