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Team 3753's robot is named Charizard, for 2 reasons:
1) it's our third year, so we wanted a C name
2) when it came time for top 8 picking, we wanted teams to be able to yell "Charizard, we choose you!"

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Orion sometimes called Onion

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Graham is right about Team 1676's first four years. A secondary reason for naming the 2006 bot Clyde was to honor Walt "Clyde" Frazier of the New York Knicks, since that robot shot basketballs (Aim High). The naming meeting usually happens after build week 5, because by then everybody on the team can see the shape of the bot.
2009 - Apollo, in keeping with the Lunacy theme. That was also the first year we built a practice robot. We named the practice robot Artemis (Apollo's twin).
2010 - Weeble. You know - weebles wobble but they don't fall down. We perceived that the humps in Breakaway would induce rollovers, so we built the robot incredibly bottom-heavy. We have photos of the robot on its front bumper, tilted past vertical, and it still fell back down onto its wheels. What a crowd reaction! The practice robot was named Wobble.
2011 - Mantisaurus. It looked like a cross between a Praying Mantis and a dinosaur. The practice robot was Electric Funeral (you can guess how neat the wiring was on that one).
2012 - Iron Horse. The robot's profile looked like a horse, or a Knight chess piece. The practice robot was Sarah Jessica Parker (make your own connections).
2013 - This year's robot is Sidewinder, because it shoots from the side. The practice robot is Turtle, because it's short and compact, and the concept of a two-headed turtle is an inside joke on the team this year.

Of course all Pi-oneers also know that starting in 2006 the unofficial working name (prior to official naming) of any of our robots is Mabawlz. This year it was Mabawlz 8.0.

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We name our robots every year.
Since our team name is the Channel Cats, and we're Catfish, we try to chose something a bit... fishy.

2013: Fishbee
2012: BassCatBot
2011: Cahuna Cat
2010: Chum Chucker/Chummy
2009: Crater Cat
2008: Hydra
2007: Nos Machen
2006: Hunter
2005: Lone Lemming
2004: Mettle Tester
2003: WIB (What Isn't Broken)

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I recall there being a robot named after how much memory was left on the controller. It was something like 3-bits...!

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Here are some of the names of our 558's robots since I joined the team in 2009:

2009: The Great Glass Elevator- It was pretty much a polycord "elevator" that picked up the moon rocks
2010: KISS- Our robot looked like a Hershey kiss
2011: ? - I'm sure we had a name for the robot but it has seemed to slip my mind
2012: The Lampshade of Doom- We shot the basketballs with a pneumatic catapult that had a lampshade on the end. Yes, the lampshade shot the basketball. No joke. (See Attached Picture)
2013: Pez Dispenser of Doom- Our Shooter arm looks like a Pez Dispenser, pretty self explanatory

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Team 1554 robot names since I joined the team:
2013: Botman
2012: Woody
2011: Admiral P.L.O.W.
2010: Mufasa

P.L.O.W. originally stood for "Pneumatically Lifts Objects Well", but after competition we had to change it to "Pneumatically Lifts Objects... Well..."

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Cosmobot XVII: Harvey

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Our robot this year was named Genesis, because it is our rookie year and our first robot.
However, we started calling it Carl partway through the build season for some reason.
So now its nametag reads "Genesis AKA Carl".

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In my time at 1648:
BEST 2011: The Stalking Mantis
BEST 2012: (Unofficially) Apollo 115
FIRST 2012: Biggie Small Boots (Named for our teem name and our bridge lowerer that had a boot stuck on it.)
FIRST 2013: Heavily contested, but was decided to be El Torro Rojo del Diablo Magnifico. Our practice robot was named Chassity, as apparently some people don't know how to spell chassis.

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our Robot's name is RoDeL. It stands for Robot Delivery Lifecycle, something along the lines of the engineering lifecycle that we pushed a lot this year to accomplish. That involved meticulously designing the robot and understanding the game requirements before we started to build

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This year the robot is named Dyson, but we have yet to garner the attention of Dyson Foundation for sponsorship...:(

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We've tried to keep our robot names in line with our team name from year to year. Rebound Rumble's bot we named TAZER (TechBrick's Absolute Zero Electricity Robot). Our Ultimate Ascent bot name is a little more whimsical; we named "him" Kelvin: it unifies the three words of our lengthy team name. :)

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At first, our robot's name was Murphy's Lawyer. We lost the first five matches of our season and, halfway through the Phoenix Regional, renamed it Stormageddon and won our next eight matches. I guess we changed some things other than the name, but don't fool with Murphy's Law.

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Joe-Bot.
Because we're the Average Joes.
From St. Joseph.

We're really big on 'Joe' things.