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I liked the daisy chain of flowers on the railing in the stands next to where the team sat at IRI. Of course, you could probably achieve that same happy, friendly, and approachable effect with Blood Sucking Wombats, though I could be wrong.

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Most people didn't seem to mind too much "If another team re-used your team's name or the name of a past robot as their 2008 robot's name... how would you feel about it?" in Ducky's thread
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=62767

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That earlier post was about robot names... and I do not know if it would go over quite as well with some of the more unique team names.

Just a personal preference.... (and a lesson learned from many summers of having to come up with neighborhood swim team names in my childhood)... the more unique the name/theme... the better and easier to remember.

A childhood favorite... The (Eveningwood Pool) Silver Pickles! We even made a giant paper-mache silver pickle complete with goggles and a cape that traveled to meets with us.

For example in FIRST... Teams like Exploding Bacon, The Holy Cows, Space Cookies, SPAM, or The Cheesy-Poofs are rarely confused for other teams due to the catchiness of their names. Other teams have strong themes... like Miss Daisy's flowers, Raider Robotics' Hawaiian shirts, The Devil Ducks, & Space Coast's pink.


Some random mascot/theme suggestions follow...

-Silver Pickles (and if you use this one... I'd love a team shirt!)
-Aardvarks or Platipi
-Something related to Perforated Toilet Paper Rolls (Invented and Patented in Albany!)
-"The Dukes of Albany" -Could be morphed into a Knight or Dukes of Hazard theme.
-"The Outstanding Ocelots"
-Pirate theme
-Survivor/Castaway theme
-Hospital/ER theme
-Rusty Bolts
-The Short Circuits (Johnny 5 is Alive!)
-A pop-culture reference like the Edsel

I don't know if any of that helps... but there it is.

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If you are looking for a name with science/math terms included (cheesy, but awesome none-the-less), I have thought of a few, but Im not sure if they are real team names...

Torr-mentors- (tormentors)
Ionic- (iconic)
Pi-rotechnics- (pyrotechnics) my personal favorite :D

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maybe something like "The Terabolts" (terabytes)?

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"You must spread some more reputation around before giving it to Jane Young"

Having Killer in our name has made it diffiuclt at times to spread a cheerful reputation. I wouldn't change the name though.

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You can always go with an element or a planet. Something with a common name, like how we are Team Mercury. Sometimes we play up the planet Mercury and space like we have the past few years, other times we play on the element mercury and its chemical symbol Hg (aka quick silver, which we've used for our robot names) and still other times we've played off the Roman god Mercury, the messanger. It makes it fun to be able to switch it up. Also, your theme and logo don't really need to match I mean, we have a lightning bolt cause it's cool. :cool:

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I like... ^__^

but yea, those kind of names are fun, and give people a chuckle (being a member of a team whose name has a similar concept "pi-oneer", ive had people come up to me, laughing, and saying the name is clever and that they liked it) :)

just a thought...

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Keep in mind also that if your team doesn't like the gimmick or thinks of a better one, there's little stopping you from changing the team name. Teams as super awesome as the and the Holy Cows have done this.

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The Cheesy Poofs have always been that name. They used to have a collaboration with the Bionic Bulldogs (60); together they were the Bionic Poofs.

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I believe that that reference is actually a reference to the Bionic Bulldogs, FRC#0060. The Bionic Poofs was a name given to the collaboration of teams 254 and 60 around 2004. It sounds better than "Cheesy Bulldogs"...

General non-descript team names: anything with "robo-" or "techno-" (unless the second half is Katz or Ticks--those are already taken...) should probably be avoided, unless you can make it catchy. Ditto for "-bots" and "-botics". Note that if you make it catchy or unique, it can actually work pretty well, but if it's something like "Robo-mascot" or "Mascot-bot(ic)s", it's going to be hard to stand out.

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Coud have sworn I heard "Bionic Poofs" being announced in an ancient video for team 254. Guess I needed my one completely wrong fact posted on CD for the week. :/

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I believe their 04 robot was called the bionic poof.

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Yes but you have those goofy awesome caps.

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Well, on behalf of Temper Metal. I can say that the judges like to ask for the story behind your name. So, it is good to know what the person who thinks up the name was thinking. A few judges asked and each one got a different answer because many didn't know exactly what the story was. I'm still not 100% sure, but I do love the name.