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Before 2188 was known as Critical Mass:
2007 Robot - "Fatboy"
2008 Robot - "The Hurricane"

Now that our team name is Critical Mass:

2009 Robot - "Nuke"
2010 Robot - "Havoc"

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We ususally make a long list of robot names related to the game, the robot shape or just our team name - the Channel Cats - then take a vote. In keeping with our fishy theme and the fact that we are spitting out soccer balls (bait), we selected Chum Chucker as our robot name this year.

Last year we called it Crater Cat.

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2007: Sheila 2 I still don't know why?
2008: Lefty, Because it would only turn right while it was having programming issues.
2009: Fry Daddy, The top ball holding portion looked like a Fry Rack
2010: WatchDog, Because of the watchdog troubles we are having/(hopefully)HAD

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2005: Sidewinder II. Mentor Jerry Smyth (R.I.P.) created his own ariplane design and called it Sidewinder. Our robot was dedicated to him.

2006: Scorpion. The design looked like a Scorpion.

2007: Martha. Mentor Al Thorn's mother had passed a way. Her name was Martha.

2008: Phoenix. Jerry Smyth had passed away. We were rising out of the ashes of not having him on our team.

2009: Skyhawk. Dedicated to Jerry Smyth. He flew the A-4 Skyhawk in the Vietnam war. Off of carriers :ahh:

2010: Delta (Ice and Fire). Delta shaped.

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Team 1178's robots:
08- Manny (after the prongs on it to lift the ball, made it look like a mammoth)
09- the Robot (we never named it)
10- Mikey (after the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, because we gave it a plexiglass armor, so it looked like a turtle)

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2005: Chubbot because we were sponsored by UTC Chubb, we're so original
2006: Chainy because it had a lot of Chain...again with that originality
2007: Dynamite. Not sure why it was before our team, but one of the members was a cheerleader so we bought the "We are Dynamite!" cheer in from the squad. I liked that one
2008: Lightning...no idea why, but it was awesome
2009: Vortex because we had that spiral loader type and it looked like a twister


2010: STRIKER

Because it kicks/strikes the ball.

1124: Originality at its finest.

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Since we became 1086 we have picked a new cheese name every year.

2008-Cheddar

2009-Meunster

2010-Swiss

It's allot of fun brainstorming and debating before the season... because the seniors usually pick the name before-hand.

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Why not save the name for a year you're super overweight? :D

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Mia SPAM.

Afterall, it's soccer. Right?

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Notice no hanger on us? We have ALL the weight on the drivetrain. We had plans for a hanger... but the weather caused us to fall behind in time. If we still want to put one on we are going to put some serious cheesing into our robot... but we are doubting we are going to do it because we dont want to degrade our structural integrity and take off any of the functional parts of our drivetrain... which is just about EVERYTHING!

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I love the evolution of our robot names.

2003: Marvin
2004: Marvin II
2005: Chubb-bot
2006: Chainey
2007: Dynamite
2008: Lightning
2009: Vortex
2010: Striker

(The team voted on Marvin in 2003, opted to keep the theme in 2004, UTC Chubb became our new main sponsor in 2005 so the robot was named after them to honor them, in 2006 the robot had massive lengths of chain, the 2007 name was based off of a team cheer, 2008 was lightning fast, 2009 was shaped like a vortex, and by now I'm out of the loop and I'm not sure of the 2010 reasons.)

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As Gene mentioned, our 2010 robot is named JOC (Jock) after John O'Connor. In Florida the judges were describing our robot before presenting the Xerox Creativity Award, and they said it was like a "Jack in the box," so we quickly picked up "JOC in the box:D"

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2009 - Dante - we were going with a fire theme with our newly rookie team: Prometheus

2010 - Chester - This year we decided to turn our flaming ball headed mascot into a game player. Our t-shirt is him bouncing the soccer ball off his chest. We're a good kicking, endless loop robot which catches the ball off the tower so it seemed appropriate. Also who can resist a good pun. :-)

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We have a weird history of robots...

Mech Tech GSGIS Era
2000-Grunt Master 9000
2001-Peacemaker
2002-IT
2003-Funky

Mech Tech Phoenix Era
2003-Phoenix (Robots stabbed by Forklifts don't usually survive, so a new Phoenix was commisioned)
2004-Phoenix Rising
2005-Phoenix TryForce
2006-Phoenix Pi
2007-Phoenix Phenomenon/Quattro (Fourth in Series)

Mech Tech Dragons Era
2008-Dante (Ring of Fire hoop for Overdrive)
2009-Redemption (Because the team needed to be redeemed after the mechanical and strategical failure of Dante)
2010-Ahab (When your poorly attached kicker, capable of beheading someone, becomes unattached and flies into another teams box, your team may lose the safety award, but harpoon puns are abound)

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'07- Happy Feet- dismantled
'08- Sweet Feet- dismantled
'09- Slippery Feet
'10- Bigfoot

'09 side project- mark I Knight bot
'10 side project- Spiderbot/ Knightbot
'10 side project- knightbot Mk 11