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This year we changed the concept and gave it the name of CHUPACABRAS because you would never see it coming. :D and our classmate's nick name is shaniqua:ahh:

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We named our robot Anklebreaker, because the kicker has enough power to shatter an ankle, and is at the right hight as well. lol

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We decided to name it "Project X" because of our new shelving unit we built where in the design it had space for this years robot which was not built yet and the space was labeled "Robot X"

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our awesome machine's name is Uncle Ralph, named after one of our retiring mentor's sayings. Get the forms signed by your mom, dad, or uncle Ralph

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we didn't originally give our robot a name, but by the end of peachtree, our robot was given the name "the smart car robot" :)

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After seeing a few of our practice rounds in DC on Thursday, our team decided to name our robot Crazy Legs. Our autonomous programmer had forgotten to tune the PIDs, and as such our robot's articulating drive started to "buck" and, in essence, did a "jive dance" across the field, as the MC said. Luckily, the robot never crossed the middle line, and we even decided to leave the program as it was for a while, just for kicks. After a few more matches, some of the volunteers on the field even started to call the robot by its official name, without ever even hearing it. Very strange indeed.

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Our robot's name hasn't really been decided yet (spite it being after Peachtree). Officially, it's name is the "Logan Rover" as we didn't change the name in TIMS from last year (yay - go us for remembering). Although it's been called the "T-Chassis", "Tanner's Design", and some other long name that I shot down cause I couldn't remember it and it was a mouthful.

-Tanner

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2010: Rampage, because it has a ramp!
2009: Rover, cuz it picks up moonrocks
2008: Track-a-pult, it catapulted trackballs
2007: Phobos Robos, named after one of Mars's moons
2006: Ball-istic, it is a ballistic poof ball shooter
2005: Ramrod, heck if I know why!

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Our original name (and the name we're commonly known by) is Purple Haze, so we started a tradition about 8 years ago to name our robots so that they have a PH in them somewhere.

This year's robot is named PHardos, a white dwarf star also known as Procyon B. Star Trek The Animated Series also created a Constellation-class ship (same class as the classic Enterprise) called the USS Phardos (NCC-1757).

Now we'll see how he/she/it performs in Dallas!

-Danny

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Team 343, Metal in Motion's robot is named JOC in memory of a former team member that was killed in a motorcycle wreck this past summer. This is the third time in our 11 year history that we have named our robot in memory of team members that have passed away. I hope this average goes way down over the coming years!

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This year, our robot is named Holy Cow because of all the holes in the frame. It was named by the mentor who ended up working on some programming.
He also named the tank code tanksareus and the ball handler's name is Wilson.

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Canada FIRST::

1995: Chaos
1996: Havoc
1997: Mayhem

Early FIRST::

1998: Chaos²
1999: Fury
2000: Blizzard

Common Era::

2001: Blizzard II
2002: Blizzard III
2003: Blizzard IV
2004: Blizzard V
2005: Blizzard VI
2006: Blizzard VII
2007: Blizzard VIII
2008: Blizzard IX
2009: Blizzard X
2010: Blizzard XI

I don't know when will we change the name to something other than "Blizzard." :confused: :)
Pictures!!

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Team 2265's robot name is Kelley "the Beckham" Guitelman. The robot's named after two students who passed away last year (Jordan Kelley and Joshua Guitelman). The Beckham is in reference to this year's game.

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Although we never change our robot name in TIMS, we do name them each year.
2003 Hyo-supposedly Hyo was Panther in Japanese (we later learned not so true...)
2004 Oscar-in honor of the suction trash can lid (remember Sesame Street?)
2005 Mr. Bill-the tetra hadler on the end was a plastic bowling ball painted to resemble Mr. Bill of SNL fame. This really dates some of us....
2006 Rosie- this goal shooter resembled Rosie the maid on the Jetsons...see comment from 2005 and multiply by 10....
2007 Yoshi-the raptor-looking ring grabber
2008 Flingo- a play on our Beatles theme that year and the flinging action of our bot
2009-Ruby-a nod to its Rube Goldburgish design
2010 Scherman-in honor of our founding mentor and beloved friend, Dean Scherman, whose wise guidance, patience, and integrity made Team 1108 the team that they are, and who lost his battle with pancreatic cancer just a few short months after taking our team to Championships. We miss you Mr. Scherman and we are trying our best to make you proud.

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I kind of want to name my team's robot "Colbert" after the treadmill that is in a node in the International Space Station =D but nothing official yet.