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when in doubt, go DISNEY!! WALL-E!
lol. jk. but in all seriousness, everybody who has already posted is right. All you need is something that is memorable!!!!! It has to be something that stands out to people. As long as you make it memorable, it doesnt matter what the teams name is. make yourselves stand out!
and if you feel the need to include ninjas, i think that we would all be VERY ok with that! ninjas are cool!!! lol
good luck!

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Win-Win Situation :rolleyes:

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1) Please please please please PLEASE don't name yourself "Robocats" "Robodogs" "Robotic Eagles" or anything of the like. There are plenty of teams out there that already use those names, and it gets confusing pretty quickly. There's only one ThunderChickens, only one Exploding Bacon, one Los Pollos Locos, and it's great to be able to just name names rather than including a number with the name. Not to say "make sure you have a name that NOBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD HAS" (we're The Gearheads - there are other "Gearheads" teams, but we're typically known by our name on a regional level), just make sure it's not incredibly typical and overused.

2) Make the name appropriate, and find a simple image to go with it. 1189 was originally "Breaking Pointe" (we're from Grosse Pointe, and are a combination of two rival high schools: the name was pretty straightforward to those who knew the story behind it), with the mascot of a rabid squirrel. We became The Gearheads after a freshman photoshopped the yellow diamond image. When the logo started appearing everywhere, we realized how much the rabid squirrel undermined the support of our sponsors. Also, printing that image on t-shirts, etc. was pretty darn expensive.

+1 vote for a random name generator.

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Disjoint set
Incongruent triangles
Triple Integral
radical squares
concentric (name your figure 2,3 or four D)

All leading to the law of:
diminishing returns

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Oh this was a fun game that I played all week at the Championship: think of the best rookie team names! I was actually going to create a thread asking other people to join in on the fun. These are a few that my team came up:

The Metal Manatees
Roadkill Zombies (my personal favorite. You could have raccoon and squirrel mascots with tire tracks across their bellys and the fur kinda dirtied. Would be fun painting faces for this team)
Rabid Bunnies
Team 33 (even though the team number would be something like 4267).
Delusions of Grandeur
Whirley Whales
Spontaneous Combustion
The Polydactyl Cats...would be more fitting once team numbers reach 7777 (credit to Isaac for this one)
The Desperate Ants (with the team logo a magnifying glass held over an ant)
or, The Desperate Wormies (with a worm caught on the sidewalk after a rain).

...silly, I know...but I'm of the opinion that the sillier the team name, the more fun the image.

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You guys could always use an acronym like we did with BOB :D

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Personally I like simple names; I think it keeps it easier on the announcers.

Or, if you want to make life difficult on the announcers, go for a tongue twister like:

The Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers

or RB3 - RB(cubed).

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Take your time to think of a name, think of your logo / mascot to go with, and then stick with it.

If it is catchy and unique, people will remember it and you. If you change every year or two, you run the risk of nobody realizing who you are.

Some teams get remembered by their numbers, but most are remembered by their name.

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Think about your selling points, giveaways, ridiculous button designs and mascots and things along that line, if you can come up with something unique thats how you get remembered. Our Question mark logo, and clever name (Enigma) gets questions and complements everywhere we go. And it also draws questions (Very punny) on the street, so it helps us tell people about FIRST.

But when you make a design/logo to go with your name, make sure it looks professional and clean.

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Some corny science/math ones I madeup.

Pi-rotechnics
Ionic
Omega-bytes
Team Torque
The sexy team

(others on the way)

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Where can I get my Desperate Aunt Button?

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How about "The Root of all Evil" and for your shirt have a Devilish Smiley face under the "Square Root" radical :) just a thought? Opinions?

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Maybe you should go where every other FRC question is answered: The Manual!

The Minor Protusions
Autonomous Mode
The Frame Perimeters
The Bumper Zones
Kit of Parts
Outermost Exterior Vertices

or you could have some fun with

Line Dancers
Field Faults!
;)

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The Robuttkicks.

Actually, just Robuttkicks sounds better.

Anagrams are a ton of fun! Try this site: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

In our team's first year, I looked up an anagram for Robotics Club and got Broccoli Stub. I didn't convince my team to name themselves The Watertown Broccoli Stub, however.
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I like this method, I must say. :p