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I still am fond of:
Magic smoke
Spare parts

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Another one that's used a lot is panthers. In New Jersey in 2007 I think there were three or four teams (us included) with names derived from panthers.

Now we're "The Westech Anomaly" or "Team Anomaly". This comes from our robot's name, Anomaly, which has been around since our team was "The Anarchists", which we dropped around 2005 because it was deemed to be unfit for a team name.

I found that putting "The" in front of anything makes it sound cool.

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Forget the devilish smiley; just stick Dave's head under the square root. If NASA will let you, that is...

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You can never go wrong with The Packers

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CyberPiggies!
(yay LOTF)

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Hmm...

You could go with segfault...
Maybe you could try combining two awesome names (Thunderbacon, X-stang, etc? :D

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its not really relevant to robotics but "The Toy Soldiers" could be a fun one

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Something involving Neptune...that way you'll be ready for the water game.

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Here's my input: The team names that sound most like professional engineering companies are the best. Take for example my team: Alpine Robotics. If I were doing a job interview and I said, "Oh yeah, I worked for Alpine Robotics for 3 years", the interviewer would think I had a legit job at an engineering company. As opposed to (and I really don't mean to offend this team because I love them very much) Thunderchickens or something similiar. "I worked for thunderchickens for 3 years". "...What?"

Try to make up something professional sounding. Include 'Robotics' or 'Tech' in the name. That's my advice.

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I just looked you guys up on The Blue Alliance. Are you really Team Rocket and looking for a name change or was there a mistake online?

If it's the former, I would personally suggest keeping it. Pokemon is awesome, and you could probably have a lot of fun with that. I see some fun costumes for your drive team in the future.

If you do what to do something different, however, look back on your years. Any fun events/cool stories/inside jokes up out at you? Things that really cling to your team's history and/or traditions are always fun.

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To Team Rocket: please change your team name so 2791 can take it :P

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I disagree. I can't tell you how (no offense to anyone) boring and cliche it is to add robo-, -botics, robotics, tech, techno-, cyber-... etc to your team name. Everyone at the competitions already knows you're a robotics team, and once you say "Hi, I'm part of [Team Name]. We build robots," everyone else understands too. (Quick thread derail: You don't say you "worked for" your team. You say you worked on or were part of... I don't care how formal your team is, its still just a robotics team. Its not a business and its not a job.)

Just be fun. Find something you can play with and make sure it fits your team. Also, if you pick a name and if you find out that you don't like it, you can change it the next year (but changing your name too much is a bad idea as you having a harder time establishing a reputation).

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Meh, that's true in some cases. Adding those prefixes/suffixes can make it sound both cliche AND unprofessional in some cases. I guess it's all a matter of personal opinion and how we approach being on a Robotics team. I am very proud to be a part of my team (As is everyone else with their respective teams, I assume) and I feel that a professional sounding team name really adds to that.

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Maybe going to the extremes is the way to do it. Either as a professional team name, a wacky name, a fun name, a clever name, or a team acronym. As long as your team is presenting a unified and single name, I think you will be fine recognized.

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As am I ;)