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Originally Posted by remulasce
Ahh- mixed up team names. Beach Cities Robotics is not only perennially slurred into Beach City Robotics, but is also confused with the Beach Bots, who are down the street. Even worse will be next year- I and a friend went to get our shirts signed after Champs, and we were immediately congratulated by Woodie. We have the same shirt color as the Cheesy Poofs, and our team numbers differ in only one digit (294 and 254).
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Hey, at least 254 isn't the Beach Bots ;P
1189 changed our name and our image over a span of two years. Originally, our team was called "Breaking Pointe" and had a mascot of a rabid squirrel. We adopted the yellow diamond logo the next year (a freshman had photoshopped it originally as a joke) when we realized that the squirrel design was expensive to print and that that logo didn't give us or our sponsors a good image. We changed our name to "The Gearheads" the year after that.
Before I read the post above me, I was going to say that I think that Ninjaneers is a great name. You have a great logo now, but I think that a ninja wearing safety glasses and carrying a hammer would be
so cool. I can't blame you at all for wanting to change the name because it's similar to another team's (we were at a competition with another team a few years ago called "The Gearheads," and the confusion was brutal). I don't think that having a "silly" name makes you any less marketable to sponsors, since that's usually not the biggest factor in whether or not you get the money. The biggest pro is that people, whether they be teams or sponsors, are more likely to remember who you are.