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Re: Team Colors

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Originally Posted by Astrokid248 View Post
We do a very weird system. On Thursdays, we wear a shirt based on our robot's theme for the season. For instance, this year our bot was Endeavour, so we wore a yellow shirt with a red shuttle and Endeavour in red Transformers font underneath and all our sponsors in red on the back. (Some past years: last year was dark gray with a white dragon and Magic in white Aniron font; 2010 was a white shirt with red dynamite sticks; 2009 was deep red with a black ringed planet and the name Revolution in gold.) Fridays are our signature black shirts with the NASA style logo on the front and our team meatball on the back. Saturdays we wear a polo (before 2011, the meatball was embroidered on the left breast, 2011 to present we use the NASA style logo instead) which we haven't settled the style on with khakis.

Robot theme and pit theme really help tie everything together. Our white frame, gold innards, single red part, and black/gold pit helps us drive home our NASA imagery. Spectrum 3847 and LASA both integarte purple into their bots and pits, but do so in different ways that nicely coordinate. Wildstang's and MOE's clean pits with color panel accents look nice and match their robots every year. Fondly Fire....well, you can't go wrong with flames everywhere.

Another good way to go is headgear. Fondly Fire again has these wild flaming baseball hats. CRyptonite is actually sponsored by got2be, and use those products to spoke their hair to high heaven. We have a combination of blue hair and embroidered baseball hats. I've seen teams with top hats, teams with mohawks, teams with attached glowing bits and teams that wear pom poms.
I'll admit to the fact that that when we were working on out branding 118 was a large part our inspiration. We were rookies in 2006 and our first FIRST regional was Lone Star. One our of head mentors (who, actually is NASA employee / my mother) loved y'all's polos, baseball caps, etc. and pushed for us to get some. (years later when we started branding, we did). We now do something vaguely similar with the different shirts for different days, game shirts based on that years game and standard logo shirts. That idea was also inspired by 118..
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