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Re: Names of Tools

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Originally Posted by jspatz1 View Post
The most popular tool in our box is a long phillips screwdriver named "Big Red."

On a related subject, I'll bet some other teams have named all of their batteries like we have (it is a practice we picked up from 1625 Winnovation.) We actually become very familiar with each battery by name, and remember which ones won important matches, which ones are a little weaker than others, etc.

Our current roster of competition batteries:

Franklin
Neil
Mackenzie
Freebie
Oprah
Michael
Gary
Sandbag
Darwin
Pedro

Plus two batteries reserved for alliance partners: Tonto and Wattson.
Yea, We used to name our batteries names like "Old Gregg" but in 2010 picked up a new, more standard, naming convention. We now use the NATO phonetic alphabet to keep track of our batteries for very similar reasons. It comes in handy, many a times I'll hear myself saying "NO!! *INSERT FRESHMAN* WE JUST USED ALPHA!!!" lol
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