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Originally Posted by mrnoble
We actually went through a name change for exactly this reason. 2004-2007 we were team GhettoBot. It was entirely a snotty response to misperceptions (or perceived misperceptions) of our school and community. We later saw that all we were doing was perpetuating stereotypes and giving ourselves a reason to be jerks. We adopted our school mascot and changed our name and I'm really glad we did.
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That's what we did too.
Our (well theirs, I was actually recruited right after they bagged 2013's robot) team was named "No Robot!" in our rookie year. We changed it for many reasons, but misconceptions could be drawn from it so we too adopted our mascot, and now we are "Patribots".