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Re: Getting attached to your robot

We named our robots in honor of William of Ockham and Occam's Razor, the idea that thing should not me more complex than neccesary. So, all of our robots are named OCCAM (some number), supposedly OCCAM also is an acronym for something, but I forgot what. In 2003 we added a surname, The B.E.A.S.T. standing for Beating Every Adversary through Strength and Technology. We had some success in '03 so the name stuck through 2004 and 2005, but in 2006 we decided to change. People weren't really likeing the B.E.A.S.T. name, because there are a lot of beasts and one is the The Beast, and we were unlucky with it in '04 and '05. So, we decided to change the surname to Concentrated Entropy for '06. Originally, IIRC, Concentrated Entropy was in reference to how messy we are, and how our heavily defensive play tends to be rather disorderly. (However, the name is a bit of an oxymoron, if somethings concentrated then it isn't disorderly) so, the 587 robots go like this
2001 - OCCAM 1
2002 - OCCAM 2
2003 - OCCAM 3: The B.E.A.S.T.
2004 - OCCAM 4: The B.E.A.S.T.
2005 - OCCAM V: The B.E.A.S.T.
2006 - OCCAM VI: Concentrated Entropy
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