[Boydean]

This reminds me of 2008, our rookie year as a FRC team.

Everyone on the team played a lot of World of Warcraft(WoW), thus we decided to make our team theme based off WoW. We made our logo to look like the WoW logo, we referred to tools as weapons in WoW, and we jokingly implemented skill 'leveling' for team members.

Then it came time to name our robot. It didn't take long before the name "Leroy Jenkins", a name of a WoW character that has a video on youtube with over twenty-two million views, came to mind. We proceded to officially call the robot Leroy Jenkins without hesitation. The name solidified after a local news paper put on the headlines of the front page (with very big letters) "LEROY JENKINS SHIPS OFF", after our ship date.

Not long after that release in the new paper people started to explain to us a man that used to live in our town named Leroy Jenkins, about 15 years ago. Little did we know that it turns out he was a very bad man. He was a false paster selling very over priced holy things, he got devoiced three times, was a rapist, burned people's houses down...pretty everything you can do to leave a bad legacy. To say the least the city kicked him out of town, and now he lives in Florida...doing his thing.

The shock in the community that we named our robot after this man was enormous. At one point the president of our largest sponsor called us, and told us if we didn't change the name the company would pull out as a sponsor. Yeah, it was a mess. From that point on we had to call the robot just Leroy.

Ahhh...memories. Coming back to the original point. I don't think it will be that bad of a name. I would ask around what some people think of it before moving forward though.