Team Names – How?

[Scott Chambliss]

My team's name popped up at a meeting once because we are an inner-city school, and we thought that gangsters would be original. Its also ironic because we only had 2 people on our team who might be considered gangsters (yes, james and robert, I'm talking about you!). Eventually, it got changed to gangstas, but got mispelled on our shirt; ganstaz. The missing 'g' didn't stick, but the 'z' did.
Our robot was named Sir Gears-a-Lot at the first meeting, beause our school's mascot is the knight and we thought that we would be the robo-knights or something. When we actually named ourselves, we forgot that we had already sent in a robot name. Thus, when we came to regionals, we were the Grady Gearbox Gangstaz, with Sir Gears-a-Lot. Hmmm, doesn't quite fit, but nobody noticed...