Maximizing On Your Name

[neilsonster]

Originally Posted by Adam Shapiro

Couldn't you just come up with a math equation adding to any number though? For instance, I could have 500+50+5=555!!! on my shirt, but I don't know that it would be regarded as very clever... I haven't seen 931's shirt that I can remember though, I'm sure it is much better than what I came up with

If I remember right 931 is <edit: nevermind, I guess I don't remember right! (see below)>, and the logo on their shirt involved some sort of sum in sigma notation. I don't know exactly what it was either though.

edit: I guess I'll add input on my team.

Well when I was a student on a team I thought our team name was very clever... "Club Sandwich". You see... the team comes from Sandwich Secondary School. To be honest we didn't really use it much in cheers or anything... it was just a fun name. This year they went through an absolute ton of restructuring and thought it was appropriate to come up with a new name, the "Sabre Bytes" - the school's sports teams are the "Sabres", and our mascot that has been used since 2002 is "Erbas" (Sabre.. spelled backwards! ) and it's just the same one that is used at sports events and pep rallies and such (very smelly...).

Hopefully they are done changing the team's name since the new shirts were so expensive (but they are really nice I must say).

[Gabe]

How about bolt sizes? 6-32, 10-24, 10-24, 10-32, etc. This would be a great little giveaway for teams with screw size numbers!

[SugaRaXie]

Originally Posted by Adam Shapiro

Couldn't you just come up with a math equation adding to any number though? For instance, I could have 500+50+5=555!!! on my shirt, but I don't know that it would be regarded as very clever... I haven't seen 931's shirt that I can remember though, I'm sure it is much better than what I came up with

Originally Posted by kayla13

I think 931 was cool, on their shirts they had a math equation(no I don't have it on me) that ended up adding up to 931. I just thought it was neat.

Originally Posted by neilsonster

If I remember right 931 is "Team Sigma", and the logo on their shirt involved some sort of sum in sigma notation. I don't know exactly what it was either though.

they were right beside us at Waterloo -- so we practically memorized the equation.

Thanks to good ol' Kevin from team 1596 and his button collection!



our team number doesn't have too much significance to it -- other than it IS the answer to life. We've noticed a pattern...things we've done through the season someone match up to things that've happened on December 19th [not literally, but close enough] and smalls things that we do within in the team happen to match up to events that've taken place on the days we were born. It's hard to explain without getting into detail and such -- and if I got into detail...we'd be here forever!

But...here's something awesome I discovered!

1219 -- our original team number; guy's team number second year.
1309 -- our girl's team number in second year.

1 + 2 + 1 + 9 = 13
1 + 2 - 1 + 9 = 7

1 + 3 + 0 + 9 = 13
1 + 9 - 3 + 0 = 7

ooooooooh...it was a bit odd to say the least. But it was awesome none-the-less. I swear...I have a life, I have nightschool so I commute back and forth between home and nightschool -- an hr and a half there, and an hr and a half back -- with no friends on the bus, it makes you think a lot!

[Jeremiah Johnson]

I thought 931 was Perpetual Chaos out of StL?? Did they change their name?

Um... 648 doesn't do anything with their number. We could have with our old number, 309. It was our Illinois area code. Back then our team name was Fab 5. Now it's 648 and QC Elite.

[SugaRaXie]

Originally Posted by Budda648

I thought 931 was Perpetual Chaos out of StL?? Did they change their name?

No, they are Perpetual Chaos.

I think Team Sigma is a nickname or something -- because I remember when they won an award at Waterloo they were called Team 931: Perpetual Chaos.

[razor95kds]

Originally Posted by Arkorobotics

What about 666?

Our team is one digit off (766), so maybe someone could work that out.

this year we had the announcers announce us as the Mah Bears, like in the SNL skit with Daaaahhh Bears. the reason it is Mah bears because our school is the M-A Bears

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Originally Posted by SugaRaXie

No, they are Perpetual Chaos.

I think Team Sigma is a nickname or something -- because I remember when they won an award at Waterloo they were called Team 931: Perpetual Chaos.

Yeah... when it comes to FIRST trivia... I'm never wrong. LOL. I've never heard of them called Team Sigma, but then again, I haven't seen them since StL last year.

[Sharkbyte]

Originally Posted by Dillon Compton

My team, 1394, is actually considering a name change from "Juggernaut" to "Firewire" (The firewires, whatever, something like that), at the behest of my self and the team founder; we will also potentially be seeking funding from the Firewire Trade Association.

*grins*

Isn't team #1 the "Juggernauts".
Or was the plurifying "s" the only difference in name?

[Freddy Schurr]

My team, 1394, is actually considering a name change from "Juggernaut" to "Firewire" (The firewires, whatever, something like that), at the behest of my self and the team founder; we will also potentially be seeking funding from the Firewire Trade Association.

*grins*

"Juggernaut" is such a kewl name and it fits your team to a tee, don't change it!

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Adam Shapiro

I can't believe our team still hasn't come up with an official name in 6 years. We're known either as 555 or Montclair Robotics, but I'm sure someone could come up with something more creative if they put some thought into it. Sadly, nobody has, at least not much. Every year we say "hey, we should make a name" and every year we end up remaining Montclair Robotics (technically we're the Montclair Mounties - the name of our football team).

If anyone has any ideas as to a nice, creative name for 555 I'd love to hear them! (And I'm sure many of you do!)

We could always be "The Dominos Pizza 555 Deal Team"...

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your name is Triple Nickel!!!!! Don't name yourself after bad pizza!!!!

LOL There is a story behind this reasoning.
I was in NYC in 2005, and someone said (about your team when we asked about 555) "Oh, Triple Nickel"? And it stuck. You have to use that!!! It makes so much sense, and rolls right off the tongue.
Now, every time we talk about your team, we refer to you as Triple Nickle anyways, so just don't delay the inevitable.. Change it now!!! LOL

[Ben Margolis]

I love 360's name - The Revolution.


How awesome is that?


1024's is pretty sweet too.

[ahecht]

Originally Posted by Ben Margolis

I love 360's name - The Revolution.

Now if only they could work PS3 somewhere in there...

[Arkorobotics]

Originally Posted by ahecht

Now if only they could work PS3 somewhere in there...

Well team 16193 which "P" is the 16th letter in the alphabet, and "S" is the 19th but god knows when there will be teams in the 10,000 range... that would be cool

[JVGazeley]

Our name doesn't come from our number but rather our location... We use the Metric system over here, Imperial is little used here nowadays.

Now if you swap the words "Metric system" around, you get "System Metric". Merge the m's to get Systemetric


I do however wake up at 7:59 when I'm not on the bus before that (i.e. Sat-Mon)

[Adam Shapiro]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your name is Triple Nickel!!!!! Don't name yourself after bad pizza!!!!

LOL There is a story behind this reasoning.
I was in NYC in 2005, and someone said (about your team when we asked about 555) "Oh, Triple Nickel"? And it stuck. You have to use that!!! It makes so much sense, and rolls right off the tongue.
Now, every time we talk about your team, we refer to you as Triple Nickle anyways, so just don't delay the inevitable.. Change it now!!! LOL

I like that one! It's catchy. You're right about the pizza though. The problem with Dominos Pizza is that it's good while you're eating it, and it's really easy to eat a lot of it, but as soon as you stop you regret it for the next few days. We learned that lesson the hard way at the Phoenix Regional last year...