Team Names – How?

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How our team and robot names became "Gus".

Wow I can't believe no one from our team has posted this yet. For those of you who would like to read the LONG version of this story go here!

The short version is "Gus" is what was left of our original robot's name, which was either Augustus Roboticus Maximus or Spartigus (spelled wrong) Roboticus Maximus (depending on who you ask). Our rookie team name was the Tri-Town Duct Tape Bandits, since we were originally made up of students from Meriden, Rocky Hill, and Wolcott, CT.

Like nearly every rookie team, our robot was 18 pounds over weight. In the process of lightening the bot, the team had to resort to cutting up our 1/4" thick aluminum nameplate. First went Maximus, then went Roboticus, in desperation they began cutting up what was left, and finally made weight with "Gus" being all that was left of our nameplate.

Gus stuck as the robot's name and in 2000 we changed our team name to Gus since duct tape is a no-no in FIRST.

Lastly, when Wolcott left our team to form a sister team, team #1071, they honored the roots of our common history by taking the name "Max" which was culled from Maximus. Thanks Max!