Sharing Team/Past Robot Names With New Bots

[DUCKIE]

If another team re-used your team's name or the name of a past robot as their 2008 robot's name... how would you feel about it?

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by DUCKY

If another team re-used your team's name or the name of a past robot as their 2008 robot's name... how would you feel about it?

It's happened before, and I'm sure it'll happen again.

There's a team now who's team name matches my old team's robot name from 1996. I'm quite certain they don't even know it, and I wouldn't expect them to.

[camtunkpa]

Last year at Philly there was a team named the Tigertronics......us being the Tigertrons. Um there were some mixed feelings and worries about teams confusing us and them, but overall we still are who we are and nothing changes our team except us. So I'm going to say we were neutral about the names.

I guess what I am saying is no matter what you name your team or your robot they are going to speak for themselves and people will remember them far longer then just a name.

[Durza16]

Yeah i guess a team has used the name ATLAS which was our name from last year, I have mixed feelings about that though

[Guntank]

We were thinking about the same thing
our robot last year was named Atlas
looking back Atlas is a much better name for robots this year, so we are expecting to see at least one Atlas

[Taylor]

At one regional (I forget which one - they say in old age memory is the second to go) there were teams named the CyberCards, CyberCats, and CyBearCats.

[fabalafae]

I guess in general, overlap of names is inevitable with the extraordinary number of teams and robots. Anybody who gets worked up over it is just asking for a killer headache and more grief than is really necessary.

It's the robot's performance that defines a robot, not just its name.

[Koko Ed]

Robocats has to be the most recycled name in all of FIRST.

[AndyB]

Its not really a big deal... not like they are trying to piss people off by copying. The only attempt at copying ive ever seen was Kevin Kolodziej's attempt at WildBeast for former team 1064... if anything, its a compliment in that case.

I think that if you pick a unique enough name, you are sure to find that there aren't many cases in which you will be copied. I haven't seen more than one Thunderchicken or Exploding Bacon team in the past 10 years... nor are their multiple Children of the Corn, CooneyQuests, or Where's Waldos.

As far as robot names go, I would be willing to bet that most names published in the regional booklets are that of previous robots. Most teams I know pick a name near the end of the season rather than the beginning of it. Names are not a big deal for robot's anyways. I can't think of the name of one robot that wasn't on one of my teams... and I scout. Its the team that matters.

[Cynette]

And if it happens intentionally, consider it a form of flattery!

[artdutra04]

Back in the day, Team 228 used to be called the 'Duct Tape Bandits' for 1999 and 2000. In 2001 we changed our team name to 'Gus' as a tribute to our first robot, "Augustus Robotics Maximus".

Nowadays, Team 467 is called the Duct Tape Bandits.

[Libby K]

In the NJ region, there is Team 25, Raider Robotix, and team 75, The RoboRaiders.

It's fun and confusing when they're against each other.

[alex1699]

two years ago was spanky this year is spanky V2.0

[Joe Ross]

5+ years ago, there were 4 or 5 teams that used the name GRT, and there were a lot less teams back then.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Cynette

And if it happens intentionally, consider it a form of flattery!

So no problem if a team wants to change its name to Exploding Hot Chief Rolling Trucktown Thunder Chicken Techno Pink Robo Cats?