Team Names

[Shane L]

You can never go wrong with The Packers

[ProgramLuke]

CyberPiggies!
(yay LOTF)

[Vermeulen]

Hmm...

You could go with segfault...
Maybe you could try combining two awesome names (Thunderbacon, X-stang, etc?

[J-Brock]

its not really relevant to robotics but "The Toy Soldiers" could be a fun one

[Mike Schreiber]

Something involving Neptune...that way you'll be ready for the water game.

[ThatHubrexGuy]

Here's my input: The team names that sound most like professional engineering companies are the best. Take for example my team: Alpine Robotics. If I were doing a job interview and I said, "Oh yeah, I worked for Alpine Robotics for 3 years", the interviewer would think I had a legit job at an engineering company. As opposed to (and I really don't mean to offend this team because I love them very much) Thunderchickens or something similiar. "I worked for thunderchickens for 3 years". "...What?"

Try to make up something professional sounding. Include 'Robotics' or 'Tech' in the name. That's my advice.

[kjolana1124]

I just looked you guys up on The Blue Alliance. Are you really Team Rocket and looking for a name change or was there a mistake online?

If it's the former, I would personally suggest keeping it. Pokemon is awesome, and you could probably have a lot of fun with that. I see some fun costumes for your drive team in the future.

If you do what to do something different, however, look back on your years. Any fun events/cool stories/inside jokes up out at you? Things that really cling to your team's history and/or traditions are always fun.

[Katie_UPS]

Originally Posted by ThatHubrexGuy

Here's my input: The team names that sound most like professional engineering companies are the best. Take for example my team: Alpine Robotics. If I were doing a job interview and I said, "Oh yeah, I worked for Alpine Robotics for 3 years", the interviewer would think I had a legit job at an engineering company. As opposed to (and I really don't mean to offend this team because I love them very much) Thunderchickens or something similiar. "I worked for thunderchickens for 3 years". "...What?"

Try to make up something professional sounding. Include 'Robotics' or 'Tech' in the name. That's my advice.

I disagree. I can't tell you how (no offense to anyone) boring and cliche it is to add robo-, -botics, robotics, tech, techno-, cyber-... etc to your team name. Everyone at the competitions already knows you're a robotics team, and once you say "Hi, I'm part of [Team Name]. We build robots," everyone else understands too. (Quick thread derail: You don't say you "worked for" your team. You say you worked on or were part of... I don't care how formal your team is, its still just a robotics team. Its not a business and its not a job.)

Just be fun. Find something you can play with and make sure it fits your team. Also, if you pick a name and if you find out that you don't like it, you can change it the next year (but changing your name too much is a bad idea as you having a harder time establishing a reputation).

[AmoryG]

Originally Posted by Kelten K

Team 3018 is looking for team names. Any suggestions would help trigger our own ideas. We are looking for a name some how connected to the idea of robotics.

The Robuttkicks.

Actually, just Robuttkicks sounds better.

Anagrams are a ton of fun! Try this site: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

In our team's first year, I looked up an anagram for Robotics Club and got Broccoli Stub. I didn't convince my team to name themselves The Watertown Broccoli Stub, however.
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[Koko Ed]

Has there ever been a FIRST team called the Gremlins?

[JaneYoung]

Inspiration taken from my favorite bumper sticker:

Team name: Whirled Peas

Cheer: all we are saying is give peas a chant...

Logo: our beautiful planet ringed by whirled peas

Motto: Green - going going gone - forever, if we don't step up and keep the peas.

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I could go on and on.
Jane

P.S. To be honest, I don't know if you can just use names or phrases that are already in use in other places - like Whirled Peas. That's another thing a team has to look into when deciding a name.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Has there ever been a FIRST team called the Gremlins?

Techno Gremlins
Team 1227 from Grand Rapids, MI
They were active 2003-2007

[blayde5]

Dynamite, Dynamo, something to do with dynamite so you can use this cheer:

Our team is what - DYNAMITE
Our team is what - DYNAMITE
Our team is tick, tick, tick, tick BOOM - DYNAMITE

and as far as I know, Team Dynamite has not been taken by an FRC team yet.

[Captain Slacker]

Team Paragon got our name from the Dictionary.com word of the day just found that out actually....

[Andrew Schreiber]

Just some joke ones I came up with a week ago. The fun part is telling which team name I am basing it on. I wouldn't suggest using them.

Protobotics

Pacifist Eulers

Team Cheeto

Imploding Tuna

Sprocket Faces

Literature Jocks

Tadpole Inertia

I'm actually a pretty big fan of Protobotics and Team Cheeto... Imploding Tuna isn't terrible and I suppose Tadpole Inertia could have some funny graphics.

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