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Unread 06-05-2010, 06:57
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Re: Team Names

My team's name is Critical Mass, which to us is like this wikipedia definition:

a sociodynamic term to describe the existence of sufficient momentum in a social system such that the momentum becomes self-sustaining and fuels further growth.

It's pretty rememberable, or at least I think it is?

For you, how about Entropy? Quasars? Cool names that I don't think are taken.
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Re: Team Names

We spent the entire build season trying to come up with a name last year and the name Aluminum Chihuhua's was seriously in the running we were so hard up for one. :-) Finally I suggested Prometheus since I hadn't seen that named used in FIRST and with ease of logos, costumes and stuff that comes with a fire based theme, the name was unanimously voted for from the team.

I suggest that you break out your mythology, and history, as there's a lot of good names out there associated with science and technology. I mean it was a millenium before the world remembered some of the secrets from the roman empire so tech's been around for quite some time. You can't go wrong with DaVinci and his old inventions either.

Or you could actually cheat like I did and pull the name from a sci-fi show. :-) The name Prometheus has been around from myth and legend but where I really got the idea was the first spaceship human built from Stargate.
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I think Team 280 gets dibs on that.
Team 280 plays an AC/DC song before they play, why doesn't RUSH play a Rush song?
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Re: Team Names

I suggest you look at all the teams' names (hint: use thebluealliance.net) so you don't duplicate another team too closely. There are too many teams with "eagle" in the name, for example. It can get confusing.

And don't forget the importance of team colors. My team picked two colors not associated with either one of our two rival schools.
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Re: Team Names

Pick something that's not too wordy (unless it's an acronym) that has a lot of stories behind it. For example my team, Team Mercury was named after NASA's Mercury missions but the word mercury has so many different things to link up to that you can play around with it, especially for robot names.
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Team Paragon got our name from the Dictionary.com word of the day just found that out actually....
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One of the original team members in 2002 or 2003 decided that "our team will be the best, the top, the Paragon of US First Robotics"

(It is now just FIRST but had started with the name US FIRST).

The other members decided that they liked his description of being the Paragon of the FIRST engineering world so the name stuck.

Sorry for the mis-information!
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Our VEX/FTC team has been the Exothermic Robotics Club since 2007. It was a name that came up spontaneously at a club meeting and was not popular. In 2008 the students tried to come up with something "better" and finally gave up. This year, the members of the team just accepted it and never talked about changing. After two successful trips to the VEX World Championships and two trips to Atlanta, our club name is at least somewhat known in both VEX and FTC and we would be crazy to change it.

So here's some unsolicited advice. Pick something you are at least lukewarm about. Stick with it. Never change it. The time and energy you spend establishing a "brand image" will be largely wasted if you change your nickname every year.
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Re: Team Names

Don't forget to spend time thinking up cheers for you team name. Also a cool logo to go along with your name. While images don't help teams win competitions, it makes them a lot more fun. I couldn't imagine going to competition and not hearing, "oink-oink boom", "what timea is it? KRUNCH TIME, or "when i say think, you say Pink!" (exploding bacon, Krunch, and pink team receptively.) Spam's is as simple as spelling out our name.
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You could also try something with a pun, like The Zip Tie-tans.
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Re: Team Names

I agree with most of the other posts that say to find a good name you should be original, but I also believe that the name should relate back to your teams story.

Don't forget that sometimes a team names can come about in weird ways. In 2000, team 433 was called MINT (mounties interested in new technologies) because our highschool is Mount St. Joseph Academey. That year, because of some wiring problems, the robot caught on fire during a competition. The girls on the team at the time decided that the next year, the team would rise from the ashes (literally) of our rookie season like a phoenix. We have been known as the Firebirds ever since

So don't be afriad to change your name after your rookie season. Just make sure when you do decided on your name, own it, with your spirit and T-shirts because a team name is just a name, however a "team" is a representation of the spirit and personality of a group of individuals who are proud to be -insert team name hear-
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team name for upcoming FRC robotics team

Washington Community High School in Washington, IL is expecting to be a FRC robotics team for next years season and we are trying to decide on a team name. Our school mascot is the Panther and we are orange and black for school colors. Any suggestions would be accepted, except tornado names... too soon.
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Re: team name for upcoming FRC robotics team

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Washington Community High School in Washington, IL is expecting to be a FRC robotics team for next years season and we are trying to decide on a team name. Our school mascot is the Panther and we are orange and black for school colors. Any suggestions would be accepted, except tornado names... too soon.
How about the Wild Cats?

....anyone? Anyone? No? Okay.
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Re: Team Names

I just generated a list of random names, here are some of my favorites:

Purple Lemur Bomb
Hot Nerd Hazard
Preenlarge the Turtle
Timmy is the Lustrous Narwhal
Phatic Unicorn
Masticate the Loaf
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