Team Names – How?

[kmcclary]

Originally Posted by Libbeh1923

We are the Royal Knights, our school mascot is a knight.
[...] our robot is SIR LANCE-A-BOT.....like lancelot....we can't reallythink of anything knight-related for a robot name so we might just have to have lance jr, lance 2, 3, 4 or something like that.

Oh Wow... I'd think there would be all sorts of "knight" puns possible for robot names with that team name!

Just off the top of the noggin':
- Daze'n (Daze'n Knight)
- Silent Knight (it doesn't speak, you see...)
- Over Knight (it's the top bot...)
- The Knight Bus (for all you Harry Potter fans - it dashes, and stops suddently)

A sample of various punnish "Knights of the FIRST table":
Cir Cuit: An electrical Knight
Cir Culation: A library or spinning Knight
Ser Pent: Snake Knight (for a snake-like robot design)
or spelling it the other way:
Circus: A swearing Knight
...etc...

I'm sure you can come up with something, with a bit of warped thought!
... and if not, warped thinking is what your team's Engineers are for!

(And remember - One Grocer equals 144 Knights...)

Good luck!

- Keith

[DevilChild]

Well, our team name is the Red Devils, because that is our school's sports name and mascot, and our theme is fire and brimstone and otherwise the depths of... you know. Our robot's name is Diablo normally, and we, the Red Devils, are his minions. But we also have been known to call him Belzebot, depending on how cultish we're feeling. LOL But anyway, at the end of each season, that year's robot also gets dubbed another, more personalized name, such as Hang-Bot, Mini-Bot, and X-Bot.

[Pat Fairbank]

From what I understand (not having been around when Team 296 was founded), the "Northern" in our name comes from the fact that our primary sponsor in 1999 was Northern Telecom (today known as Nortel Networks) and of course the fact that we're Canadian.

As far as I know, the only reason "Knights" was picked was that "Northern Knights" sounds kind of like "northern lights".

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by kmcclary

Oh Wow... I'd think there would be all sorts of "knight" puns possible for robot names with that team name!

Just off the top of the noggin':
- Daze'n (Daze'n Knight)
- Silent Knight (it doesn't speak, you see...)
- Over Knight (it's the top bot...)
- The Knight Bus (for all you Harry Potter fans - it dashes, and stops suddently)

A sample of various punnish "Knights of the FIRST table":
Cir Cuit: An electrical Knight
Cir Culation: A library or spinning Knight
Ser Pent: Snake Knight (for a snake-like robot design)
or spelling it the other way:
Circus: A swearing Knight
...etc...

I'm sure you can come up with something, with a bit of warped thought!
... and if not, warped thinking is what your team's Engineers are for!

(And remember - One Grocer equals 144 Knights...)

Good luck!

- Keith

cute ideas! i'm putting this on the team forum....

and about the engineers...uhm....we're rookies. i'm sad to admit...we don't have any. seriously. none.

so...warped thinking left to us, i guess.

[Donut]

Oh boy, team names. Our team's currently in its fourth generation when it comes to team names, and we'll yell at anyone who tries to change it again.

Back in 2001 we started out as Mr. Roboto. Someone listened to too much music, I honestly don't know how that name came about.

In 2002 and 2003 we were the Radio-active Pajama Monkeys (named after our official furry mascot). In 2003 we usually just referred to ourselves as RPM as most people didn't like the name anymore.

In 2004 we became the Armor Plated Serpentines because our school mascot is a Cobra (we're the Cactus Cobras), and came up with a nice metallic snake for our logo.

In 2005 and 2006 we kept the same logo from before but changed to the Cobra Commanders as it sounded slightly cooler, and it was a nice joke to GI Joe.

So now we have three mascots, a cobra, a cactus, and a monkey. Most of our robots have either been RoboCobra Version X, or RAGE for our monkey.