Team Names

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by Norman J

Lightningturkeys

Thundercarp. I'll tell you at lunch.

[Fireworks 234]

Using a random team name generator I came up with a couple

e-LEMON-ators (One of my faves)
Cranium Krusherz
Happy Purple Pirates
Fantastic Lemmings
Questionable Wrecks
Help Desk Dive Bombers

I also like the clever mathematical ones... [i.e. Division by Zero (229), etc]

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by Fireworks 234

...

I also like the clever mathematical ones... [i.e. Division by Zero (229), etc]

Disjoint set
Incongruent triangles
Triple Integral
radical squares
concentric (name your figure 2,3 or four D)

All leading to the law of:
diminishing returns

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by JABot67

I'd say don't name your team the Robo Dogs, Robodogs, Robodawgs, or anything having to do with robots and dogs unless it's exceedingly clever. I hope I don't offend anyone from those teams that have named themselves such, but there are just so many!

List: 216, 288, 435, 545, 2085, 2171, 2221, 2560, 2579, 2917, 3174, 3214, 3307

or Robocats.
I remember going to Buckeye a few years ago and there were three of them at the regional alone.

[Chris is me]

Shaker's been looking for a decent team name since rookie year. Bionic Bison never really stuck, and Terminal Velocity is pretty boring. I guess we'll bring some salt shaker costumes to regionals next year and just stick with Shaker Robotics.

Look at names you remember in robotics. ThunderChickens is the one I always use. What's memorable about it? How does the team adopt the moniker well?

[Dhananjay T.]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

What schools are you associated with? What are their mascots and what are your sponsors?

Our school is home to the North Brunswick Raiders, so naturally, when our team started way back in the day, our coach chose to use that to name us Raider Robotix. Though I'm still not sure why we're spelled with an 'x'

[Astreios]

1902 used a random name generator =P

I like this method, I must say.

[Mr. Pockets]

I still am fond of:
Magic smoke
Spare parts

[allyourbaseFRC]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pockets

I still am fond of:
Magic smoke

As am I

[thefro526]

Another one that's used a lot is panthers. In New Jersey in 2007 I think there were three or four teams (us included) with names derived from panthers.

Now we're "The Westech Anomaly" or "Team Anomaly". This comes from our robot's name, Anomaly, which has been around since our team was "The Anarchists", which we dropped around 2005 because it was deemed to be unfit for a team name.

I found that putting "The" in front of anything makes it sound cool.

[ChristopherSD]

We associated our team name with the mascot of our high school, which gave us Falcon Engineering and Design Solutions.

[Phreadumb]

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.

[sircedric4]

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.

[ExTexan]

How could you not be........IRobot?

[MarkoRamius1086]

I have heard that Exploding Bacon used a randomized generator to make theirs up, to great sucess actually! I would do this multiple times, then vote on the best of them. That or you could find something about your team that you all like, or is unique to your area or students.

Whatever they like, no matter how silly, go for it! If you look at many of the larger powerhouse teams, they have come up with creative, crafty, and sometimes silly names! The more unique your name is, the more unique and reconizable your team will become! We ran into the same problem three or four years back. We were previously 1086 Pirates, and because there were many local and national teams that had the exact same name... well you get the gist. We were not unique and could not create attention.

Our previous captains eventually decided to drop the Pirates name and go with a trend they had inadvertantly started. We had, for many years, drilled holes into our frames, for the sole purpose to save weight. Eventually one year someone said, "Hey! That robot looks like a piece of swiss!"... or something along those lines. We jumped on it pretty quickly, and also included one of our school colors. Blue Cheese.

Hope this helps,
Sincerely,
Petrie