10-01-2009 15:20

Arefin Bari

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As far as my memory serves, I believe Team 1889's name is Purple Haze. Cool Logo. Good luck this season.

10-01-2009 15:33

bigbeezy

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ya 1889 was Purple Haze, but r they still active? i dont believe they were at Orlando last year. But anywayz nice logo

10-01-2009 15:34

Tetraman

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Very clean and clear. I love that in a logo. I'm not too keen on the gradient flare on the 'z'.

10-01-2009 15:37

Dantvman27

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Where did you get the name? Hedrix Fans?

10-01-2009 15:44

BandChick

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I believe 418 is/was known as the Purple Haze too...

10-01-2009 15:51

sprocketeater

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Yes, 418 is known as the Purple Haze.

10-01-2009 17:42

Michelle Celio

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1889 was Purple Haze, they missed a year but made a comback at Tempest n Tampa

1875 was just Haze at Tempest n Tampa, if I recall correctly. But it was the automontonmontrons or something crazy before.

Ohhhhh Florida teams =]

10-01-2009 18:52

wendymom

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Looks good Nathan. What color shirts .....grey or white?

10-01-2009 19:50

NorviewsVeteran

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That would explain the flame as well. Plus they have a theme song.

10-01-2009 19:52

JaneYoung

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Yes, 418 is LASA Robotics and it is also known as Purple Haze. In latter years, the team has developed their logo and is using LASA Robotics consistently, but they are still Purple Haze. At Lone Star Regional, the team often asks the dj to play Purple Haze and they have always been thrilled when the dj does play it.

Funny - now there are 3 ?!

Aside: I recently put together some tee shirts of their lead mentor, Tony Bertucci, to make a quilt and one of the blocks is one of the oldest team tee shirts. It simply says: Purple Haze. It pre-dated my time on the team so it goes back a bit. They've also been known to name their robots using the PH in the name. One that comes to mind is PHlappy.

11-01-2009 10:37

Nathan Pell

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Thanks, we found this out after everything was done. I tried my best to search Cd and FIRST to see how many other teams there were. Our old name was very hard to pronounce and we wanted something that was easy to remember. The school colors are Purple and Silver so we were either going to be "Purple Haze" or "Purple Reign" I preferred the latter, but was overruled by the rest of the team. Thanks for the comments

11-01-2009 10:38

Hanna2325

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Nice

11-01-2009 10:39

Nathan Pell

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Actually, started off as kind of a joke because the teacher that sponsored the team last near last name was "Haze" and we thought it would be a funny pun since our school colors are purple and so forth. Any way, it just stuck and here we are.

11-01-2009 10:40

Nathan Pell

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Thanks Wendy! I think we are going to do both Purple and gray this year. We also have the really cool purple fedora hats that go along with it
Nathan

11-01-2009 10:47

Dan Richardson

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I looked on FIRST's website and couldn't find 1889's old information but if I remember correctly there official name was just HAZE. There color was purple and it was obvious what they were going for but the official name was just HAZE. So as far as Florida goes there isn't another Purple Haze.

Either way back on topic, Nathan showed us this logo the other day and I think its top notch looks pretty sweet if you ask me. I think you should consider your mascot to be puff the magic dragon or whatever that purple dinosaurs name was, that would be awesome. Because purple is totally sweet, but mostly because I aspire to be a dinosaur when I grow up.

11-01-2009 10:50

Nathan Pell

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Thanks Dan.. I too want to be a dinosaur when I grow up one day...

Nathan

11-01-2009 12:14

flyingcrayons

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i love the name and the design... just two questions, what was your name before, and why did you decide to change it?

11-01-2009 14:40

Nathan Pell

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Before it was "Autoneumato Autonomatons" See.. even I can't spell it correctly. We decided to change it for better PR and better recognition. It was really hard to do this with the old name and it was hard when dealing with corporations.

11-01-2009 15:19

NorviewsVeteran

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...so refrencing a song about getting high sung by a guy that always was helps with PR? Interesting...

11-01-2009 15:34

JaneYoung

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As a former mentor of 418, I know that it can be a fine line to walk and it makes it a little challenging for marketing. The way the team obtained the name is a good story but that's about all that it is, a good story.

It is also a little hard to work into a theme/logo. HAZE developed a logo, I believe, designed by Jaine Perotti. LASA Robotics uses their name now for marketing and branding, but the nickname stays with them. I remember one parent thinking that she would wear a wide-brimmed black hat covered (read - billowing) in purple netting while sitting in the stands at the competitions. Don't believe I ever saw it become a reality.

11-01-2009 15:41

Dan Richardson

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Pshh: Autonomatoautonomatons
AH TOW NO MAH TOW AH TAWN AH MAH TAWNS

I practiced saying that for a full day at the 2007 regional lol.

11-01-2009 17:12

wendymom

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[I think you should consider your mascot to be puff the magic dragon or whatever that purple dinosaurs name was, that would be awesome.]

Isn't that Barney???

11-01-2009 18:07

smurfgirl

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I'm going to have to agree with this... it stands out to me as not really fitting in, and detracts attention from the rest of the logo.

Aside from that, it looks really nice. Good luck with the new team name and logo!

11-01-2009 18:54

Team 1708 Dave

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Cool Graphic! We also tried to come up with a differant name. I think would of been easier to change the earth's rotation. We even found a site just for creating team names. Even that didn't help much.

Good Luck!!

11-01-2009 22:03

Bertman

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Just as an historical note, team 418 has been Purple Haze since the 2000 game, our first year in FIRST.

11-01-2009 22:17

Bertman

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Just as an historical note, team 418 has been Purple Haze since the 2000 game, our first year in FIRST.
We have been at every Lone Star Regional since 2000 and to the national championship 5 times.

11-01-2009 22:49

Bertman

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Just as an historical note, team 418 has been Purple Haze since the 2000 game, our first year in FIRST.
We have been at every Lone Star Regional since 2000 and to the national championship 5 times.

11-01-2009 22:50

Nathan Pell

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Thanks for the comment. I was waiting for someone to bring this up. I am sure that people can dwell on the negative aspect of this name, however everything we do is about 'a commitment to excellence' and this was the name the students, administration and team came up with. We hired a professional logo designer to work on our logo to make sure that we come across professional in everything we do. Thank you for the comment

12-01-2009 08:23

Doug Leppard

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Nathan so good to see you on CD. Like the logo etc.

12-01-2009 13:44

Bertman

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This does allow for the possibility of the "Purple Haze Alliance" at some point in the future. ;-)


All Purple Haze, All the Time.

12-01-2009 13:49

Doug Leppard

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According to some I am a dinosaur now, IE grey hair.

12-01-2009 16:09

wendymom

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maybe....but still the COOLEST dinosaur ever!

24-02-2009 13:00

VEI Dude

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Hmmm... 1889 is alive. We did not compete last year due to lacks of funds. This year, I'm the new mentor (the prev mentor moved out of state) and we're fully in the game. We're also purple based, and use the Purple Haze these song. Our logo is... http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...highlight=1889 and our website here... http://www.haze1889.org/

Cheers,
-Neil.

24-02-2009 13:07

VEI Dude

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BTW, we are officially "The Haze" because some other team was apparently using "Purple Haze" when we signed up a few years ago -- I don't know who exactly cause I've only been here for half a year so far.