Do you know of any teams with wild funny interesting names/ do you have a killer team name idea?
2032 846 is the funky monkeys 
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Team 5199 - Robot Dolphins From Outer Space
Team 1902 - Exploding Bacon
Team 6802 - Mean Caimans
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846 is the Funky Monkeys. The OGs.
Iâve always been a fan of Purple Cobras as a team name.
@leap came up with Nine Inch Snails.
Our housemate Jeff came up with Team Built Different, Iâm a big fan of that one.
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Also,
Team 167 - Children of the Corn
Team 326 - Teamsuperpowermaticultramegasuperlativeawesometasticdelcioushowlingunieagles
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Funny PNW names that I can think of
3024 - My Favorite Team
6465 - Mystic Biscuit
1540 - Flaming Chickens
3663 - CPR (Cedar Park Robotics)
1318 - IRS (Issaquah Robotics Society)
5450 - SHREC (St. Helens Robotics & Engineering Club)
847 - PHRED (Philomath High school Robotics and Engineering Division)
Definitely not partial, because I couldnât wrap my head around Fred being spelled Phred when I was about 6.
Edit: Just realized that I forgot 360 - The Revolution
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Some favorites are (parentheses are comments):
2714- 
BBQ (yes with the emoji)
5285- Y
6220- The Meme Team (unfortunately they just changed it)
7230- 
(this is allowed?!? wicked though)
Also I know weâre all used to it cause they consistently crush souls with unprecedented efficiency but think for a moment how strange it is that the go-to top team in FRC is called the Cheesy Poofs.
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Iâve always been a fan of team names that stick to one or maybe two words and donât include âroboticsâ or ârobo-(x)â. Spectrum, Firebirds, Flight Crew, Pearadox, and Diablo all come to mind. Honorary mention to DâPenguineers, although to be honest Iâm not sure if the general âfit and finishâ coolness of their whole program isnât biasing me here.
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Big fan of 1868
NASA + Girl Scouts = Space Cookies
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Back in 2003 our then-rookie team 1346 combined the schoolâs mascot, the âDavid Thompson Trojanâ with the word âRoboticsâ and came up with âTroboticsâ. It was, in retrospect, about the least original, most useless, FRC team name we could have created. From that I learned a few lessons and was able to help another team go through a similar exercise many years later. They have since been able to generate award winning imagery and successful marketing campaigns built around a name that is both unique, visual, and related to their school and surroundings.
Here is some of the advice that I was able to give them:
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If your proposed name involves the words âroboticsâ, âmechaâ, or âtechnoâ⊠it has already been done. Derivations or combinations⊠anything starting with âroboâ or ending in âboticsâ has also been done. Metric prefixes are also well-represented, although ânanoâ, âpicoâ and âfemtoâ appear to be unused. If in doubt, search for team names at https://www.thebluealliance.com/
(Youâll find at least five versions of âtrobotâ out there⊠we were once next door neighbours to one of them in the pits!) -
Think about how you will express your team name in imagery. The name should sync with your team logo, mascot (even if you donât plan on having one right away) and future pit designs. Choosing a name that evokes a visual theme can set your team up for future imagery awards, but more importantly makes it easy for your team to be identified and remembered by alliance partners and potential sponsors. (Edit: and judges⊠believe me, a unique name that links to a theme of imagery, pit and robot design will catch the judgeâs attention and help them remember and discuss the good things about your team and robot!)
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Think local⊠what is climatic, geographic, or environmental aspect of your schoolâs region that the community can relate to? What are different names for said feature that people in your area know and use? For instance there are a lot of Raccoons in my neighbourhood, but âRoboRacoonsâ violates rule #1. We also call them the âTrash Banditsâ⊠and that could lead to a logo of a cute racoon hauling some recycling out of the trash, team uniforms with racoon masks, a pit that is (sanitarily and aesthetically) designed to evoke the inside of a dumpster, a team committment to recycling, and a robot that always features a humourous piece of junk that might attract a racoon. The âTrash Banditsâ sound like more fun to hang out with than âTroboticsâ!
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Donât decide on a name at your first meeting. Sure⊠brainstorm ideas, but donât get hooked to any of them. Make sure youâve got at least ten ideas on the board. Remember that sometimes the people with the most creative ideas arenât always the loudest voices in the room! After some of the initial âshout it outâ style brainstorming we asked everyone present to write one new idea down on a piece of paper and put it in a box, secret ballot style. Put all the names up on the board and ask everyone in the room to try and come up with one or two positive ideas about each of the names. Leave everything on the board and ask people to think about their favorite name on the board for a day or so, and what logo, uniform, mascot, robot feature or pit design might reflect that name. Reconvene later to build a short list around two or three promising candidates and then put a bit more effort into developing logos, backstories⊠whatever you need to pick out the most promising candidate.
4.5) Donât have any logo or mascot ideas? Maybe this a great excuse to expand your team and get some artists involved! FIRST is about a lot more than just a robot⊠the more types of intelligence you can recruit to your team the stronger the team will be. Note that video game programmers rarely model the video game characters⊠let alone create the marketing materials! Do you have a fashion design/sewing class in your school⊠hmm⊠they might have some ideas on how to make a great mascot outfit or team uniform!
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Remember it doesnât have to be a âtechyâ name⊠if you end up being the âFluffy Kitten Robotics Clubâ, people will still know you are a robotics club!
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If youâre still stuck, try approaching a few local businesses and asking them which ones resonate with them. Heck⊠this might be a way to get them engaged as future team sponsors or mentors! (In fact this is probably a good idea once youâve got a short list of three names that are all reasonably acceptable to everyone.)
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Try to avoid âvotingâ for the final name⊠perhaps take a straw poll to eliminate names that have little support, but go out of the way to seek consensus. It is probably better to have a team name that everyone is âpretty okayâ with, rather than a name that 60% of people love and 40% hate.
Hope that helps⊠and have some fun with it! While your teamâs robots will improve over the years, it is very likely that youâll keep the same name for a long time to come⊠itâs one of the biggest decisions a rookie team will make!
Jason
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One of my all-time favorite team names comes from an FLL tournament. If I recall correctly, a team of majority boys was the âPretty Pink Princesses of DOOMâ.
On another note, FRC233âs name is âThe Pink Teamâ.
Actually, I happen to like 900âs team name, the Zebracorns.
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cant believe no ones mentioned 2468, team appreciate
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We were nearly called âThe Disembowelled Ratsâ, fortunately that was vetoed for a number of reasons. I like our current name, Team Koalafied, a lot
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Oh, yes⊠as for a favorite team name, it has to be from an all-girlâs VRC team, the:
âPink Sparkle Fairy Unicornsâ
Although it might have worked better in VRC, the team members argued it was about the scariest name they could come up with⊠because âit would be really embarrassing to be be beat by the âPink Sparkle Fairy Unicornsââ 
I seem to recall they finished #3 (?) in Programming Skills at the VRC World Championships⊠so yeah, kind of scary!
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Team 9191, My Chemical Robots
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All of this to a T. The other thing that I want to call out is that you want to make sure that your name is sponsor friendly! Most of the time this will just sort of work itself out, but put yourself in a companyâs shoes and make sure theyâd actually sponsor something called [whatever your name is].
When my team, called The Pioneers^2 at the time, went through the renaming process, we went about it in 3 stages: exploration, combination, finalization.
In exploration, we brainstormed a bunch of categories, and then brainstormed a bunch of words for each category. These were sort of the seeds of our new name. Our categories were tech, Nashville, music, mythos, water, nature, pioneering, and space. After brainstorming words, we highlighted our favorites.
A week later in combination, we took the words we had come up with (and peoplesâ ideas over the week) and started forming potential new name ideas. We wrote out those new names and the students voted on a variety of factors to see if there were any name frontrunners.
A week after that we had our distillation phase. We took our top 3 name suggestions, developed full sample brands for them, and found the most acceptable one to the team.
If I had to go through a team naming process again, Iâd take this approach.
Now, you may notice that our team name is The Pioneers. TL;DR they changed their minds and decided to just drop the ^2 and change the logo 
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Idk, 8096 takes my money for best team name.
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You have to appreciate a great number specific name:
1024 - Kilobytes
2468 - Team Appreciate
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They are a local team, so I may have a bias, but Iâve always liked 1646 - Precision Guessworks.
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Itâs 8096, Cache Money. Their logo is literally a piggy bank.
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