Let's All Play The Name Game
This and this are lists of previous team names.
Some of these are awesome, and give their (sometimes poor standing) teams a lot of excellent nerd-cred. We want that kind of cred regardless of how well we do, so we want awesome names.
Generally speaking, this is a game of reference. Find a balance between obscurity, humor, and originality, then run with it. We need two names - one for a Learning Team and one for an Experienced Team. If you have a name specifically for one of those, post it and say which one. If you have a name for any team, that's cool too. What's absolute best though, is if you can come up with a pair of names that play off of each other and make a more complete and powerful reference.
Presently we have "The Guelph n00bs" (learning) and "The Guelph 1337" (experienced), and also, "The Black Knights" (learning) and "The Unladen Swallows" (experienced) as the leading two proposed name pairs.
Post and make us proud. We'll take the best we get and vote on them this Thursday, February 7th, at 5:30 - SOCIS' new meeting time.
UPDATE: The following names have risen to the top. A poll will soon be created.
Little Endians / Big Endians
There Will Be Cake / The Cake Is A Lie
Pound Bang Bash / The Forkers
Pinky / The Brain
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For reference: last year we
For reference: last year we went with the Null Terminators and had a great time, people thought our name was fairly original too ;)
Dave
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"The only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a programmer with a soldering iron."
"off by 1's" ...
"off by 1's" ...
No Homers
No Homers Club
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Currently: Rob
Formerly: TurdFerguson
+1
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Josh Gaber
Put 1000 monkeys in front of 1000 terminals, and they'll eventually code Windows Vista
A few ideas
"The Flying Hellfish" (Experienced Team)
"Sherman's Army" (Learning Team)
"The Guardians" (Experienced Team)
"Phong's Acolytes" (Learning Team) (other Reboot references that don't suck like mine do would be cool)
"01011000 01001011 01000011 01000100" 0x58 0x4B 0x43 0x44 = XKCD (Experienced)
"01001000 01000101 01001100 01010000" 0x48 0x45 0x4C 0x50 = HELP (Learning)
.. Stuff in Binary would be cool, other suggestions welcome. 4 Characters is probably the limit of what we do in binary though. The Hex and alpha are there for our convenience, and are not part of the team's name. Also, I'm thinking we'd want to have acronyms for those, like "Extends Khan: Class Destructor" or "Hey Everyone, Let's Play!" - you get the gist.
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Wyatt Carss
Honours Bachelor of Computing, Co-op
Treasurer, SOCIS
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Ideas
First ideas that come to mind (paired names seperated by a slash):
Gekkostate, Knights Who Say Ni/Knights Who Until Recently Said Ni, The MCP Army/Flynn's Brigade, Hyrdolisks/Lurkers, Torn Masks/Masked Army.
All I've got for now.
Feel free to derive from
Feel free to derive from these. Do bear in mind they were thought of in all of 10 minutes in a THRN lab at 11 at night.
Names a la Starcraft:
Exp: Hydralisks or Overlords
New: Zerglings
Exp: Zealots
New: Drones
Exp: Archons
New: Templars
Names a la Half-Life
Exp: Black Mesa Researchers
New: Aperture Scientists
Exp: Science Team
New: Headcrabs
Names a la CIS
Exp: Dual-cores
New: Single-cores
Exp: 1337 coders
New: N00b coders
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Jordan Kapp
Second Year - BAH/CIS
Canadian Forces Regular Officer - Aerospace Control Officer
Some more:Little Endians /
Some more:
Little Endians / Big Endians
Team Octal / Team Hexadecimal
The Assistants / The Time Lords
Q Division / 00 Division
Bantha Fodder / Nerf Herders
Replicants / Blade Runners
Mortal Kombatants / Street Fighters
Team Frak / Team Frell / Team Shazbot (pick two)
The Weighted Companion Cubes / The Aperture Scientists
There Will Be Cake / The Cake Is A Lie
Team Blue Screen / Team Core Dump
Team Padawan / Team Jedi
I can see Team Get-Off-My-Lawn for the experienced group.
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Tony Thompson
I like Little Endians/Big
I like Little Endians/Big Endians. Those who get it will think it a little bit of genius.
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Josh Gaber
Put 1000 monkeys in front of 1000 terminals, and they'll eventually code Windows Vista
Justin Arnott mentioned
Justin Arnott mentioned "Team Discovery Channel" to me, which I thought was riotous.
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Wyatt Carss
Honours Bachelor of Computing, Co-op
Treasurer, SOCIS
x77304
Keep in mind...
It's prolly best if we can tie it into the video, and the organizers have to be able to announce it.
For that reason, I'll support Starcraft names, since the videos could therefore be hilarious (animated within SC)
As a random note, I also really like Team Discovery Channel
Randall Roberts
SOCIS President
Team Discovery Channel
Team Discovery Channel (Video could contain Martin Prince exclaiming "Team Discovery Channel!")
Team Planet Express
The Urban Cohort
... and that's it. I had a lot more, but I guess I'll post them when I think of them.
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Justin Arnott (Zdolski)
L337 / H4X ROFLMAO/OMFG The
L337 / H4X
ROFLMAO/OMFG
The Party Van
The Segfaults / The NullRefs