new teams week 1

"That thing you said is wrong" = disproved claim?

Parity team naming guidelines:

1) A well named parity team should be based on one of the following pun categories, ranked from most to least desireable.

• Captain's first name, last name or well known handle
• Parity or its aspects (stats, heckles, trades etc)
• Topical pop culture

2) A secondary pun can be chosen from this list to support the primary pun

• Notable team member's well known handle
• General frisbee puns
• Local history, culture, or boroughs
• Popular sayings
• Something naughty
• Obscure cultural references

3) The use of puns does not justify incoherent phrases.

4) Use of arbitrary punless themes is strictly forbidden

Given these guidelines, Parity team names from days past can be graded as follows:

2014 Spring

THE FRANCHISE - Was this a post-mortem team name or did Rob actually call himself this and then go undefeated?  If the former then 2/10 because changing your team name after the fact is a huge faux-pas.  If the latter then 8/10 for Messier-esque boldness, despite not hitting any of the pun guidelines.

Karmic Balance 8/10 - Mehmet deftly combines two puns from the primary category, using his own name in conjunction with parity's rebalancing mechanism.  The whole thing comes together with a pleasing zen theme.

Team Hadrian! 4/10 - Fail.  There's no pun here!  Unless I'm missing something.  Maybe this is some sort of protest?  I'll let the fanboys weigh in.

Damage Inc. 2/10 -  Rule 4 Glen.  Ugh.

The Even Stephanes 6/10 - Giving Al the benefit of the doubt that his original roster had some Steve/Stephanes on it.  So we've got two hits from the supporting category.  Not terrible.

Statistically Deviant 5/10 - I guess this falls under the stats aspect of parity and the deviant part suggests something naughty.  It doesn't come together very well though.  Does James work at StatsCan?  If this was a Gavin team I would bump it up a couple of points.

2014/2015 Winter

A Windmill Full of Corpses 3/10 - Obscure cultural reference.  Nothing else going for it.  I was young and inexperienced.

Game of Throws 6/10 - Topical Pop culture reference + general frisbee pun.  This is a fine name for a summer league team.  Primary pun could have been better though.

Kinha's Disappointments 7/10 - Based on a notable player on another team.  Al playing on his own celebrity here, and it works.

Conflic of Interests 7/10 - Keates riffing on himself as commissioner and GM.  Very league-appropos.

Huck Huck Goose 4/10 - General frisbee pun.  This is especially offensive because of all the ripe Berry puns Megan could have drawn from.  As now.

Karma Down Under 6/10 - See above.  This references Mehmet being in Oz for the first part of the season.  I like the customization but it loses the shine of the original.

Dump, Swing, Huck, Repeat 3/10 - Was this supposed to be ironic?  I dunno.  If I have to work to figure it out there's a problem.

Scoobers in Paris 6/10 - I never understood this reference but that's not Sina's fault.  Non topical pop culture + general frisbee pun = so-so.

2015/2016

Stan's Sturgeons 4/10 - It rhymes, so sure, we'll give it to him.  You can't be mad at Stan.

Katy Parity 9/10 - Yes!  Seamless parity/pop culture combo.  Rolls off the tongue.  Top marks.

Pirate Rob's Swashbuckling Rogues 5/10 - There's probably an inside joke here that I don't know.  But that's a pitfall of team names.  If only half the people enjoy the name then it's only half a success.

Luke Parity 7/10 - Witty enough.  I think heckling another team's name has potential but like a $15 bottle of Pinot Noir it's very risky.

Moderate Expectations 3/10 - moderate returns.

Ignominious 3/10 - No retruécano, no bueno.

Scoobers in New York 4/10 - The sequel did not improve on the original

2016/2017 Session 1

Basket of Deplorables 6/10 - Topical but otherwise uninspired.

F Bombs 5/10 - This developed over a couple of weeks so it kindof gets parity cred, plus the bombs part qualifies as a general frisbee pun.  Not enough to save it though.

Hindsight Hooligans 2/10 - I don't understand this at all.  What hindsight?  Why hooligans?  Other than arbitrarily rhyming, there is no redeeming value here.  Explain yourself.

Mike and the Millburys 7/10 - I want to like this team name but the single pun doesn't quite get me there.  Is Kells a huge Mike Millbury fan?

SOS - Man Overboard 2/10 - Rule 4 Proulx.  :(

Kaboom 3/10 - KaBooo!  Insert pun here.

Like a Boss 7/10 - Captain's name + pop phrase just past its best before date should be gold right?  I feel like anything using Boss was going to be a let down though because it's so obvious.

So there you go Amos.  I just don't want it to seem personal when I say your team name sucks.  It's noble what you were trying for.  The captain name + notable player name double pun.  But you had to change the spelling of your own name to make it work and the result is an incoherent phrase.

3/10

I gave your wife's team name a 9?  This is above 8, no?

My rating system is based on university english courses.  The last 10% is reserved for that which is unwritten.

than the piss-poor showing Amos has given us.

Sorry, it's an alliteration.  Next time I decide to waste fourty minutes of a work-day quantifying Amos' faults I'll do a more thorough proof-read.

Stan is a curmudgeon. Stan = curmudgeon = rhymes with sturgeon. It's the associative property of rhyming.