Team Not a Good Name, circa Spring 2008
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest scientific organization, and not coincidentally, the DC Bocce League's largest supplier of scientist/bocce player hybrids. In fact, during the Spring season, ten AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship representatives competed in Bocce league play. Due to some administrative confusion, the team's name evolved during the course of the year; we were officially listed as Not a Good Name but alternatively known as "Team AAAS", "The Team of Destiny", or "Team Fancy Pants". A number of peer-reviewed studies have demonstrated that the only reason we lost the Best Team Name competition is because all of our names were so creative that the votes were dispersed equally among them.
For those of you wrapping up your off-season scouting, feel free to browse through the weekly ups and downs of our inaugural Spring bocce season (in reverse chronological order), which have been documented on our companion blog. All of our secrets gift-wrapped to you. That's confidence.
This off-season, as word of our dynasty spread throughout the scientific community, we sensed a growing demand to join Not a Good Name/Team AAAS/The Team of Destiny/Team Fancy Pants. To accommodate this popularity, we have opted to split our team into two separate but equal forces (below), setting the stage for an ultimate showdown between the two spin-offs.
We'll see you on the courts (grass)!
Summer 2008 Spin-Offs
| The Greatest and Best Team in the World | Destiny's Pants |
| The Beast | Dr. Clutch |
| The Captain | The Enforcer |
| The Eye | The Missyle |
| Jennufine | Mr. Awesome |
| Individual #1 | Individual #1 |
| Individual #2 |
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