[quote author=Chain link=topic=515.msg4946#msg4946 date=1318290796]<br />The &quot;continuity&quot; argument is completely moot for reasons already discussed, such as the fact a BSK/SUC/etc one season is nothing like another incarnation in a different season. Before you know it, everyone will have been on every team and the stats and team history becomes useless.<br /><br />I agree there should be rules in place to prevent this from going &quot;full retard,&quot; because this isn&#039;t ST and something like &quot;Pussy Raiders&quot; is funny only when you&#039;re 6 and haven&#039;t seen or smelled pussy before. For example, the most basic rules could be:<br /><br />-The team name *HAS* to have elements of Doom lore in it, like an item, weapon, or classic texture/flat name or stock (or popular?) map name references. [i]Something like &quot;Iconic Sinners&quot; makes more sense on several levels, while &quot;Spread Eagles&quot; is utter NFL ripoff bs[/i]<br /><br />-The team name can&#039;t have profanity, genitalia, or intentionally targeting previous/current teams or players . [i]Too easy and not original[/i]<br /><br />-It has to be short and simple, so nothing like &quot;This is my team name and an attempt at humor.&quot; [i]These could be 2 to 3 words max?[/i]<br /><br />Under these conditions, the team names would remain Doomy and without all the other crap that people have the biggest beefs with.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />I don&#039;t see these as unreasonable guidelines, but don&#039;t you think it&#039;d be pointless to go through that effort to make a team name official and stick with the league throughout seasons? I would like to point out that if we get rid of static teams we would no longer have standardized logos on the website unless one were so willing to put effort into logos for each of the 12 teams every season barring any re-uses of the name. In lieu of that you could probably use just large text sizes with the acronym on places such as the stats pages, which isn&#039;t a big deal.<br /><br />One other thing, it is quite a nice thing to compare team stats with the same team stats from a previous season, such as Jenova&#039;s BSK vs a different BSK, which you would not be able to do should the names change as drastically as they have when free naming was in effect. It also makes tracking team history kind of a pain in the ass. While allowing additional freedom in choosing your name, I see more downsides compared to selectively kicking out the least-liked names and putting in cooler ones suggested by dudes.<br /><br />Alternatively, I&#039;d like to suggest coming up with an entirely new set of 12 names, where I&#039;d design entirely new logos for each. It would give the IDL a greater sense of individuality, and I&#039;m just pitching this as an alternative in the sense of the word. I doubt it will gain much ground in the ways of making it to fruition, probably because we&#039;ve used doomy NFL names for so long.