As a GM/player, what's your favorite team name? And has that name lead to some fun/interesting gaming moments?

My players named one of their teams: Better Than Most and this lead to some wonderful gaming moments.

They were meeting their Johnson in a fancy restaurant located at the top of a skyscraper. This place was very popular with high corp execs, oyabuns/dons and politicians. During the meeting a bunch of terrorists take over the place and since they're surprised, unarmed and not hired for this the team waits it out. It soon becomes clear that the terrorists are crazy and might kill everyone (including the runners), so they decide to do something when they get the chance. After a short fight the team is victorious (despite being unarmed and unarmored) with minimal injuries sustained (and no casualties). The big (2.4m) orc gets up, looks out over the corp execs (and the rest of them) and says in a loud voice: "And remember: We're Better Than Most."

We had to take a short break so people could stop laughing before we continued playing.

i never named my runner team, but the best name for special ops is the Fast Action Response Team

whenever the special forces have F.A.R.T. on their vest, you know theres alot of jokes.

"RIP ONE!" *tosses a CS grenade in the room*

Well, the only team name my players have used was 'Damage, Inc.' No stories about that one that I remember, though.

One time long ago, I was involved with a group led by an ex-military orc leader-type named Hogan. So of course we all became 'Hogan's Heroes'.

The GM let us all run with the joke for a bit, with a couple of recurring NPCs being the watchful Lone Star beat cop who could be paid off with either nuyen or strudel (Schultz, of course) and the unwise company man who hated shadowrunners but was good friends with Hogan and his men (Klink). IIRC, there were some other jokes from the show used as well (we had a safehouse with a secret entrance underneath a corp facility, among other things).

Eventually the group broke up, moving on to other things. Guess the war ended.

Royal Flush. Ace Roberts, Jonathan King, Emily Hart (Queen of Hearts), Jack Crane and Yori Tenshi (10).

The toughest group I've ever GMed called themselves "The Brothers McBoom."

NPC attrition the likes of which you can't imagine....

I am also of the group that never named SR teams, because it seems silly to me. I still laugh out loud at "Assets, Inc".

Whatever floats your boat.

Most of my teams never get names, but one game then went on for about 4 years started referring themselves Hostile Forces because then frequency scanning they would always hear "Hostile Forces in sector 7, en route to intercept!" and such. They figured it was appropriate.

I was playing a character named Murphy, and while I kept suggesting it to the group, nobody took me up on it. I wanted to call the group Murphy's Law. So, anytime someone asked who we were, I said quickly "we are Muphy's Law" follwed by the rest of the group saying "No, we are NOT Muphy's Law". The GM began calling us ML or NOT ML depending on who the contact actually belonged to. The group really resented me for that. I just don't get it!

Although not an official name, as such, our group is sometimes called "The Best of What's Left".

I think group names are silly.

But, we have one anyway.

So, the group contains six runners total, one of which is named Bunny (the PC he replaced was an angry Rastafari, so in a tip-of-the-hat, this one was named after Neville Livingston, Bunny Wailer's real name).

Anyways, as the entire group was about to die with the sole exception of Bunny and another member, someone else suggested renaming the group "Echo and the Bunnymen."

I was definatly pro-name for that. Alas, they all lived and the Coolest Name, Ever didn't get used.

Bunny bides his time...

As a player, I was part of a group which got named "Collateral Damage." Not because we tended to cause said collateral damage, but due to an unfortunate string of incidents in which Corp forces attempted to capture us (and in one case succeeded, but that's another story all-together). Said Corp's forces were led by a Dwarf adept with a love of grenade launchers. Hence, after the second attempt by this group to capture us, the name (I believe that an HE Missile was used in that attempt as well...).

Of course, there are downsides to a name like this-for a while we didn't get any jobs that involved anything but wetwork or property destruction, but eventually our rep out-paced the name.

My group doesn't name our teams until after we retire them and then we choose something appropriate. For example; after an engineering dispute escalated into a inter-runner gunfight on the front lawn of a corp facility(security wasn't even involved yet!) and three of six players had to use Hand of God we retired those characters and named the team "The Team Whose Name We Cannot Say"

I've never been one to like team names but one person here on dumpshock, and I apologize for having forgot who said it, suggested "drekcetera" as a team name. I've become kinda fond of that.

Our group was the Vandals, mostly thanks to our Face with his grenade launcher ("Lucy") and full-auto paintball gun. Didn't really fit the rest of the runners very well, but it worked.

Maybe Kuroko will drop in here and tell y'all about the Recliners...

I've always liked the concept of a "team name" in the context they're given in the novels. Assets, Inc, and Demolition Crew are/were high-level Professionals-with-a-capital-P who needed a legitimate front for their operations. If you've ever read the Bourne Identity novel (NOT the movie, but the novel), they use the Treadstone corporation in a similar capacity. Unfortnuately, I've never had a group last long enough to get a team name

The Abstruse One

I never had a team name itself but I did have some runners with interesting names. First time they met a Johnson and did introductions, the Johnson met the street doc Doc Johnson, the troll adept who's friends called him Shin and everybody else called him Shin, and the street sam who thought he was Batman and introduced himself as Batman. The Johnson thought they were all giving shitty fake names, but those were their real names.

Team Discovery Channel!

The closest things we ever had to team names were among NPCs. The more infamous were a group of mercenaries. Two orks, a troll, and a human mage. They were called the Devilkin, and had a rep for sadism and a love of fire.

Then you had the DMHDS. Drunken Master Hot Dog Stand. Three adepts and a street sam, all of them so wasted at all times that they were completely useless.

The group I am GM´ing does not have a name as such, but its a tradition that the GM writes up a little story of the action afterwards (usually "spiced up" some). In there I give the players different streetnames (The names are in Danish and some dont translate so well).

The Pussycat: Human, Combat Monster with spurs in both arms, authority complex.

The Little Helper: Human, Heavy weapons, close combat

NoNeedForArmor: Troll, Heavy weapons, very little armor, Darwin Award

Cavedweller: PhysAd, Sniper, survival skills, stealth,

Pale Fart: Vampire with Guilt trips and a Robin Hood complex (has not told the other PC´s), Edged weapons

Mr Goodlooks: Elf Mage, Defaults to CHA and negotiates the crap out of my NPC´s

CrapDriver: Orc with moderate driving skills. Usually elected for the Kamikaze runs

AlmostElf: Human Mage. Likes Shapechange, Invisibility and Control Action (on the other PC´s)

I still remember my first group of shadowrunners, when we all were still young and (mostly) innocent
We didn't quite get the meaning of shadowrun, resulting almost always in runs involving a lot of uproar and chaos (miraculously, they even went well in th sense that we nearly always achieved our mission goals).
So, after a run particularly gone bad, our GM made us take on the name of a local rock group: B. Loud.
Ah, the good ol' times.

My old team, when composed entirely of Orks and Trolls, was lovingly called the "Reservoir Trogs"

My group recently went up against 3 orks called the "Breeder Bleeders."
However, my favorite has to be back when the team was 3 elves and a ghoul, and the adept proposed the name "Three Keebs and a Corpse." He even drew up little business cards.

The group I gm for has six players, five of which are metas (elf, orc, orc, orc, troll). They refer to themselves as the Trog Love Brigade, which torques off the elf somethin' fierce.

I've always been fond of "Darwin's Bastards" even if they are just a musical group. That name is just beautiful on several levels.

My old team could never agree on a name, so our GM just started referring to us as team TBA(To Be Assigned).

The scene: A lovely seaside restaurant where the runners are set to meet a johnson. Unknown to them terrorists will soon attack the restaurant randomly and the johnson will be scragged.
The Players:
Charlie: A female elven covert op specalist
Dylan: A female elven face
Zues: A male dwarven rigger
Wing: A female night one rigger
Streaks: A female elf parrot shaman
Ephsis: A male elven samuri adept
Tonto: A gnome Racoon shaman(who pretends to be a six year old human girl)
Spike: A male human bounty hunter (npc who was also massively incompetent)
John Lee: A male human gun face
Murgo: A human otaku who disliked and feared elves(because he thought the Tir was after him)
As the characters are all sitting around eating Buckshot( A large hispanic cybered orc who was racist aganist all non hispanic orcs)
His First Line: Damn Spike, these are your new chummers? They look like they should be making toys
From there on out the name Santa's Little Helpers haunted us worse than any foe

When we were in a magic campaign, our group was part of the Atlantean Foundation, called the Ursus Division. I thought that always had a nice ring to it in a "tell us what we want to know or we'll throw lightning at you and make spirits tear down your house." (a threat our resident munchkin once used on a New Orleans barkeeper)

In another group of runners, our munchkin would inevitably get his character killed at some point in the run, and when we started the next one he usually hadn't quite finished min-maxing ("tweaking") his character. When a Johnson asked us if we were the entire team one of us said "Plus one."
So from then on that group was known as Plus One, even if the munchkin's character was actually alive!

The street punks I'm running have a name for their band: "Taco Sandwich (with Avocado)". They have a flag. It's of a big black bird.

Why? Their raven shaman singer, and the decker/keyboarder both managed to convince the group to use the name 'Nevermore' for the band. The Shaman put together the flag.

They barely escaped their first performance with their lives (Isn't Rule of Ones fun?), so they changed their name to Taco sandwich. They kept the flag, though.

They picked up a new lead Guitar player, who made a crack about the name involving avocado, so the group started refering to him as Avacado (One of the coolest and most believably occuring street names I have ever seen, by the way. I am in awe.).

So the band is now: "Taco Sandwich (With Avocado)"

Fun group. Their characters are trying to get out of the Barrens any way they can. That and the players have all seen Buckaroo Bonzai.

Once in a champions game my character Solid Gold Motherfucker decided that his group name was Solid Gold Dancers, except when they were Solid Gold and his Ninja Ho's (only when he was in Solid Gold Kung Fu Ninja Freestylin' Motherfucker multiform).

A group I played with that was heavy troll and ork players aptly named themselves The Grots. We felt it was quite fitting. However I belive the best named group we had was infringing on their Beer. A long story of mistaking the local brewing company for a weapons depot.

The NPC Trog gang the players spent time with in one of my games was run by a Troll called "Bruiser". His gang was. "The Bruises".

I was trying to get my team (3 elves and a ghoul) to get business cards printed up with "3 Keebs and a Corpse" on 'em. Had a little illustration on them and everything.

Also, I heard about a buncha orc badasses called the Breeder Bleeders one time, but I wasn't around for that run.

We never use team names, but our Mr Johnson asked us so we took a quick vote, with two players named aaron and there only being 4 PCs the name Aaron's Angels won-majority rule. Oh one of our angels is a troll.

Ive always been partial to "The Horsemen", a four man team of course.

I like the Resevoir Trogs, it would be a cool gang name.

Well, i have been ina lot of teams..the oens that I recall are, the eye in the sky, entropy is our friend,We kill them until they die from it.

"Black Snow and the Seven Trolls" for a group of metahuman runners fond of bashing Humanis scum..