Carball and other alternative names

[Maxar]

I believe that a name such as Carball (or some other name that relates to its own criterion) would be a more appropriate, fitting name for this great sport/game of ours, in favor over the current, overly simplified name, "Rocket League" - (which is similar in nature to calling the sport Basketball "NBA") - or the obscenely protracted, predecessor name, "Super-Sonic, Acrobatic, Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars [SARPBC: sarr-pee-bee-see (?)]" - (which moreover describes the participants than it defines the game itself)

If one hears the name "Rocket League", but does not know if the term applies to a video game that involves cars with afterburners playing a form of extreme soccer/football; or if it refers to a league of competitive model rocket-building events, then there would be little to him to hesitate the desire to proclaim false advertisement or even copyright infringement, for that matter.

...It should be also considered that the term "Rocket League" has been reserved and instantiated as a corporate title before:

• Rocket Racing League (Association) [www.rocketracingassociation.com]
  
• Sport Rocketry Magazine (National Association of Rocketry) [www.nar.org]
  
• Reach for the Stars National Rocket Competition [info.aiaa.org]
  
• Team America Rocketry Challenge [rocketcontest.org]

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Apart from this, I ask you:

What other names could replace “Rocket League”, functioning as a more descriptive name for the sake of reference clarity?; What is your favorite sport-name for this game?

[Knife Prty]

rocket league

edit: all my friends that play video games know what rocket league is... yeah my 70 year old GM where i work doesn't...

[Timeraider]

Probably Rocket league would be an amazing name.. or else go for a good alternative like Rocket league. Though alot of people will prefer Rocket league

[Maxar]

But how does the name "Rocket League" have any relation to itself in this case?

[Maxar]

Indeed, it is a league with participants that use afterburners which are rocket-like, but how does this relate to the fundemental nature of the game itself?

[Twahn]

Why does it have to? If you want a strong identity, you need a name that has a life of its own and is more than simply descriptive of the content.
Look at team fortress. Gives you no idea what to expect from the name alone. Probably gives you plenty of ideas that are complete red herrings in fact.
Then look at halo, counterstrike, unreal, doom, quake, half-life, portal, any game with an identity. These names give you nothing.

[Corrodias]

"Carball" is the intentionally uninspiring name that my friends and I occasionally use ironically.

Agreeing with Twahn, names don't have to be a plain description of their product. "Extra" is gum; "Gold Bond Ultimate" is a lotion; "Steam" is a videogame distribution platform.

[Volodesi]

Funny. Carball was the name of a UT2004 Mod. Which some of the devs on Rocket League helped make.

[Maxar]

Originally posted by Volodesi:

Funny. Carball was the name of a UT2004 Mod. Which some of the devs on Rocket League helped make.

Did that mod happen to be a re-mix of the original bombing run game mode? they seem somewhat similar in nature

[globefish23]

Autoball already exists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU5GgSzf5-k

[TommyEV]

Originally posted by globefish23:

Autoball already exists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU5GgSzf5-k

>No aerials.
They must be like prospect I

[HackySac]

Originally posted by Maxar:

Originally posted by Volodesi:

Funny. Carball was the name of a UT2004 Mod. Which some of the devs on Rocket League helped make.

Did that mod happen to be a re-mix of the original bombing run game mode? they seem somewhat similar in nature

Carball didn't use very much from Bombing Run to make. even the ball isn't the same. The concept of 2 teams and a ball and 2 goals is about all they have in common.

I think Bombing Run should of been remade into Fragball why was it that only Carball got to upgrade into Rocket League and BR didn't?

[SlinkyTheDrunk]

i thought they call it 'soccar' themselves

[✟ waffle ✟]

Epic Rocket Car Soccer Racing League