DWTS 14 – Make Your Team Name Suggestions!
Ok, so reminiscing about past team names and trying to come up with ones for this season’s couples in another thread just seemed to clarify for me “We need a separate post for this.” π
It’s pretty self-explanatory – we wanna hear your suggestions for this season’s team names.Β Keep in mind that theΒ team names USUALLY are a sort of portmanteau of the celeb & the pro’s names (“Evanna” for Evan & Anna, “Florky” for Florence & Corky, “Kanenball” for Chelsea Kane & Mark Ballas), although they can also consist of nicknames (“Sugar & Spice” for Sugar Ray & Anna) or make no sense whatsoever (“Team Schmurgles” for Kyle & Lacey…still trying to figure that one out!).Β And let’s avoid anything too vulgar – if you can’t say it on tv, there’s really not much of a point in saying it here π
Heidi mentioned something about tweeting a link to this post to all of the teams to help them brainstorm their names – so make ’em good, guys, ’cause you never know if Maks, Kym, Tristan, etc. might be reading this! π Keep in mind that this is the name that goes on the t-shirts that the couples tend to wear in rehearsal, around the studio, etc…so if they like your name, you’ll be seeing it everywhere.
ETA #1: We’ve compiled a list of names you guys have suggested for each couple thus far…keep ’em coming, though! π
Just to refresh your memory, here’s a list of the couples again, along with some hints that may help you in creating your names:
Jack Wagner (best known for his role as Frisco Jones on General Hospital) & Anna Trebunskaya:
Team Friskaya
Team General Ginger
Team TrebunSco
Team Wagskaya
Team Jumping Jack
Gavin DeGraw (musician) & Karina Smirnoff:
Team KarDegraw
Team Gavina
Team DeGrawsome
Team DeSmirnoff
Team GKRhythm
Team GaRina
Team KaVin
Team Smirnoffin
Martina Navratilova (tennis player) & Tony Dovolani:
Team LovaLani
Team MarTony
Team Novratilani
Team Dovalova
Team NovDov
Team Tonnis
Team Narvaloni
Team Dovatina
Roshon Fegan (plays Ty Blue on the Disney Channel series Shake it Up) & Chelsie Hightower:
Team BlueTower
Team ShonTower
Team RoShel
Team Dancing Rosh
Team Roshie
Donald Driver (plays for the Green Bay Packers, writes childrens’ books about a character named Quickie) & Peta Murgatroyd:
Team PetaPackers
Team PetaPack
Team BayTroyd
Team Drivertroyd
Team DonaTroyd
Team Donapetia
Team Donaltroyd
Jaleel White (played Steve Urkel on Family Matters) & Kym Johnson:
Team UrKym
Team Leel-Kym
Team Kurkel
Team Did I Do That?
Team Kymeel
Melissa Gilbert (played Laura Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie) & Maksim Chmerkovskiy:
Team Gilskiy
Team Ingallskiy
Team Half-Pintskiy
Team MGM
Team MaksPint
Team Prairie on a Stick
Team MeMak
Team MelMak
Team Maksy & Melly
Team Melliskiy
Maria Menouos (tv presenter for Access Hollywood & Extra) & Derek Hough:
Team MenHough
Team Marek
Team MariDer
Team Houghounos
William Levy (model, considered the “Mexican Brad Pitt”) & Cheryl Burke:
Team WilliBu
Team Levyl
Team WillChe
Team CheWill
Team WilBur
Team WillBurk
Sherri Shepherd (cohost from The View) & Val Chmerkovskiy:
Team EnWyCee
Team Sherkovskiy
Team Sherval
Team Valsherri
Team Shmear
Team Valeopard
Gladys Knight (singer, considered “The Empress of Soul”) & Tristan MacManus:
Team Lucky Pips
Team Gladys Knight & the Irish Pip
Team Knight Tristan
Team Lucky Knights
Team MacKnight
Team G&T
Team MacKnightus
Team Trips
Team Gladyator
Team GladMan
Team MidKnight Tryst
Katherine Jenkins (Welsh operatic soprano) & Mark Ballas:
Team Markins
Team Katnass
Team KatMar
Team KatBalls
Team Ballkins
I’ll go ahead and share two of my favorites π The first I actually have to credit @LannatexasgalΒ for coming up with, and it’s for Melissa & Maks – Team MelMak.Β Reminds me of ALF π The 2nd I came up with this afternoon and it’s really super dumb…but you know how Gladys Knight performed with the Pips? Well for she & Tristan’s team name…how bout Gladys Knight & The Irish Pip? I know, point & laugh…it’s dumb. π
Now ready…set…NAME AWAY!!! π
I only came up with two so far…
Sherri & Val – Team EnWyCee (anything like Sheval is too close to cheval and that’s horse in French, so….)
and
Melissa & Maks – Team Gilskiy (Team M&M belongs to Maks and Mel B, so… )
Ooooh!! I just thought of Lucky Pips for Gladys and Tristan. That’s bad, eh? π
LovaLani
KarDegraw
PetaPackers
WilliBu
MenHough
enough already …. these are so bad, I know .. blame it on the wine π
but I do love Gladys Knight and the Irish Pip LOL
Oh no Gladys Knight and The Irish Pip isn’t that bad. π
Actually, Linde, I kinda like PetaPakcers and Willibu. Cute.
Whoops, that’s PetaPackers.
Someone said “Team Gavina” for Gavin & Karina.
@sheery I like it!! π
Team PetaPack
Gavin and Karina…
Team DeGrawesome
Some choices are admittdly more inspired than others, but here are my suggestions:
Jack & Anna: Team Friskaya
Gavin & Karina: Team DeSmirnoff
Martina & Tony: Team MarTony
Roshon & Chelsie: Team BlueTower
Donald & Peta: Team BayTroyd
Jaleel & Kym: Team UrKym
Melissa & Maks: Team Ingallskiy
Maria & Derek: Team Marek
William & Cheryl: Team Levyl
Sherri & Val: Team Sherkovskiy
Gladys & Tristan: Team Knight Tristan
Katherine & Mark: Team Markins
“LEEL-KYM” for Jaleel White & Kym Johnson
“LEEL-KYM”
“LEEL-KYM”
“LEEL-KYM”
“LEEL-KYM”
I think its perfect because it also recognizes a past DWTS contestant at the same time…especially if Jaleel just may so happen to be a fan too!
Sorry off topic but mark just tweeted a friend that he will be in England in two days. Is that where he will be rehearsing with Katherine?
I love Gladys Knight and the Irish Pip!
Maybe Team HalfPintsky for Melissa & Maks? Team MariDer for Maria & Derek?
OK for Melissa and Maks. Team MGM
I only could come up with a couple.
Sherri and Val: team Sherval
Kym and Jaleel: Kurkel
Katherine and Mark-Katnass(don’t ask, I was trying to get to Katnoss, closest I get get)
Melissa and Mark-Mellark
Ok, I’m hopeless, and Hunger Games-obsessed.
Oh and Courtney, I fpuns out how Kyle and Lacey came up with “Schmurgles” as their name. I came across an interview on YouTube, and someone asked how Kyle and Lacey cameup with their team name. They decided that they didn’t want to mix names, and Lacey asked Kyle what theyshould do instead. Kyle said”I don’t know…… Ummmmmmm………. Schmurgles??”
LOL. Willibu does just kind of roll off the tongue in a giggly way, doesn’t it LOL
I also like MGM for Melissa & Maks. The interviews hint at a good team.
such positive vibes all around on the interview circuit.
YAY – it’s going to be a great premier and a great season
@Angela – yes, i hear somewhere (here no doubt as this is the my only go-to place for DWTS news) that Katherine had obligations in Europe and the first 2 weeks of rehearsal will take place in London.
#TeamPetaPacker and #TeamShonTower
Relsie Fegtower????? No that’s stilll pretty bad. But EL, I really like Team Bluetower. And I like Linde’s PetaPackers.
In my first post I meant Katniss, not Katnoss. Sorry, don’t mean to spam, Im done now.
Hmmmmm you sure could have some fun with Novratilova and Dovaloni. π Novritaloni, Dovalova, NovDov, etc. The possibilites goes on and on, really. π I thought for Gladys and Tristan about Knight Tristan. for some reason my mental image of him is still dressed as a knight in the spamalot dance with Nancy. π I love the Leel Kym above! That’s awesome. I like Drivertroyd for Donald and Peta, I gotta say. π
Also a random fact: When I was a kid I thought it was Gladys and the Pimps. π Ofcourse I had no idea what that was. π
LOL, Zach!
Man, I love this board. You guys are so creative – and although this post makes it a part of the post to read the comments, I in general love reading the comments almost as much as the posts (not to take away from you Princess, Courtney, John et al).
Love HalfPintsky. Also thought of MaksPint
Adapted one for Tristin & Gladys – Lucky Nights – as anyone getting to spend every monday and tuesday with our favorite little irishman is having some lucky nights.
Hi, yes I had a team name for Sherri & Val, Vasherri
hahaha…….Kirstie just tweeted her suggestion – “Prairie on a Stick” …….hmmmmmmmm!
Gladys and Tristan…. MacKnight
I like ValSherri for Val and Sherri
Melissa and Maks — MeMak
Too late to think of more… lol
Writing something on another site, and I just realized – Gladys and Tristan are team G&T! LOL
Saw on Tristan MacManus’ fanpage that some of them like MacKnightus
I love the suggestion of MelMaks for Melissa & Maks and SherVal for Sherry & Val.
Also, what about Team KatMar for Katherine & Mark or Team WillChe or CheWill for William & Cheryl?
Courtney,
Should have said, thank you for referring to Jenkins as an operatic soprano, which she is, not an opera star, which she isn’t. Little thing, but appreciated.
Only thing I can think of right now, is for Jaleel and Kym, and I will admit its slightly stupid, but it’s the first thing that comes into my brain when I see him on screen.
Team Did I Do That?
These are too funny!! LOL
@Zach – *Gladys and the Pimps*… π
@Lori – Team *Did I Do That*…. π
Gavin and Karina = TeamGKRhythm Karina stated in recent interview he has rhythm… Being a musician and all …
Team GaRina or KaVin for Karina and Gavin. I think itβs easy to remember and pronounce.
@SueB I like the name for Gladys and Tristan. I was thinking Lucky Knight as a play on words, because after all Gladys Knight is lucky to have Tristan. π
OK, these are stupid, but….
Donald & Peta – Donatroyd
Jaleel & Kym – Kymeel (like Camile)…
Why do reporters at ABC and everywhere insist on calling Jenkins an opera singer? She has never performed in operas, she will never be able to. Her singing is nowhere near the level of opera chorus. Yet the reporters keep calling her that.
An interesting cast overall.
I guess my response to that, Kitty, is “Why does it bother you so much?” You are the 2nd person in this thread that seems to have a bone to pick with Katherine, and I’m not sure why – Katherine is an OPERA SINGER, whether you acknowledge it or not. Her vocal style is rooted in opera technique, she sings operatic arias – I could give 2 hoots whether or not she has ever appeared in an opera. I’m not even sure many current opera-style vocalists have ever appeared in an actual opera. If that desciption bothers you so much, I would avoid following any of the media surrounding the show this season – because I doubt anyone is going to start calling her anything else.
Is Opera the new Soccer?? God help us.
Let us hope not – I really don’t have any desire to deal with a bunch of disgruntled opera buffs any more than I enjoyed having to keep rowdy soccer fans in line last season…oy. I’m honestly kinda confused, as I didn’t realize Katherine would be so…polarizing. So far I’ve found her to be pretty mundane and inoffensive. And here I thought Sherri would be the one generating all the controversy this season!
Team WilBur
Gladys&Tristan- Trips
Jack&Anna- General Ginger (GiGi)
Martina&Tony- Tonnis (as in tennis, loool)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/tatum-oneal-is-back-in-rehab-cocaine-relapse_n_1310498.html
Didn’t quite no where to put this but a former contestant made the news again. Tecnically two (Bristol getting a show on lifetime -_- but that just annoys me). I hope Tatum is ok.
I appreciate your comment, Courtney, but Katherine Jenkins is absolutely NOT an opera singer. I’ll just leave this one comment, and move one from it. I have no desire to turn this blog into a discussion on Jenkins and opera. But, a comment was made.
An opera singer – especially an “acclaimed opera star” – is a very specific profession. Most Americans are unfamiliar with the specifics, because even though there are hundreds of thousands of opera singers, it’s not on tv much.
I get that most Americans would probably call Katherine Jenkins an opera singer because there’s no education about what an opera singer actually does.
Operas are productions not songs. Opera arias are songs within an opera – which is from 2 to 6 hours long. But Jenkins’ voice can’t sing even short opera arias as written so she changes them into something different.
Opera singers must sing without microphones over large orchestras in theaters to 3000 people throughout full opera productions. They act a role, sometimes dance, always move a lot, in costume with sets, etc.
In order to be able to do this, they train for a decade – training that shifts their ribcages, expands their lungs, enlarges their backs, etc. Their training is grueling and takes enormous discipline. Jenkins doesn’t have that and has chosen not to do the work but give herself the title anyway.
Someone who cooks a bit at home isn’t a chef. Someone who runs on the high school track team isn’t an acclaimed track star.
To say Jenkins is an opera singer is just as insulting as it would be to an NFL star to see a high school quarterback called an acclaimed NFL star when he hasn’t done the considerable work required to get into the NFL.
Katherine has a pretty voice and seems like a nice person. I intend to watch DWTS, but no, I won’t be rooting for Katherine. π
Thank you for your indulgence. No more on this topic.
Did I do something to be placed on moderation? If so, I apologize. Thanks.
@ Princess Heidi #40 “Is Opera the new Soccer?? God help us.” ***guffaw*** π Thanks, Heidi, for some silly reason that really cracked me up.
I really like this cast, and I hope “The Operatic Soprano” does well and hangs around. Katherine seems a decent, accomplished woman. I’m prepared to like her. Will she bring any fans to vote for her, or will it be up to the Markees to keep them in it?
Well, Crystal, it really isn’t your place to tell me “no more on this topic”, and I find many of the points you hit on to be your own assertions rather than empirical fact – and I found your overall tone to be rather arrogant, especially your implication about Americans being uneducated in opera & that I had somehow insulted opera singers by labeling Katherine as such. Find me a respected expert opinion on what does & does not constitute an opera singer and then maybe we’ll talk – but I’m going to continue calling Katherine an opera singer, and you can continue not rooting for Katherine this season. Now there’s “no more on this topic”.
Wait – I”m going to call her an Opera Singer every chance I get…just cuz. π
Oh, names… I’m crap at coming up with them, but here are some suggestions from others that worked for me:
* MacKnight
* Kymeel
* Gavina
* BlueTower
* MarTony
I favor the KISS principle when it comes to team names.
Vin, I didn’t read the article you posted, but did see a report at E! News… According to that, she has had some back surgery, and has gone into someplace, but only to help her manage the prescriptions, until the pain ends, and to help her to keep herself healthy, and that anytime she needs prescribed medications, will get help. Basically, she knows that she has a problem and could easily get hooked again, so she’s working with people to make sure she doesn’t.
And I hope that what I read wasn’t all spin by her People….
@lori: I read it and was sad to here it. I think that her PR people spun that one and what ew.com said is true. i don’t truse eonline but hopefully they are right.
Ballkins (Katherine & Mark)- I could see Mark doing something like this for some reason.
Maksy ‘n Melly (Melissa & Maks)
Gladyator (Gladys & Tristan)
LeelKym (Jaleel & Kym)
Narvaloni (Martina & Tony)
Roshel (Roshon & Chelsie)
Smirnoffin (Gavin & Karina)
Donapetia (Donald & Peta)
WillBur (William & Cheryl)
Friskaya (Jack & Anna)
Schmear (Sherri & Val)
Jaleel and kym- Kurkul
Gladys and Tristan- Gladman
Roshon and Chelsie- DancingRosh (like dancing rush)
Donald and Peta- Donaltroyd
Katherine and Mark- KatBalls (hehehe)
Jack and Anna- Jumping Jack (hehehe)
Melissa and Maks- Mellisky
Sherry and Val- Valeopard
Martina and Tony- Dovotina
Gavin and Karina-Degrawesome
Maria and Derek Houghounous
William and Cheryl- Willburk
Oops, I think I put too many links, so now my post is “awaiting moderation”. I did include there the link to the definition of “operatic singing” from a respectful source which clearly indicates that ability to sing unamplified is an important part of it.
Again, I don’t want to have an opera discussion here, but because Courtney asked for a respectful source, I found for her the definition of operatic singing from San Francisco opera web site.
On the opera thing, I just want to say that however you want to describe it and whether you agree or not, Katherine has that opera element in her singing and some of her songs. It’s what makes her unique and why she is loved by a diversity of fans in the opera world and other music genres. Really, I think some of you are nit picking on Courtney too much on this thing and you need to lay off.
Back to topic: So many good team names and I especially love “PetaPackers” and “Team Sherkovskiy”!!
Kitty…I don’t even know where to start. This is NOT an opera site, and I’m not going down the road that we did last season with crazy ass Soccer fans. You completely miss the point. You wanna talk DWTS?? Feel free. Massive lectures in a condescending and superior tone trying to quiz us on Opera?? No. You don’t impress me with this behavior – I just get annoyed at the lecture. Have a good day. Come back when you can talk about DWTS.
Crystal, same comment to you. We’re not going down that road. No matter how many times you and Kitty say otherwise, you’re dying to. Not happening. Learned the hard way last season. The topic, again, is DWTS.
They will lay off or they won’t post, Vogue. TOPIC is Dancing with the Stars.
OMG!! Post #40…Heidi is hysterical !
I know some people who have done broadway & off Broadway shows, and I have been to the opera. Katherine is a soprano….CAN sing at opera level, and is a star in her field as earned a chance to be on dwts with her career. She seems lovely and caring. I’m not a Mark fan, but hopes she does well. I’ll probably be easier for Mark to be in England than it will be for Karina to travel with Gavin.
Words to the wise, and the clearly UN-wise:
1) learn to take a JOKE;
2) talk about DWTS
3) recognize that if you post like an authority in a rude and condescending tone while attempting to school/attack myself and Courtney (and you get offended by someone calling Katherine an Opera Singer) you will not be posting here for long.
Speaking for myself only, here – I don’t give two shits about Opera. If you start clogging up this site with it, I will ask you (maybe politely, maybe not – depends on your tone, usually) to get back on the topic of DWTS and everything related to it. I do NOT see Katherine’s status as a singer – Opera or otherwise – as being even remotely on topic. Unless of course she sings while dancing. As a side note in a longer post about DWTS? Fine. 2000 word treatise on the wonders of Opera and why Katherine don’t make the cut? NO.
+1 Sheery and Miss Heidi!!!
Somehow I though this “controversy” might come up about Katherine when I saw that abc labelled her an opera singer. Katherine doesn’t call herself that, (she says she is a classical pop crossover and will call herself an opera singer the day she performs in an opera) but that’s not the point like Heidi said, I just thought I would share what Katherine actually says on the subject because I thought it would be interesting to see her point of view.
On that note, I think she’s amazing and can’t wait to see her dance, I do like “Ballkins” as their team name like someone said in a previous post!
Team Roshie (Roshon & Chelsie)
Team MacKnight (Gladys & Tristan) or just Team Gladys Knight (Did everyone forget that Tristan was a Knight was season? haha!)
Team Gavina (Gavin & Karina) – Yeah, lame.
Just wondering, does anyone have the time to go through all of these posts, and consolidate all of the suggestions for each pair? For example, here’s all the suggestions for Maria and Derek, A B C. Here’s the suggestions for Melissa and Maks, D E F… Etc?
I promised myself I wouldn’t say anything else on the “great opera debate of 2012”, but for the sake of clarification, I will say this: whether or not Katherine is a “real” opera singer or not really doesn’t matter within the context of DWTS. Since Katherine isn’t exactly a household name stateside, I think it’s to her advantage that they try to keep her notability simple – the style of music she sings is the most similar to opera, so I don’t think it’s an “insult” or an outright lie to label her an “opera singer”, for the sake of simplicity. I daresay the average viewer will be more accepting of Katherine Jenkins “the opera singer”, vs. Katherine Jenkins “the crossover artist with opera influences but with techniques more similar to pop music and without any experience performing in actual operas”. The latter just sounds nitpicky & cumbersome…and would probably just annoy the average viewer who doesn’t really care whether Katherine’s an opera singer or not. To me, it’s like me saying “Michael Jackson was a pop singer” and then having “that guy/girl” at the party who always has to be 100% correct telling me “Well, technically, Courtney, Michael Jackson was really an R&B singer with strong rock & pop influences, and roots in soul & even folk music.” The moral of the story? Don’t be “that guy” or “that girl” – it just tends to turn people off. Save the dissertations for graduate-level courses in music theory, and let us simple folk have our fun π
Well said, Miss Courtney! π ITA.
What about SoulTrain for Tristan and Gladys?
As one of the simple folk, I say “Amen, Courtney!” π
Not mine but I have heard half pint and six pack. And MGMC4MBT. For Maks and Melissa
For Tristan and Gladys
The Irish Pips
The Irish Knights
I have been trying to think of one for Jaleel and Kym, with no luck. π
Hmm, for Chelsie and Roshon:
Shake it Right (r for roshon and ight is part of hightower)
Shake it Up High
Team El Rosh
Team Chrosh
I think Mark and Katherine’s team name should be JenkyBalls, myself.
Cheryl and William – WillyBurke
Tristan and Gladys – MacKnightus or GladManus
Kym and Jaleel – Jurkel
Chelsie and Roshon – RoChel
Karina and Gavin – SmiGraw
Derek and Maria – Daria
Tony and Martina – MartinaTone
Anna and Jack – WagBunskya
Sherri and Val – Sherkovskiy
Maks and Mekssa – MaksNGil
Team Gladys and Tristan– Team Glistan
Team Maria and Derek– Team Giggle.
Does anyone know when abc.com will post team names? They do that every season so I hope they will post official team names soon.
And we have our first official team name! Jack & Anna are officially… TeamWagannbuns!
late addition for Sherri & Val: Sherriskiy
Guys, I found this online and got a big kick out of it, so I wanted to share! It’s Gladys and her PIPS ” Not pimps π ” singing ” Heard it Through the Grapevine ” back in 1983.
Team wagganbuns? Seriously…
@Zach – Thank You! Earlier I was online watching some of Gladys’ performances but I did not find this one. Love me some Gladys.
Gladys seems super excited for this opportunity and I am also super excited have her as part of the new cast. Go Gladys!
@Izzy109 – Not 100% sure but I thought that Team Name Wagganbuns was on Jacks Twitter. Not positive though.