Let every team name itself.
Split the room into even teams with one QR code, then let each team argue its way to a name on their phones. Two minutes later the big screen is showing your teams, called what the people in them decided to call themselves.
Name your team before we start.
Blue
still deciding
Orange
still deciding
Green
still deciding
Purple
still deciding
How it works
- 01
Split the room
Everyone scans the same QR code and lands on a team. Pick anywhere from two to eight; people are dealt out evenly as they arrive, so nobody counts heads and nobody is left over.
- 02
Each team argues on its own
Anyone can put a name forward, and only their own teammates see it. The other teams are having a completely different argument at the same time.
- 03
Lock the names in
One press freezes each team's name onto the team, and the big screen fills with the names the room just made up.
Why the naming is worth two minutes of an all-hands
You needed the teams anyway. Every game that splits a room needs a split, and the usual way to get one — counting off around the tables, or reading groups off a list — is a minute of admin that forty people sit and watch you perform. Naming turns that same minute into the first thing the team does together, which is a strictly better use of it.
It also changes how the next hour goes. A group of six people who have been told they are Team 3 behave like six people; the same six who spent ninety seconds arguing about whether they are the Deadline Dodgers behave like a team, because they have already agreed on something and lost an argument to each other. It is a very small commitment and it does a surprising amount of work.
The reason proposals stay inside a team is the same reason the exercise works at all. The moment a half-formed idea is visible to the whole room, people stop offering the funny one — and the funny one is the name everybody remembers by the end of the session.
FAQ
Team Naming, explained
How do people end up on a team?
They scan one QR code and are dealt onto a team as they arrive, so the teams stay even however many people turn up. You choose how many teams, from two to eight. Nobody types a name into a spreadsheet and nobody is left standing while you count.
Can the team vote on its name?
Yes, and it is the default. Every proposal goes to that team's own members, they upvote the ones they like, and the one with the most votes wins — a tie goes to whoever said it first. If you would rather move faster, switch to latest-wins and the last name standing is the answer.
Do the other teams see what we are proposing?
No. A team only ever sees its own proposals, and the big screen shows the names that were chosen rather than the ones that were argued over. That privacy is why the names are any good — nobody is performing for the table next to them.
What happens to the names once we lock them?
Locking freezes each name onto its team, so the split is something the session holds on to rather than a slide you have to remember. The names go up on the big screen and into the report, ready to read out when you start the next thing.
Can I bring teams I have already made?
If you have the names in a list, the free random team generator will split them for you and hand the result over. If you have the room, this is faster: the QR code does the splitting and you skip the typing entirely.
Do participants need an app or an account?
No. They scan a QR code or open a link and propose from their phone's browser. Nothing to install and no sign-up.
How many people can join?
The Free plan supports up to 50 participants per live activity, Pro raises that to 150, and Badass supports up to 300 — enough for a full classroom or an all-hands.
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