The Seattle Sockeye Ultimate Frisbee team continues to be a thing, playing their season well into October.
Beginning to suspect "Sockeyes" has been scratched off the list, as the official Name Reveal is to happen sometime around the 2020 All Star Game.
From an August AMA with Seattle CEO Tim Leiweke:
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Leiweke said there would not be a fan vote to choose the name but that they are having an input.
"The fans are weighing in in a very fundamental way," Leiweke said. "There was a Seattle Times contest, 100,000 responses. We actually took every single individual response and listed them in one document, and there were 1,000 different names. Some of them can't be printed in public documents like a newspaper, but many of them were really thoughtful and inspired. So we're listening to fans every single day, and there's not an appointment or a speaking engagement I do where I don't say to somebody, 'What do you think the team name should be?'"
More than 140,000 votes were cast in the newspaper's bracket-style tournament, with Sockeyes defeating Totems in the final. Other names were Metropolitans, Steelheads, Kraken, Sasquatch, Freeze, Emeralds, Pilots, Cascades, Grunge, and Fightin' Geoducks.
"It's inspiration from fans, it's lawyers making sure that we're trademarking properly, but it's also us having in our gut a feeling about what we want to be when we grow up," Leiweke said.
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