Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26281589-20131112205848/@comment-129.93.4.33-20140929171034

Mercen-X wrote: Well, yeah, but any rock can have a color. The point is that the word quartz isn't used to describe a particular color whereas turquoise is and the reason behind that is that while the turquoise always has a particular color, the quartz does not. It's comparable to trying to assign a particular color to agate, alexandrite, opal, feldspar, sillimanite, etc. The fact is that the team name isn't Rose Quartz, it's just quartz, which again, basically means nothing. But I've decided I understand Sam's point as to why QRTS makes sense. JNPR has the J and the N from Jaune. QRTS has the Q and R from Qrow.

JNPR is from Jaune, Nora, Pyrhha, and Ren's name, so every member contributes to the team name. Qrow's team consisted of himself, Taiyang, Summer, and (yang's mom). So as of now QRTS sounds like a plausible name. To mind that team CRDL is named after a bird, so not every team must be color named.