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angie88

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27 Jun 05 13:43

angie88

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27 Jun 05 13:43

has anybody else wondered who Russ (or whoever is responsible) comes up with these weird tourney names? I mean sure, greek letters and everything, it has a certain ring to it and there might be a system to it.
But... this might just be my youthful ignorance kicking in again, but... how would you come up with something like Albinus Grouped Random?
And is the Severus Grouped Random referring to Severus Snape in Harry Potter? And what kind of word is Pertinax? Or Saturninus, for that matter?
Please, do enlighten me 😉

Angie

Freddie2008

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27 Jun 05 14:02

Originally posted by angie88
has anybody else wondered who Russ (or whoever is responsible) comes up with these weird tourney names? I mean sure, greek letters and everything, it has a certain ring to it and there might be a system to it.
But... this might just be my youthful ignorance kicking in again, but... how would you come up with something like [b]Albinus Grouped Random?
An ...[text shortened]... t kind of word is Pertinax? Or Saturninus, for that matter?
Please, do enlighten me 😉

Angie[/b]

i think it has something to do with the alphabetic order of greek gods/godesses or something like that.

Chakan

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27 Jun 05 14:15

Originally posted by Freddie2004
i think it has something to do with the alphabetic order of greek gods/godesses or something like that.

maybe there should be a competition or something to see who gets to name the next tournament.... that person wins a bye into the second round? or something

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27 Jun 05 14:25

Originally posted by angie88
has anybody else wondered who Russ (or whoever is responsible) comes up with these weird tourney names? I mean sure, greek letters and everything, it has a certain ring to it and there might be a system to it.
But... this might just be my youthful ignorance kicking in again, but... how would you come up with something like [b]Albinus Grouped Random?
An ...[text shortened]... t kind of word is Pertinax? Or Saturninus, for that matter?
Please, do enlighten me 😉

Angie[/b]

Albinus, Antonius, Severus, Julianus, Pertinax, Commodus, Verus, Cassius, Aurelius, Pius, Hadrian, Trajan, Nerva were all roman emperors.

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27 Jun 05 14:34

Originally posted by chakan
maybe there should be a competition or something to see who gets to name the next tournament.... that person wins a bye into the second round? or something

Caracalla would be my guess 😉

ivangrice

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28 Jun 05 19:13

Originally posted by cludi
Caracalla would be my guess 😉

Mine's 'Graham'. Now-forgotten God of dinner party etiquette.

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28 Jun 05 23:07

Originally posted by angie88
has anybody else wondered who Russ (or whoever is responsible) comes up with these weird tourney names? I mean sure, greek letters and everything, it has a certain ring to it and there might be a system to it.
But... this might just be my youthful ignorance kicking in again, but... how would you come up with something like [b]Albinus Grouped Random?
An ...[text shortened]... t kind of word is Pertinax? Or Saturninus, for that matter?
Please, do enlighten me 😉

Angie[/b]

All i can say is: YOU CRAZY!

ericwong

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30 Jun 05 04:29

I think whatever names that Russ comes up with is fine as long as everyone gets to play in the tournaments be it mini bands, etc etc. Maybe it is just his style of doing something different.

Eric🙂

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