2E is a website that lists ALL the names of people who do derby (banked or flat) around the world. It's like a database that you check before you pick your derby name, so nobody has the same name without clearance from the other person. It's actually a really interesting system for social conventions forcing people to be original with names, and it's actually been the subject of a couple of academic articles (of the "Freakonomics" slant) about how the community regulates name ownership and stuff. As an ex-lawyer and academic, I'm excited that there are even academic articles about derby, especially in intellectual property law.
We put our names in in September last year and they came up last night. 2E is run by a handful of skaters and there are a LOT of leagues in the world, so they have craploads to do and naturally there's a backlog. Of course, not everyone's name is there--sometimes someone's name gets accepted before yours (but after yours has been submitted), and you have no idea that your name has been rejected for similarity grounds until after the fact. I'm sure there could be automated systems that would bypass the manual inputting that goes on. In fact, I'm surprised that there isn't yet, but there you go!
Also, nobody in the world has my derby number yet, heh. (Of course numbers don't need to be original, but yeah, nobody up there has an emoticon mouse...)This was a nice surprise to wake up (pretty sore) to. And there's training tonight again. Yeah.
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