Notable Starcraft 2 player name origins?

On June 09 2010 04:40 asdfTT123 wrote:
Ehh?? I still don't get DeMusliM's name o.O

On June 09 2010 04:43 PredY wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
there you go, from British open (tournament) thread

On June 09 2010 04:41 gillon wrote:


I thought it had to do with what Nazgul and his team/clan at the time said to him at that one LAN. Pretty sure there's a thread about it.

They signed a tshirt for him with something along the lines of "Even small ones can accomplish big things".

This is all IIRC.

On June 09 2010 05:10 TBO wrote:


The T-Shirt story is independent from the nickname, however by coincidence it has a striking similarity.
It was basically like this, we both shared one account in Supreme Commander at start and as we bought a 2nd copy we thought it would be nice if we had similar nicknames. At start it was TheBigBrother and TheLittleBrother but there was a clan called The Big Brothers already and I wanted to avoid any confusion with them, so we changed it a bit.

On June 09 2010 05:10 TBO wrote:
The T-Shirt story is independent from the nickname, however by coincidence it has a striking similarity.

On June 09 2010 19:40 abrasion wrote:
I can imagine demuslims name could offend some - I think he should change it (doesn't offend me but I don't see the point in potentially causing issues)

It's unbelievably ridiculously that DeMuslim's name could offend anyone.

"Not Muslim" oooooh it's got the word muslim in it, can't say that!


Would any other religion care if his name was DeTHEIRRELIGION? Would anyone at all care?
Don't you see how the prohibition of the word causes more issues than the word itself?

On June 09 2010 21:04 7mk wrote:
Man, imagine an sc2 player with the first name Christian
now that must suck, surely he wouldnt get invited to any tournaments

On June 10 2010 00:45 rastaban wrote:
Artosis (is it his real name),
Idra

On June 10 2010 00:53 IdrA wrote:
http://www.idra.com/
im a big fan of their work

On June 09 2010 04:39 PredY wrote:
thelittleone - thebigone are brothers
demuslim - in a recent interview he explained it (it was around here somewhere)
white-ra - i think white was a team he was in and picked nick Ra (nal_ra his fav player i suppose?)

As for Idra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idra

On June 10 2010 01:43 Cain0 wrote:
Is DeMuslim a Muslim, because it would be pretty stupid if he wasnt. It would be like a asian person calling himself DeChristian

On June 09 2010 20:50 Turbo.Tactics wrote:


Maybe I should rename myself "DeJew" and since I'm german it's even more offending to people

-.-

On June 10 2010 00:53 IdrA wrote:
http://www.idra.com/
im a big fan of their work

On June 10 2010 02:05 Slayer91 wrote:
Brat_OK one of those words means brother and one means something else some russian can explain. It was discussed in TSL2

Nony just sounds cool I guess.

EDIT: damn too late.

On June 10 2010 01:43 Cain0 wrote:
Is DeMuslim a Muslim, because it would be pretty stupid if he wasnt. It would be like a asian person calling himself DeChristian

On June 10 2010 02:36 Liquid`NonY wrote:
CauthonLuck is abbreviated to Cluck because nobody knew how to pronounce Cauthon. As to why NonY hasn't changed even though nobody knows how to pronounce NonY either, I cannot say.

On June 10 2010 01:43 Cain0 wrote:
Is DeMuslim a Muslim, because it would be pretty stupid if he wasnt. It would be like a asian person calling himself DeChristian

On June 10 2010 02:36 Liquid`NonY wrote:
CauthonLuck is abbreviated to Cluck because nobody knew how to pronounce Cauthon. As to why NonY hasn't changed even though nobody knows how to pronounce NonY either, I cannot say.

On June 10 2010 01:42 Backpack wrote:
Idra is also italian for Hydra. Not sure if they are related.

Though it's kinda funny because if you played in Italian, zerg would have Idralisca ^^

On June 10 2010 02:36 Liquid`NonY wrote:
CauthonLuck is abbreviated to Cluck because nobody knew how to pronounce Cauthon. As to why NonY hasn't changed even though nobody knows how to pronounce NonY either, I cannot say.

On June 10 2010 02:04 Liquid`NonY wrote:
For Artosis... it's art + the suffix -osis. He was really into arts and crafts when he was young. Actually he still is: when I went to Korea, he asked if I could bring some uncooked macaroni so that he could glue it to papers and make pretty designs.

On June 10 2010 03:24 asdfTT123 wrote:


I believe it's pronounced "Kaw-Thin" and not "Kuh-Thon" like many pronounce it. If I had to take a guess, I would say your name was intended to be pronounced as "New-nie".




Are you serious? -.- What does the suffix "-osis" add to this? I took you seriously until you mentioned the "pretty designs".

On June 10 2010 01:48 exnomendei wrote:
I'm obviously not a notable Starcraft 2 player, but my name's origin is simple: I actively thought of a new name and since I liked the saying "Deus Ex Machina" at the time, I decided that I wanted something in Latin.

Despite having studied (well, got it at school) Latin for three years, I butchered it: Theoretically it should be "InNomineDei", since that means In God's Name. I wanted to make it "Out of God's name" because I'm anti-religious, so the Ex is excusable (see what I did there...) but the Nomen / Nomine thing it pretty stupid. Then again, ExNomineDei sounds horrible.

Anwyay, I think names are made up at the spot a lot for most people, but a lot of people also actively think of a new screen name to pick and just base it on something they think sounds cool or has a nice theme. Pros were normal players once, so they just chose a name and stuck with it.

Look at the power rankings:

1. Flash 6. Kal
2. Effort 7. Fantasy
3. Jaedong 8. YoonJoong
4. BaBy 9. Midas
5. Snow 10. Shine[Kal]

Flash, Effors, BaBy, Snow, Fantasy and Shine are all just 'cool-sounding English names', especially for Asian people who in general love everything American (I am European btw), the other names are a lot more Korea-centric: Jaedong, YoonJoong, and possibly Kal are probably simple-sounding things that work in Korean well (and just sound awesome in English-speaking countries for the same reason English sounds cool in non-English speaking countries), and Midas, well, that name has popped up in books and tales quite often. Greek mythology is probably the oldest rendition of it, iirc.

tl;dr:

- Names chosen randomly (DeMuslim, etc.)
- Names chosen because they sound cool (Fantasy, Flash, etc.)
- Names chosen for a certain theme (TheBigOne, TheLittleOne, etc.)

On June 10 2010 02:57 Blind wrote:
I always thought NonY had something to do with "anonymous". Makes it cool. Reminds me of that other old school bw player anon.

I believe it's pronounced "Kaw-Thin"

On June 10 2010 04:53 Rigid.BoT wrote:


Where in Cauthon do you see an "i" sound.

On June 09 2010 19:40 abrasion wrote:
I can imagine demuslims name could offend some - I think he should change it (doesn't offend me but I don't see the point in potentially causing issues)

On June 10 2010 01:48 exnomendei wrote:
Asian people who in general love everything American

On June 10 2010 01:43 Cain0 wrote:
Is DeMuslim a Muslim, because it would be pretty stupid if he wasnt. It would be like a asian person calling himself DeChristian

On June 10 2010 05:05 meathook wrote:
OMG. The amount of conjecture in this thread is sickening. Also, the answer to all most (I dunno who damuslim and catchonluck are) these questions can easily be obtained by using search, which will yield detailed explanations by the players themselves. Newbs.

On June 10 2010 04:57 holy_war wrote:


I'm confused by this also. I'd pronounce it "Kaw-thon"

On June 10 2010 06:17 Maginor wrote:
The Wheel of Time correct pronounciation is Kaw-Thon.

Edit: but with pressure on Kaw, not on Thon as many people do, and the o in Thon is silent.

On June 10 2010 05:06 evoli wrote:
How did Day9 get his name?

I was watching a daily the other day when my girlfriend strolled up and curiously watched a little bit of it with me. She asked how he picked Day9; I told her I didn't know.

On June 09 2010 05:51 Ikiron wrote:
If CauthonLuck is the same CauthonLuck I know that I played WoW with him lol. So if anyone knows him and can get a hold of him let me know

On June 09 2010 21:04 7mk wrote:
Man, imagine an sc2 player with the first name Christian
now that must suck, surely he wouldnt get invited to any tournaments

On June 10 2010 00:45 rastaban wrote:
anyone know anything regarding these:
roxisDimaga,
Artosis (is it his real name),
Idra,
Nony?

On June 10 2010 01:47 Licmyobelisk wrote:



His actually not muslim, he just admires the Muslims like Muhammad Ali and others.

just said it "not muslim" wow and lol

On June 10 2010 01:43 Cain0 wrote:
Is DeMuslim a Muslim, because it would be pretty stupid if he wasnt. It would be like a asian person calling himself DeChristian

On June 10 2010 07:17 [ur]Chin wrote:



[9] was his old clan and he wanted to choose a short cool name. I think night was taken or something like that so he chose day.

It was actually he was originally Day

On June 10 2010 08:36 Sfydjklm wrote:

Beast's first name is Christian.

On June 10 2010 02:36 Liquid`NonY wrote:
CauthonLuck is abbreviated to Cluck because nobody knew how to pronounce Cauthon. As to why NonY hasn't changed even though nobody knows how to pronounce NonY either, I cannot say.

On June 09 2010 04:45 VX14 wrote:
CauthonLuck is from the Wheel of Time series. There's a character called Mat Cauthon who is ridiculously lucky.

On November 16 2011 15:37 TheToast wrote:
I know I'm bumping a very old thread here, but I ran across something I had to ask about and I remembered there were a couple of threads on this and I figure it's better to bump since this is not thread worthy by itself. (though it is confusing/awesome)

Anyway is Losira named after the Star Trek character of the same name? This is really bugging me, there's no information in either liquipedia about his name. I've tried googling this and surprisingly cannot find anyone who has brought up this link before.

Does anyone know for sure? Am I the only one who thinks this is completely awesome?

On November 16 2011 16:22 Ruscour wrote:

Holy mother of god that was a necro and a half.

Does he have a Twitter? You could ask...I don't know how much exposure Korea would have to that kind of thing

On November 17 2011 00:26 ileile wrote:
First post. \o/

Anyway, about white-ra, I do believe it's because he likes the colour white, and Ra was the sun god for the ancient egyptians or something similar.

I have to ask this though. As a swede I've reacted to something about ThorZaIN's nick. Because if you take away the capital letters, the word "hora" is left, which in swedish plain and simple mean "whore". No trolling. Does anyone know more about this? Is it even intentional? It's been boggling my mind for so long, but I've never know where to ask, nor how to google it. ^^

On November 16 2011 16:39 ProxyKnoxy wrote:
You pronounce 'Nony' as Knew_knee. If you watch one of his FP BW commentaries on YT that's how he prononces it

On November 17 2011 00:38 cklrkzk wrote:
Nal_Ra korean Ra

White_Ra foreigner Ra

because he is white,thats why WhiteRa.

haaahahaa

On November 17 2011 00:43 The Void wrote:
I'm curios where stephano got his name from.

On November 17 2011 01:00 Goldbullet wrote:
anyone know how IdrA got his name? or Ret?

On November 17 2011 01:04 Flightan wrote:

He explained somewhere that it was his big brother's nickname and that he stole it.

On July 15 2013 12:02 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:


ArcmageDanny + Cameltosis, according to the video.