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Post by ericrjones on May 22, 2015 8:34:31 GMT -5
The winner of C2 Junior/Senior Recreation is shown as Stanleys Levitsky. Just checking that this means both paddlers were named Stanley Levitsky. I need to paddle in Maine more so I know the paddlers a little better.
As an aside, I think there should be a rule requiring all racers to have a unique paddling name. I wonder if that is something the ACA could work on....
Thanks, Eric
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Post by Eric Gallandt on May 22, 2015 10:22:33 GMT -5
Yep, Stanley Sr. and Stanley Jr.
We call them "Team Stan Squared"
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Post by cdalton on May 26, 2015 20:14:29 GMT -5
As the MaCKRO WW chair (aka tabulator), I'd love unique paddling names. But I guess then people would get cute with stage names and you wouldn't know who they really were ("yeah, I'm Johnny Hullbreach. good tuh meetcha!").
So far this year, the most opaque paddler name was "A Woman", who reportedly paddled with Mark in the Kenduskeag Sprints.
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Post by charlie on May 27, 2015 6:00:21 GMT -5
Personally, my favorite was Mark's other paddling partner for the Sprints, "Another Woman". I wonder if "A Woman" knows about "Another Woman" ??
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Post by ericrjones on May 27, 2015 8:10:22 GMT -5
Having processed something like 120,000 names, I have seen many crazy things in the results, including the two you mention. At least, the recorder was honest. I've seen fictions partners show up when someone was accidentally put in the wrong category (solo canoe in a tandem category; OC2 Mixed teams with two male paddlers for instance - so someone gets their name changed). Alexander Hamilton & George Washington of Washington, DC supposedly paddled in the 1981 Westfield Expert race - although they DNFed. Of course, Senator Robert F. Kennedy really did race at the Hudson River Water Derby in 1967 (he finished 3rd in CC2-M), so who am I to say.
Then there is Charles Ki-8-ishish (no typo) who paddled the Classique marathon race in Quebec in 1936, 1937, and 1938 (finishing second in 1937). I suspect he will forever hold the title of most difficult to pronounce paddler name - far outdistancing John Kazimierczyk.
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