Forget March Madness, There’s a Tournament to Decide the Craziest Name

Most of us don’t know anything about college basketball.  But we DO know no human being should have a name like Cinderela Guevara, Jasmine Albuquerque-Crossaint, or Lt. Charlene Sprinkle-Huff.

 

There’s a website called NameOfTheYear.com that runs its OWN version of March Madness every spring.  They find the 64 craziest REAL names in the news over the past year, and have them battle it out in a tournament.

 

The voting starts in a few days on their website.

 

The four top seeds are a chemist named Tillmann Buttersack, a professor at Duke named Pope McCorkle the Third, a pro cricket player from Zimbabwe named Joylord Gumbie and a teenage criminal named Shuntayvious Primes-Willis.

 

Last year, a woman named Amanda Miranda Panda beat a guy named Lancelot Supersad Junior to take the title.

 

(Check out the full bracket here.  For another March Madness alternative, check out “March Sadness,” where 64 of the worst people and trends of the year face off.)

 

 

(Deadspin / Name of the Year)