I was just watching a MLG game and the names of the players were quite simple, like clutch and enable. I want to know how these guys get their names without having to whack on a whole bunch of numbers and x's. They're all quite young, and I don't believe that as soon as Xbox Live was online that they went and snapped up these simple names. When the commentators were talking about the players as clutch and enable, I expected that these were their names in a shortened format, but when I watched the game I saw that indeed these guys had short one word names. I ask here only because I have nowhere else to ask.

Because people can magically not have registered them before them.

so MLG players are magically the first people to register them?

Yes. They are wholly magical, and it would not have been possible without their virgin power.

Wait magic?
I heard it was cause of magnets

This is like asking how to name your pet originally.

Surely it's just the sheer power of the MLG that enables them to get the names.

Well not really, names like clutch and cloud would go very fast when registering for Xbox Live. I was curious how those names fell to MLG players.

Presumably they have an arrangement with microsoft that allows them to get those names.

Stupid question requires stupidly ironic answer.