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B.A.C.K.R.O.N.Y.M. - June 2007

DROD is an acronym for Deadly Rooms Of Death. Mattcrampy asked what other things DROD could stand for in the June 2007 contest.

With 40 entries, the voting was split into four leagues:

Malachite League


  • Dreadful Roaches On Drugs

  • Duelling Roaches of Dugandy

  • The Dreadful Realm of Determinism

  • Diabolical Riddles Of the Deep

  • Delver Readily Obliderates Deathliness

  • Delving Right into Orthogenal Dungeons

  • Debilitating Reminders of Own Dumbness

  • Destroy Roaches and Other Deadlies

  • Daring Rescues Of Dungeons

  • Danforth's Rooms of Death



Fuchsia League


  • Delvers Riddle Our Depths

  • Dugan's Rather Overgrown Dungeon

  • The Drastic Reorganization of Organs and Duodenums

  • The Dangerous Rebel Of Dugandy

  • Delver Running to Open the Door

  • Dumb Runners Orthodoxly Deliver

  • Depression. Rage! ...oh. Duh.

  • Dreaded Rats On Drills

  • Daily Ritual of Opensource Delving

  • Doomed Roaches On Demand



Azure League


  • Delver Reaches the Original Dominion

  • Down. Right. Oops! Dead.

  • Dungeon Roach Obsessive Disorder

  • Dazing Riddles of Doom

  • Diabolical Ruses of Obliquitous Designers

  • Deifying Rapture Of the Depths

  • The Drug for Roach Outsmarting Delvers

  • Danger! Rabid Optimizers on Duty

  • Deadly Recursion of DROD

  • Deny, Repress, Obscure, Deceive



Vermillion League


  • Discovering Roots Of Dungeons

  • Doom for Roaches Or Delvers

  • Dangleberry Roaches of the Obstreperous Dictatorship

  • Daredevil Roaches On Display!

  • Deathly Rooms of the Oncoming Doom

  • Delver Repels Organisms Downstairs

  • Disaterous Run-ins with Odd Dangers

  • Diabolical Ruminations Over Dungeons

  • Dance Roachling Or Die!

  • Deep Ruckus for Ozone Deposit



The top four entries were taken from each league (marked in green) and entered into the finale poll.
Down. Right. Oops! Dead. by Briareos took first place. Debilitating Reminders of Own Dumbness by RoboBob3000 took second. And Danger! Rabid Optimizers on Duty by Alneyan took third.