NEW YORK, NY -- Do two years make a tradition? If so, this Saturday Gotham hosts its ‘traditional’ post-season show-down, in which the two league teams not advancing to the season championship strap on their Hospitality Helmets and host squads from area rivals.

The evening’s action at Hunter College will include blood, sweat, and tears as Gotham fans bid adieu to a handful of retiring skaters, including two of the league’s ‘original thirteen.’

This season’s double-header (two forty-minute bouts) features teams working four very different vibes:

Tuning up: Providence’s All-Stars, the Rhode Island Riveters, whose season took a surprising turn when they picked up an invitation to compete in Madison at the WFTDA Eastern Regionals.

Providence (WFTDA #23) just concluded its intraleague season on September 19, and will use this bout against the Mayhem to coalesce and focus the All-Star roster for its first-round regional matchup against Detroit.

The Riveters roster includes Baby Fighterfly, Craisy Dukes, Hysterica!, and Sass E. McNasty, four veterans who bouted against Gotham in the only other meeting between these leagues -- a August 2006 Riveters victory at Providence.

Baby Fighterfly 1000 corpses // Burnin' Helen 73 // Craisy Dukes #Hi-5 // DaSilva Bullet 47 // F'Shizzy Borden 40 whacks // Hysterica! 42 // Jetta Von Diesel VR6 // Kid Ace 2+2=5 // Sass E. McNasty 8-Ball // Shelby Bruisin 2morrow // Trophy Knife 401

Confident: Gotham’s Manhattan Mayhem, who finished their 2008 regular season campaign on an upswing with a convincing and impressive Sept 12 victory over GGRD’s Bombshells. The 8-rookie roster conquered a huge learning curve in 2008 and comes in to this bout ready to put the rest of Gotham on notice that the Mayhem will be ‘The Team To Beat’ in 2009.

Mayhem boasts a solid defensive core, anchored by All-Star veterans Sweet Sherry Pie, Fisti Cuffs, and Surly Temple, plus ferocious and energetic rookie Polly Gone. Rookie sensation Em Dash (129 points in her 3 league bouts) is nursing a knee injury and may or may not be cleared to play, but nearly the whole Mayhem roster has been practicing as jammers to pick up the scoring slack.

Em Dash – // Fisti Cuffs 241 // GoGo BaiBai 3 // Lucille Ballistic M-16 // Marlene Speedtrich 1901 // Megahurtz the OG // Miss American Thighs 76 // Polly Gone >2 // Regina DenTata 108 // Roxy Gilbrawlter 426 // Straight Razor X // Surly Temple 99 // Sweet Sherry Pie 201

Emotional: Gotham’s Brooklyn Bombshells are handicapped by medical maladies which have sidelined four All-Star caliber players. The sailorettes and their loyal Brooklyn fans will be rallying around the post-bout retirement of Chassis Crass and Lil’ Red Terror, two of the remaining five skaters who competed in the very first Gotham bout in November 2004.

The bout also marks the third bout in three weekends for the six Bombshells (and one Mayhem) who competed both on September 12 in the Bombshell/Mayhem bout and on September 20 in the Wall Street Traitors’ victory over the Jersey Shore Rollergirls. Brooklyn veterans Aunti Christ, Hela Skelter, Raggedy Animal, Chassis Crass, Lil’ Red Terror, plus rookie standout Papierschnitt, along with Mayhem skater Surly Temple, each deserve an ‘iron skate’ award and a long, relaxing off-season.

To fill out the roster, the Bombshells will test-drive two mid-season transfers to Gotham: Julietta Vendetta (formerly of Providence) and Care Bear Scare (formerly of Richmond VA’s River City Rollergirls, making her GGRD debut).

Ani Dispanco 32 flavors // Anne Phetamean 7 // Ariel Assault 23 // Aunti Christ 666 // Barbara Ambush 1600 // Care Bear Scare Cloud 9 // Chassis Crass 11 // Hard Anya i4i // Hela Skelter 31 // Julietta Vendetta V // Lil Red Terror 19 // Papierschnitt 8 /12 x 11 // Raggedy Animal 67 // Speedy Sedgwick 65

Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez: Montreal’s All-Stars, the ‘New Skidz on the Block,’ among the most notorious party squads in the east, will be letting it all hang out in their team’s final 2008 action.

The Skidz are returning to New York after an August victory over the Long Island Roller Rebels. Clearly, the NY State border patrol missed a memo.

This matchup is Gotham’s first competition against an international opponent. Fittingly, the after-party will be held at Manitoba’s; however, the bar is not, in actual fact, named after the Canadian province.

Beater Pan-Tease 1-976 // Bon-Bon Scott 1980 // Boxcar Bethy Local 210 // Charlotte Bruise-a-Lot 3 // El Kaboom 18 // Georgia W. Tush 40oz // Iron Wench 5/16 // Izzy Skellington 18-2 // Lady J 86 // Lil Momma 1/2 Pint // Lyn-dah Kicks .75 // Romeo 222 // Trash N Smash 1.18L // Wrath Poutine Dirty 30