Team SeXY Challenges Team Awesome in Banked Action

By Kali Katt aka Nicole Gochmanosky, Last updated Fri Dec 18 2009 2:16am

SAN DIEGO, CA -- With the tournament and championship seasons finally behind us, and everyone already having their share of discussions on whether or not new WFTDA champions Oly Rollers are changing the face of roller derby, it’s time to get back to some old-school loosely-organized roller derby to close out 2009's action.

This Saturday night Team Awesome, a national all-female all-star roller derby team, will battle Team SeXY, an international all-male all-star roller derby team, on the banked track, bringing the roller derby community the first all-female vs. all-male banked track game ever. The game will be a highlight of Team Awesome’s three-day training camp, benefiting the San Diego Derby Dolls and held in SDDD’s practice space, the Dollhouse, in downtown San Diego.

This bout is TENTATIVELY scheduled to be streamed live on DNN at 8pm Pacific (11pm Eastern) on Saturday, December 19. Check back for coverage updates!

The last time Team Awesome and Team SeXY played each other was in the heat of the streets of Las Vegas, on the flat track, during a Fremont Street challenge at RollerCon 2009. Team SeXY won the 20 minute exhibition 43-37. Justice Feelgood Marshall of Team SeXY recalls that it was Rinkworm and Quadzilla who scored most of Team SeXY’s points that day with 20 and 17 respectively.

Justice also recalls that going into the game Team SeXY “didn’t know whether it was going to be close, or whether they [Team Awesome] were going to destroy us.”

“The fact that it was close,” Justice continued, “doesn’t make us scared to play them again, but it’s a very different line up this time.”

In their usual fashion, Team Awesome played the RollerCon game with many substitute players. It was Wednesday, the opening day of RollerCon, and about half of Team Awesome’s usual players hadn’t arrived in Las Vegas yet, so subs from the Los Angeles Derby Dolls and San Diego Derby Dolls were given jerseys -- that roster included LADD's Krissy Krash and Iron Maiven, who had memorable cameos in Whip It as the Manson Sisters, among others.

Ivanna remembers, “We had a pretty good line up of subs for that Team Awesome vs. SeXY game…and that hurt losing to them, I have to admit.”

Team Awesome will be playing this Saturday with quite a different lineup than they played with at RollerCon. Ivanna S. Pankin, Trish the Dish and Dahmernatrix from San Diego, Medusa from North Star, and Annie Maul from Kansas City will be the only five holdovers. The rest will be experienced Team Awesome members, with only one debut for this game.

The Team Awesome roster for this Saturday also includes Demanda Riot and Velveteen Savage from Bay Area, Jackie Daniels from Windy City, Goodie Two Skates from Rose City, She Who Cannot Be Named from Rocky Mountain, and Muffin from Duke City. Kiki DiAzz of the San Diego Derby Dolls is the sole first-timer.