Weekend in Review, 2/22/2010
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In WFTDA-sanctioned action, DNN #23 BrewCity came down from Milwaukee to score a solid road win over St. Louis' Arch Rival, 120-65. Photo: Bob Dunnell. -
On Saturday night, Tucson managed to hold off a strong second-half comeback from Montreal, who turned a 74-45 halftime deficit into a narrow 117-108 loss. Photo: Pitchit. -
Montreal split their weekend series, solidly defeating Arizona 187-83. Photo: Pitchit. -
In Windy City local action, Double Crossers Sassy Squash and Norma Lee Wright put the sandwich on Manic Attacker jammer Zoe Trocious. The Crossers won, 105-84. Photo: Gil Leora. -
Shocka Conduit, blocking for Windy City home team Hell's Belles, tries to capture the Fury's Jackie Daniels. The Fury took a big 162-65 victory. Photo: Jamie DiVecchio Ramsay. -
A back-and-forth nailbiter in Charm City local action saw the Night Terrors pull out a close win over 2009 local champion Junkyard Dolls. Here game MVPs Minnie Piledriver (Terrors) and Killer Kitten (Dolls) battle it out. Photo: Lessard Photography. -
CCRG local team Speed Regime dominated the Mobtown Mods, putting a 90 point margin up in a 179-89 finale. Photo: Lessad Photography. -
In North Star action, the Violent Femmes barely edged out Delta Delta Di in a 3 point bout, 63-60. Photo: Preflash Gordon. -
The NSRG Banger Sisters local team took a 29-0 lead and never trailed the Kilmore Girls in a 67-36 40 minute final. Photo: Photodog.
WFTDA Sanctioned | General Interleague | Local Bouts
General Interleague
New Hampshire 79, Green Mountain 72 (OT) -- In an overtime nail-biter of a battle between two WFTDA Apprentice Leagues, the New Hampshire Roller Derby defeated the Green Mountain Derby Dames at the sold-out Champlain Valley Expo in Burlington, VT.
GMDD had a huge finish to the first half, leading 45-28 as New Hampshire struggled to break through their impenetrable green wall thanks to some incredible footwork and blocking by The Silencer. Things were looking bleak for NHRD as Green Mountain grew their lead to a commanding 20 points at the start of the second half.
The ladies of NHRD clawed their way back throughout the remainder thanks to some incredible booty blocking and pack control by Ivanna B. Vicious and strong hits and even stronger leadership from captain, SS Trixie.
NHRD blockers kept GMDD from scoring for four jams in a row by commanding an unstoppable front line defense, while Chicana Bruzya added another grand slam with her trademark aggressive jamming and May B Knotty contributed a four-point jam that brought NHRD to a 65-62 lead with 3 minutes to play.
The end of the second period had the crowd on the edge of their seats as Star Slayer eked out a final two points to tie the game at 69 before heading to the box, sending the bout into overtime with both jammers out.
Both teams fought tooth, nail, and skate for two minutes. After overcoming a 20-point deficit late in the game, NHRD’s Make Out Bandit and a star-blocker line-up snagged 10 points to three points from Barbie Basher, bringing the thriller to a close at 79-72.
The MVPs were Makeout Bandit for NHRD and Bust E Breaker for GMDD. The high-scoring jammers were NHRD's Make Out Bandit and GMDD's Star Slayer. Freak’n Sweet and Kim KarBASHyouin debuted in their first NHRD bout. -- Helen Carnate
Comments
That North Star bout was awesome.
Seriously, it was the best I've seen their home teams play.
The Killmores are a better team than their record indicates. They have a good number of the best skaters in the league, but they just need to tighten up their rookie teamwork and they'll really be in contention.
And that Femmes/Delta bout was just great to watch, from beginning to amazing end.
I may have misheard, but I thought I heard that the NSRG set a new attendance record with something around 1,600 and change. Add that to Minnesota's 5,000 sellout last month, Fargo-Moorhead's two 1,700 sellouts, and you might actually think this derby thing might be kind of popular here in the upper Midwest!
NSRG attendance record
I don't have the exact numbers yet but yes, we hit another attendance record with our last bout. The midwest lurvs their derby. Thank you and the rest of the MNRG folks for coming out. I had a great time - even with your heckling from the trackside seats - Ha!
It's hard to tell how many people are at at the MCC
I thought you had reached 1,600 before, but this seemed like quite a few more than the biggest one I had seen. Lots of standing room only!
Heckling
The only person we heckle is that bench coach that looks like Bobby Knight. He needs to start chucking some chairs.
I thought he was about to in that second-to-last jam!
Sadly, he remained calm and collected.
Addendum
The Junkyard Dolls had five skaters making their CCRG debut on Saturday. Three rookies in Pinky Tuscadare-ya, Doris Day of Reckoning, and Whipstick. The Dolls also skated two transfers: Holden Drudges from HARD and Xena Paradox from Boston.
The Night Terrors skated no new skaters.
Correction:
It's Sassy Squash - because she will squash you!
Still need MORE attendance love from the leagues
I'm still compiling data on league attendance around the country, and it's still like pulling teeth ... I see people trumpeting their sold out houses here all the time, but ask them for a yearly average, and many go silent.
(which, lets face it, is a pretty unnatural condition for any sort of Derby folk)
I intend to keep hammering at this door. So consider yourselves warned.
If you haven't gotten an individual Email from me yet, you will. If you have
then for the love'a Jeebus, answer it all ready?
At the end of the year ALL this will be shared out, and not by individual league, but by region and national average that will give everyone out there a better picture of just how much the sport we all love has grown, even in a year. That's why 2k9 & earlier figures matter.
So show some Derby love for a worthwhile project? & To those who have provided the stats, much appreciated! You utterly Rock, and do in fact...Roll.
Thanks!
Ocho
why?
Who are you, and why are you obsessed with this one individual topic?
I get you're banked track fan. You don't seem to be affiliated with a league. I get we're all very communal and stuff, but why are you "hammering down doors" for this information. You found this site through yahoo answers, now you're emailing leagues all over the country? I love the geek-i-tude, but where are you coming from?
New favorite name
Ewan Wotarmy
You had me cracking up all morning. Well done.
-mtmOG!
PRG
I told her that at ECE last year.
And being a Canadian, she was very polite in thenking me for the compliment.
aw shucks
thanks!
uh huh
Unless they had to leave town in an awful hurry, I'm convinced Montreal must have swept the after parties.
uh huh
New Skids are such an awesome group of ladies, they kicked ass on the track and were all super fun! They did have to get up early for the Phoenix bout, but were a blast at the after party while we got to hang out with them.
Question about Montreal...
I had a question, and I can't keep it to myself anymore!
For your Canadian types (and those from pretty much any country other than the US), how does the 20-foot rule work? Is it known as the 6.094 meter rule?
6.094m
Here we use 40ft to 80 ft, a more wide open style
I smiled at the comment, but
I smiled at the comment, but it's so untrue. One of the reasons that Montreal beat my beloved TCT's so handily is because they were very adept at keeping a nice tight pack that's tough to get through or around. I was doubly surprised when I factored in that probably none of the NSOTB weighed more than 200 lbs (90.718474 kilograms).
Canadian Roller Derby skaters need to eat a sandwich or two!
Yes we do........
No problem with 20 feet in
No problem with 20 feet in the UK. Having talked with some of the refs and skaters from the German leagues, it's still known as "20 feet" as they play to WFTDA rules, but it's kind of an abstract, arbitrary-seeming distance to them (I guess they do think of it in terms of "just over 6m")... Certainly the German leagues I've reffed (Stuttgart, Berlin) had no particular issues with judging the distance compared to any other league I've reffed.
How to get around that...
No problem with 20 feet in the UK. Having talked with some of the refs and skaters from the German leagues, it's still known as "20 feet" as they play to WFTDA rules, but it's kind of an abstract, arbitrary-seeming distance to them (I guess they do think of it in terms of "just over 6m")... Certainly the German leagues I've reffed (Stuttgart, Berlin) had no particular issues with judging the distance compared to any other league I've reffed.
Put down 10' markers in tape.
It's difficult for a ref or skater to judge 20' (or 10' proximity for "is she still part of the pack?") visually. Earlier on in the sport's history this caused boatloads of grief. Do a search on "Eat a 20 foot dick ref" and you'll get a bit more info on all that. What I remember reading is that once the markings were there and refs were actually able to call 20' more comfortably, skaters actually got called on it a bit more.
20ft
There are NO 10ft markers in Montreal tracks! No idea why not.
No 10 foot markings?
There are NO 10ft markers in Montreal tracks! No idea why not.
You seem like the guy who could fix that.
Gaffer tape is your friend. The only time I've ever seen someone go wrong with it was when a league didn't pick a different color for the pivot and jammer lines. Some skaters who weren't used to 10' markers occasionally mistook where the jammer line was.
The way we do it..
We have our gaffer's tape the same color. The pivot and jammer lines go all the way from inside to outside, as regulation dictates. Out 10' lines go from inside to about 2 or three foot in. Works for us!
Oh, we do already
Almost all (if not absolutely all) the bouts I've reffed in the UK and Germany have all had the 10' tape markers laid out on the track as standard. Even if the distance is familiar or guessable to someone immediately conversant with imperial measurements, they can be a very helpful visual aid.
If you search for Bear City (Berlin Bombshells being their travel team) or Stuttgart Valley Roller Girlz, you should turn up some pics of the track layouts at their bout venues with very clear 10' markers.
we are bi - imperial/metric
Many of us still use the imperial system (colloquially) for things like height and weight - so the 20ft rule is perfectly comprehensible.