Weekend in Review, 2/8/2010
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San Diego's Kung Pow Tina goes for the inside line. San Diego walloped Michigan irregulars Mitten Kittens by a final of 189-57 in the course of debuting their new banked track. Photo: Kustomkulturephoto. -
San Diego jammer Bonnie D. Stroir escapes the pack. San Diego walloped Michigan irregulars Mitten Kittens by a final of 189-57 in the course of debuting their new banked track. Photo: Kustomkulturephoto. -
Nashville's Olive Turmoyl gets in the way of Atlanta's Demi Gore. Nashville upset Atlanta in a 108-73 final. Photo: Derek Dewesse. -
Appleton, WI's Paper Valley dropped a big 229-46 margin on Team Unicorn, the B-team from Madison. Photo: Doug Otto. -
Dee Nasty, jamming for CT Yankee Brutals, gets a little hang time after taking a hit from SRD Backyard Bullies blocker Robin Graves (out of frame). The Suburbia b-team defeated the Connecticut home team, 113-89. Photo: Marc Santos. -
In Minnesota local action, Atomic Bombshells defeated Dagger Dolls 63-38. Here Bombshell jammer Mae Gusta works her way around Dagger Doll blocker Norah Torious. Photo: Apron. -
In Minnesota local action, the Rockits stymied the Garda Belts, 118-43. Here Pain Gretzky tries to cut off Garda Belt jammer Suzie Smashbox. Photo: Apron.
WFTDA Sanctioned | General Interleague | Banked Track | Local Bouts
General Interleague
Paper Valley All Stars 229, MRD Team Unicorn 46 -- The main event of a Paper Valley doubleheader turned out to be even a bigger blowout favoring Appleton than the undercard. PVRG’s Pissy Pistol and Chop Stick Ya cut through the Team Unicorn defense for a combined 20 grand slams. Pissy Pistol put up an jaw dropping 92 points; Chop Stick Ya an equally impressive 73 points. A force at B3 all night, Gynomite took PVRG’s final turn at jammer.
Stymied the entire bout, Madison’s Team Unicorn managed only nine leads in the 33-jam game. Rosetta Stoned led the Unicorns in scoring with 21 points. One bright spot for Madison was Stevie Knocks. The Ashwaubenon native garnered the lead and local cheers in her two turns at jammer for a total of ten points. -- Geoffrey Saucer
Paper Valley Flyin’ Squirrels 239, Quad City Rollers 65 -- Cyanide Ride had 64 points, and Amy Grindhouse added 63, including two 20 point jams in the second half, as the Paper Valley B-team, the Flyin’ Squirrels, cruised to a 239-65 final.
The legendary Pink Taco led the Quad City Rollers with 28 points. Despite the mismatch in experience and stamina, QCR were nevertheless game all night. A small-market league, QCR will take the lessons learned home to continue building a surprisingly vital eastern Iowa derby scene. -- Geoffrey Saucer
Photoset from this bout (McMoosie)
Fargo-Moorhead 181, Harbor City 75 -- Fargo-Moorhead Derby Girls came up with another big win, this time against Duluth’s Harbor Roller Dames. FMDG took an early lead in the first pushing the score up 61-10 by the half. Harbor City had a hard time getting past Fargo blockers Athena Barbitol and Karmic Recall. Despite her four trips to the penalty box in the first half, Karmic came up with some excellent hard defense against the more experienced Harbor City team.
Fargo continued to dominate with 14 point jams by both Hjelle Roll and RushHerella in the second half. Harbor City never quite recovered despite the 17 points put up by Daisy Duker in the second half and the blocking skills of Jilly Willy as they tried to hold FMDG at bay.
The score was due in part to point differential differences in Harbor City’s jamming staff. Crazy Stitch, while getting lead jammer status most of the time, had a hard time keeping a high scoring differential staying at just +3 for the bout.
Harbor City will have a chance to duke it out again with Fargo/Moorhead on March 20th when they meet FMDG on their home turf. -- Julia Childless
SRD Backyard Bullies 113, CTRG Yankee Brutals 89 -- In Westchester, NY, Suburbia Roller Derby's B-team, the Backyard Bullies, defeated Connecticut RollerGirls local team, The Yankee Brutals, in the first 2010 bout for both teams.
The Bullies started strong, securing a ten point lead after the first two jams and using the momentum to build a 67-25 advantage at the half. A second period rally led by Yankee Brutals jammers Pam Terror and Murphy's OUTLAW closed the gap to within eleven points, but the Bullies responded with a series of point scoring jams, combined with some penalty box trouble for the Brutals. Rita Wayward had a thirteen point jam to end the bout 113-89 for the Bullies.
SRD's first home bout on February 27th will be a WFTDA sanctioned bout pitting Suburbia Roller Derby's All Stars, The Suburban Brawl, against the Dutchland Rollers (PA). CTRG's next home bout will be their first international one, featuring the Stepford Sabotage v. Montreal's New Skids on the Block on March 5th. -- Marc Santos
Comments
Small correction; probably my fault in the unedited original.
Harmony Killerbruise pulled an 18-0 power jam that provided the lead change in the first half of Rockits/Gardas, not 18-3.
The jam was almost a textbook instance of the Rockit blockers trapping an opposing blocker and hitting the breaks; glad it wasn't used more than once in the game, but as a single jam tactic...not bad.
Thanks for the editing, Justice. Always appreciated.
And w00t, FMDG!
Congratulations on the win over Harbor City. Hope to yet see both the Fargo/Moorhead and Duluth/Superior teams this year; I understand FMDG's arena is fantastic.
Fargo Civic Center is fantasic
Having been there are their inaugural bout, it is fantastic. Can't wait to go back.
Don't forget about the attendance...
For the first time evre, the MNRG sold out the Roy Wilkins Auditorium. The paid attendance was 4723, but children 9 and under get in free. -So, the total attendance was likely over 5000. 300 or so more had to be turned away after we reached capacity.
Also, the Fargo Civic Center is awesome. It's kind of a smaller version of the Roy Wilkins; it holds 1700-ish fans. I understand that the FM Derby Girls sold it out yet again. That's 3 bouts since their inception, all sold out.
That's got to be the record, right?
Minnesota's ~5000 beats Rat City's ~4500 in the Key Arena, is there anything higher that anyone knows of?
I don't believe so.
Hrmmm... I don't think you can really count Bumberbout.
It's my vague understanding that admission was free with a ticket to Bumbershoot. Many people in attendance may have been drop-ins who wouldn't have attended had it not been held as part of a larger non-derby event.
Basically I'd file away any event that's part of a music festival, sports event, state fair, etc that way.
Otherwise we'd have to give Fabulous Sin City Rollergirls credit for every teenager who attends this year's Extreme Thing event to see his favorite white rapper and pro-skateboarder and give San Diego Derby Dolls credit for the every guy who slips off to enjoy the hard hits and cute girls at Battle on the Bank 3 with a funnel cake while his wife is putting the kids on the teacup ride.
I'm not dismissing what those leagues are accomplishing by holding their tournaments/events in those settings. It's great for them and great for spreading knowledge of our sport. But the attendance figures don't mean the same thing as people paying just to see your bout, ya know?
The all time roller derby record is 50,118 at Comiskey Park, 1972. They had two different TV shows on different stations promoting that one though. Interleague game.
Pretty much you have to make
Pretty much you have to make up rules for all contests. In this case, the contest is greatest attendance for a roller derby event. The rule is, everyone there specifically had to come to see only the roller derby event.
Wider scale events are a promotion for roller derby, and shouldn't be discouraged just because that attendance doesn't count in this particular contest.
What is the real interest in knowing numbers?
To know who sold the most tickets, made the most money, or exposed the most people to roller derby?
Well, all three really.
The more tickets we sell, the more money we make, the better it is for our skaters -- less in the way of out-of-pocket expenses for practice time, travel, etc.
In addition, humans enjoy competition. That's why we keep score. If MNRG now holds the record for bout attendance (like Grand Poobah said, not counting festivals and events where there happens to be derby being played), then that's a rallying point for leagues within striking distance of our numbers (specifically Rat City and Windy City) to try and surpass our total. When someone passes us, then we try to pass them again.
Although we're limited to the size of the arena, of course.
and of course...
...the better it is for the charities we support.
my interest was...
just to see what was happening in terms of the sport. Are we growing and if so how do we know.
Some teams bring in more than others but that can change. St. Paul is kind of a small market compared to NY, LA and Chicago. They are brining in the most so far. Madison had there biggest crowd ever this year for their opener. We had it the same and MNRG was singing winner winner chicken dinner all the way to the bank.
The sport in its other incarnation was pretty huge and who wouldn't love to see those numbers again. Anyone who has been in it for a while should be happy that all the hard work is getting somewhere in terms of widespread coverage and growing fan base.
This is a sport that should be able to treat and take of its participants the same as any other sport. Thats were the attendance comes in. The less we have to struggle the more the skaters can do what they do best. Skate!
So... just asking.
Exactly.
Aside from the obvious reason of me trying to set those types of events aside because not everyone went there to see the roller derby, it's also a LOT harder to determine the numbers.
To be perfectly honest, I LOVE seeing setups like those. Where people come in to see something else and get exposed to roller derby along the way.
And I like getting to attend
And I like getting to attend a county or state fair when I'm there to see roller derby. Mmmmm. Deep fried...um...everything.
Carolina
During Easterns last year the Dorton's food options could best be described as "deep friend everything" because the arena is on a fairgrounds. There were plenty of other things going on at the same time like a swap meet and a gourd festival.
Well, yeah, but...
The all time roller derby record is 50,118 at Comiskey Park, 1972. They had two different TV shows on different stations promoting that one though. Interleague game.
I of course mean modern roller derby.