Rocky Takes 2, Drops 1 in PNW Swing
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Rocky Mountain kicked off their trip with a seesaw battle with Rose City, but a 55-0 run in the middle of the second half led to a solid victory on the scoreboard, 127-96. Photo: Dave Wood. -
Oly broke their bout with Rocky open in the second half, leading by as much as 49 points before Rocky narrowed it to a 121-101 final. Photo: Joe Rollerfan. -
Rat City outscored Rocky Mountain 82-18 over the middle twenty minutes of their bout, but Rocky answered with a closing 74-6 run that let them finish the tour with a 2-1 record. Photo: Axle Adams.
#5 Rocky Mountain 144, #7 Rat City 107 -- Rocky Mountain became the first team this year to escape a trip to the Pacific Northwest with a winning record by taking out Seattle's Rat City in the last game of a three-game weekend. They had to mount a massive late-game surge to do it, though. In the last 13 minutes, Rocky went on a tremendous 74-6 run that pulled them out of a 31 point hole.
Rocky Mountain took the lead off the bat on a 4-0 for DeRanged and stayed slightly ahead for a lengthy series of fairly narrow jams that kept the score low through the first quarter of the bout. With 15 minutes gone in the half, it was just a 23-13 advantage for Rocky Mountain, but RMRG got hot soon afterwards -- a 15-0 powerjam for DeRanged and a 10-0 for Frida Beater helped build a 52-19 lead for Rocky Mountain with about five minutes to play in the half.
However, there was almost no offensive production for Rocky Mountain for the rest of the half, and Rat City played an extremely effective close to the half. They took a significant chunk off the lead with 34 seconds to play in the half, narrowing to 59-43, and they rode a 19-0 Carmen Getsome powerjam to take the lead on the last jam of the half, 62-59. That capped off a 43-7 run in just 5 minutes for Rat City.
For the first 15 minutes of the second half, it seemed as if Rat City had figured out the favored visitors, continuing to outscore them at a significant clip. With 13:11 to go, Rocky had only scored 11 points in the half while Rat City had 39, and Rocky Mountain was looking at a 31 point deficit at 101-70 and not much time left to make it up. But they got it in gear just in time -- with, as was so often the case, the help of sudden and serious penalty trouble for Rat City.
Things started to go off the rails for Rat City when their box filled to capacity and DeRanged dropped a 15-0 on them as Rocky Mountain was able to isolate and slow the few Rat City blockers. After a 3-0 for Frida Beater and a 4-0 for DeRanged, the Rat City lead was suddenly down to single digits at 101-92.
RCRG could only delay the wave for one more jam at 107-97 with 5:46 to play -- and then there was no more offense for Rat City at all. Rocky closed to one point away at 107-106 with 3:56 left to play, and Rocky made a very close game look like a solid win by taking the last three jams 15-0, 3-0 and 20-0 to win by 37 points.
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Way to go all y'all!
What a series! Nice work Rocky Mountain!
Charm City plays Rocky Mountain June 5....
....Excuse me, I need to go do 100 pushups and eat my Wheaties...right now. Also, change my underwear.
Different Oly vs RMRG score?
What was this I heard about the actual score for Oly vs RMRG being 121 to 110? Some of my friends that were at that game mentioned it but didn't give me the details. Anyone know what's going on?
Score
It is nothing that would have changed the outcome and there is no complaint from RMRG on that *at all.*
That said, we heard back from a couple fans in house that they believed only five of a 15-point jam by Frida Beater made it onto the official scoreboard late in the game. They reported that they watched the ref signal 15, but the scorekeeper added only the five onto the board. We have no idea if that is true or not, but that is likely the rumor you heard about the score. As we know, like in all other sports, the winning team is the one with more points at the end of the prescribed time. ;)
I didn't see anything in the text cast about it, which I read after the fact. Sounds like having teams like OLY and RMRG on the track was major chaos for those charged with keeping everything straight. We are so grateful for those who endeavor to do so.
Hope that clarifies a little bit.
Dangerous "please have mercy on me as I try to help DNN text cast RMRG v Charm next month" Leigh A'zon
Sadly
It's not unheard of that jam refs and scorekeepers get their communication crossed up and entire scoring passes fall through the cracks, especially in high scoring jams. I've seen it before and I'll see it again.
Missed passes.
It's not unheard of that jam refs and scorekeepers get their communication crossed up and entire scoring passes fall through the cracks, especially in high scoring jams. I've seen it before and I'll see it again.
That's why scorekeepers ought to verbally confirm total scoring for the whole jam with their jam ref in between jams. That might not have been a bad time for a captain or designated alternate to take up the perceived scoring irregularity with the head ref.
This is one reason why scorekeepers tend to work better in the middle than on the outside.
Not necessarily.
This is one reason why scorekeepers tend to work better in the middle than on the outside.
Not necessarily. If the scoreboard operator is using a program like DerbyBoard, which displays the jam score, it is really easy for jammer refs to verify that the score for a jam is correct.
Hmmm...
This is one reason why scorekeepers tend to work better in the middle than on the outside.
Not necessarily. If the scoreboard operator is using a program like DerbyBoard, which displays the jam score, it is really easy for jammer refs to verify that the score for a jam is correct.
Well, if you want to volunteer the jam refs to have to check and confirm what's on the scoreboard at all times.
Thing to know, in many leagues that use DerbyBoard (including my own), the score is not changing while the jam happens. I've tried to encourage scoreboard ops to read ref hand signals, enter those as the jam is happening, and use the total score that gets whiteboarded to them as just a confirmation, but I couldn't sell that.
As a result, the jam score on our DerbyBoard scoreboard is usually only up for a second or two. Score doesn't start getting adjusted until well into the 30 second setup period. Maybe once you're our mentor league you can straighten them out on that.
Our scoreboard operator does
Our scoreboard operator does update the board with each scoring pass, so it's really easy to check the total when the jam ends and make sure it's accurate. Other refs and other leagues might not have it that easy, but that's not really any excuse for shirking responsibility IMHO.
yes...
as head ref for this bout, this issue was brought to my attention. I took an OT to check the score with both the score keepers and the jam ref. This verified that all points signled by the jam ref were indeed registered on the official score. Some confusion may have come from the fact that there were two score boards in the venue - one which was the offical projected board and the other, a malfunctioning hocky score board which was only right about 80% of the time due to some sort of short or missing bulbs.
I instructed teams to pay attention only to the projected board as that was the official score board. In hindsight, I should have had the hockey board shut off, but it didn't occur to me during the bout because I had a few other things going on at the time.
You were good
I can't put into words what I saw at Skateland in Olympia that day. Where a team of well oiled machines took on a team of derby-perfection androids and had it out. I think I might have saw some version of human life form when Tannibal took a fall, but she got up and skated back to her bench only to come back three jams later to enforce the Oly dominance.
As for the refs being able to wrangle these un-human atheletes and provide them with a safe enviroment to play this amazing bout was undoubtingly the most difficult task. So BIG high five to the Sir Osis and his team!! (he even cleaned up the spilt oil on the track that was left behind from some of the action)
Thanks for clearing that up
Thanks for clearing that up for me! as someone who was waiting on pins and needles to find out what happened at the game I was so confused when I heard the story.
and a serious Thank You to you and all the awesome refs working that game. I hope no one thought that I was dissing anyone; just wanted the details :D
no worries...
there were some odd things with the score board and I wanted to clear them up. 121 to 101 is the final, official score reported to the WFTDA. I am not sure to what the post below is referring, so I won't comment further on this thread.
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You are very wrong on your score. The actual score was 127 to 92 in favor or Oly. My husbnad and I track the score fromthe jam refs to the score table, and we sit right by the table. We track seperatly and compare at the end. We we only two points difference. We love to track all games just like we do at all mariner games. We came to the game because it was not live, and wanted to compare with rat City. We were hoping Rocky would win to help Rat move up. It was a terrific game, and after the first 10 minutes Oly was just unreal. But the was not closer than what was on the board.
The refs do a great job, and
The refs do a great job, and I was not pointing fingers at anyone. I just read the post above that stated a much closer score that published. Most derby bouts are not 100%, but the refs and the trackers do a incredible job working them. We would not be watching these awesome bouts without the refs and staff.
The fans thank you all. can't wait to go down to Oly vs. Tex should be great
yep
I left that Oly/RMRG game happy I wasn't a ref. The second half looked more like a riot at mach 5 than an organized game. How the refs made any sense of the action I'll never know.
amazing
I wasn't able to catch the Oly bout, but the other two were absolutely amazing, and nail biters! Rocky vs Rat had me on the edge of my seat and couldn't believe how Rocky so awesomely brought their lead back with little time left!!! Not to mention Frida Beater jamming the last 3 jams--dang!! I believe I mentioned in the text cast that I would have not liked to be the jammer against Psychobabble AND DeRanged in the same pack--ouch!!! Nice play, Rocky. ;)