Weekend In Review, 6/7/2010
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Rat City's Carmen Getsome works against Texas jammer Bloody Mary. Rat City led for the last 40 minutes of the bout and sent Texas to their fourth loss in a row, 128-120. Photo: Axle Adams. -
Rocky Mountain jammer De Ranged uniquely prepares to jam as Charm City's Just Carol looks on. RMRG dealt Charm their biggest loss of their history, 214-77. Photo: Jay Vollmar. -
Bay Area and San Diego played an instant classic in the final bout of the Big One 2010; after 8 lead changes, Bay Area scored a 9-0 final jam to win a 151-148 squeaker. Photo: LeVar Hurtin'. -
In Windy City local action, the Fury capped a 5-1 season with a championship-bout victory over the Double Crossers, 130-71. Photo: Gil Leora.
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#6 Rat City 128, #8 Texas 120 -- The fifth entry in this historic rivalry proved to be every bit as evenly matched as the first four -- in 5 meetings, none of them have been decided by more than 12 points. This time, Rat City got revenge for their most recent loss in the semifinals of 2008 Western Regionals, hanging on in a close 8-pointer.
Rat City came into this Sunday afternoon bout with an unexpected roster loss, as team captain Kamikaze Kim had suffered a concussion the previous night in a Rat City home bout. On the flipside, Texas was playing for the second day in a row, having just lost to Oly 123-75 the previous night.
The lead flipped early, with Rat City holding a 7-2 lead after three jams but Texas' Bloody Mary dropped a 10-0 on Jalepeno Business to give Texas the lead. The visitors stayed ahead and worked the lead all the way to 40-15 with 17:15 to play in the first half -- but just as it looked like they might be on their way to a commanding lead, Rat City stormed back to the lead in short order.
RCRG blockers Anya Heels and Jalepeno Business worked over Texas' Molotov M. Pale, allowing Rat City jammer Juliet Bravo to pull 15-0. That was followed by a 4-0 for Rat City's Wile E. Peyote, narrowing the score to 40-34 Texas. Texas's Olivia Shootin' John held off the advance for one more jam with a textbook 4-0, but Rat City completed the comeback on a subsequent powerjam as Carmen Getsome rolled for 14-0 over a boxed Molotov M. Pale.
Rat City had a 48-44 lead with 5:23 left in the half, and Texas would never lead again. By halftime Rat City had extended the lead to 71-56, and built on it for the majority of the second half. With about 8 minutes to play, Rat City had their biggest lead of the game at 29 points, 116-87, but Texas managed to sneak up close enough to give themselves an outside chance going into the endgame.
With Rat City up 128-102 and 1:39 left on the clock, Texas pulled out an 8-0 and called timeout with 44 seconds on the clock. They needed 18 points for the tie, and caught a break when Rat City lost their jammer Juliet Bravo, but Texas jammer Luce Bandit could only pick up 10-0 to bring the final to 128-120 Rat City.
Rat City now leads the all-time series three games to two; Texas is on a four-game losing skid, the longest of their history (previous losses were to Denver, Rocky Mountain and Oly). -- Justice Feelgood Marshall
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#3 Rocky Mountain 214, #11 Charm City 77 -- Rocky Mountain put a serious hurting on visiting Charm City in the second meeting between the two teams. When they'd last met in April 2008, Charm City had pulled out an narrow 115-97 win, but this time Rocky Mountain took over about halfway through the first half and buried them early on the way to handing the Baltimore crew the biggest loss of their existence.
Although the first jam went 0-0, the second jam set the tone for the bout when Charm City jammer Joy Collision was sent to the penalty box early and Rocky Mountain played the situation to the hilt, picking up a 20-0 for She Who Cannot Be Named.
Charm didn't get knocked off their game … yet. Over the next 10 minutes, the team traded narrow jam wins with Charm City barely getting the better of the exchanges, leaving the score at 27-11 Rocky Mountain with about 17 minutes left in the first half. Right there, though, was where the bottom fell out for Charm in an avalanche of penalties to both jammers and blockers.
Bambi's Revenge ended up being the Charm City jammer on four consecutive jams due to ending the first three in the penalty box, and Rocky Mountain had their way with the Charm crew in that sequence -- a 23-0 to DeRanged, 15-3 to She Who, 10-0 to Frida Beater, and 10-0 to She Who again moved the scoreboard from 27-11 to 85-14 Rocky in the course of 10 minutes.
Once Charm City was finally able to keep a jammer on the track, they finished the half strong, outscoring Rocky for the rest of the half 18-14 -- but that wasn't enough to put any sort of meaningful dent in Rocky's 99-32 halftime lead.
RMRG didn't waste a lot of time in the second half expanding the lead -- in the first 10 minutes, they outscored Charm City 62-7 and had claimed a 161-39 lead, leaving it only a matter of time until they completed their 137 point victory.
DeRanged led all scoring with 74 points on 10 jams, while She Who had the highest jammer point differential with +59 on 8 jams. Charm City was led by Just Carol (23 points on 8 jams) while Holden Grudges had the best CCRG JPD (+7 on 2 jams.) -- Justice Feelgood Marshall (stats by N8)
Comments
"tackling" - no.
Actually, it was a legal hit that was just late (right at 20 feet) and continued out of bounds. Both skaters tripped and ended up on the floor, but Trish did not tackle anyone. My feeling is that she was ejected because the refs needed to make a point in a very very physical match between two tough teams - and because both teams had asked the head ref to call the game as hard as possible because earlier bouts had reffing that I would definitely call loose. I think its super important to make that distinction because 1. trish didn't throw a fit - she just left, and that might make someone think that means that SDDD agreed with the call. I was the "A" and I completely 100% did not agree with the call. However, I knew they wouldn't take it back - so there wasn't much we could do. And B. People want to think hard hitters are also the kind of assholes that would tackle, and that's just not true of Trish. She plays a very clean game and rarely sits in the box. In the last couple years I've been ejected twice but she hasn't at all.
That said, what an amazing bout. BADG is storming back into the rankings and in spite of the end results, I'm insanely proud of my team and how great they played. Congratulations to both team and congrats to BADG for taking home the trophy. We're ready to earn it back next year!!!!
Rule version
Was this game being played under the new May 2010 ruleset? If so, this might be the first example of the new expulsion language actually getting somebody expelled:
The following egregious acts will be automatic game expulsion, and can be punished as a multi- game suspension (see Section 7.5.2.2). Expulsions will be issued for a conscious, forceful attempt to block an out-of-bounds opponent in an egregious manner while executing an illegal block.
6.8.22 Intentional, negligent, or reckless contact with an out-of-bounds opponent while executing a block in an illegal manner.
nope, old ruleset
And for what it's worth, I wouldn't have ejected Trish from that bout. From the announcer's table about 5 feet away, it looked like Trish was going in for a hit, but both she and Hammer lost control and they happened to collide out of bounds and into a precariously close wall. It certainly didn't look like Trish tried to "tackle" her, but we all know refs don't call intent (and I'm not a ref).
Wrong on a couple of counts.
And for what it's worth, I wouldn't have ejected Trish from that bout. From the announcer's table about 5 feet away, it looked like Trish was going in for a hit, but both she and Hammer lost control and they happened to collide out of bounds and into a precariously close wall. It certainly didn't look like Trish tried to "tackle" her, but we all know refs don't call intent (and I'm not a ref).
She wasn't ejected (ejections happen based on penalty minute counts, not on single penalties). She was expelled. Under the new rules, the whole word "ejection" gets tossed out (and good riddance, it was confusing).
Referees DO call intent in certain circumstances, particularly with regard to low blocks (AKA "Tripping" under past rule sets). A low block that is deemed to have been delivered intentionally merits an expulsion under rule 6.3.11. Intentional low blocks are more easy to spot intent on, particularly if it's a foot-first sliding trip.
Ref Cam ARRG v DCRD
Please enjoy this awesome ref cam footage of the Arch Rival All Star vs Duke City / Arch Rival St Lunachix vs Demolition City bout. Both these bouts were exciting to watch and ARRG are fun and classy hosts....I love those girls! I would also like to put in my vote for Ana Warpath as winner of the after party despite the fact that she didn't even play in either of these bouts :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvR3Eu0A81c&feature=channel