Derby News
WFTDA Preview: Memphis @ Naptown
INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- Among the roller derby games that are going on this weekend is a WFTDA sanctioned interregional matchup between two rising teams from the North Central and South Central.
Weekly Rollup and Open Thread, 2/5/2010
WFTDA.com puts up the Featured Skater and Featured League for February -- Boston's Shellby Shattered and the Texas Rollergirls.
Weekly Rollup and Open Thread, 1/29/2010
This is strictly a personal opinion, but this movie is at least equally as entertaining as Whip It.
Denver local media continues picking up on the venue bouncing between Denver Roller Dolls and Rocky Mountain Roller Girls.
WFTDA Releases 4th Quarter 2009 Rankings
The Women's Flat Track Derby Association today released the first official regional rankings since the third quarter 2009 release in October. These rankings reflect the results of bouts played from October 2009 to December 2009 -- including, of course, those played during November 2009's WFTDA championship tournament.
Weekly Rollup and Open Thread, 1/22/2010
Essential information-age road warrior resource Lifehacker brings the solution for ensuring your checked skate bag will be treated well: firearms.
Weekend in Review, 1/18/2010
WFTDA Sanctioned Interleague | Local Bouts
WFTDA Sanctioned Interleague
WFTDA Preview: Derby City @ Naptown
INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- For the second weekend in a row, a WFTDA sanctioned game will be played in the state of Indiana.
Weekly Rollup and Open Thread, 1/15/2010
Flat Track Voodoo, a new webcomic from TXRG's Voodoo Doll, was all over Facebook this week. It's awesome. We're hoping she keeps it coming.
Denver Post gives shout-outs to Whipity Pow and Alec Baldwin. Not in that order though.
Weekly Rollup and Open Thread, 1/8/2010
WFTDA.com has posted their second monthly Featured Skater and Featured League: Hydra, and the current holders of the Hydra.
WFTDA Preview: (23) Brew City @ Fort Wayne
FORT WAYNE, IN -- The long road to the fall's WFTDA tournament season begins anew this weekend with the first WFTDA-sanctioned bout of 2010, as Milwaukee's BrewCity Bruisers head down to Indiana to take on North Central rival Fort Wayne.
Weekly Rollup and Open Thread, 1/1/2010
Derby is in the deepest part of its de facto off-season and everybody is very hung over today, so this'll be a pretty short and sweet weekly rollup:
Team Awesome Fends Off Team SeXY, 132-102
SAN DIEGO, CA - On, Saturday Dec. 19, a handful of roller derby fans in San Diego were lucky enough to witness the first ever all-female vs. all-male roller derby banked track game.
DNN Thanks YOU, Part 4: Photographers
Editor's note: earlier this year, we welcomed Xena Paradox as DNN's Photo Editor. Since then, she's been working tirelessly to help us find the best in derby photography, organize it, get shots posted promptly, and (most importantly) make sure that we're appropriately crediting all the great photographers who take them.
Results: DNN's Best of 2009 Reader Poll
After a bit of a delay (sorry about that!) DNN is proud to present the winners of the first annual Reader's Poll. In the end we notched 2,905 unique votes, and it turns out that counting 2,905 unique votes isn't quite as easily an automated process as we had hoped.
Weekly Rollup and Open Thread, 12/18/2009
Flat-track roller derby game for the iPhone. Yes, really. It turns out none of your DNN editors actually own iPhones, so we're DYING for somebody to download this and review it in comments.
Team SeXY Challenges Team Awesome in Banked Action
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.
