Derby News
#4 Texas Cruises to Governor's Cup Win Over Duke City, 297-56
Adapted with permission from Phil Arnold.
[DC]: Cherry Blossom Bombshells 110, Majority Whips 94
WASHINGTON, DC -- In the first bout of the DC Rollergirls’ home-team double-header on January 28, the Cherry Blossom Bombshells (2-1) were pitted a second time against DCRG’s newest team, the Majority Whips (1-2).
[DC]: Scare Force One 229, DC DemonCats 53
WASHINGTON, DC -- In the second bout of the DC Rollergirls’ January 28 double-header, the DC DemonCats took on the yet-to-be-defeated Scare Force One. Though the DemonCats seemed to have the cheering crowd on their side, Scare Force managed to shut them down early to win the game 229-53.
RCR Heartless Heathers 168, ECRG Andromedolls 60
EUGENE, OR -- The front-end of Saturday’s Emerald City-hosted doubleheader in Eugene, OR featured Rose City’s Heartless Heathers against Emerald City’s Andromedolls. The home team Dolls have won the last three Emerald City season championships.
[Emerald City]: Church of Sk8in 100, Flat Track Furies 87
EUGENE, OR -- In the first intraleague bout of Emerald City’s season, the Flat Track Furies were looking to get back on track after going winless last season, while the Church of Sk8in were looking to march their way back to the championship after taking runner-up last season. Both teams had many new skaters in pivotal roles.
Preview: Governor's Cup 2012
DALLAS, TX -- Dallas' Assassination City hosts the sixth Governor's Cup tournament this weekend, bringing together six teams spanning the lower ranks of the WFTDA South Central region with one perennially dominant heavyweight in current regional champ Texas for a double-elimination event.
LA Denies San Diego on the Bank, 140-115
LOS ANGELES, CA -- Through the first half of Saturday night's banked-track game between the hometown LA Ri-Ettes and San Diego Wildfires, LA's jammers seemed magnetically drawn to the penalty box, and it ended up showing on the scoreboard. San Diego repeatedly played an effective slow-trap on powerjams, and used the margin gained on those to hold a 17 point lead at halftime.
(14) Naptown Shuts Down Midwest Mega Team, 131-41
INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- After an extremely low-scoring first half that ended at just 36-19, the Naptown all-stars took control in the second and blew out the visiting Midwest Mega Team, an irregular team of North Central all-stars from Windy City, Arch Rival, Ohio, the Chicago Outfit, Burning River and Brewcity, by a final score of 131-41.
NRG Warning Belles 150, WCR The Fury 115
INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- In an matchup between Windy City home team The Fury and Naptown's B-team the Warning Belles, the first 20 minutes belonged to the Fury and the last 15 minutes belonged to the Belles.
Weekend Preview: 1/20/2012
While it's still a few weeks before the 2012 WFTDA derby season gets rolling in earnest, this January weekend sees a fair amount of interesting banked track, expo and intraleague action to check out.
Team Bionic Wins Debut Over LADD Tough Cookies, 99-75
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- In the debut game for hybrid superteam Team Bionic, Bionic hosted a home team from LA Derby Dolls, the Tough Cookies. Although it was back-and-forth in the first two quarters and was a narrow 39-31 favoring Bionic at the halftime break, the home team extended their advantage in the second half to keep the Cookies just out of striking distance for the homestretch.
[Arch Rival]: M-80s 153, Rebel Skate Alliance 94
Republished with permission from ArchRivalRollerGirls.com.
BALLWIN, MO -- The M-80s (2-1) utilized a second-half scoring barrage en route to a 153-94 win over Rebel Skate Alliance (0-3) to enter the ARRG local postseason as the second seed.
[Arch Rival]: Stunt Devils 147, Smashinistas 80
Republished with permission from ArchRivalRollerGirls.com.
BALLWIN, MO -- Building upon a 41-point halftime lead, the Stunt Devils (3-0) powered their way to a 147-80 victory over the Smashinisitas (1-2) to grab the top seed in the February 4 Arch Rival playoffs with an undefeated regular season record.
WCR Manic Attackers 179, MRD Unholy Rollers 72
MADISON, WI -- In a early-season clash of local teams from Madison and Chicago, the Unholy Rollers faced off against the Windy City Rollers’ Manic Attackers on Saturday, January 14th -- the 2012 debut of interleague action in Madison.
Preview: Team Bionic vs. LADD Tough Cookies
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- This weekend in Colorado Springs, a intriguing new structure for a derby team has its maiden voyage as the newly formed banked-track crew Team Bionic hosts the Tough Cookies, a local team from the Los Angeles Derby Dolls.
CAPTCHA Alternatives
Spambots are smart. Apparently there's a lot of money in plastering comment threads with ads for counterfeit watches, penis pumps, etc. The CAPTCHA system we use on DNN to test for humans is pretty good and catches the vast majority of spambots. But it's not perfect, as we saw just today when someone vomited Ugg boots all over our site.
DNN Power Rankings: By The Numbers
Since we started doing Power Rankings in February 2009, we've found there's one interesting constant during our various derby travels -- at least one member or fan from every league will buttonhole us at an after party looking to have
DNN Releases January 2012 Power Rankings
Welcome to 2012! It's a brand new year of skating in circles and complaining on the Internet as we release our January 2012 Power Rankings.
New Year's Day Team USA Marathon
We hope you've had a chance to drop by the beta test of our new 24-hour video service, DNNtv. We'll be experimenting with different tools and options for a while to figure out what's the most useful for you, and practical for us to manage.
DNN Best of 2011 Poll: Results
Bout of the Year (Women's)
Winner: London 137, Montreal 135 - WFTDA East 5th Place (574 votes, 35%)
2. Rocky Mountain 156, Gotham 153 - Chicago Invitational (228 votes, 14%)
3. Oly 124, Kansas City 104 - WFTDA Championships Semifinal (185 votes, 11%)
4. Kansas City 146, Rose City 135 - WFTDA Championships Opening Round (155 votes, 9%)
Destination: Logged In
I got a report recently that people were annoyed by the fact that when you use the login link at the upper right of the site, you get pushed off to your account page. Readers don't want to go their dumb ol' account page; they want to stay on the page they were on! How else can they make the witty comment they had in mind when they decided to log in in the first place??
World Cup Global Audience Distribution
Among the most remarkable stats in World Cup By The Numbers were DNN's website visitation totals, which were far above any previous event's audience. We thought it'd be interesting to dig a little deeper into our audience stats to see just who was watching (and more to the point, from where).
DNN Best of 2011 Reader Poll: Make Your Nominations!
Nominations are now closed! Comments for this thread have been locked.
LADD Championship: Sirens Scatter the Swarm, 132-106
LOS ANGELES, CA -- In a closely contested grand finale of the 2011 LADD season that featured 7 second-half lead changes, the LA Derby Dolls' Sirens staged a comeback win on the visiting San Diego Swarm, sending the Swarm to their third straight championship loss in a 132-106 final.
World Cup By The Numbers
As our Roller Derby World Cup coverage weekend got under way, we knew something extraordinary was happening, but it wasn't until we started actually looking at the data that we realized just how big this event really was for the modern derby world. We thought you might like to see some of the numbers behind the event and DNN's coverage.
