Derby News

BURLINGTON, VT -- When 7 seed Boston and 10 seed DC met in the second opening-round bout of the WFTDA East Playoffs, the game was mostly decided by an ice-cold start and an ice-cold end for the low seed. Boston scored 46 unanswered points to begin action, but DC played them more or less evenly for most of the second half to stay within shouting distance into the last ten minutes.

BURLINGTON, VT -- It’s weekend three of the four-week cycle of the WFTDA regional playoffs. After the intensity of the upset-heavy North Centrals and last weekend’s West Playoffs -- a tournament that saw four of the five placement bouts come down to the last jam -- it would appear on paper that the historically more stable East Playoffs may be a little less hectic.

RICHMOND, CA -- Rose City and Bay Area have history.Bay drew first blood in 2008 with an opening day win over the team from Portland, and stopped Rose making their maiden Championships appearance with a win in the third-place game in 2010. Rose got revenge for that in 2011 with a first-day win of their own.

RICHMOND, CA -- Angel City and Sacred City have a storied rivalry going back to 2007, with almost every single meeting between the teams coming down to the last few jams. In the seventh place of the West playoffs, it came down to literally the last few seconds.

RICHMOND, CA -- In what was the game of tournament season so far, Denver came back from a brutally hard-hitting first-half display from Bay Area to book their ticket to Championships in Atlanta. Bay Area led 124-71 at the half, but Denver skated out 187-167 victors.

RICHMOND, CA -- In a Saturday consolation bout at the WFTDA West Region playoffs, lead changes near the start of the game suggested Angel City might keep Rocky from making Sunday's fifth-place playoff, but a 48-0 run for RMRG at the end of the first half put paid to any hopes the Scarlets might have had of an upset.

RICHMOND, CA -- 9W Wasatch had a tough ask at the start of day two of the West playoff. Having lost out to Angel City in the first bout of day one, their first-round consolation battle was with 6W Rat City, who lost out in a tight encounter with Bay Area in the final bout of the day.

RICHMOND, CA -- The closing bout of Bay of Reckoning was a rematch of one of the closest bouts of the year so far -- Bay Area's five-point last jam victory in Seattle in June. The game left a lot of unfinished business between these two teams, and more than a few question marks next to the 3 seed vs 6 seed quarterfinal than would normally be expected given the ranking disparity.

RICHMOND, CA -- In the second quarterfinal game of the WFTDA West Region Playoffs -- and the second game of the day for 8th seeded Angel City, who had barely gotten past 9W Wasatch in the tournament opener -- top seed Rose City was widely expected to crush ACDG, but the ladies from Los Angeles refused to stick to the script.

RICHMOND, CA -- For the first time since the WFTDA split into 4 regions in 2009, the Western playoffs matchup between Oly and Rocky Mountain came before the final game. RMRG played a tough game, but was undone by Oly for the 3rd time in their four West playoffs meetings and lost 157-92.

RICHMOND, CA -- This weekend the WFTDA roadshow moves on to California's Bay Area for Bay of Reckoning -- the 2012 West region playoffs. While it's almost possible to fill in two Championships teams in all the other regions before a whistle is blown, the West is wide open.

NIAGARA FALLS, NY -- In a very long-awaited rematch of a 155-155 tie game in June, the North Central's top two seeds, 1NC Windy City and 2NC Minnesota, met in what was also a repeat of the 2011 tournament final. While the score wasn't a tie this time, the game proved to be every bit as evenly matched as it was earlier in the year.