It was a travel team night with our B team taking on the B team from the Denver Roller Dolls, and our All-Stars taking on the Bay Area Derby Girls.Denverowned Rain of Terror, though the second half was better.
The BAD Girls came out to a good start againstRatCity. It seemed closer than the score said at the end of the first half, with Bay Area leading by 30. The second halfRatCitycame back strong and took back the lead. However, Bay Area really played good defense and won by bout by 6 points.
Sadly, we missed the Rat City vs Denver game due to car troubles. We arrived just as it ended, and learned that Rat City won the bout.
Rose City vs BAD was disappointing. We hadn’t expected much from Rose City vs Oly, but vs BAD, we thought they would return to the form they were in vs Rat City. We were wrong. For one pass late in the 2nd half, they were able to put together a wall, but it didn’t even last the whole jam. BAD didn’t run away with the bout, but the outcome was rarely in question.
Saturday was a day of blow outs. It started with Rat City beating the host team, Sacred City, by over 300 points. They set a WFTDA tournament record with 39 points scored in a single jam. Later, Rat City took down Tuscon. Denver defeated Duke City in the morning and Jet City in the afternoon.
This was the first real look at both the Oly and Rocky Mountain teams. Friday, they had each won without breaking a sweat. Neither sweated much more in taking out the previous day’s winners – Oly over Rose City and Rocky Mountain over the BAD Girls.
Over the course of the tournament, the Denver Roller Dolls (3rd seed) and the B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls (6th seed) switched places in the ranks. Denver was expecting to go to Championships in 3rd place, so the loss to the BAD Girls was particularly hard.
The loss was made worse by a questionable call by the officials. At one point, split pack was called, at which point, the BAD defense should have let the Denver jammer through, giving her four more points. But they didn’t, and the frustrated jammer called off the jam. Denver lost the bout by 4 points.
First, the results (this may seem backwards, but as I’m not posting this until 2 days after the event ended, we’ll get this question out of the way).
Going to the national championships in Chicago in November, we have:
1st Place: Rocky Mountain Roller Girls (2nd seed)
2nd Place: Oly Rollers (1st seed, defending national champions)
3rd Place: B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls (6th seed)
Finishing out the top six
4th Place: Rose City Roller Girls (4th seed)
5th Place: Rat City Roller Girls (5th seed)
6th Place: Denver Roller Dolls (3rd seed)
More to come on the venue and bouts.
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