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Rat City Rollergirls Championship Bout


12 Jul

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The Rat City Rollergirls Championship bout was this weekend. The Grudge Match (DLF v Sockit Wenches) and the championship (Throttle Rockets v Grave Danger) were exciting, hard-fought bouts. As a Throttle Rockets fan, it was hard to see them lose. Being married to a DLF fan made their first win in 2 years more exciting.

The big news though, was the people leaving. Drew Blood, the SW coach is moving away, and two long-time, favorite skaters- X-Khan of SW and Valtron of TR retired.

I will miss seeing them on the flat track. Best of luck to all of them.

Mythbusters (ep 161)


14 Apr

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All I have to say about “blue ice” is that if enough is going mechanically wrong on a plane for some to fall, the airline is actually going to have more worries than the off chance that the blue ice kills someone or causes significant property damage.

Methane and fire do not mix. Even if you do not get the Bourne explosion, the combo melts your house. MELTS YOUR HOUSE. The methane made everything flammable. The flowers didn’t so much turn to ash as melt. It looked like a scene out of Backdraft. Definitely DO NOT try this at home.

Rat City Rollergirls, Season 7, Bout 3


20 Mar

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GD dominated DLF.

TR vs SW was fabulous. Throughout the first half, there was no lead larger than 11 points. SW led by 6 at the half, but TR pulled ahead in the second half, helped by a great power jam by Luna Negra. We got to see Luna and Eva Dead jam regularly. I am so excited about TR’s fresh meat.

On the down side, Anya Heels of SW is out injured, perhaps for the rest of the season. Nothing gets a crowd going like seeing Anya jam, so its sad for SW, the all-star team, and derby fans.

 

Late: Weekend in Review


18 Jan

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I hate being sick. Nothing seems to go right when I don’t feel well, today being a case in point. I just have not felt like writing an entry. Coming up with a topic, let alone writing 100 words, has just seemed like too much work.

So here’s a (late) hodgepodge from the weekend:

I’m excited for a Super Bowl without Brady or a Manning. I’m thinking Packers/Steelers.

I have the best massage therapist. I wish I could afford to go more often.

I still love roller derby, and am thrilled that they’re getting full write ups in the Examiner

Rat City Roller Girls, Season 7


16 Jan

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It was opening night for roller derby and kicked off with 4 mini-bout charity tournament. Sadly, I felt like crud and we left a little over halfway through the third bout. Sadly, we missed the Grave Danger vs Sockit Wenches bout which should have been amazing. (If someone knows how it turned out, please comment.)

Danger and Wenches kept most of their line-ups. Throttle Rockets and Derby Liberation Front are mostly fresh meat and new skaters. While DLF and Rockets have some exciting additions, it looks like it will be the Wenches and Danger fighting it out for top spot.

 

WFTDA Western Regionals: the Venue


12 Oct

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Rollin’ on the River was held at Memorial Auditorium in downtown Sacramento. It was built in 1926, and has a lovely ceiling typical of that time frame. It also has cushioned stadium seating. I should have researched this. We packed for bleachers- bringing bleacher seats and stadium cushions on the theory that we would need them to survive 3 days of roller derby. Our travel could have been much easier without those added items.

While the auditorium could have used larger seats (people were smaller in the 20s), it was overall the loveliest venue I’ve ever watched roller derby in.

 

WFTDA Western Regionals: Oly Rollers vs Rocky Mountain Rollergirls


11 Oct

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There was no doubt going in to the weekend that the final bout of the tournament would be Oly vs Rocky Mountain. No other team was quite on their level.

I’d like to say it was exciting, but exciting wasn’t the word (especially since I didn’t have a stake in who won, though the crowd was clearly rooting for Rocky Mountain). There were lead changes, but it wasn’t a bout that came down to the last couple of jams. It was a good, hard fought bout, between two evenly matched teams. Either could walk away with the prize at Championships.

 

WFTDA Western Regionals: Rose City Rollers vs B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls


10 Oct

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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.

 

WFTDA Western Regionals: Saturday


09 Oct

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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.

 

WFTDA Western Regionals: Denver Roller Dolls vs B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls


08 Oct

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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.

 

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