After 40 bouts in two weekends, it is clear. Womens Flat Track Roller Derby is THE most exciting sport. So much fun. So much derby. Awesome stuff.
Day three had two consolation bouts where Cincinnati beat Grand Raggidy (who have become a new favorite), Cincy: 102, Grand Raggidy: 58. Then Boston took a squeaker over Madison, Boston: 90, Madison: 88. Boston lead for much of this bout, then Madison clawed back into it and regained the lead after the 13th jam of Period 2. Boston re-took the lead in the next jam and was ahead by 17 points with the clock winding down. The last jam would go past the period clock. Madison got Lead Jammer as Boston fell apart, sending thier Jammer AND two blockers to the Penalty Box. Power Jam for Madison to end the bout. Madison Jammer Wildberry Punch had several Grand Slam runs, but Boston Jammer Claire D. Way got back on the track and was able to score a few points at the end. When the jam ended, Wildberry had 18 points, but Claire had 3, resulting in the 2 point win.
Philly dominated Carolina in the third place bout. Philly held Carolina to only 24 points in both periods. The final was Philly 112, Carolina 48.
The Eastern Regional Championship between Gotham and Windy City was a penalty laden affair (a theme for many of the bouts this weekend as well as the Westerns). Gotham would have Lead Jammer the majority of the time and would continue to build a lead on Windy City. The Windy City team had trouble getting a head of steam going in what is normally an offensive powerhouse. Two Windy City players would be ejected in the first period (coming back in the second). I lost track of all the players ejected late in the second period. One was Fisti Cuffs from Gotham, who was mistakenly ejected, then corrected, then later ejected with (I believer) too many penalties. Tough match and WCR was held to less than 100 points. Have to look up when that last happened.
Gotham Girls Roller Derby are the Eastern Regional Champion, GGRD: 133, WCR 92.
Bonnie Thunders was announced the MVP.
The Northwest Knockdown website has posted the schedule/matchups for the Nationals.
Friday (11/14): Texas (W1) v. Carolina (E4)
Friday (11/14): Duke City (W4) v. Gotham (E1)
Saturday (11/15): Rat City (W3) v. Windy City (E2)
Saturday (11/15): B.ay A.rea D.erby (W2) v. Philly (E3)
After seeing all these teams play these last two weekends, this is going to be derby at the highest level. The Rat City v. Windy Citybout jumps out at me as a fascinating matchup.
Major kudos to the Mad Rollin' Dolls for executing the Eastern Regionals. Both Houston and Madison had a huge task pulling off 20 bouts in 3 days and both did a superb job.
Although my hangover today is a bit more severe than last week (closing the Orpheum is probably a major contributor.I haven't had a chance to wade through the enormous material from DNN. Everyone from DNN worked doggedly for days and they announcedseveral times the estimated number of folks following real time. Mad kudos to all the DNN folks. Don't forget you can donate to themto help with costs.
I'll work on a wrap up post for later this week. Time to head out for one last beer here in lovely Madison.
Don Bombshelter
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2 comments:
Don, Thanks so much for these blogs! My question to you is whether or not the track cutting calls made at the Eastern tournament were comparable to those made at Westerns? I felt they were far to frequent and am curious about easterns.
Thanks!!
Yes. Yes, they were. I thought for a bit at the beginning that it would be a little lighter. Did not happen. Penalty box action was consistent, and there was one bout with 6 Jammerless Jams in the first period alone. There were more ejections at the Easterns, also. Including some Expulsions. There a boat load of discussion over at DNN at:
http://www.derbynewsnetwork.com/2008/10/10/western_regionals_opening_round_capsule_recaps
It was THE most frequent topic of discussion between derby geeks everywhere. I'll be commenting on it in the RNR Blog Eastern Summary later this week also.
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