2011-2012 Season Schedule
Get ready for a season eight with the Minnesota RollerGirls - Minnesota’s original roller derby league.The fall bouts will feature your favorite four home teams and the winter/spring months will feature the All-Star bouts.
Saturday, October 15
Saturday, November 19
Saturday, December 17
Saturday, January 21 (home team championship)
Saturday, February 4
Saturday, February 18 with Minnesota Swarm
Saturday, March 3
Saturday, March 31
Saturday, June 16
News
Season Preview: MNRG All-Stars hit the road
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The Minnesota RollerGirls are days away from the start of the travel team road season. This summer’s schedule puts the All-Stars into competition against three of the top twelve teams in the nation and sends them to Milwaukee’s famed Midwest Brewhaha tournament.
From four teams, one.
As the season came to a close for fans, a large proportion of the MNRG’s players prepared for the grueling two-day All-Star tryouts. Legends of the Roy track like Rebel Stella, Roxanne Rolls, Head Trauma, Desi Cration, and Lady Killher have worn the All-Star blues, and the current team is no less storied. The results have been announced; this summer’s All-Stars come from every team and every year of the MNRG’s existence save the very first - and will take us into this fall’s regional tournament.
Your summer 2011 All-Star team:
Captains:
Coochie Coup (Rockits)
Juke Boxx (Dagger Dolls)
Cassie Rolle (Garda Belts)
Citizen Pain (Garda Belts)
Commander Nix (Rockits)
Diamond Rough (Atomic Bombshells)
Harmony Killerbruise (Rockits)
Hurtrude Stein (Atomic Bombshells)
Jax Kvaas (Rockits)
KillaHertz (Rockits)
Killaman Jaro (Dagger Dolls)
Lexi Cuter (Atomic Bombshells)
Medusa (Garda Belts)
Moto Fluzzi (Garda Belts)
Naughty Kitty (Dagger Dolls)
Ova Achieva (Dagger Dolls)
Psycho Novia (Dagger Dolls)
Rita Rawkus (Garda Belts)
Scarmen Hellectra (Rockits)
Shiva Shankin (Garda Belts)
Skullateral Damage (Atomic Bombshells)
Tara Skatesov (Atomic Bombshells)
Tiki Torture (Dagger Dolls)
Venus Thightrap (Atomic Bombshells)
Vuedoo Prodigy (Rockits)
Coach:
D’anti-Gravity (3rd year as All-Star coach)
The state of derby in the state of derby:
The Minnesota RollerGirls All-Stars are currently ranked #2 in the North Central region. Roller derby is a little bit like the NCAA, where ranking occurs by other leagues voting for each other’s relative position. The MNRG is obviously very well regarded within the region, but that only makes the teams below them that much more interested in taking their place. Put another way, the MNRG’s second-place ranking gives them the opportunity to play against the region’s most challenging teams. After their success at Regionals and appearance at the 2010 WFTDA Championships, the MNRG has gotten invitations from leagues across the nation (and world) to compete. The MNRG staff hopes to bring even more exciting teams to the Roy next year to play against their best; for now, the travel team will take to the road.
The Midwest Brewhaha: two days, two teams, four bouts
The MNRG All-Stars start their road season in Milwaukee as part of the Midwest Brewhaha. The ‘Ha is the North Central region’s premier spring event for women’s flat track derby, and Milwaukee’s Brewcity Bruisers have scheduled numerous fantastic bouts. We’ll be playing four bouts - two of which are ‘sanctioned,’ which means the outcomes count in the region-wide rankings.
Want to be part of the fans cheering our finest to victory? Tickets are available here. We’d love to see you join our caravan of ne’er-do-wells. If you can’t make it, check the Derby News Network for links to the weekend-long broadcast of the twenty bouts (and we’ll provide links later this week). Here are the four games that you absolutely shouldn’t miss.
Saturday @3:15pm - MNRG B-Squad v The Chicago Outfit Shade Brigade: only fourteen women can be part of a team for an official, sanctioned bout. That leaves a lot of women on the MNRG All-Star team that want experience skating against the Midwest’s finest players. The MNRG is sending the remaining members of the All-Stars to play two incredible teams. The first of these is the Chicago Outfit’s Shade Brigade. The Outfit’s had a great season thus far, and their B-team (The Shade Brigade) defeated the Northern Lights of the North Star Roller Girls in Minneapolis in late April. Our own team’s B-squad plays them this Saturday.
Saturday @8pm - MNRG All-Stars v Brewcity Bruisers (sanctioned): The Minnesota RollerGirls All-Stars have been playing Milwaukee for years now. The Brewskis have not yet beaten Saint Paul’s finest, but they’ll get their first shot in two years as they take on Minnesota in the final bout of Saturday. Word is that the Brewcity crowd is as loud as our own slice of Minnesota Nice in the Roy. Expect it to be hard-fought; High D Voltage, Carrie A Hacksaw, and the Brewski crew have dropped many an unwary Minnesotan.
Sunday @10:45am - MNRG B-Squad v Windy City Second Wind: This will be the start of one of Minnesota’s most difficult days in its history. The B-Squad will take on the other Chicago league’s B-Team; this time, it will be first-ranked Windy City’s Second Wind. The level of this bout will probably be very similar to that of the Rockits/Dagger Dolls championship bout in January. It won’t just be good; it’ll be amazing.
Sunday @1:30pm - MNRG All-Stars v Windy City Rollers: Are you a fan of the MNRG? Then set aside time, sports fans, and set up around the computer with a PBR and some mini-donuts. Get your kid to dress up in a jumpsuit and throw t-shirts at you if you need to get in the Roy mood, because this is the big one. The MNRG All-Stars played Windy for the regional championship in 2010 and lost by less than fifty points. Everyone in the Midwest has been waiting for this rematch. If all goes well, it’ll be the MNRG All-Stars like you’ve never seen them.
After the ‘Ha:
There are three dates to keep track of in the months ahead. We’ve got three more big weekends coming; write these down, and we’ll keep you informed about them as they get closer.
- July 16th: Music City All-Stars. The MNRG All-Stars head south of the Mason-Dixon line to face Nashville. Nashville’s a great team that also raised eyebrows in the 2010 season by blasting out of the South Central region into the WFTDA Championships. Their fans (the infamous “Belligerent Nashville Fans”) are much like our own traveling troupe of Minnesota Nice; brash, clever, and damn fast with a marker and a piece of posterboard.
- August 6th: Philly’s Liberty Belles. Minnesota goes east to deal with one of the true legends of modern derby in August. Minnesota has never played Philadelphia’s Liberty Belles in sanctioned play before; this’ll be one to remember as the MNRG learns how good they’ve actually become by taking on a team that has made the WFTDA championship tournament for the past four years.
- October 7th-9th: North Central Regionals 2011 in Indianapolis. This is the one that counts. We’ll have more information about these three incredible days later in the months to come.
Season eight begins in just a few days. Get ready.
More News
The 2012 Wheelies
May 08, 2012
A season of surprises, kickass rookies, skaters going above and beyond…and the results are in!
Minnesota shotguns Brewskis, 173-104
April 11, 2012
The All-Stars go 10-0 on the Roy track, defeating Milwaukee’s best and finishing the MNRG’s 8th season on top.
New school defeats old in league-wide battle, 116-80
April 10, 2012
The Minnesota RollerGirls took to the track in a familiar bout on March 31st as the league’s veterans (playing as the “Mayo Clinicians”) attempted to go 2-0 against those newest to roller derby (the “State Fair Foodies”). After falling behind in the first half, the Foodies outscored the veterans 85 to 12 in the second to win the match 116-80.
The Northern Fights final scores
March 31, 2012
The younger skaters take one back on the Vets…and Minnesota makes it ten in a row on the Roy track.
The Northern Fights: the preview
March 29, 2012
The end of the season, the final mixer, and a match against the brilliant Brewcity Bruisers.
