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
Bout Preview: Preview of Badges for Bruises
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Two weeks ago, the Rockits relaunched and took the Golden Skate for the fourth time in MNRG history.
Last week, the best of the Minnesota RollerGirls resoundingly defeated the Dairyland Dolls of Madison, WI and smashed the attendance record for the modern roller derby movement.
Ready for round three, MNRG fans?
The MNRG return to the Legendary Roy Wilkins Auditorium this Saturday for an doubleheader of furious action. With the Golden Skate safely in a secret Rockit lair (reputed to be deep within the recesses of Saint Paul’s Lowertown District), the four hometeams have reformed into the locus of awesome known as the Minnesota RollerGirls.
Twenty of those women have been chosen to represent Minnesota against travel teams from across the nation. They will roam the country this year seeking hard-fought experience to bring to the WFTDA tournaments this fall. The next three bouts at the Roy will highlight the army-and-aqua clad All-Stars as they continue the season that they started on the track at the Xcel Energy Center this past weekend.
Now…a quick primer. Up to twenty women may be chosen by a Women’s Flat Track Derby Association league to represent them in interleague play. Of those, sixteen women on a team will actually lace up that night for the bout…fourteen players and two alternates. Those women go forth and kick as much ass as they can for their league.
On Saturday, the MNRG All-Stars will play the Tucson Saddletramps of Tucson, AZ. Tucson is ranked 9th in the Western Region; we’re ranked #2 here in the Midwestern ‘North Central’ region (and also ranked on the national DNN Power Rankings at #14). Don’t let that disparity fool you; Tucson hails from what is arguably the strongest region in modern roller derby. This will not be an easy match.
We asked Harmony Killerbruise her recollections of the Tramps. As a member of the Oly Rollers (the present #2 league in the nation), Harmony and the Cosa Nostra Donnas took on the Saddletramps at Western Regionals in 2010. They defeated the Tucson team 267-19. Here’s what she told us:
“I…know that Sami Automatic was pretty much the core of their team and is probably their biggest jammer threat and if given an opportunity she can put up some points. I know that she has been around for a while. Helen Wheels is also a pretty good blocker, also has been around a long time. Bianca Trohl was a pretty good jammer.
Its hard to really remember a lot,...but I do remember them playing a pretty classic game, good at forming walls and knowing where they need to be.”
The MNRG is relatively certain that they will not have quite the fortune that Oly had at Western Regionals. However, this will be an excellent test for the MNRG 2011 lineup; Minnesota will be taking on a team that they’ve never seen live, so the MNRG All-Stars get a shot to try their strategies and tactics blind against an very competent team.
Your MNRG All-Stars:
Tiki Torture
Killaman Jaro
MEDUSA
Citizen Pain
Juke Boxx
Tara Skatesov
Jax Kvaas
Scarmen Hellectra
Vuedoo Prodigy
Harmony Killerbruise
Psycho Novia
L’exi Cuter
Coochie Coup
Diamond Rough
Angelfire (alternate)
Naughty Kitty (alternate)
The Tucson Saddletramps:
Pinky McLovin
Linsdsey LoBlow
Kosma Nauti
Bianka Trohl
Myna N. Possession
Sami Automatic
Ferocious Oxide
Pixie Axe
Helen Wheels
Shady Sadie
Sunni Side Up
Iva Coaldheart
Bea N Hayve
Siren Nora
Haulin Hotcakes (alternate)
Mystery Meat (alternate)
But ladies and gentlemen, the MNRG is not merely the All-Stars. Many of the others skate all year as well and will be putting on three mashup matches to complement the All-Star games through the remainder of the season. This month, the players of the MNRG will pay tribute to the great Minnesotan legend of timber, flannel shirts, and obscenely large bovines. That’s right folks…the warmup match this month will be the Paula Bunyans against the Babes!
We’ve been told a LOT of plaid is involved.
These mashups are hard to predict but easy to cheer for. You’ve seen these women play hard against one another wearing hometown green, pink, red, and orange. Now you’ll see a Doll and a Rockit link up and drop a Bombshell jammer, or a pack full of Gardas and Dagger Dolls pinball a Rockit jammer into a ref. These are fun matches; get into the spirit. Wear plaid, wear horns, pick a team and make some signs.
Here are the lineups:
The Paula Bunyans
Anita Spankston
Ann E. Briated
BOOMbay Safire
CleoSPLATtra
Cookies ‘n Scream
Flora Flipabitch
Freeze Baby
Hurtrude Stein
IcePack
Kit Shinkicker
Lydia Punch
Madame de Stompadour
Olga Ogilthorpe
Rumblebee
Scootaloo
Skullateral Damage
Smoka Hontas
Wolfe Bite
The Babes
Angelfire
Barbie Brawl
Beth Anne Destruction
Betty LaRude
Bonnie Rotten (Did we mention there might be a retired skater playing?)
Bully Jean
Glam Slam
Gogo Galore
Konceal n Kari
Lizzy the Axe
Lola Blackenblue
Moto Fluzzi
Norah Torious
Norwegian Mafia
Ova Achieva
Pain Gretzky
Patently Offensive
Rita Rawkus
Salvador Brawlie
Shiva Shankin’
Sintripetal Force
Wonderbroad
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.
