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, May 5 (Away)
Saturday-Sunday, June 2-3 (Away)
Saturday, June 16
Friday-Sunday, July 27-29 (Away)
Friday, August 24 (Away)
Saturday, August 25 (Away)
Sunday, August 26 (Away)
News
Bout Preview: You Betcha Brawl preview
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
What’s that? The seventh season’s almost done? It’s just gone by so quickly. We started this home season in October and watched our Minnesota RollerGirls compete for the Golden Skate. From that competition came the newest iteration of the MNRG’s All-Stars; they’ve gone and defeated Tucson and Madison by over 100 points each over the past two months.
It’s March and it’s time to fly in another amazing team. This time, the DC Rollergirls will pit their skills and hip-checks against our own MNRG All-Stars on the Roy Wilkins Auditorium track this Saturday (doors open at 6:30pm). What’s more, our other players don’t like sitting on their hands when other people are skating, so we are putting on another fast-paced mixer of MNRG players from the past and present for you to enjoy.
DC Rollergirls All-Stars v MNRG All-Stars
The District of Columbia has roller derby. If you’ve been hearing about roller derby for any length of time, that fact shouldn’t be surprising. Every town and city is catching the derby bug. However, DC is one of those special leagues in the top ten of their region. This team knows how to play, and they’ve been part of the tournament scene for two years. Right now, member leagues of their region (the powerful East) rank them #9 - just behind Providence, a team we beat last year by only four points.
DC will be playing the 2011 version of the Minnesota RollerGirls, ranked #2 in the North Central region and unofficially ranked somewhere between #9 (Flat Track Stats) and #14 (DNN) nationally. Right now, playing Minnesota is a bit like falling into a really polite pit of wolverines. The MNRG is clearly want to shred DC, but they’ll do it with a please and thank-you. That’s Minnesota Nice.
What you should know:
DC jammers to mistrust: You’ll want to watch for a couple of women wearing the DC jammer star. Both Sookie Slaughterhouse and Small Frye have the speed to be able to take advantage of a power jam. Frye and Sookie dropped quad slams in last year’s tournament play which means that not only are they excellent jammers, but that their defense has the capacity to slow a pack to a halt. The difference between a 10-point jam and a 20-point jam is usually the jammer’s blocking staff finding ways to stop the other team from moving forward. Frye and Sookie’s abilities are potentially concerning. Minnesota plays a version of roller derby where we score in fours and fives, then quickly start the next jam. A big score from a potential DC power jam will cancel out five jams of our own progress, so we’ll need to watch out for power jam opportunities from the other side. On the other hand, MNRG jammers have been spending less and less time in the box over the past year. It’s hard to drop a quad slam on a team who’s opposing jammer is still on the track. This might not be a big worry.
Minnesota rotation #1: Out: Angelfire - In: Juke Boxx. We lose Angel’s cool-headed mid-pack defense and utility jamming and gain Juke’s monstering of stragglers, inattentive blockers, and jammers in the back…as well as her own clutch jamming.
DC’s penalty problem: It’s hard to be able to get good scouting on a league outside of our own region. Roller derby is just starting to figure out how to spread news about individual leagues, and so you have to pick through scoresheets and recaps written by our peers across the nation. One thing that’s clear is that DC has a few problems with getting penalties at bad times. That’s not a killer, but it’s going to be a challenge for DC to overcome. Minnesota has become something of a specialist at milking points off of teams with many players in the penalty box. Our players call it ‘minivanning’ and from all accounts, it’s not a comfortable position to be in.
Minnesota rotation #2: Out: Coochie Coup - In: Naughty Kitty. All-star co-captain Coochie will not be playing on Saturday. Dagger Doll pivot standout Naughty Kitty will be taking her place. This isn’t Kitty’s first time playing on an All-Star team, but it will be the first time that she wears the aqua and army for the MNRG. Please give her a big welcome as she sits on jammers all night long.
DC Rollergirls All-Stars:
2AA Battery Operated
3 Soledad
5 Sookie Slaughterhouse
8 Frankendoll
30 Lois Slain
50 Gun’Her Down
65M Velocityraptor
89 Dr. Skabs
202 Condoleezza Slice
311 Marion Barrycuda
978 Yankee Scandal
1775 Hooah!Girl
1884 Free Radical
1959 Guantanamo Babe
5354 Chinese Cheker
D0A Obitchuary
H20 Hoova Dayum
X5 smallfrye
MNRG All-Stars:
F16 Citizen Pain
1837 Diamond Rough
75 Harmony Killerbruise
23 Jax Kvaas
A18 JukeBoxx
9 Killaman Jaro
187 Lexi Cuter
13 Medusa
00 Naughty Kitty
109 Psycho Novia
28 Scarmen Hellectra
21 Tara Skatesov
H8U Tiki Torture
69 Vuedoo Prodigy
Come with your signs and your blue jammer hankies, derby fans. This one should be fun.
Hunters v Hipsters - Mixer bout #2:
All right. This bout might be a classic mixer. The Hunters against the Hipsters. It’s the North Country meets Northeast Minneapolis. Red Green meets Scott Seekins. Dropping a buck with a bow meets…dropping five hundred bucks for an Apple logo. Pick a side and cheer your head off. Check the rosters below for your favorite player if you’re having trouble making a decision how to dress or who to scream for:
Hunters:
Hurtrude Stein
Wolfe Bite
Kit Shinkicker
Cassie Rolle
Trixie Whipsum
Rumblebee
Betty LaRude
BethAnne Destruction
Glam Slam
BOOMbay Safire
Lydia Punch
Gogo Galore
Konceal N. Kari
Norwegian Mafia
Bonnie Rotten
Lola Blackenblue
Jocelyn D’ Jewels
Dropkick Donna
Meshugenough (Welcome back, Shugie!)
Hipsters:
Moto Fluzzi
Freeze Baby
Cookies N Scream
Salvador Brawlie
Lizzy the Axe
Scootaloo
Sintripetal Force
Bully Jean
Pain Gretzky
Smoka Hontas
Rita Ruckus
Olga Ogilthorpe
Ann E. Briated
Shiver Me Kimbers
Flora Flipabitch
IcePack
Skullateral Damage
Norah Torious
Madame de Stompadour
Get there early for the fantastic shirt giveaway. Get your polka going with the Bratwurst Brothers at halftime. And head to Station 4 for afterparty PBR specials and the return of the mechanical bull!
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.
