Jet City Roller Derby

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  • May 17th Bout Debrief

    Hello Derby Fans,

     

    Thank you again for coming out for such an incredible day of derby! At the risk of feeling like a broken record, I once again want to say how grateful we all are for your continued support, these games are nothing without our fans! From filling our seats and cheering on our home and visiting teams to participating in all our wacky antics, we are so happy to be bringing the roller derby community to a location– or a screen– near you!

     

    Let’s jump into a recap about what happened during these two awesome games.

     

    Jet City’s first game of the day was against the Kidney Thieves, a pickup team from Willamette, OR. After vying for the lead, Jet’s team took it and held it, to ultimately take the win at 248 vs. 101. This game was full of heavy hits and running packs, with lots of jammer on jammer action! Thank you again to the Kidney Thieves for driving all the way up north to us, we really appreciated playing your team!

     

    Most Valuable Jammer was awarded to Jet City’s #222, Silent but Deadly and to the Kidney Thieves’ #815, Tiny Danger. Most Valuable Blocker went to Jet’s #26, Nayslayer, and to Kidney Thieves’ #808, Yogi Nami Sari. Finally, Bombshell, Jet’s #106, was awarded Most Valuable Overall.

     

    The second game set Jet up against West Sound, for a true neck in neck bout. Power starts and pivot line starts were the theme of this game, that pitted two very evenly matched teams against each other.

     

    Ultimately West Sound took the win at 170, with Jet only two points behind at 168. For those of you who saw the final jam of the game, I can’t say much more other than that’s what derby is about!! What an exciting way to end such a tense bout, it was so much fun to hear fans of both teams cheering and shouting in the final moments of the game.

     

    Awards for this game were well deserved, with Most Valuable Jammer going to West Sounds’ #4, Lil Miss Speedy, and Jet’s #03, Mary Contrary. Most Valuable Blocker went to West Sounds’ #624 Apache Fist, and Jet’s #403 Miss Violet Neauregarde.

     

    Again, what a wonderful weekend! If you missed any of the action, you can find our stream on Twitch through the weekend, and after that it’ll be on our Youtube channel.

     

    ‘But No.01,’ I can hear you asking yourself, ‘what if I want more derby in my life?’ Well the good news is that we’re playing again in two and a half weeks!! On June 7th, once again join us up in Edmonds for our final game of the season! I’ll have more on that later, so stay tuned!

     

    Hugs and Bruises,

    Public Emily No. 01

  • Upcoming Bout: Saturday May 17th!

    Hello Derby Fans!

     

    I’m here on your screens today with some fantastic news: we have a bout coming up! Next Saturday, May 17th, we will once again be playing at Edmonds Community College for a home team double header.

     

    Advance sale tickets are available here, and we will also be selling them at the door.

     

    I want to take a moment to highlight our two visiting teams for this game, and thank them for traveling up north to play us!

     

    Our first game, going live at 5pm, will be against the Willamette Kidney Thieves. Coming to us all the way from Portland, OR, they are an unaffiliated team that has played all over the pacific northwest. They have been active since 2013, but like many teams took a break during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have since returned with a vengeance, and we are looking forward to hosting this team for their latest game!

     

    While our first bout begins at 5pm, doors open at 4pm (which is when our beer garden opens, too! And if you don’t like beer, never fear! We also have hearty ciders and wines to appeal to all sorts of tastes).

     

    Our live stream, once again brought to you via Twitch, should kick off around 3:30pm! If you’re interested in joining us from afar, you can tune in here.

     

    Our second game, happening at 7pm, will be against West Sound Roller Derby. They are Kitsap County’s only adult roller derby league and hail from Bremerton, WA. Founded in 2012, they hold core values around creating safe spaces for skaters on and off the track. Heavily involved in their local community, their season extends well into the fall, so if you’re missing your local Jet City games (and let’s be real, who wouldn’t be!), it could be worth a drive down south to see this team play in both September and October.

     

    Once again, big thank you to both of these teams for coming up north to play with us! We are so excited to host you, and to play some fun derby.

     

    To all my readers, I hope to see all your faces in the audience cheering for these awesome players next weekend! Get those tickets and polish off your posters, and see you on the track soon!

     

    Hugs and Bruises,

    Public Emily No. 01

  • Post Game Report!

    Hello Derby Fans!

     

    Wow, what an incredible day of roller derby! Thank you again to our visiting teams for coming out with such spirit, our officials and behind the scenes supporters for putting in the long hours to help us play, and especially to you, our dear derby fans! It is so special to be able to play such an incredible sport, and each of you is essential to our success and our ability to get back out on the track each time.

     

    Our first match pitted Jet City against Grave Danger! Grave Danger is one of the hometeams of Rat City Roller Derby, the Seattle flat-track league. Originally formed in 2004, Rat City has undergone many changes, but remains a large league, bringing junior and adult roller derby to central King County.

    Grave Danger took the win 207 to 151, but it was an awesome game, full of jukey jammers, quick hits, and lots of pack running! Members from both teams reported having ‘so much fun’ on the track!

     

    I want to take a moment to recognize the MVPs of the game, as these skaters played hard, played fast, and brought their best game to every minute they were on the track.

     

    On the Jet City side of things, Most Valuable Blocker (MVB) went to #106, Bombshell! Most Valuable Jammer (MVJ) went to #222, Silent But Deadly.

     

    For Grave Danger, MVB went to #1910, Mexican Revolution! And #42, AC SlayedHer took home MVJ.

     

    This was a tough game, with all those positions fought for and very well earned.

     

    Our second match was against  Outlaw Skate Crew, in their very first pickup team bout! With skaters coming from all across Washington, Idaho, and Oregon, we are so grateful to have hosted your first pick up bout! This game was full of heavy hits, and an exciting back and forth as both teams fought and lost and fought for the lead again.

     

    Ultimately, Jet took the win at 149 to 145- but talk about a close game!! Those 4 points were fought for at the last minute, and it was a pleasure to play against a team that kept us on our toe stops.

     

    Once again, I’d like to shout out to our MVPs! Jet City’s MVB was #126, Charlie Horsepower, with MVJ going to #700, Toe Jammer.

     

    Outlaw’s MVB went to  #711, Kristy Kreme, with MVJ taken by #301, Noodly Soup.

     

    If you missed the action, never fear! You can still catch our stream on twitch for the next two weeks, and after that it’ll migrate over to our Youtube channel.

     

    Thanks again to everyone who turned out, and we’re already looking forward to seeing you next time! We have games coming up in May and June, and stay tuned for all sorts of updates.

     

    Hugs and Bruises,

    Public Emily No. 01

  • Upcoming Bout: Saturday April 26th!

    Hello Derby Fans!

     

    Jet City has a game coming up this weekend! Our teams are so excited to be on the track, and to bout it out with our visiting teams. This marks the third game of our season, and  tickets can be found here!

     

    For those of you who visited us for our tournament, this is a reminder that our regular season games are at Edmonds Community College. While we had a fantastic time being hosted up in Everett, please don’t try and visit the gym there!

     

    This game also features a partnership with a very special nonprofit: Bella’s Voice! With a thrift store in Lynnwood, these fantastic folks are dedicated to fighting animal cruelty. They run a pet food bank, emergency grants for vetcare bills, and are working on launching a resource center.

    Bring a donation of pet food or cat litter and get a ticket for the raffle! They are in special need of cat food and cat litter, so please help us support our nonprofit partner.

     

    Hoping to see you all this weekend!

     

    Hugs and Bruises,

    Public Emily No. 01

  • Rain Season Rumble: Post Tournament Report

    Hello Derby Fans!

     

    Wow, what an incredible weekend!! Big thanks to all of our visiting teams, our officials, our volunteers, and everyone else who pitched in this weekend. I especially want to thank you– our loyal derby fans!!– without whom this weekend wouldn’t have been possible! It was beyond wonderful to see so many happy faces, and to have so many people coming together to cheer on our favorite sport!

     

    The final scores from this weekend are broken down as follows, based on the day of play.

     

    Friday

    Jet City Roller Derby 176 vs. Bruising Altitude 142

    Denver Junior Roller Derby 333 vs. Mob City Misfits 66

    Cherry City Blossoms 226 vs. Rockin’ City Rebels 155

    Arizona Roller Derby 137 vs. Bruising Altitude 107

     

    Saturday

    Rockin’ City Rebels 278 vs. Mob City Misfits 152

    Calgary Roller Derby 254 vs. Arizona Roller Derby 78

    Cherry City Blossoms 203 vs Denver Junior Roller Derby 115

    Calgary Roller Derby 285 vs Bruising Altitude 134

    Arizona Roller Derby 149 vs Jet City Roller Derby 133

     

    Sunday

    Calgary Roller Derby 256 vs. Jet City Roller Derby 83

    Cherry City Blossoms 316 vs Mob City Misfits 112

    Denver Junior Roller Derby 221 vs Rockin’ City Rebels 87

     

    Big cheers to all our players who showed up over and over to play some incredible games. Teams from both the JRDA and WFTDA had some unbelievable plays, stellar moves, and should all be incredibly proud of the effort that went into playing three whole days of roller derby.

     

    If you like statistics, these next few sentences are for you. Miss Violet Neauregarde, our head of streaming, collected some stats from the streams this weekend. We had over 2,800 new people tune in to watch over 24 hours of streamed derby! In all, some part of our tournament was seen by over 7,800 people, with the most new people tuning in to watch bouts on Sunday the 23rd. Violet was also joined by Tush, and together these two received many shoutouts from fans and league members alike for their dedication to bringing such a tight streaming experience to the tournament. Not only did we have a full slide deck highlighting our awesome NSOs and dedicated game announcers, we had three different cameras and could swap the stream between a variety of angles.

     

    Speaking as someone who helped run the stream for 8 of those streamed hours, I can report that it was awesome to be able to bring derby to so many people across the world, and I personally appreciated the cheers and positivity that commenters brought to the chat. It was very fun to hear where people were tuning in from, and exciting to see their players succeed!

     

    If you haven’t yet followed our Twitch channel, I’d highly recommend it! It’s totally free, and you’ll get a notification next time we go live, so you won’t miss a beat of the action!

     

    A few members of the league chimed in with their personal highlights for the weekend, too. Punk Martha Stewart loved, “Watching the Jet v AZ game, cheering every time one of our jammers got lead!” Ally and Mary Contrary wanted to shout out to one of the Mob City parent’s, who provided three whole days of donated locker room baskets. In all, it was a highly successful weekend, and we’re already looking forward to hosting a tournament again next year!

     

    April’s blog posts will bring some hype about our upcoming bout on April 26th, as well as talking shop about some basic derby principles. See you soon!

     

    Hugs and Bruises,

    Public Emily No. 01

  • Rainy Season Rumble Lead-Up: It’s This Weekend!!

    Rainy Season Rumble Lead-Up: It’s This Weekend!!

    Hello Derby Fans!

     

    Jet City is excited to present our very first tournament: the Rainy Season Rumble! Happening March 21st-23rd, this round robin style event is co-hosted with Mob City Junior Roller Derby.

     

    You can get tickets here! With 12 games happening across 3 days of non stop derby action, it’s an event that can’t be missed!

     

    It’s almost the moment you’ve been waiting for: in just a few short days you’ll be able to watch hours of derby to your heart’s content. We are so excited to host some amazing teams, and to watch some fantastic derby!!

     

    But putting on a tournament of this size takes a lot of human power, and today we’re going behind the scenes with Punk Martha Stewart. Martha has been involved with the team for several years and has held many support roles over her time with Jet City.

     

    Roller derby player Punk Martha Stewart sits on a bench with a big smile, posing with arms by her face. She has her skates and knee pads on.

     

    For this tournament, Martha is, “On the league, but not skating in the tournament. I’m excited to work a bout shift supporting the tournament and hopefully get to watch when my team plays.” Throughout the weekend you’ll be able to catch many of Jet’s players working shifts at the bout- from ticketing to the beer garden to selling merchandise and concessions- to more background tasks, such as providing refreshments for the officials or assisting visiting teams with the check in process. Whether you see us or not, it takes a lot of player power to put on a single day game, let alone a multi-day event, but playing or not we are all excited to represent Jet City in some capacity!

     

    When the weekend is finally here, she is, “hoping to see a lot of people from the wider derby community in Seattle attending,” and while she doesn’t have any direct challenges for the weekend, “so many of my teammates (shoutout Mary, Bombshell, AK, Jack, and more!) are doing so much work to make this day a success.”

     

    Martha especially wants derby fans to know, “How much work we put in! We set up and tear down the floor, organize all our concessions and sponsorship, make all our own MVP awards. It’s a lot but it’s all worth it.” Every time Jet City has a game, we need to make the floor skateable, and that means laying down hundreds of tiles– and then taking them up afterwards. Everyone on the team puts in hours of work beforehand to prepare for our regular season games, and this tournament is no different– and that’s not even counting the hours we spend practicing each week!

     

    Finally, Martha predicts that sometime over the weekend, “someone will show up at Edmonds Community College instead of Everett Community College.” This is a good reminder to everyone– while we normally skate at Edmonds, because this tournament is multiple days we’re setting up at Everett Community College!

     

    See you this weekend!

     

    Hugs and Bruises,

    Public Emily No. 1

  • Rainy Season Rumble Lead-Up: Behind the Scenes

    Hello Derby Fans!

     

    Jet City is excited to present our very first tournament: the Rainy Season Rumble! Happening March 21st-23rd, this round robin style event is co-hosted with Mob City Junior Roller Derby.

    You can get tickets here! With 12 games happening across 3 days of non stop derby action, it’s an event that can’t be missed!

     

    This week we’re going behind the scenes with one of our players who isn’t playing in the tournament, and is instead helping out on the back end.

     

    I chatted with Miss Violet Neauregarde, fabulous derby player and our head of streaming! If you’ve ever tuned in to watch a Jet City game on Twitch, you’ve seen Violet’s work. This weekend will be no different, as she delivers hours of derby content straight to the comfort of your own home!

     

    Being the head of streaming comes with some perks– Violet typically has a great view of the track! As such, they’re “excited to see some amazing roller derby from the adult teams and the Juniors! The smallest of the Juniors who play jammer show zero fear and have a lower center of gravity than pretty much anyone else!”

     

    Her job isn’t just about watching the derby though, it’s about making sure you can all watch along, too. Violet’s biggest challenge for the weekend is “making sure we have enough people to work. We need both stream operators and camera operators so we can rotate staff in and out through the weekend”. Given the tournament will have over 12 hours of roller derby (!!! yeah you read that right!!!) balancing equitable shifts and ensuring everyone has breaks is quite the task.

     

    Violet wants to make sure Jet City fans know “Streaming is free and will happen on our Twitch channel! And the stream goes live a half-hour before the first game of the day!”

     

    Finally, Violet has a prediction for the weekend: “One team secretly fields an octopus as the jammer- their eight limbs make them unbeatable in the pack until the multiple forearm penalties stack up leading to an expulsion from the game in a single jam.”

     

    This schedule is subject to change, but for those of you looking to tune in online you can probably find our Twitch stream going live at the following times:

    Friday at 1:30pm

    Saturday at 7:30am

    Sunday at 8:30am

     

    And of course, if you’d like to come in person, tickets are available here!

    Come cheer on our home teams, and all our delightful visitors!

     

    Hugs and Bruises,

    Public Emily No. 1

  • Season 16 Bout 3: CANCELLED

    Season 16 Bout 3: CANCELLED

    Attention friends!
    Due to the forecast and our desire to keep everyone safe, our Feb 1st bout has been cancelled.
    If you purchased your tickets on Brown Paper Tickets a refund will be issued.
    Thank you for your understanding and support!
  • Stream Jet City from the Comfort of Your Home

    Stream Jet City from the Comfort of Your Home

    Not able to make tomorrow’s bout in person?

     We’ve got you covered!

    For our February bout, we will be streaming from Twitch, our new video platform!
    So grab your popcorn and get in your comfy sweats and

    CATCH ALL THE ACTION HERE

     

  • Support Skate Like a Girl at Our Next Bout!

    Support Skate Like a Girl at Our Next Bout!

    February is not just a month for love and chocolate and flowers. It is also a time to show what big hearts we have through caring, supporting, and giving. As you may know, each month that we hold our Bouts, we select an organization to donate to. We then conduct a 50/50 raffle where we sell tickets to our fans. A winner is drawn during the halftime of our second bout. That winner receives 50% of the pot, and the other 50% is donated to the selected organization!

    For the month of February, we are giving our donation to a like-minded, wheel related, non-profit organization, Skate Like a Girl, whe could, in particular, use all of our support.

     

    Founded in 2000 in Olympia, WA, Skate Like a Girl boasts 3 chapters in Seattle, Portland, and the SF Bay Area, serving more than 10,000 skaters every year. This non-profit organization is on a mission to create an inclusive community by promoting confidence, leadership, and social justice through skateboarding. Through their programs and events, they empower young people and the young at heart, especially focusing on historically underrepresented and underserved identities such as women, trans, low-income, and/or BIPOC skaters. The Seattle Chapter does this work through flagship programs and events including bi-weekly Women and/or Trans Sessions, skateboarding day camps for youth, and the annual Wheels of Fortune weekend event, coming up May 17-19th.

    Unfortunately their new indoor skate park and storage space in the Central District was struck by a King County Metro bus on Wednesday, January 24th, in the middle of their weekly free student skate session. Miraculously, none of the thirty children and young adults inside were injured. However, their building was severely damaged and they are left without a space, working tirelessly the last few weeks to try and relocate and reschedule the over 8 programs that were planned. If unable to find a new indoor facility, they estimate it will amount to over 3,500 skaters losing access to a safe and inclusive place to skate for the rest of the winter.

     

    Join us at our Februrary bout on the 10th and help Skate Like a Girl get back on board by participating in the 50/50 raffle!