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