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