Fans Choose Rather Equally Matched Teams!
by Mon, March 15, 2010
In a wicked sweet case of “Hellz yeah this idea worked out awesomely!”, the Fan Choice scrimmage went off without a hitch last Saturday. Twenty minutes before the bout started, 32 ladies lined up along the track while 32 of their luckiest fans got to hand off their white or black golf tee to a player to pick the teams.
White Team
Killson…............. #187
Hoff…................. #65
Crimson Shivers.. #88
Soundbites…...... #010
SlamWow…........ #1995
Shera Venga….... #505
Barleleigh Legal.. #18
None Ya Biz….... #813
Sinead O’Clobber #87
Anita Martini….... #9
Anya Face…...... #234
Marmighty…...... #41
Incapasitate….... #777
Pepper Pot…..... #917
Commie Kazi….. #27
Bell…................ #81
Managers: Blammo, Fubar
Black Team
Margot Skidder…........... #467
Harlot Johanssen…........ #43
D-Rail…........................ #303
Sail Her Poon…............. #090
Back Alley Sally…......... #420
Sin D Dropher…............. #1983
Gamma Rei…................ #300
Candy Crossbones…...... #300
Chronic…...................... #60
Kari Mia Beere…........... #06
Dyna Hurtcha…............. #21
Lady Scorcher…............ #15
Downright Dirty Dawson. #z628
Robber Blind….............. #34A
Mirambo….................... #69
Hurlin Wall…................. #89
Managers: Brim Stone, titmouse
With almost no time to strategize, these ladies hit the track as a team to finish their warm up, forming crazy tight packs almost instantly – it was like each team came from the same womb. This scrimmage was the first scrimmage for several of the ladies, recently drafted to ToRD’s four teams. It was impressive to see them apply the skills they learned in months of drills to the track (READ: Our Fresh Meat program is awesome! Email freshmeat@torontorollerderby.com to join the next round)!
Right from the start you could tell both teams would be a close match. After 10 minutes, the score was 14-09 for the Black team. Black continued to maintain the lead through the first half, entering halftime ahead 60-31. I’m going to shout out mad kudos to Sail Her Poon, who more than double Grand-Slammed during one of her jams! After a short break, during which the ladies hydrated, patted each other on the back, and bounced around full of energy, they were back for the second half.
White brought it on like Donky Kong, quickly gaining points and climbing their team back up towards Black. With 12 minutes to go in the half, White finally pulled ahead of Black! The rest of the game was intense, very neck-and-neck. You could tell everyone was giving it their all, even as they got tired. There was barely a moment in the last 15 minutes of the bout that there WASN’T at least one player from each team sitting in the penalty box.
With less than a minute to go, the final jam started. White was leading with 96, but Black was right on their tail with 92. Unfortunatly, it wasn’t to be. The Black jammer got stuck in the pack while White fought her way through, and managed to score her team an additional 5 points.
Final score: White 101, Black 92.
Great skate ladies :D
apologies if I got anyone’s name/number wrong, the sheets I took them from were a little scribbly
