♥ So on Saturday night I saw my first ever live roller derby bout. It was the Wellington league's Richter City Shakedown: Stop Drop and Roll.Being the huge nerds we are, we got there right when the doors opened so we managed to get seats in the front row so the view was brilliant!
Now Richter City Roller Derby was established in 2007, and has been growing in popularity since then. In 2009 they sold a little over 4,000 tickets to the three bouts, which was impressive enough, but this year there was close to that in the crowd at the first bout alone. IMPRESSED MUCH!
Leopard print clad Smash Malice were playing to defend there title from last year against the "disgraced beauty queens", the hot pink wearing, Brutal Pageant. Because we had yet to watch a live game my friends and I had to quickly decide on a team to support, so, because they were the underdogs, we picked Brutal Pagent and away we went.
The game was amazing to watch, turning me and all of my friends (who usually don't enjoy sport) into screaming fangirls, and by the end of the night we had lost our voices.
The jammers were all amazing, with my favourite players of the night being Perky Nah Nah and Suffer Jet, but all the ladies playing were impressive and inspirational. It was a very close game, with quite a few penalties meaning that there were a few (power jams?) where there was only one jammer on the track picking up ALOT of points. The final score was an impressive 103 to 125 to Brutal Pageant, and the crowd loved it.
So the next bout is September 4th, so it looks like another trip down to Wellington then. ♥
Was it your first? Awesome, I went to a couple last year, it was the most packed I've ever seen it this time around though! It was a sweet game too!!! glad u enjoyed your first game!
ReplyDeleteYup it was my first, I went with a big group of first timers and we all had a lot of fun!
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