Pic credit: Mo Quadzilla Sanders
The All Stars have kicked off their Pacific Northwest Tour with a thrilling victory over tough contenders Rat City Rain of Terror: 312 to 177.
This is an exciting primer as they head into The Big O tournament over the weekend. Make sure you head to DNN to stream the All Stars’ bouts live! Details here.
Right now the VRDL All Stars are limbering up in Oregon to take The Big O tournament by storm and you can stream their sure-to-be super exciting bouts live!
Portland
Friday May 17 – Rose City – Wheels Of Justice 8pm |
= Melbourne time: Saturday, 18 May 2013 at 1:00PM Stream here
Eugene
Saturday May 18 – The Big O Tournament
Stream all on Derby News Network at the following times:
Game #1 – Terminal City 12.30pm
= Melbourne time: Sunday 19 May, 5:30am
Game #2 – Sacred 8.45pm
= Melbourne time: Sunday, 19 May 2013 at 1:45PM
Sunday May 19 – The Big O Tournament
Game #3 – Arizona 11.30am
= Melbourne time: Monday, 20 May 2013 at 4:30AM
Game #4 – Wasatch 5.45pm
= Melbourne time: Monday, 20 May 2013 at 10:45AM
She is Swish hear her roar!
Our All Stars are already on a roll in the USA, and The Big O tournament has made front page news. Swish Cariboom makes a starring appearance in this week’s Eugene Weekly cover story:
“One of the teams the ECRG is competing against is the Melbourne-based Victoria Roller Derby League (VRDL) travel team. But there is no footage to be found of the Australian team, an inadvertent but perhaps brilliant strategy. “We’re so isolated here and there’s no footage of us online that we’re really banking on that kind of wild card, dark horse element,” says Sandra O’Connor (Swish Cariboom), a jammer for VRDL, via a Skype interview. But that hasn’t kept VRDL from studying other teams. “We’re going to have a recon playbook that we’re all going to be reading on the plane. We know the line-ups: We know who the jammers are and who the blockers are. We know who gets special mention; we know how they move,” O’Connor says with a laugh. So bring on the videos, bring on a mouth guard for the mayor — however the tournament shakes out, it looks like Eugenia is invested in becoming a new kind of Track Town.”