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How did you like the game? I may be in Chicago this weekend, and might make the LA Derby Dolls/Windy City banked track game (LA is bringing the track). I'm playing it by ear. From what I saw on the web, last Saturday's game looked pretty good. Looked like they were playing with the same kind...

Thanks Adam and Jack! Now that we've had this discussion, I realize there's something else I want in my next big screen: wifi, full internet search and flash display capability. I'll want to be able to watch my derby on the big screen without having to hook up the HDMI output of my laptop to...

Sorry it's me again answering the last question. I've been following discussions of this for years. Here's a kind of summary of those discussions: 1. Roller derby is mostly a women's sport at this time. You don't see too many women's sports on TV, since sponsors are lukewarm to the idea...

It's different. You can use gravity for an assist in the down direction, but you have to climb like a hill in the up direction. Flat track this is neutral. Inside or outside takes the same effort. Banked track is asymmetrical, flat track is symmetrical. Banked track maintains your momentum...

It's cost, it's culture. Flat track has a competent governing/membership organization called the WFTDA. They sanction games, they have rankings, they have playoffs in the form of regional tournaments and they have a championship tournament that takes the top 3 from all four regions. So...

Somewhat affiliated. But also a seriously devoted fan of the sport, not just a league. I truly don't understand why more people aren't fanatics :) Also, a lot of that is cut and paste from posts I've collected over time, or rewrote and saved. I really want people to understand that this is...

He should. ACDG will be playing in Culver City's Veteran's Auditorium next year, and are rebuilding their league after the retirement and departure of many of their skaters to other leagues during a leadership crisis (at least 3 departed for the LA Derby Dolls because it was more structured at...

What anyone might remember of 20th century roller derby is not the roller derby of today, whether it is played on banked or flat track. If you remember the Thunderbirds (T-Birds), Bombers, Chiefs or Pioneers, what you remember has nothing to do with modern roller derby. There are no "good guys"...