CHICAGO, IL -- New scrapes and bruises were served up in mass quantities as all four home teams of the Windy City Rollers opened the local WCR 2012 season on January 28th. Bracing against frigid air, the ladies of the Windy City Rollers brought the UIC Pavilion to a boil with a charity tourney pitting all four teams against each other in a single elimination tournament of four 30-minute bouts.

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BALLWIN, MO -- In Arch Rival's local playoff doubleheader, the top-seeded Stunt Devils (4-0) pounced from the onset to beat fourth-seeded Rebel Skate Alliance (0-4) 210-60, earning a trip to the local championship bout on April 28.

Prior to the first whistle blown Saturday, the defending league champion RSA faced nearly insurmountable odds against the top seed of the playoff round.

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BALLWIN, MO -- Seeding held in both games of Arch Rival's local playoff doubleheader as the 2nd-seeded M-80s capitalized on second-half powerjam opportunities to claim a 182-127 victory over the 3rd-seeded Smashinistas.

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Adapted with permission from Phil Arnold.

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WASHINGTON, DC -- In the first bout of the DC Rollergirls’ home-team double-header on January 28, the Cherry Blossom Bombshells (2-1) were pitted a second time against DCRG’s newest team, the Majority Whips (1-2).

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WASHINGTON, DC -- In the second bout of the DC Rollergirls’ January 28 double-header, the DC DemonCats took on the yet-to-be-defeated Scare Force One. Though the DemonCats seemed to have the cheering crowd on their side, Scare Force managed to shut them down early to win the game 229-53.

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EUGENE, OR -- The front-end of Saturday’s Emerald City-hosted doubleheader in Eugene, OR featured Rose City’s Heartless Heathers against Emerald City’s Andromedolls. The home team Dolls have won the last three Emerald City season championships.

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EUGENE, OR -- In the first intraleague bout of Emerald City’s season, the Flat Track Furies were looking to get back on track after going winless last season, while the Church of Sk8in were looking to march their way back to the championship after taking runner-up last season. Both teams had many new skaters in pivotal roles.

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DALLAS, TX -- Dallas' Assassination City hosts the sixth Governor's Cup tournament this weekend, bringing together six teams spanning the lower ranks of the WFTDA South Central region with one perennially dominant heavyweight in current regional champ Texas for a double-elimination event.

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LOS ANGELES, CA -- Through the first half of Saturday night's banked-track game between the hometown LA Ri-Ettes and San Diego Wildfires, LA's jammers seemed magnetically drawn to the penalty box, and it ended up showing on the scoreboard. San Diego repeatedly played an effective slow-trap on powerjams, and used the margin gained on those to hold a 17 point lead at halftime.

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INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- After an extremely low-scoring first half that ended at just 36-19, the Naptown all-stars took control in the second and blew out the visiting Midwest Mega Team, an irregular team of North Central all-stars from Windy City, Arch Rival, Ohio, the Chicago Outfit, Burning River and Brewcity, by a final score of 131-41.

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INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- In an matchup between Windy City home team The Fury and Naptown's B-team the Warning Belles, the first 20 minutes belonged to the Fury and the last 15 minutes belonged to the Belles.

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While it's still a few weeks before the 2012 WFTDA derby season gets rolling in earnest, this January weekend sees a fair amount of interesting banked track, expo and intraleague action to check out.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- In the debut game for hybrid superteam Team Bionic, Bionic hosted a home team from LA Derby Dolls, the Tough Cookies. Although it was back-and-forth in the first two quarters and was a narrow 39-31 favoring Bionic at the halftime break, the home team extended their advantage in the second half to keep the Cookies just out of striking distance for the homestretch.

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Republished with permission from ArchRivalRollerGirls.com.

BALLWIN, MO -- The M-80s (2-1) utilized a second-half scoring barrage en route to a 153-94 win over Rebel Skate Alliance (0-3) to enter the ARRG local postseason as the second seed.

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Republished with permission from ArchRivalRollerGirls.com.

BALLWIN, MO -- Building upon a 41-point halftime lead, the Stunt Devils (3-0) powered their way to a 147-80 victory over the Smashinisitas (1-2) to grab the top seed in the February 4 Arch Rival playoffs with an undefeated regular season record.

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MADISON, WI -- In a early-season clash of local teams from Madison and Chicago, the Unholy Rollers faced off against the Windy City Rollers’ Manic Attackers on Saturday, January 14th -- the 2012 debut of interleague action in Madison.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- This weekend in Colorado Springs, a intriguing new structure for a derby team has its maiden voyage as the newly formed banked-track crew Team Bionic hosts the Tough Cookies, a local team from the Los Angeles Derby Dolls.

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Spambots are smart. Apparently there's a lot of money in plastering comment threads with ads for counterfeit watches, penis pumps, etc. The CAPTCHA system we use on DNN to test for humans is pretty good and catches the vast majority of spambots. But it's not perfect, as we saw just today when someone vomited Ugg boots all over our site.

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Since we started doing Power Rankings in February 2009, we've found there's one interesting constant during our various derby travels -- at least one member or fan from every league will buttonhole us at an after party looking to have

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