Have you seen the Gladstone girls whoomp arse at the PCYC? Have you watched some Roller Derby on YouTube? Do you think ‘Hey. That looks like fun!’ – Well, you’re right. It is fun!
We’re having a FreshMeat intake on the 25th of November at the Gladstone PCYC, between 1pm and 4:30pm.
This one is only for girls – if you’re a guy, we’ll be having another Fresh Meat intake next year.
Do you have a flyer, you say? Sure, of course we have a flyer!
The final score was a nail biting Hustlers 128, Vixens 123. In the last jam, the Vixens were leading, but at a nail-biting finish, GRD just scraped ahead to win.
If you weren’t there, you missed an amazing bout.
A couple of ’thank you’s are owed here, and I really feel the need to tell everyone exactly how great our sponsors and volunteers are
Gladstone PCYC for letting us use their arena, putting on the food and drinks, and generally being great, accommodating, and fun to work with. We really appreciate the effort you go to, to let us put on the best bout we can.
Gladstone Entertainment Center for providing an astonishingly, amazingly, good sound system. If you were there, you would have noticed how much I loved it. But not just that – they also provided the lights on the bar,and had one of their guys sit there and run them all night! Great work, and thank you.
Turkey Beach First Reponders, who were our (thankfully, unneeded) first aid for the bout. They travelled up from Turkey Beach (which is about 40km away), with all their first aid gear, ready to help out at the drop of a hat.
HotFM, and Ash and Zach from the breakfast crew. Not only did they act as great “local” MC’s, Zach’s attempts to out-skate HebeGB in the half-time interval was certainly a crowd pleaser.
Our Head Ref – HebeGB, who’s centennial bout we were ecstatic to provide, and Bout Coordinator Will McNaught, who kept everything running on track and on time.
Our other refs and volunteers (who are too numerous to mention and I’m sure they wouldn’t want their Facebook page linked from here ANYWAY!) all got lots of hugs and thanks on the night. We truly couldn’t do it without you guys, and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Without you, not only wouldn’t we have a bout, we’d just have a pile of girls standing around in fishnet stockings wondering what to do next.
And of course – our greatest thanks goes to the Tweed Valley Vixens, without whom we wouldn’t have had a bout at all! I heard a rumour that on the plane flying up here, they were singing, dancing, and generally having a great time. This was probably a bit of a surprise to the regular fly in/fly out commuters, who were suddenly surrounded by a swam of Roller Derby girls! We hope you had a great time, and it was great fun having you play against us.
Finally, our scoreboard software is crg-derbyscoreboard, and is open source software (which means it’s free to use, free to acquire, and free to change). The music playlist for the bout is now available on Spotify (for free – Spotify is awesome!). All computer geekery was provided by me – Rob Thomas.
And we’re all up bright and early (Well…. When I say ‘all’ I mean ‘some’ – or in fact ‘just the crazy people’). If you’ve been watching our Facebook page you would have seen a photo I leaked of our preparations.
Here’s another leak, for those lucky people that are watching the website, of the lights getting a test before they’re lifted up.
If you haven’t bought your tickets, it may ALREADY be too late! I’m not going to be able to update the website, as I’m going to be busy geeking all day, but if you don’t have them now, QUICK! Grab your tickets here!
If you liked it, feel free to download the MP3 from Uncle Leon’s website - you can get it for free, or, you can slip them a few dollars for the effort.
You may have seen our sign up on the fence outside the race course for the past few weeks. But in these last few days, I’ll be taking it around bits of Gladstone that may not have seen it. This morning, I had to go to the newsagent to grab a copy of the paper (Did you notice that we’re on the back cover today? We are! You should go buy it) and when I got there, I found such an AWESOME parking spot, that I thought I’d leave the van there for a few hours…
Now, I don’t want to seem to harp on about this a lot, but we turned away over 200 people at our last bout because they hadn’t bought tickets, and we were filled to bursting point. This time, we’re strictly limiting the number of tickets, and if we sell out online, there will be none left. Take 5 minutes, buy your tickets now, and you’re all good. If you go ‘meh, I’ll buy them on the night’, you may miss out. And we don’t want that, and I’m sure you don’t, too.
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