Events

For those of you unlucky enough to miss the Chicago Outfit’s most recent home bout I’m here to provide a brief update on all the ass that was kicked two games, two times. The only reason I really have the time to even write this blog, among other long put-off work, is because this is the first weekend this month the Outfit has zero bout obligations. We’re a league that works hard not only every week at practice, but also competitively on most weekends. All that hard work really paid off, though, when the Shade Brigade faced off against the McLean County Missfits and the Syndicate against Blue Ridge Rollergirls.

The first half of the Shade Brigade’s game was a serious nail-biter. When half-time rolled around, McLean was in the lead 73-67. But if I’ve learned anything about playing with the Shade it’s that we’re a second-half team. A big practice focus of ours is endurance and it always pays off thirty minutes into a bout when most other teams start to get tired.

After the half, the Shade rolled back onto the track and held McLean entirely scoreless for more than a few jams while racking up nearly forty points for themselves. Once the Shade obtained this lead, they held it. But it you’ve ever watched derby before, you know that a forty-point lead doesn’t exactly suggest a clear winner.
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