Shared with everyone earlier in the week that The Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Association National Championships are happening this weekend in Portland. (Also known as the Northwest Knockdown!)

If you are at all intrigued, I suggest you log-on to Derby News Network, who will be streaming live tournament action. The bouts kick-off tomorrow, at 6:30 p.m. EST.

Now, here’s a photo preview of what to look out for during Hell on Wheels culminating event of the year….

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The country’s top eight female roller derby squads will square off next weekend in Portland, OR, with the title of Women’s Flat Track Derby Association National Champion on the line. The tournament will include teams from Texas, Philly, Chicago, Duke City? (Albuquerque, apparently), and of course the high-powered team from NYC known as the Gotham Girls. The Portland Expo Center is expecting upwards of 3,000 fans to come out for the event.

DerbyNewsNetwork.com has the official 2008 WFTDA Championship Bracket up on there site, and you can go log-in and edit and share your own bracket.

Stay tuned, as I try to find out if they’ll be any online or TV coverage of the tournament. And good luck, ladybadasses!

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The Roller Derby Revival gets cooler everyday. And if you don’t agree with me, I assure you I’m correct.

Just last weekend, a team from New York City called the Gotham Girls All-Stars competed in the Eastern Regional Championships at the Derby in Dairyland, in Madison, WI. Not only have they embraced Batman’s nom de guerre for NYC, but they won the tournament, so apparently they’re dirty.

This weekend, the 2008 WFTDA season stampedes into the capital city of the derby revival – Austin, TX – for the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls Calvello Cup Championship.

Giving it its due recognition, COEDMagazine.com pieced together a photo album that shows the softer side of hell on wheels. Here are some of the goodies…

…and, Yikes!

Check out more here.

Links:
Coed Magazine – Ridiculously Rad Rollergirls
MySpace – Gotham Girls Roller Derby
TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls

A major event of the WFTDA season takes place this weekend, with 12 of the top derby squads on the East Coast meeting in Wisconsin for the annual Derby in Dairyland. A shot at the Nationals in November at stake.

True to form, this tournament plans to offer more than just fine Hell on Wheels competition, with live music, dancing, and coerced trips to roughhouse saloons i’m sure being offered. So, if you’re in the Madison area – go gallivant. (I would!)

Host and notoriously charitable team, the Mad Rollin’ Dolls, will be auctioning off plastered busts of several of the team members’ chests during the weekend as well. The proceeds go to benefit breast cancer awareness. Here’s the model of the Mad Rollins’ Chop Suzzy.

More info on Derby in Dairyland can be had at www.derbyindairyland.com. Check out this video of the Mad Rollin’ Dolls giving a tour of the city of Madison below…

Links:

Derby in Dairyland rolls art and music into flat track festival (The Daily Page)
Photos – Derby Team Plasters Cancer