Random Ramblings

Upcoming bout - Miss be Shavin'

March 11, 2012 at 07:02 PM | categories: skating, related groups

If you can't get enough skating, on the 24th is a double header at the Derwent Entertainment Centre called MISS-BE-SHAVIN'. Its being organised by The Leukaemia Foundation and the profits will go to them for their research. Unsurprisingly (from the name) there will be several derby girls loosing their hair - should be a worth spectacle!.

The bouts are a north vs south affair, with Convict City Rollers playing Devil State Derby League and the South Island Sirens taking on Van Diemen Rollers.

The other canonical source of information is the events facebook page, so you can check it out there as well.

Murder City vs Convicts bout review.

March 11, 2012 at 12:26 PM | categories: skating, opinion, related groups, volunteering

A couple of thoughts on last nights bout. This won't be all that detailed I'm afraid, as I was focusing on keeping the score.

Background

Murder city roller girls came down to Hobart for their first ever inter league bout to play our local Convict City Rollers. Although its their first bout as a team they have been playing with Adelaide roller derby in training which should be helping them along.

About the bout

I think the convicts got off a bit lightly in their season opener (this game), coming up against a team that was really quite disorganised on the track.

The Homicidolls had a couple of stand out players, but by and large they didn't really work as a team. To compound that, they didn't hid hard, they struggled to hold back the Convicts jammers (most of the time) and they didn't control the pack.

Unfortunately for the Homicidolls, they suffered the same problem as any other away team: You can't be sure your best skaters go. Its a fact of life that with these leagues being amateur only (and in MCRGs case still starting out) there isn't a lot of money to go into things like travel.

Scores

Half time

Homicidolls: 54 Convicts: 78

Full time

Homicidolls: 98 Convicts: 201

This is keeping with the Convicts usual pattern of getting better as the bout progresses, but its interesting to see how much larger the first and second halves are. It should be noted the Convicts ended on a 20 point power jam, so without the last jam of the game it would have been 98 - 181. IMO that looks quite respectable for the Homicidolls first outing!

Photos

If you want to have a look at some pictures have a look at these by Chris Neugebauer.

Convict City Eye of the (Tasmanian) Tiger

March 02, 2012 at 07:52 PM | categories: skating, related groups

With the Homicidolls coming to down to play Convict City, they asked why they had not been sent a rap (as was humorously done for Ballarat roller derby). If you have a better link to the rap, please let me know.

To placate their soon to be opponents, a handful of the convicts girls got together and made them a video clip (Direct link to youtube is here).

I have to warn you, it is wonderful and awful at the same time...

Upcoming bout - murder city vs convict city.

March 02, 2012 at 07:02 PM | categories: skating, related groups

Here is a short news bulletin:

Adelaides second league will be playing Hobarts Convict City Rollers on the 10th of March.

I'll be NSOing again, but I can still recommend you buy a ticket and sit in the crowd (Dare you to flop in the suicide seating!. Hope we have a good turn out, it'll be a worthy spectacle!

Creating the Grand Final Bout dvd

October 29, 2011 at 10:00 AM | categories: skating, howtos and guides, related groups, volunteering, my projects

Monica offered to do up a DVD of the bout footage for the Convict City Roller Derby League. Because I had copies of the score sheets she decided to add the scores and who had Lead Jammer as subtitles to the film.

What we have

What was done

I made up a simple scoresheet (without all the overhead of the official ones) and typed up the photos of the score sheets to give us an easy to read (and reference) copy.

Subtitles were made using subtitleeditor and loaded in with devede. Something she discovered when doing the subtitles was a potential bug in subtitleeditor which you might like to be aware of. When you've made some changes to the subtitle file which are not valid subtitle syntax in a text editor and open the subtitle file in subtitleeditor, it will truncate the file (removing all your recent modifications) to the changes you've made using subtitleeditor. Not good if you 'penciled in' all the info before trying out subtitleeditor.

Monica made up the DVD image with devede, including the titles and menu screen (I could document how to do this, if anyones interested). One comment on devede is that it seems a bit clunky in the way it imports video files. It would be ok if we had 2 or 3 files, but with 11 the 'import individual file, check properties, ok' ritual gets a bit tedious.

devede will take all the subtitles/film data/ etc and put together a DVD iso for you. This process takes 2 hours on Monicas Core2Duo laptop, so could take a long time on a single core machine :)

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