Brisbane Blog

Canberra’s Vice City Rollers easily defeated Brisbane’s NBR Brawl Stars by 176 points to 75 in tonight’s roller derby bout at the Brisbane Convention Centre. Canberra’s win came as their jammers dominated, seizing the lead jam 36 times to Brisbane’s 12 and holding Brisbane scoreless for over 7 minutes at two different times during the bout. Canberra’s jammers’ superior skill let them skate through the tiniest of gaps, as they regularly seized control of the jam even if they’d been held back or knocked over in the pack.

The bout was roughly even for the first 18 minutes, when Brisbane led 37-28. From then Canberra moved ahead, putting on 32 unanswered points in 5 jams. Brisbane could only manage 4 more points in the first half, and at the break Canberra led 77-41. Canberra performed even more strongly from there, scoring 99 second half points to Brisbane’s 34.

Canberra’s Short Stop led the scoring with 52 points in ten lead jams, including scoring seven points in two jams, and also scoring nine points twice. Bambi von Smash’er was close behind with 47 points from 9 jams. Brisbane’s top scorers were Pandemic with 19 from one power jam and Shanks Alot who scored 12 from 3 jams.

Brisbane did win the curtain-raiser game, as their NBR Raw Stars defeated the Gold Coast Roller Derby’s Maids of Pain by 149-121. Organisers estimated 1800 people attended the bout.

The Vice City Rollers is the senior representative team of the Canberra Roller Derby League, while the Brawl Stars and Raw Stars are the senior and reserve-grade representative teams of the Northern Brisbane Rollers.