Tropicarnage Cup - 2012 - Day 5

Tuesday 2nd October....

Ok, so this wasn't really still part of the Tropicarnage weekend... but Horrors, Graeme & Sarah Marshall came and stayed the night at Hotel Teddie as Sarah & Graeme had to wait for Horrors to be discharged from hospital before they could start their drive home to Townsville...

I stayed up to let them in, we stayed up a little bit talking... but then I booted them off to bed so that I could get some sleep as I had to go to work in the morning.....

Horrors playing on Blake's Boogie Board...  

(eventually I will get this tattooed.... or if I do get a tatt - it'll be something like this)

Myself and Horrors....

One of my new shirts....

Tropicarnage Cup - 2012 - Day 4

Monday 1st October.....

The day started with Maccas breakfast - we were supposed to meet up with Michael and Ingrid - but by the time they rocked up at Maccas we were nearly ready to leave... but we had a Merby bout to get to - so we didn't hang around.....  (Merby = Men's Derby - for those trying to keep up)

After leaving maccas - we got to the car - to find that we'd been left a notice... ;)

(thanks Mia)

The Merby boys lined up for a safety check....  I was too busy watching the bout to take any pics... and derby pics on the phone never turn out well anyway......  Merby is AWESOME.... it was the best game I have ever watched.... 

We then hung around to watch Townsville bout Coastal Assassins before we were due to drive home... 

Myself & Von

Von, Myself & Lightning McScream

  

HeBeGB, Myself and Carlos the Jackal

Halftime, TVRD owning CARD

Anklebiter got thrown over one of the CARD girls and head first into the floor....

The black eye was starting to show at half time...

Final score.....   if you look between the refs you can see that medics are busy working on HorrorBelle... she tried to insert her head up the butt of one of the CARD girls (sorry - that's the best way to describe it - and now you can all picture the accident)

You know what someone loves when they're in a neck brace and on a stretcher??  they LOVE to have their picture taken.....

I had remembered my TVR hoodie on this day.... but had to give it to Horrors who was getting really cold waiting for the ambulance...

After Trish got taken in the ambulance, we headed to the car with Shreds and KK and headed home.... the trip was .... definitely interesting...  something sure has to be said about road trips with derby people... but it was awesome... LOVE my road trips...

Smashdance managed to get a GRD Tank before the carnival was all over....

Tropicarnage Cup - 2012 - Day 3

Sunday 30th September

We headed off for breakfast with Michael & Ingrid at Sizzlers and then headed to the venue for another day of derby action.....

When I got there, it was freezing and I'd left my GRD hoodie back at the hotel room... so I had to buy another one... the only one they had was a XXL - so it was swimming on me.... making everything look a million times bigger... but, I was warm, and that's what mattered.....

Look who else I found in a GRD Hoodie... 

Maxwell Smartarse from Townsville... :)

The twins with Johnny Smash

I had to get my standard Johnny Smash photo... 

CeeBee a little worse for wear after a big night of drinking with Butcher Boy

I found Kaneage too... :)

At 7pm we came up against the Potluck team...  this was a team that was put together with players from 5 different leagues....  it was a bit of a rude shock and we spent a lot of time in the sin bin because we were having calls made on us that we'd never dealt with before...  but it was a fantastic bout...  we were beaten by 138 points.... but we made it over 100 points and we were awesome....   (I do love my team A LOT!)

Post bout Maccas dinner......

After dinner, Rob and I went back to our hotel room and were asleep as early as possible.... but our bouting was over, which meant that the rest of the weekend was for enjoying derby and relaxing....

Tropicarnage Cup - 2012 - Day 2

Saturday 29th September

Heading to Tropicarnage on the Saturday morning, we discovered a store.....    I claimed it as my own......

Teddie shop next to a Skate Store.... Coincidence??  I THINK NOT!!!!

I was a but too busy going around at the venue saying hi to everyone in derbyland - I didn't get a lot of pics....

Poisonality and Zo D'Pravd from Tweed

Final group shot from Hustlers -vs- Coastal Assassins...  we only lost by 12 points... so we were stoked!

Myself & Trish

Anklebiter (Townsville) & Happy Cadaver (Tweed)

The Townsville Table (Rob, Michael, Ingrid and myself sat on this table too)

The Gladstone Table...

The Tweed Table...

Tweed boys loving it up!

Shreds

Mr & Mrs Voodoo

Kittie, Shreds & Troy

Kittie, Shreds and Troy again

Target, KK & Kittie

Dunc & CeeBee

(and a hand photo bomb)

Yeah, very serious couple!

Kiri & Candy

Demon & Michael

Ingrid & I

Myself & Voodoo

Michael & Ingrid

Dunc photo bombing the Townsville people...

Maxwell Smartarse, Lunakillgood, Graeme & Sarah

Dunc & I

We had a brilliant first day of bouts..... we watched Tweed and Townsville in their bouts and then hung out with them all for the evening....  The derby community is awesome :)

Tropicarnage Cup - 2012 - Day 1

Friday 28th September.....

Tropicarnage Cup is the QLD State Titles of Roller Derby....   Leagues around the state can enter and then they bout until they decide who the best team in the state is.....   we entered as the bottom league (as every other league had previously competed - aside from Tweed Valley Rollers... it was their first time too) - we figured we were definitely the bottom team.....

So, we're on our way.... down to Tropicarnage.... 

KK and Ingrid in the back of the Prado for the road trip....

We stopped at the peanut van....    at Childers... apparently three of them like peanuts....

Ingrid, myself & KK

After a stop at Torbanlea - KK discovered the cup holders in the back... (she's always been in the front of the Prado for road trips... but Rob and I had the fronts seats... so she was stuck in the back)

Excited about coffee and cup holders..... (it really doesn't take much sometimes)

Kiri, KK, myself & Kittie....

(all ready to head to Hogsbreath for dinner)

Ingrid & Rob

Sarah & Graeme

Kiri (trying to hide that she's playing on her phone - under the table...... )

Rob & I

KK, myself & Kiri

Myself & Kittie (in the back)

Jake, Shreds & KK (in the front)

Ingrid trying to sms Michael to find out where he is...

Myself & Ingrid

KK taking a pic of me taking a pic of her.... (oh yeah, maturity plus in Derby land!)

Apparently the waitress didn't want her pic taken....)

neither did KK.... such a charmer

Oh, that's better.... Derby love... with wings!

Michael got there.... and KK was pulling cranky faces with him.....

Sarah & Graeme had arrived at Caboolture way ahead of the Townsville Roller Derby team... and they couldn't check into their hotel room until the rest of the team got there... so after dinner, they headed back to our room and hung out until they were able to check in.....    

So, there was a complete night of derby chat until they left about 11pm....    but that was ok, no rush to get up in the morning, we didn't have our bout until 3pm against CARD (Coastal Assassins Roller Derby  - from the Sunshine Coast)