2007 WFTDA Texas Shootout videos

Footage from the 2007 Texas Shootout WFTDA National Championship in Austin, TX is available online:
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First Semi-Final: Texas Rollergirls Texecutioners vs. Rat City Rollergirls
Second Semi-Final: Kansas City Roller Warriors vs. Carolina
Consolation: Texecutioners vs. Carolina
Championship: Rat City Rollergirls vs. Kansas City Roller Warriors

Rat City leg whip

Ariel Pena got this great shot at Nationals and put together real-time animation and slow motion animation of the Rat City Rollergirls leg whip on his website Arienbium. I didn't get to see it and everyone's been talking about it so here it is.

Photos and animation by Ariel Pena

Jules a.k.a. Axle Adams at type2bphoto.com made this awesome 11 frame photo sequence taken at Bumberbout during the Rat City - Texas Rollergirls bout. Click on the image to start the animation sequence.

Photos and animation sequence by Jules Doyle a.k.a. Axle Adams.

You can see more of Axle Adams leg whip photos here, here, here, and here. And another still sequence from Bumberbout: http://www.type2bphoto.com/misc/bombfatale.jpg

About the Bumberbout (from Rat City Rollergirls website):
On Saturday, September 2, 2006, the door counters at the Key Arena in Seattle Center officially tallied 20,205 entries to the first ever Flat Track Derby Invitational, The Bumberbout, held at Bumbershoot, Seattle's premier Music & Arts festival! Eight of the top leagues in the United States skated their way into the hearts of new derby fans from across the Pacific Northwest, the United States, and the world. Rat City is proud and honored to have been able team up with One Reel Productions to hostess and showcase these premier athletes!

Kansas City Roller Warriors win 2007 WFTDA National Champoinship

Underdog KCRW All Stars narrowly defeat the heavily favored Rat City Rollergirls 89-85. The whole tournament was full of upsets. Day one saw both Gotham and Tuscon defeated then Texas Rollergirls easily blew away Windy City while Rat City made people sitting near me ask how Detroit made it this far.

First bout of today Texas Rollergirls lost to Rat City then went on to easily shut down Carolina for third place and now RAT CITY lost to KANSAS CITY! No one was expecting this! Congratulations to the awesome skaters from Kansas City for shaking things up in Austin.

In the words of the leadjammer.com live blogger, "Sweet Jesus. If there has ever been a more exciting derby bout, I'll eat my laptop". You can get the jam by jam from the Lead Jammer live blog archives. Click where it says "Come on in".