Gearing up for Empire Skate Showdown Strikes Back 2011

In less than two weeks we'll be headed to Long Island to participate in the second annual New York State roller derby tournament, hosted by the Long Island Roller Rebels for the 2011 NYS Roller Derby Tournament: Empire Skate Showdown Strikes Back 2011. Empire Skate Showdown  will feature nine New York teams will duel it out over 17 thirty minute challenge bouts. In their first match of the day, the Hellions will take on the Hudson Valley Horrors.

Doors open at 10am at Skate Safe America, 182 Bethpage Sweet Hollow Road, Old Bethpage, NY. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

Here's hoping we place better than we did last year. We've been training, and we're ready to kick some butt!

Here's some posts from last year about the first annual Empire Skate Showdown:

• My thoughts on ESS the night before the tourney.
• My thoughts about feeling not too bad about losing.
• Did you know Deadlie Mercury's first bout ever was actually a tournament?
• Flexi Wheeler tells you alllll about the tournament.