Big thanks to DerbySkinz!!!

The Quadfathers want to publicly acknowledge a debt of gratitude to the fine folks at DerbySkinz; When we were first getting started, we saved up some money on a tight budget and bought ourselves 4 sets of custom helmet covers from DerbySkinz with our Godfather hand with strings logo sewn into the jammer stars. We were very proud of them and loved them dearly. Unfortunately, all but one orange jammer cover was lost in the Feb 9, 2012 fire that destroyed our practice space.

We have been lucky enough, along with our sister league CNY Roller Derby, to be the recipient of many generous donations from the local Utica area, and the derby community all over the world, to get back on our feet. And some of the most appreciated came from our friends at DerbySkinz.

Auntie Pantie generously offered to replace our lost sets of custom covers, and even rushed them so that we were able to wear them for our 4/7 debut bout.

Also, and no less importantly, we have to give a big shout out and thank you to Queen Kicktoria of Roc City Roller Derby (Rochester, NY) for hand sewing us 2 additional sets of black base/orange accent covers which we use almost daily for practices and scrimmages, in order to keep our game ones fresh.

We really appreciate the support, and we hope that all you other leagues out there realize how awesome DerbySkinz really are and spend your money with them. They really do care about this sport and the teams they service, and make great durable handcrafted products.

A tool for all of derby.....

The Quadfathers, in conjunction with Central New York Roller Derby, and Ray Cardillo aka Mr Mighty, are proud to announce the release of an official modification to Simple Machines Forum titled 'Voter Visibility'.

This project came about from a need of both organization to take votes for league business purposes via our respective Simple Machines-based forums. But with the standard setup, there's no way to track who voted how on any topic- and in both the roller derby and business communities, its important to track who participated and how they voted. Sometimes, you need to take a vote where no one sees the results. Sometimes, you need to take a vote where only after the voting window closes the results are seen so as not to influence voter's decisions. And sometimes a good old public vote is necessary.

Mr Mighty decided this was too big a hole in the potential usefulness of SMF to leave alone, and set about solving the problem. The result is the official 'Voter Visibility Mod'.

We hope that other roller derby organizations and businesses are able to benefit from this as we have.
And please follow the links on the download page to send a small donation to The Quadfathers and CNY if you use it.

A huge thank you to Mr Mighty for making this project happen!!!

2012 Season Schedule!

April 7th vs Mass Maelstrom [MRDA Sanctioned]
April 29th vs Pioneer Valley's Dirty Dozen (AWAY, Northampton, MA) [MRDA Sanctioned]
May 6th vs Montreal Mount Royals (AWAY, Montreal)
May 19th vs Capital District Trauma Authority [MRDA Sanctioned]
June 3rd vs Ottawa's Slaughter Squad (followed by Black Mamba Juniors bout!)
July 14th vs NY Shock Exchange Dow Jones Average (at New Hartford Rec Ctr)
August 11th  vs Montreal Mount Royals
August 18-19: Mohawk Valley Cup Tournament  [3 MRDA sanctioned games]

Photos by Hispanic Attack

Practices are Back On!

Thanks to the kind folks at the Utica Center for Development, we were able to secure practice space for our regular Sundays 1-4pm time slot from now until April 1st when we can move back into JFK Arena in Rome.

For those of you who plan to come skate with us, please contact us for directions.

Thank you everyone for the support.

Fire: 2/19 Scrimmage Cancelled

 

Probably obvious by now from the (highly appreciated) derby community coverage, but Sunday's open scrimmage in cancelled due to a fire which destroyed our venue, and a lot of equipment along with it. Practices are on hold for right now. To be clear, this was our practice venue, not the arena in Rome NY where our season is planned. All bouts are still on!

You can see coverage here:
CNY News
DerbyLife news
WKTV

The first link below has a donation button to paypal if you'd like to help. The Quadfathers' losses were minimal in comparison and we'll be OK as soon as we find new practice space. CNY lost a lot more of their belongings, though, and much of it were items that The Quadfathers benefited from regularly too. If you'd like to earmark a donation to us, we appreciate the support, just leave it in the comments section in paypal.

The surrounding leagues and rinks have been absolutely amazing in terms of offering to have us as guests and as sub-letters in their spaces, and we are tracking down leads in the Utica area like crazy to keep skating ASAP. If you know of any leads on spaces that would have us, at least until early April when we can get back into our summer space, please email info@cnyrollerderby.com

Probably the biggest loss on CNY's end was their stock of loaner gear for new skaters. Many leagues and individuals have contacted us to ask where they can send used gear with some life still in it to help replace. If you have gear that would still be OK for new skaters to take out on loan (skates, knee pads, elbow pads, wrist guards, helmets, extra wheels, bearings, a bearing press, big tupperware bins, practice pinnies, whiteboards, clipboards, etc etc) then by all means mail it to us:

CNY Roller Derby & Quadfathers
c/o Graham Espe
46 Parkside Ct
Utica NY 13501

We truly appreciate the outpouring of support that we have received already. We will certainly be sending out some personal thank you's in the months to come.

Last Open Scrimmage, Sunday Feb 19th

The Quadfathers will be hosting our last off-season co-ed open scrimmage on Sunday Feb 19th

We've had a great turn out for Dec 18th and Jan 22nd, and everyone has had a really fun time.

The next date will be run the same, with teams split depending on numbers. $5 per skater admission fee for skaters; refs and NSO's are free (and much appreciated!).

Sunday Feb 19th- arrive as early as 12, start warming up at 1pm, announcements and scrimmages start at 1:30. We can skate until 4pm. We usually do  3X 30 min periods with some open skating at the end.

All skaters who have passed WFTDA/MRDA minimum skills assessments are welcome to participate. All skaters must be comfortable in a co-ed scrimmage environment. Everyone needs one black and one white shirt with at least their player number on it. Our floor is Mateflex sports tile, very similar to SportCourt. The colder it is, the slicker our floor gets. We recommend hybrid/softer wheels.

The venue is called 'SportsPlx' and is located at:
496 French Rd Utica NY 13502

It is just behind the train/hobby shop. When you pull in, please DO NOT PARK near the Train/Hobby shop. If we have the back parking lot open, pull in there. If not, please park along the outsides of the SportsPlx building and along the fence. Park other skaters in if you have to, we dont want anyone's cars to get towed.

The burrito place next door, Burrito Jonz,  has agreed to provide a number of dishes at $5 per meal prices for us afterwards. We will have menus available, or click the link to their website to see what they've got for specials etc

Please use the online sign-up form, and also check out the facebook event page and RSVP so that people can see who else is coming.

Mohawk Valley Cup, Advance Sale Tickets on sale now!

We're pleased to announce that advance sale tickets for weekend passes for the Mohawk Valley Cup, Aug 18-19 2012 in Rome NY are now on sale for $17 each through Brown Paper Tickets.

Click here to purchase.