ALT Boys Freestyle Team - MNRG Occupational Hazards: St Paul, MN

February 25th, 2008 in Metro, St Paul

Kim and I hooked up with Kevin and headed up to the Roy Wilkins Auditorium for the first Minnesota RollerGirls bout of the year entitled Occupational Hazards.

It was a Sunday bout, which I wasn’t a fan of at all, as I kinda wanted to stay at home and just veg but being that we’re season ticket holders and all, I figured we best just go ;)

We arrived just before 5:30 (I believe it was 5:27 as Kevin and I discussed the exact time) and were pretty damn surprised to see that the line was as long as it was. We are usually there about an hour ahead of time and are less than 5 people deep but today there were at least 50 people in front of us (and growing by the minute it seemed). Everyone wanted what Kevin and Kim explained as their favorite free t-shirt of the year. Kim wants the rest of the t-shirts for the season (if there are any) to be the remaining team colors. Personally, it was my least favorite but I’ll be wearing it to work none-the-less.

The opening act was the ALT Boys Freestyle Team who had a couple of ramps setup in a short little area with plenty of room to crash into people if something went wrong. Thankfully, there were very few incidents and those always occurred near the ramps so no one in the crowd was injured. The best part of the show came right at the end…

Something boring, back flip, back flip, something I don’t know, and a crazy fucking front flip:

The bout itself was extremely boring for me tonight. There were very little contact and the scores were crazy low. I suppose they are starting to become even more skilled, know how to operate more successfully as a team and keep the matches tight but for me, that makes it crap. There was only a few instances of any mean-spirited contact which included the inevitable pointless fist action right at the end of the entire match.

I won’t bore you with the video I have of any of the jams because, well, you can see them at any of my other posts here.

I was surprised at the number of people in the crowd on a Sunday but it wasn’t anything like the crowd they had on hand for the start of the 2007 season. I suppose that one wasn’t on a Sunday however. The crowd was pretty subdued and most left during the HORRIFYING and absolutely fucking miserably TERRIBLE half-time show by the Corpse Show Creeps (warning MySpace link, yuck).

The Corpse Show Creeps seriously forced me out of the main part of the venue to suck in the fumes from the smokers area immediately outside the venue that were sucked back in and available for all to hack on. I thought I was safe standing there but the Roy Wilkins now has video screens in the sales area so that you could witness the filth that those douchebags were putting on. Imagine a death metal band with 50s pompadours and you have them made. BLEH.

Anyway, we were home by 10 PM and I watched another episode of The F Word on BBC America and then went to bed. I suppose, in the end, it was better than vegging out on the couch all night :)