Team Awesome IS:

Annie Maul - Kansas City Roller Warriors
Assaultin Pepa - Rocky Mountain Rollergirls
Atomatrix - Oly Rollers
Jawbreaker - Minnesota Rollergirls
Bullet Tooth Tracy - Texas Rollergirls
Blood Clottia - Rose City Rollergirls
Daddy's Girl - Sacred City Rollergirls
Dahmernatrix - San Diego Derby Dolls
Darth Skater - Rat City Rollergirls
Demanda Riot - Bay Area Derby Girls
Goodie Two Skates - Rose City Rollergirls
Ivanna S. Pankin - San Diego Derby Dolls
Jackie Daniels - Grand Raggidy Rollergirls
Killbox - Detroit Derby Girls
Medusa - Northstar Rollergirls
Miss Fortune - Rat City Rollergirls
Sadistic Sadie - Cincinnati Rollergirls
She Who Cannot Be Named - Rocky Mountain Rollergirls
Trish the Dish - San Diego Derby Dolls

PLUS: Serge (Announcer & Fabulous Road Trip Companion)
AND our awesome LOCAL SUBS Muffin Kamikazi Kim & & Miss Evil (Duke), Screaming Mimi (Eugene?), Quarterboy (Grand Raggidy), Coach Dirty (Sacred), Derringer (Texas), Hard Anya (Gotham), Malice w/Chains (Windy), Joy Collision (Charm City), Sol Train (Rose City), Nina Knockout & Mo Pain & Teflon Donna & Violet Temper (Philly), Steely Jan & Kung Pow Tina (San Diego), and all past & future subs

Awesome Alumni, including Lexie Deluxe (Philly) - our first captain!, Roxy Rocket (Carolina), Crash Baby (Detroit), Pinky 500 (Rocky), Jersey Diabla (Philly), Fisti Cuffs (Gotham)and everyone who subbed in ever!

AND ESPECIALLY EVERYONE WE'VE PLAYED AGAINST, including:
* Wall St. Traitors * Double Crossers * Team SeXY * New England Roller Derby (N.E.R.D) * San Diego All Stars - TWICE! * OC Rollergirls All-Stars * OCRG's Psycho Ex-Girlfriends * LA Derby Dolls * Angel City Derby Girls * Rocky Whorer (Twin City Terrors) & his refs at OCRFTC * Team SeXY ... and everyone else who wanted to play against us.

Team Awesome is a bunch of players from roller derby leagues across the country who come together anytime, anyplace they can to play roller derby. Its not exactly an all-star team. Its just a bunch of people who like to play together and have fun. We'll play YOU... Just ask us!

Where did Team Awesome come from? Do you seriously think you're awesome?
Once upon a time a team called New England Roller Derby challenged a Lexie Deluxe, a former Philly player to put a team together to skate against them at ECE. They called themselves NERD. So of course in a rochambeax sort of way, Lexie named her team "AWESOME." That's it. No tryouts, no big deal, not even ringers - it was just whoever she liked and their friends (cause she was busy helping to organize ECE). In fact, because of a wicked ice storm, that first game was played by whomever showed up and put on the jerseys she had printed up. Speaking of jerseys, that first Awesome / NERD match started in matching jerseys and resulted in a tied score, leading the Awesome players to conclude that jerseys don't matter. Nor does voting, or all the power struggles of roller derby, or any of that other shit. ONLY PLAYING. And so a handful of those skaters, most of whom had played against each other and had tons of fun - they decided to keep playing long after the ECE ended.

How can someone play for Team Awesome?
Well, there's no tryouts or anything like that. Pretty much everyone started out as a local sub, often pulled out of the crowd 5 minutes before a challenge, and we have those for almost every game. We choose subs pretty casually. And we just go to lots of events and whenever someone on the roster notices someone particularly awesome (usually when they're playing against them), they talk them up to the group (like anyone would after a good jam). Sometimes that sticks, and then we ask that awesome skater to sub next time we have an opportunity and she's around. Not too scientific, not too exclusive - but it works for us. So the answer is: play good derby, be awesome, and be around!

About this site: teamawesomederby.com took about 4 hours to build. Obviously we're still working on it. But since playing is our first priority... here's a video to look at while you consider how crappy this site is: