Tilted Thunder rolls out Seattle-area banked-track double-header in Monroe
Tilted Thunder brought banked-track derby back to Monroe with a June 27 double-header, then lined up another July 18 show to keep a rare Pacific Northwest format moving.
Tilted Thunder Roller Derby ran a banked-track double-header at Pavilion 600 in Monroe, with Hall of Flames in Game 1 and Rollin’ with the Homies in Game 2. Doors opened at 4 p.m. and the first whistle sounded at 5 p.m. at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds, 14405 179th Ave SE, a setup that put two bouts on one card and kept the league’s summer rhythm moving.
The June 27 stop was only part of a larger schedule. Tilted Thunder has another double-header set for July 18, with Arizona Derby Dames in the first game and LA Derby Dolls in the second, and the league also placed Battle on the Bank XV at the same Monroe venue over May 29-31. That kind of calendar matters in banked-track derby, where the surface changes the angle of every jam, the speed of every pass and the wear on every skater. A banked-track program is harder to sustain than a flat-track one because the show is not just the game, it is the track itself, built, staffed and reset for each date.
Tilted Thunder says that is exactly what its operation is built around. Founded in August 2008 by Chelsea Shepherd, known as Mae Lay, and Courtney Stone, known as Sally Von Trample, the league says it recruited its first skaters in 2009, finished construction of its banked track in 2010 and became the seventh banked-track league in the nation. It also describes itself as the only banked-track league in the Pacific Northwest, a claim that gives these Monroe dates extra weight in a region where most derby fans are used to flat-track play.
The volunteer load is part of the story, too. Tilted Thunder says it is a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving adult women and non-binary people in an environment centered on women, and it says bouts depend on announcers, photographers, officials and game-day volunteers. That production demand is one reason recurring summer dates matter so much. The league has competed in Battle on the Bank since 2010 and says it placed third in 2014 and 2015, fourth in 2016 and 2017, and fifth in 2018 and 2019, proof that its Monroe schedule is tied to a longer competitive lane, not a one-night showcase.
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