JRDA postseason rolls on with lopsided open-division playoff results
Tampa Bay, Wasatch and No Coast all won by 60-plus points on June 20 as JRDA's open-division bracket moved fast toward July's championships.
June 20 delivered three open-division playoff blowouts that immediately tightened the race for JRDA’s summer titles. Tampa Bay Junior Derby’s Tampa All Stars beat Red Stick Roller Derby Juniors’ The Feral 229-146, Wasatch Junior Rollers’ Wasatch A*Salt handled South Texas Knockouts 250-186, and No Coast Junior Derby’s Furiosas topped Dallas Junior’s All Stars 263-179.
Those scores mattered because JRDA’s postseason is moving on a compressed calendar, with open-division weekends already set in Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Tacoma, and girls-division weekends scheduled in Fort Walton Beach and Burbank. Tacoma’s weekend is being hosted by Tomorrowland Junior Roller Derby, and the association’s live playoff brackets hub is tracking the results as they land.
The 60-point range in those June 20 games showed how quickly a title path can open or close in junior derby. Tampa Bay’s 83-point margin, Wasatch’s 64-point win and No Coast’s 84-point finish all sent the winners forward with room to spare, while leaving little margin for teams trying to grind out a long bracket run. In a postseason this tight, a comfortable win can matter as much as a close one because it keeps legs fresher and pressure lower for the next round.
Earlier June 14 open-division results pointed in the same direction. K County Junior Roller Derby rolled past Crooked River Roller Derby 430-124, Indianapolis Junior Roller Derby beat Rockin City Rockstars 237-135, New England Junior Roller Derby downed Rochester Area Junior Roller Derby QuickSilver 178-138, and Kalamazoo Killer Beez defeated Pittsburgh Derby Brats Yinzer Dead All Stars 242-116. K County’s 306-point rout stood out even among a slate already full of separation.
The cadence of the schedule explains the pace. JRDA requires official score and stats materials to be submitted within 48 hours after a game, which helps keep the playoff page moving during a packed stretch of weekend tournaments. The next major stop is the B-Team Champs weekend in Bellmead, Texas, on June 27-28, before the JRDA Championships on July 11-12 at Salt Creek Sports Center in Palatine, Illinois.
That championship weekend carries seven game slots across July 11 and 12, giving JRDA enough room to sort multiple divisions and levels into one finale. The organization works with junior roller derby leagues in the United States and also collaborates with international junior roller derby organizations, a structure that has turned the postseason into a national circuit rather than a single-tournament event.
The 2026 format follows the pattern JRDA used in 2025, when open-division playoff weekends were spread across several cities before championships in Loveland, Colorado. This year, with Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Tacoma, Fort Walton Beach and Burbank already on the board, the June 20 scores were less a checkpoint than a warning shot: the teams that win early are buying time, and the bracket is already shrinking.
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