{"id":42289,"date":"2019-09-16T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/denver-wins-roller-derby-title-at-kents-showare-center\/"},"modified":"2019-09-16T17:04:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T00:04:52","slug":"denver-wins-roller-derby-title-at-kents-showare-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/denver-wins-roller-derby-title-at-kents-showare-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver wins roller derby title at Kent&#8217;s ShoWare Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Roller Derby captured the <a href=\"https:\/\/wftda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women&rsquo;s Flat Track Derby Association <\/a>(WFTDA) international playoffs Sept. 13-15 at the accesso ShoWare Center in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Denver earned a spot in the 2019 International WFTDA Championships in Montr&#233;al, Nov. 15-17. Montr&#233;al Roller Derby of Montr&#233;al, Qu&#233;bec, Canada took second and Philly Roller Derby of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, took third. Montreal and Philly also advance to the championships.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Seattle&rsquo;s Rat City Roller Derby, the event featured 12 of the best teams in the world together for three fierce days of competition.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Klein&rdquo; of Denver Roller Derby won the tournament MVP award. Her performance was &ldquo;a highlight reel of agile line-work, lateral movement, and consistently beating blockers attempting to run her back,&rdquo; said WFTDA Vice President &ldquo;Deadeye&rdquo; while presenting the award, according to the league&rsquo;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 teams competed in Women&rsquo;s Flat Track Derby Association international playoffs <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":42290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-42289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42289"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}