Montreal Roller Derby

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Montreal Roller Derby (MTLRD) is a roller derby league from Montreal that was founded in 2006 and plays on flat track . Currently, MTLRD is the highest-listed Canadian roller derby league of the International Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA).

history

The Montreal non-profit league MTLRD, founded by Georgia W. Tush in 2006, was the first Canadian roller derby league (Flat Track). The home teams were Les Contrabanditas and Les Filles du Roi in 2006 , followed by La Racaille in March 2007. In
2009, MTLRD (the first roller derby league outside the US ) became a full member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association. In 2010, the MTLRD All-Stars New Skids on the Block took part in the play-offs of the WFTDA Championships as the first team based outside the USA .
Six members of the Montreal League were set up for the Canadian national team for the 1st Roller Derby World Cup and achieved second place in the final against the selection of the USA. In the summer of 2015, Montreal Roller Derby reached number 16 in the WFTDA world rankings.

Beast of the East

Every April, MTLRD organizes a tournament between 16 invited home teams from the WFTDA region East . The individual games (bouts) are only 20 minutes long.

Teams

The league consists of six teams that are deployed at different levels:

  • Les Contrabanditas (Home Team)
  • Les Filles du Roi (Home Team)
  • La Racaille (home team)
  • Les Sexpos (B travel team)
  • Smash Squad ( Rookie )
  • New Skids on the Block (A-Travel Team / All-Stars)

Trivia

The Filles du Roi , to which the team name Les Filles du Roi refers, were 800 young French women who were brought from France to New France between 1663 and 1673 to marry settlers there and to stimulate population growth. Racaille means "rabble" or "scrap". The name New Skids on the Block alludes to the boy band New Kids on the Block and the name Les Sexpos to the Major League Baseball Club Montreal Expos , which in turn was named after the Exposition universelle et international Montréal 1967 (Expo 67) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b WFTDA ranking , (as of June 30, 2015) accessed on July 21, 2015 (English).
  2. ^ "Historique de la Ligue" in: Montreal Roller Derby Program de Saison 2015 , Montréal 2015, p. 2.
  3. ↑ a b “Historique” on mtlrollerderby.com , accessed on July 21, 2015 (French, English ).
  4. ↑ 2010 WFTDA East Playoffs on wftda.com ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 21, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wftda.com
  5. ↑ Tournament report on cbc.ca , accessed on July 21, 2015 (English).
  6. ↑ Beast of the East on mtlrollerderby.com , accessed July 21, 2015 (French, English ).

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