Scottish Roller Derby Blog (Posts about icelandic roller derby)

Weekend Highlights: 2019-2020 End of Year

aoanla — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 20:15:00 GMT

We're finally in a place where the majority of festive events are dying down, so this special edition of the Weekend Highlights, like the festive Radio Times in the UK, is a bumper multi-week edition, to tide you over until the second week of the New Year.

The rules are, as usual: highlights limited to 1 event per country, with an "extra" event allowed for a different kind of fixture (so, 1 tournament and 1 bootcamp), or if they involve Scottish leagues (since we are the Scottish Roller Derby Blog). Other notability might also allow the extra event - great posters, notable teams, etc. (League birthdays may count as "special" enough, at our discretion ;) )

In a bid to make this list as useful as possible, we've avoided links to Facebook except where noted. (Links to Teams are to non-Facebook resources - Instagram, or actual team pages - we'd strongly recommend that Teams get themselves an actual webpage [we can help host one if you need help]).

Locations are roughly organised East-West (with things before the weekend out sequence at the start).

Weekend Highlights: 14 Dec 2019

aoanla — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 20:26:00 GMT

It seems that as we enter December, the density of scrimmage increases unboundedly - except in France, where they simply hold a huge number of triple header fixtures instead. Apologies to France, then, this week: we had to pick a small number of the many events you have on in order to keep to our rules.

Locations are roughly organised East-West (with things before the weekend out sequence at the start).

Weekend Highlights: 19 October 2019

aoanla — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:00:00 GMT

This is a surprisingly really exceptionally busy weekend, so we're definitely going to split this update into two bits (and even then, we'll be unable to cover all the things deserving of highlights this Saturday.)

We're not even mentioning the Short Track Roller Derby events this weekend to save space - they're all in this roundup post if you want to catch up with them (although we've marked them on the map). They're all highlights, but this is a super busy weekend, so something has to give.

The 3rd fixture of the Chilean national tournament happens this weekend, as does the final of the New Zealand Top 10 Championshops 2019; as well as a number of large tournament events (perhaps the largest being in Sydney, Australia, and Lille, France). There's charity derby in Teesside, and even an international roller derby bootcamp up north in Iceland!

We've bent the rules a bit this time, because it's important to highlight derby in regions which need more attention.

Locations are roughly organised East-West (with things before the weekend out sequence at the start).