Weekend Highlights: 15 September 2019 (Sunday)
This is the Sunday addendum of exciting highlights this weekend. We have a double dose of action in Argentina, with Indias Roller Derby of Quilmes, and recently Continental Cup winners, Sailor City Rollers both hosting multi-bout events! There's also excitement in Scotland, as the selection bout for Men's World Cup team, Power of Scotland is on in Dundee... and we have a Tuesday event in Slovenia as Roller Derby Ljuljana screen Whip it! for Pride!
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 ;) )
We've bent the rules a bit this time, because it's important to highlight derby in regions which need more attention, and because it's quiet enough that we have the space.
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).
Sun: Preston, VIC, Australia
Victorian Roller Derby League 's Bees are also world-leading, as the current B Team World Champions. They're holding a Bingo night to help fund their trip to Denver to defend their title in a month's time!
Event starts: 1700 Sunday
Venue: Northcote Social Club, High St & Hawthorn Road, Northcote, VIC, Australia
Sun: Turku, Finland
Dirty River Roller Derby follow up hosting the start of the 2019/20 Suomi Cup on Saturday with an NSO Clinic on Sunday. This clinic is coached by Helsinki Roller Derby's Aggrecola, and covers theory and practice, with a scrimmage to end.
Event starts: 1200 Sunday
Venue: Ilpoisten Palloiluhalli, Lauklähteenkatu 13, Turku, Finland
Tues: Ljubljana, Slovenia
[Initial Post on Facebook] [FACEBOOK LINK (event)]
Roller Derby Ljubljana are working with Ljubljana Pride to co-host an outreach event: a screening of the Slovenian dub of famous Roller Derby film, "Whip It!", followed by a discussion of how Roller Derby is portrayed in film and how it works in real life. (And then a chance to get to know Roller Derby Ljubljana themselves.)
Event starts: 1900 Tuesday
Venue: Dunajska 10, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sun: Dundee, Scotland
Power of Scotland are getting closer to that 2020 Men's Roller Derby World Cup, so they're hosting a public selection bout to narrow down the current training team to the roster for St Louis. To add to the event, this is a double-header with a mixed MRDA bout to follow, helping to build MRDA-policy roller derby in Scotland.
- Scotland versus Scotland selection bout
- MRDA-gender mixed teams bout
Event starts: 1200 Sunday
Venue: Dundee International Sports Centre, Mains Loan, Dundee, Scotland
Sun: Leicester, UK
Leicestershire Dolly Rockit Rollers will be competing in Vienna later this year, and to raise funds they're doing a sponsored skate. In the model of the very original Roller Derbies, they're skating the distance from Leicester to Vienna (as a team effort) in just 6 hours - the equivalent, on average, of one and a half marathons in distance!
Event starts: 1000 Sunday
Venue: New College Leicester, Glenfield Road, Leicester, United Kingdom
Sun: Manchester, UK
Manchester Roller Derby host an Open To All genders policy mixed-level scrim, open to all min-passed skaters.
Event starts: 1900 Sunday
Venue: Sporting Edge, 1 Silverlace Avenue, Off Fairfield Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
Sun: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sailor City Rollers C host a double header scrimmage, presumably partly to celebrate Sailor A winning the Continental Cup less than a month ago!
- Sea Monsters (Sailor City C | Buenos Aires) versus "C level" WFTDA-gender bout
- Team White versus Team Black OTA-gender bout
Event starts: 1400 Sunday
Venue: Avenida Curapaligüe 1100, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sun: Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Indias Roller Derby host their first ever event, and it's a triple header scrimmage!
- ABC level WFTDA-gender scrimmage
- Facones Galácticos Roller Derby versus mashup team [Cancelled due to concerns over attending skaters. See Indias' Facebook page for details.]
- OTA-gender scrimmage
Event starts: 1200 Sunday
Venue: Polideportivo Municipal Reynaldo Gorno, Av Vicente LOPEZ esq. Lafinur, Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
