Queen City Roller Derby

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Queen City Roller Derby
Queen City Roller Derby Logo.png
Metro area Buffalo, New York
Country United States
Founded2006
TeamsTravel teams:
Lake Effect Furies (A)
Subzero Sirens (B)
Home teams:
Alley Kats
Devil Dollies
Saucies
Track type(s)Flat
Venue Buffalo RiverWorks
Affiliations WFTDA
Org. typeLLC
Website https://www.qcrg.net/

Queen City Roller Derby or QCRD, [1] is the flat-track roller derby league based in Buffalo, New York. Founded as Queen City Roller Derby in 2006, [2] the league is scheduled to play its fourteenth season in 2020. QCRD is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). [3] Since 2016, Queen City plays home games at Buffalo RiverWorks on the city's waterfront, drawing upwards of 1,000 fans to events, [4] with the home-team season typically running from January through June. The facility at RiverWorks is a private development that includes a purpose-built flat track for roller derby, and is credited for helping the league sell over 10,000 tickets in the 2016 season. [5] During the 2019 season, Queen City changed its name to Queen City Roller Derby to represent the league's inclusiveness of all people. [6]

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Teams

Queen City is currently[ when? ] composed of three home teams: the Alley Kats, the Devil Dollies and the Saucies. The Nickel City Knockouts, who won four consecutive home team championships starting in 2012, were retired after the 2015 season. The training team is the Queen's Court. The league also brought back a B-level travel development team in 2016, named the Subzero Sirens.

QCRD has an affiliated junior roller derby league, The Queen City Junior Roller Derby which comprises two teams, The Cereal Killers and The Atomic Bettys. The juniors also have an All-Star travel team. [7]

WFTDA competition

The All-Star travel team is the Lake Effect Furies. The Furies first qualified for WFTDA Playoffs in 2013, as the sixth seed at the Division 2 Playoffs in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where they placed 9th. [8] In 2014, the Furies returned to Division 2 Playoffs, this time in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, entering as the second seed and ultimately coming in 5th place. [9] In 2015, Queen City made their first trip to Division 1 Playoffs at Omaha, Nebraska, which included a last-jam upset victory over Toronto Roller Derby, 232-229. [10] The Furies entered the weekend as the ninth seed and improved to eighth by Sunday. [11] In 2016, Queen City returned for their second consecutive Division 1 Playoff, as the ninth seed in Vancouver, British Columbia, and finished the weekend in sixth. [12] At the 2017 Division 1 Playoff in Dallas, Queen City won their opening game against Houston Roller Derby, [13] but then lost their quarterfinal to Arch Rival Roller Derby. [14] Queen City finished their weekend with a 270-77 consolation bracket win over Wasatch Roller Derby. [15] At the 2018 WFTDA Playoffs in Atlanta, Queen City lost both its games, including a tight consolation round game to Bear City Roller Derby, 218-212. [16]

Rankings

Season Final ranking [17] Playoffs Championship
201115 E [18] DNQDNQ
201213 E [19] DNQDNQ
201348 WFTDA [20] 9 D2 [8] DNQ
201436 WFTDA [21] 5 D2 [9] DNQ
201547 WFTDA [22] 8 D1 [11] DNQ
201627 WFTDA [23] 6 D1 [12] DNQ
201718 WFTDA [24] CR D1 [15] DNQ
201824 WFTDA [25] CR [16] DNQ

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  3. ↑ WFTDA Official Website
  4. ↑ Kearns, Michelle (9 January 2016). "Queen City Roller Derby league debuts new chapter at the waterfront". Buffalo News. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  5. ↑ Shepherd, Shannon (28 May 2016). "Queen City Roller Girls sell 10,000 tickets". WIVB. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "Meet Queen City Roller Derby!". Queen City Roller Derby · Buffalo, New York. 13 January 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  7. ↑ Teams
  8. 1 2 "August 23-25, 2013: Kalamazoo, Michigan". WFTDA. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  9. 1 2 Deadwards, Lisa; Fristoe, Chelsea (14 November 2014). "Roll Call! Let's run through WFTDA D2". Derby Central. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
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  11. 1 2 Deadwards, Lisa (14 October 2015). "2015 WFTDA D1 Playoffs: Omaha Central". Derby Central. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  12. 1 2 Deadwards, Lisa (19 September 2016). "2016 WFTDA D1 Playoffs: Vancouver Central". Derby Central. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
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  14. ↑ "D1D: #3 Arch Rival controls #6 Queen City, 339-123". Derby Central. 24 September 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  15. 1 2 Deadwards, Lisa (25 September 2017). "D1D: #6 Queen City dominates #12 Wasatch, 270-77". Derby Central. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
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