Tragic City Rollers

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Tragic City Rollers
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Metro area Birmingham, AL
Country United States
Founded2005
Track type(s)Flat
VenueZamora Shrine Temple
Affiliations WFTDA
Website tragiccityrollers.com

The Tragic City Rollers is a women's flat track roller derby league based in Birmingham, Alabama. Founded in 2005

Contents

Tragic City is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). [1]

History

The league was founded in December 2005 [2] by Dixie Thrash, [3] after hearing about the Texas Rollergirls, and training with the Dixie Derby Girls for two months. The league's first bout was also against Dixie, in April 2006. [4]

Tragic City was accepted into the WFTDA Apprentice Program in October 2010, [5] and became a full member of the WFTDA in March 2012. [6]

WFTDA rankings

Season Final ranking [7] Playoffs Championship
201229 SC [8] DNQDNQ
2013170 WFTDA [9] DNQDNQ
2014149 WFTDA [10] DNQDNQ
2015134 WFTDA [11] DNQDNQ
2016209 WFTDA [12] DNQDNQ

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References

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