Queen City Roller Girls
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Metro area | Buffalo, New York |
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Country | United States |
Founded | 2006 |
Teams |
Travel teams: Lake Effect Furies (A) Subzero Sirens (B) Home teams: Alley Kats Devil Dollies Suicidal Saucies |
Track type(s) | Flat |
Venue | RiverWorks, Buffalo |
Affiliations | WFTDA |
Org. type | LLC |
Website | QCRG.net |
Queen City Roller Girls or QCRG,[1] are a women's flat-track roller derby league based in Buffalo, New York. Founded in 2006,[2] the league begins their tenth season in 2016. The QCRG are a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA).[3] Since 2016, Queen City plays their home games at Buffalo RiverWorks on the city's waterfront, drawing upwards of 1,000 fans to events,[4] with their 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]
Teams
The QCRG league is currently composed of three home teams: the Alley Kats, the Devil Dollies and the Suicidal Saucies. The Nickel City Knockouts, who won 4 consecutive QCRG 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 travel development team in 2016, named the Subzero Sirens.
QCRG also has an affiliated junior roller derby league, The Queen City Junior Roller Girls, which comprises 2 teams, The Cereal Killers and The Atomic Bettys. The juniors also have an All-Star travel team, The Queen City Jr Roller Girls.[6]
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.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9] The Furies entered the weekend as the ninth seed and improved to eighth by Sunday.[10] 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.[11] At the 2017 Division 1 Playoff in Dallas, Queen City won their opening game against Houston Roller Derby,[12] but then lost their quarterfinal to Arch Rival Roller Derby.[13] Queen City finished their weekend with a 270-77 consolation bracket win over Wasatch Roller Derby.[14]
Rankings
Season | Final ranking[15] | Playoffs | Championship |
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2011 | 15 E[16] | DNQ | DNQ |
2012 | 13 E[17] | DNQ | DNQ |
2013 | 48 WFTDA[18] | 9 D2[7] | DNQ |
2014 | 36 WFTDA[19] | 5 D2[8] | DNQ |
2015 | 47 WFTDA[20] | 8 D1[10] | DNQ |
2016 | 27 WFTDA[21] | 6 D1[11] | DNQ |
2017 | 18 WFTDA[22] | CR D1[14] | DNQ |
- CR = consolation round
References
- ↑ http://qcrg.net/
- ↑ History
- ↑ WFTDA Official Website
- ↑ Kearns, Michelle (9 January 2016). "Queen City Roller Derby league debuts new chapter at the waterfront". Buffalo News. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ↑ Shepherd, Shannon (28 May 2016). "Queen City Roller Girls sell 10,000 tickets". WIVB. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ↑ Teams
- 1 2 "August 23-25, 2013: Kalamazoo, Michigan". WFTDA. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- 1 2 Deadwards, Lisa; Fristoe, Chelsea (14 November 2014). "Roll Call! Let's run through WFTDA D2". Derby Central. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ↑ Deadwards, Lisa (3 October 2015). "D1O: #9 Queen City Crowned Victorious Against #8 Toronto, 232-229". Derby Central. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- 1 2 Deadwards, Lisa (14 October 2015). "2015 WFTDA D1 Playoffs: Omaha Central". Derby Central. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- 1 2 Deadwards, Lisa (19 September 2016). "2016 WFTDA D1 Playoffs: Vancouver Central". Derby Central. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ↑ Deadwards, Lisa (22 September 2017). "D1D: #6 Queen City freeze out #11 Houston, 195-104". Derby Central. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- ↑ "D1D: #3 Arch Rival controls #6 Queen City, 339-123". Derby Central. 24 September 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- 1 2 Deadwards, Lisa (25 September 2017). "D1D: #6 Queen City dominates #12 Wasatch, 270-77". Derby Central. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- ↑ "Current Rankings", WFTDA
- ↑ "Current Rankings". WFTDA. Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ↑ "Current Rankings". WFTDA. Archived from the original on 20 March 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ↑ "Rankings: December 31, 2013". WFTDA. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ↑ "Rankings: December 31, 2014". WFTDA. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ↑ "Rankings: December 31, 2015". WFTDA. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ↑ "Rankings: December 31, 2016 – WFTDA". wftda.com. WFTDA. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
- ↑ "Rankings: December 31, 2017 – WFTDA". wftda.com. WFTDA. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
External links
- QCRG Official Website
- Buffalo Riverworks