Pirate City Rollers

Pirate City Rollers

Metro area	Auckland
Country	New Zealand
Founded	2006
Teams	Dead Wreckoning Mascara Massacre Blackheart Bruisers Broadside Brawlers (Travel) All Scars (Travel)
Track type(s)	Flat
Venue	Trusts Stadium
Affiliations	WFTDA
Org. type	Incorporated Society
Website	piratecityrollers.com

Pirate City Rollers is a women's flat track roller derby league based in Auckland. Founded in 2006, the league currently consists of three Home Teams and two Travel Teams.

History

The Pirates were founded by Black Dahlia, who had previously played roller derby in the United States. They formed in 2006, and claim to be the oldest roller derby league outside North America.^[1] In 2007, the Pirates played their first home season,^[1] and they bouted against Richter City Roller Derby in 2009, in New Zealand's first bout between leagues from two different cities, winning 174-88 in front of a crowd of 1,200 people.^[2]

In October 2011, Pirate City became an apprentice member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association,.^[3] It graduated to full membership of the WFTDA in September 2013,^[4] the same year they were crowned the champions of the Derby Royale national tournament.^[5]

Teams

Pirate City Rollers have three home teams in their 2015 Intraleague competition. They have two travel teams competing in the New Zealand Interleague competition as well as in games and events overseas.

Home Teams

• Blackheart Bruisers
• Dead Wreckoning
• Mascara Massacre

2015 season

Travel Teams

• All Scars
• Broadside Brawlers

Skaters

2015 Roster

International

Pirate City Rollers were the only league from New Zealand to field a team at the Great Southern Slam, the Asia-Pacific region's first roller derby tournament, held in June 2010.^[6] They easily beat Sydney and Western Australia in the pool matches, and Perth in the quarter final, before succumbing to Victorian in the semi final, and narrowly losing to hosts Adelaide in the third-place play-off.^[7]

The Pirates travel Team 'All Scars' played at Beach Brawl 2015, hosted by Gold Coast Derby Grrls and held in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, USA, 12–14 June,^[8] where they aimed to be the first WTFDA internationally ranked team in New Zealand.^[9] From their performance at this tournament they debuted at number 87 in the WFTDA 30 June 2015 rankings,^[10] 69 places above the other New Zealand team Richter City Roller Derby which also debuted in these rankings.

2011 World Cup

The inaugural 2011 Roller Derby World Cup was hosted by Toronto Roller Derby,^[11] and was held 1–4 December 2011 at The Bunker at Downsview Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Seven Pirate City skaters were selected to play for Team New Zealand, with the coach and assistant coach also coming from the league.^[12] Team New Zealand finished 8th out of 13 countries competing. Pirate City Rollers skater Skate The Muss was awarded MVP for Team New Zealand.^[13]

Round	Date	Result
Group C	1 December 2011	New Zealand	8	377	United States
Group C	2 December 2011	New Zealand	124	111	Scotland
Elimination	3 December 2011	New Zealand (9)	142	127	Germany (8)
Quarterfinals	3 December 2011	New Zealand	8	470	United States
Consolation Semifinals	3 December 2011	New Zealand (9)	66	94	Sweden (5)
Placement Round	3 December 2011	New Zealand (9)	129	180	France (6)

2014 World Cup

All four of the Pirate City Rollers skaters selected for the 2014 Team New Zealand training squad also made the final 20 selection to play the 2014 Roller Derby World Cup,^[14] held 4–7 December at Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas, USA. Team New Zealand finished 5th out of 30 countries competing.

Round	Date	Result
Group 1	4 December 2014	New Zealand	218	59	Norway
Group 1	4 December 2014	New Zealand	315	15	South Africa
Group 1	5 December 2014	New Zealand	250	60	Wales
Playoffs	6 December 2014	New Zealand	356	91	Netherlands
Quarterfinals	6 December 2014	New Zealand	56	284	Australia

Hire-A-Pirate

Pirate City Rollers are available to skate at a range of events. Past events include:

• X Factor 2015
• K'Road First Thursdays 2015
• Open Streets 2015
• ICC Cricket World Cup 2015
• Dick Smith NRL Auckland Nines 2015
• Farmer’s Santa Parade 2014
• ITM 500 V8 Supercars 2014
• Beam Bar Legend NZ 2013

References

1. 1 2 "The History of Roller Derby & PCR", Pirate City Rollers
2. ↑ Hadyn Green, "Skate Highway One: New Zealand's First Interleague Bout!", Blood and Thunder #15, pp.36-38
3. ↑ "WFTDA accepts 14 leagues into apprentice program", WFTDA, 27 October 2011
4. ↑ "WFTDA Welcomes 14 Full Member Leagues". WFTDA. 10 September 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013. 
5. ↑ "Pirate City Rollers Take Out National Roller Derby Competition", Scoop, 30 October 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2015
6. ↑ Beck Wise, "Preview: Great Southern Slam", Derby News Network, 10 June 2010
7. ↑ Beck Wise, "Tournament Recap: The Great Southern Slam", Derby News Network, 23 June 2010
8. ↑ http://www.beachbrawl2015.com/ Retrieved 18 May 2015
9. ↑ http://piratecityrollers.com/newsite/category/news/ Help Us Get To Florida. Retrieved 18 May 2015
10. ↑ http://www.wftda.com/rankings Retrieved 20 July 2015
11. ↑ Yuen, Jenny (20 February 2011). "Roller Derby attracts a crowd". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 8 August 2011. 
12. ↑ Roller Derby Team NZ
13. ↑ Roller Derby AU "DAY FOUR: Roller Derby World Cup", Retrieved 9 December 2011.
14. ↑ http://www.rollerderby.org.nz/the-team/