Rainy City to Host the Next Roller Derby World Cup in Manchester, England in February 2018
Rainy City, the 2016 UK success story, has landed the 3rd international Roller Derby World Cup. Building off of their achievements on and off the track as an emerging and now leading league in Europe, #21 ranked Rainy City is well positioned to host and carry out the tournament as a league with exceptional PR and Marketing skills and as one of the only leagues Internationally to own their own venue (The Thunderdome). The tournament venue will be held from February 1st to the 4th at the Event City venue in Greater Manchester — the second largest exhibition space in the UK outside of London with 172,000 Sq. ft of space.
WFTDA broadcaster and Rainy City Founder @Biertrix is excited to host and show Manchester to the Derby World, “Rainy City are incredibly excited to have been chosen to host the next World Cup. On a personal level, having watched skaters from our league progress and play at both of the previous World Cups, and to of had the experience of announcing in 2014, this feels like a massive achievement. We cant wait to show the world how amazing Greater Manchester is.”
The UK league becomes the 3rd nation to host the Roller Derby World Cup with the first event being held in Toronto, Ontario (Canada) hosted by Toronto Roller Derby (ToRD) in December 2011 and the second held in Dallas, Texas in December 2014. The 2018 World Cup is expected to be the largest yet.
The location will be a relief to European teams and skaters who are already fatigued from years of travel to North America for the World Cup, Playoffs and Champs. The location will also finally tilt the advantage back to European leagues who won’t have as much in the way of travel or time zone issues to overcome.
The location will be welcome pressure for Team England as they will be competing for their 3rd straight medal — winning Bronze in 2011 and silver in 2014.
The decision was announced today by the Roller Derby World Cup Committee — the advisory and organizing committee for the 2018 World Cup. It consists of a panel of 10 representatives from all areas of the Roller Derby community: skaters, NSOs and referees, photographers, announcers and journalists, and is chaired by Robin Graves, who has extensive experience from organizing the previous two World Cups.
The Roller Derby Nations Committee is a body formed post the 2014 World Cup, consisting of representatives from each Nation capable of competing in a World Cup or other International Event, and representing their collective views and will. Since its formal convening in late 2015, it has established a series of criteria for the functioning of National Team based events, announced from August 2016, including support of RDWC as the organizers of the 2018 Roller Derby World Cup.
They will shortly be making further announcements concerning Applications for Teams, Officials, Announcers and Photographers.
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