http://wftda.com/leagues/apprentice

What a week! The London Rollergirls are very proud and excited to announce that we have become the first derby league outside the US & Canada to be accepted into the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association! We join WFTDA as apprentice members and over the coming months will be working towards attaining full member status and ranking.

Next stop: Eastern Regionals???

Millions and millions of thanks from all of us here at the LRG for voting for us in the Great Britons competition! We just got official word that we won the public vote, and we will get 14 free flights to New York next April! This is such a massive boost for us and takes a lot of the pressure off fundraising for the tour. We promise to bring back what we learn!!

WINNERS!

The London Rollergirls are holding a fundraiser party to help send our all-star team to the US next year! If you’ve been to one of our parties before, you know the drill; if not (and why not?) we’ll have bands, rollergirl DJs, a delicious bake sale, merch for sale, dancing and rollergirls aplenty!

Playing for us this time are the fabulous Squirrel Skin Slippers.

We’ll be hosting this event along with the very awesome Bulldog Gin - who will offer some fabulous cocktail promos. Event starts at 8:00 pm and our bit of the event will end around 9.30 but there’s a rock night on after which we hope everyone will stay on for with us. So come early to hang out with the London Rollergirls and help us raise some money for our future bout touring plans!

Location:
http://www.thedenandcentro.com/

And dont forget!! We’re still needing your votes to help us win some flights to the US for the tour, too! Voting is ony open for a couple more days so if you haven’t voted already, please go to http://www.greatbritons.ba.com/users/23247 and vote for us! Leave a comment if you like too :)

Drum roll please…

The London Rollergirls are pleased and proud to announce that on March 20th, 2010, we will be hosting none other than the Texas Rollergirls’ Hustlers!

The Texas Rollergirls are widely regarded as the godmothers of women’s flat track roller derby being the original league that got it all going back in 2002. The Hustlers feature several members of the fearsome Texecutioners, the TXRG all-star team (ranked #1 in the WFTDA South Central region and heading to Nationals in November as one of the top four seeds) as well as a couple of girls who have been playing derby right since the start. We’re incredibly proud and excited to host them in London, and we know this will be our toughest test yet.

More info to come soon regarding venue, ticket info and other exciting derby events happening that weekend, but for now, save the date… if you’re in the UK and you love derby, London is where you want to be that weekend.

We have grand plans for 2010. Oh yes we do. And the biggest and the grandest of those plans is to get our undefeated European Champion all-star team, London Brawling, over to the home of roller derby: the USA. We have a tour of the US East Coast planned in April, with some bouts and practices lined up against some great teams. This will be an amazing chance for us to learn and to improve our skills, and to prove ourselves against some really good, established derby teams.

But we need to get there. And you can help with that. We’re currently shortlisted in a British Airways competition to win our flights to New York, and we need votes to win! Please help us - go to http://www.greatbritons.ba.com/shortlists and vote for Lorna “Kamikaze Kitten” Brown, and help us get to America!

Final score from last weekend’s game in Stuttgart:

Stuttgart Valley Rollergirlz 45 - 145 LRG Brawl Saints

Well done ladies and thanks to SVRG for being amazing hosts! Some photos are available here: Flickr and here: Stuttgarter Zeitung

Upcoming news: very exciting announcements about our bout on March 20th, our plans for next year, and our first attempts at world domination…

For those of you who are early birds on Saturday morning, yes that was us you may have seen whizzing by on BBC Breakfast!

For those of you who aren’t (like me) you can see the video here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8286877.stm

the wait is almost over… we are nearly back in action! Here’s the dates for our new season!

10th October 2009: Stuttgart Valley Rollergirlz vs LRG Brawl Saints (in Stuttgart - www.rollergirlz.de for tickets)
5th December 2009: Steam Rollers vs Ultraviolent Femmes
6th February 2010: Suffra Jets vs Ultraviolent Femmes
20th March 2010: LRG London Brawling vs SUPER EXCITING SECRET OPPONENTS (TBA)
22nd May 2010 Steam Rollers vs Suffra Jets
17th July 2010 Season Championship

Stay tuned for venue and ticket details. All dates are subject to change.

photo by Teshi

LONDON ROLLERGIRLS ARE THE FIRST EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS!

In a bruising final bout, the London Rollergirls defeated the Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames 346-13 to capture the inaugural European championship. The Glasgow Roller Girls took third place, beating fellow Scots Auld Reekie Rollergirls 120-70.

Huge thanks to all the leagues who took part, the fans who came to watch, and the amazing members of the London Rollergirls who worked so hard this weekend and for the weeks leading up to Roll Britannia for making all this possible. See you next year?

Check out this awesome trailer courtesy of our own Baron Von Strange!

Tickets for Roll Britannia now on sale!

London Rollergirls are hosting ROLL BRITANNIA, the first European roller derby tournament, on Saturday and Sunday, 18 & 19 July 2009 at Brompton Hall, part of the Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre. This will be the roller derby event of the year: 2 days, 12 leagues from across the UK and Germany, and 16 action-packed roller derby bouts!

Full details of the event and tickets are available on the Roll Britannia site: www.rollbritannia.com

Participating leagues are
Auld Reekie Rollergirls (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Berlin Bombshells (Berlin, Germany)
Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames (Birmingham, England)
Central City Rollergirls (Birmingham, England)
Glasgow Roller Girls (Glasgow, Scotland)
Leeds Roller Dolls (Leeds, England)
London Rockin Rollers (London, England)
London Rollergirls (London, England)
Rainy City Rollergirls (Manchester, England)
Royal Rebel Rollers (mixed team of Middlesborough Milk Rollers, Rebellion Rollergirls, and Windsor Rollergirls (Middlesborough, Kempston, & Windsor, England))
Stuttgart Valley Rollergirlz (Stuttgart, Germany)
Team East Angrier (mixed team of Romsey Town Rollerbillies and Brawlin’ Angels Rollergirls (Cambridge & Bedford, England))