London Rollergirls' final bout of the season

The London Rollergirls play their final bout in a thrilling high-speed event to decide the season champions.

First, all the way from France, the Paris Rollergirls take on London league team the Steam Rollers before the Ultraviolent Femmes face the Suffra Jets in this exciting double header. London Rollergirls' league teams have never been beaten by an outside team. Can Paris be the first?

Roller derby is one of the fastest-growing sports for women in the UK and around the world, involving speed, strength, strategy on roller skates, and all of the teams are packed with tireless athletes.

Earl’s Court also has an on-site bar and café, and a range of roller derby merchandise and independent craft and vintage stalls. The London Rollergirls’ successful charity raffle makes a return, as do the Krispy Kreme selling rollergirls, DJs, Jeerios and commentators who’ll explain the game plays for first-timers. All of this and there’s also the rocking after party with the skaters at a venue round the corner from Earl’s Court.
Tickets are now on sale from the London Rollergirls’ website.
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What’s roller derby?
"One of Britain's fastest-growing grassroots sports… the perfect pastime for feminists with attitude" The Guardian
"Rapidly becoming the next big thing" The Independent
"The most exciting sport on wheels" Time Out
It's an all-female sport played with two teams of four skating around an elliptical track, and one point-scorer per team (the "jammer") trying to battle her way past them all and lap them as many times as she can. The jammer gets one point for each opposing player she passes. You can't trip, grab or punch, but you can shove opposing players off the track using hips or shoulders, and try and knock them off balance. It originated in 1930s America, but there’s been a major new revival that started in Texas in 2001. The fact that Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Juno star Ellen Page turned up at a roller derby match in LA shows how much this independent, grass-roots sport has hit the big time. Whip It!, a film directed by Drew about a young rollergirl played by Ellen, hit UK cinema screens in April 2010 and introduced the sport to an even bigger audience.

About the London Rollergirls
The London Rollergirls formed in April 2006 to bring roller derby to the UK. We're made up of four league teams (Suffra Jets, Ultraviolent Femmes, Steam Rollers and Harbour Grudges). Our all-star travel team (London Brawling) and all-star reserves team (Brawl Saints) play teams from other cities around the world. The London Rollergirls are the reigning champions of UK and European roller derby, and London Brawling entered the Derby News Network’s international power rankings at an exciting #15 in 2010. We play to 800+ crowds at games (called "bouts") that also include DJs spinning rock, pop and punk; charity raffles; prizes; merchandise stands and a riotous afterparty. The London Rollergirls are also one of the first leagues outside of the USA to be granted a membership with the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association – the governing body for roller derby. In April 2011 London Brawling hosted top standard US teams in the Anarchy in the UK tournament, the first ever WFTDA-sanctioned tournament outside the US. Then in September 2011 they won a place in the hard-fought East Coast Regionals. Going in ranked 10th out of 10 the team played the best roller derby of their lives to walk out with fifth place.