Western New York's Official All-Women Flat Track Roller Derby
Apr 30, 2013
The QCRG double-header on April 20 at the Rainbow Roller Rink in North Tonawanda was anything but mellow as QCRG’s Lake Effect Furies treated Long Island’s Roller Rebels to a bit of Buffalo weather and, in the second bout of the night, the Suicidal Saucies and Devil Dollies fought neck-and-neck in the QCRG’s seventh annual Hell on Wheels match, with the...
Apr 10, 2013
Spring fever will burn through the air during QCRG’s annual Hell on Wheels double-header as the Lake Effect Furies rumble with downstate’s Long Island Roller Rebels and in the second bout of the night the Suicidal Saucies will take on the Devil Dollies at the Rainbow Rink in North Tonawanda on Saturday, April 20. The derby action starts at 7 p.m. This year...
Mar 22, 2013
During the Happy Days bout on March 30, QCRG fans can tune in to see which team—the Alley Kats or Nickel City Knockouts—will kick-start the jukebox and spin a victory tune. Will last year’s champions the KOs continue their winning streak, or has their time for victory jumped the shark? Perhaps the biggest disparity between the two teams is the amount of...
Feb 28, 2013
Felines meet fire during March 9’s “Tiki Trouble” bout as the Alley Kats take on the Suicidal Saucies for the first time in the 2013 QCRG season. Though the Saucies may have placed fourth last year and the Kats ranked third, both teams have an optimistic, renewed determination for this coming year. When asked what makes the Alley Kats stand apart from the...
Jan 8, 2013
Suicidal Saucies vs. Nickel City Knockouts QCRG’s January 5th season opener between the Suicidal Saucies and the Nickel City Knockouts had new rules and old rivalries; veteran skaters and newly minted draftees; new faces in stripes and pink as well as familiar voices on the microphone. And, of course, there was some hard-hitting, fast-moving roller derby. The...
Dec 24, 2012
The Queen City Roller Girls are rolling into the 2013 season with a doubleheader at the January 5th home opener “Three’s Company.” The Suicidal Saucies will be taking on the 2012 Queen City Cup Champions, the Nickel City Knockouts at 6:45 p.m. followed by the Lake Effect Furies taking on the Black-N-Bluegrass Rollergirls from Kentucky in a WFDTA...
Nov 5, 2012
Queen City Roller Girls mixed it up a couple of weeks ago. We gathered the skaters from all of the teams: the Dollies, the Saucies, the Knockouts, the Kats, the Furies and all the Queen’s Court skaters and lined them up. Then we picked two teams from all of the skaters. On Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 7:30 the two teams will take the track at the Rainbow...
Sep 13, 2012
Addy Rawl didn’t intend to become a roller derby ambassador when she signed up for the Queen City Roller Girls training camp in 2009. Not even when she tried out for Team USA. But in essence, that is what she has become. She recently arrived home from an eight day trip to Helsinki, Finland and London, England where she and 15 other Team USA skaters, plus...
Sep 5, 2012
It has been a hot and sunny summer around Western New York. Most years the majority of QCRG takes the summer off from derby and heads to the beaches and woods of Western New York. But this summer the rink has been filled with teams getting ready to head on the road. Like July, this August has been packed with roller derby goodness. On August 11th, the Icies...
Aug 13, 2012
It has been the busiest off-season yet for the QCRG teams. Everyone, it seems, has been burning up the highway showing QCRG style everywhere they go. The Queens Court and the Knockouts started out the road trips on June 30th. The Knockouts went west to Youngstown, Ohio to participate in the Ruckus in the Rust Belt Tournament. Most of the games played in the...
Jul 21, 2012
As the Queens Court team the Rollin’ Royals took to the track on Saturday, July 14 in Toronto, Ontario, they found a floor that was slicker than they were used to, a venue that was sweltering, and nerves that had kicked into high gear. Led by Coach Ace Bandage, the seventeen rookies and two first-year players took on other teams in a fresh meat tournament...
Jul 4, 2012
The East Coast Derby Extravaganza, hosted by the Philly Roller Girls, has become one of the places to derby during the month of June. Founded in 2007, this was the sixth year of the full weekend filled with sanctioned and challenge bouts as well as open scrimmages running simultaneously on three tracks. It is an amazing whirlwind of awesome derby whether you...
Jun 15, 2012
North Tonawanda came out for QCRG Day as the league and the city partied all day at the Carnegie Art Center. A parade down Goundry Street led the fans to the final championship cup bout of 2012. The Nickel City Knockouts stomped through the season with sound defeats of the Alley Kats and the Suicidal Saucies and met up with the two-for-three Devil Dollies to...
Jun 4, 2012
QCRG Queen’s Court was created as a home for people who want to join our league and learn the sport of roller derby. It is a place for people to start skating, who have not yet passed assessments or did not get drafted to a team. It is a group that learns together, grows together and begins turning their derby dreams into a reality through hard work and...
May 15, 2012
On Saturday, April 28 the Ice Ice Babies (we call them the Icies) made junior roller derby history. They played their first full bout in Barrie, Ont. against Toronto Junior Roller Derby in what is rumored to have been the first ever international junior derby bout. The Icies formed in November, and meet once a week to practice. Until that Saturday, they have...
May 2, 2012
April 21, 2012 wasn’t just another Hell on Wheels. It wasn’t just another rematch of the Suicidal Saucies and the Devil Dollies. It was the sixth rematch of the teams in the sixth game of the sixth season of QCRG. Get it? 666. There were some other significant similarities for the teams as well. Maybe not quite in the realm of Kennedy’s secretary...
Apr 13, 2012
The Lake Effect Furies dove headfirst into the month of March with the intent of making strides in their goal of reaching Eastern Regionals. Four games later, they are more experienced and wiser, but not statistically closer to their goal. First off, on March 3, was a rematch against the Suburban Brawl of Yonkers, New York. The game was a nail biter down to...
Apr 10, 2012
The fireworks started early for Devil Dollie fans on March 10, 2012, as the Dollies started their bout against the Alley Kats off strong, setting the pace for the bout in the first jams by stacking their opening blocker lines with heavy hitters Lip Service (360), Vanilla Creamz (234), Val Du Morte (63) and Red Fox (41), with Day Tripher (711) as the jammer. The...
Mar 2, 2012
It’s almost mid-season for the Queen City Roller Girls and it’s only February. The Suicidal Saucies were back for their second bout in a row after being narrowly defeated by the Alley Kats. The Knockouts came into this match up after a win over the Devil Dollies in the QCRG season opener. This bout was also the first time siblings were pitted against...
The winter that almost did not happen finally blew into town just in time for Buffalo’s Winterfest & Powder Keg Festival. Amidst the touch football and street hockey rinks and ice sculptures, the Queen City Roller Girls braved the chill to occupy the volunteer tent. Temperatures dipped into the low 20s and 10s as Sheer Tara, Punk n Pi, Bully Holiday and...
This past weekend the Lake Effect Furies traveled east to Portland, Maine for their second bout of the season to take on the Port Authorities in a much anticipated rematch. Day Tripher started the bout out strong with the first lead jam of the night and four quick points. Maine was only able to score one point. The next nine jams were nail biters as the Furies...
Feb 2, 2012
This weekend, the Furies caravanned westward to Grand Rapids, Michigan for their first bout of the season to play the Grand Raggidy All Stars. In a tough bout where the Furies started out strong and stayed within striking distance until the very end, Grand Raggidy won 161-123. The first period saw strong strategic and cohesive play from the Furies which seemed...
Jan 18, 2012
Ice Ice Babies Jr. Roller Derby Expo Bout Sunday, Jan. 15 is a day that 27 WNY girls will recall their entire lives as the night of their first real bout. QCRG’s Jr. Derby league, the Ice Ice Babies skated an expo bout last Sunday night. We’ll let the video speak for itself – you can view it on the bottom of this article! Both teams-...
Queen City Roller Girls have new champions, the Devil Dollies. In a close bout Saturday night the Dollies’ strategic packwork overcame the jammer-heavy Nickel City Knockouts. The Knockouts took an early lead racking up over 20 points the first few jams and the teams went on to trade the lead back and forth all night. Both teams played outstandingly well...
May 2, 2011
Lake Effect Furies Rank #17! As some of you have already heard, our league was recently inducted into an international organization called the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). Now, not only do we get to see how The Lake Effect Furies measure up against other WFTDA travel teams, we get to cheer them on as they are pitted against some of the...
