The 2018 Roller Derby World Cup was the third international women's
Roller Derby World Cup, taking place on February 1–4 at
EventCity, in
Manchester
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, United Kingdom, with 38 teams competing. An international
roller derby
Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leaguesA Roller Derby league is synonymous with an individual club or team in other team sports, as ...
tournament, it was organised by a committee consisting of ten representatives from various areas of the roller derby community.
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Some teams selected their skaters as early as October 2016, when the tournament was expected to be held in 2017.
USA Roller Derby successfully defended their title, defeating
Team Australia in the final.
Participating teams
Teams representing 38 countries participated.
While most national teams are representing a country in the conventional sense, the members of Team Indigenous comprise skaters of
Indigenous heritage from Canada, the United States, Argentina, New Zealand and Samoa. The Korean team does not specify
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Tournament structure
The tournament ran on four tracks over four days, with an opening round of short, 30-minute games on the first day to determine seedings for the second and third days, via a ranking algorithm.
The second and third days saw two additional games for each team (for a total of four games guaranteed for all participants), resulting in a final rating and ranking by the same algorithm. The top eight teams in that ranking proceeded to an 8-way elimination tournament, with losing teams playing additional games for final ranking. The teams in positions ninth through sixteenth played one additional game for final ranking. (This system is essentially, a modified
Swiss-system tournament
A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other ...
for the first three days, with strengths for matchings derived from a power ranking, and Fontes-style matching of multiple games between recalculation of strengths.)
Ranking Round
Blue Round
Pink Round
Yellow Round
Green Round
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Classification games for 5th-8th place
Semi-finals
Final classification games
Match for 15th place
Match for 13th place
Match for 11th place
Match for 9th place
Match for 7th place
Match for 5th place
Third place play-off
Final
Tournament team rankings
Exhibition matches
In addition to competition matches, three exhibition matches were played during the tournament.
International Juniors Expo
Broadcast
The entire weekend was broadcast online via
pay-per-view
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Events can be purchased through a multichannel television platform using their electronic program ...
streaming,
and the tournament's fourth day was additionally carried on
BBC Sport
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.
References
{{Reflist
External links
Official website
Roller Derby World Cup
Roller Derby World Cup
International sports competitions in Manchester
2018 in sport in Manchester