Terminal City Roller Derby (TCRD) is a flat track

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league based in

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. Founded in January 2006 as Terminal City Rollergirls, TCRD is a member of the

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(WFTDA).

History and organization

Terminal City was founded in 2006 by Michelle "Micki Mercury" Lamoureux, who was inspired by childhood memories of watching roller derby on television and recruited initial members with a

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ad. By 2009, Terminal City was drawing over 1,000 fans for home events. Terminal City is the first roller derby league in the Vancouver area, became an apprentice member of the

(WFTDA) in October 2010, and a full member of the WFTDA, initially placed in the WFTDA's West Region in March 2011. In September 2016, Terminal City hosted a 2016 International

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playoff tournament at the

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in the Vancouver suburb of

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. The league currently consists of one house team, Team Terminal City and one travel team, the Terminal City All-Stars. In 2010, Raw Meat was formed, a drop-in skating group open to all skill levels, which later became Terminal City Mix Tapes. Now, the league runs two Intro to Roller Derby programs per year. The spring 2020 program was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2019, the league announced it was updating its name to Terminal City Roller Derby.

WFTDA competition

The Terminal City All-Stars represents Terminal City within the WFTDA, and is

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by the association. In 2013, The All-Stars, at the time considered a WFTDA Division 2 team, qualified for Division 1 playoffs for the first time, entering the playoff tournament in

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as the tenth

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, and finishing the tournament in seventh place. At the 2016 Division 1 tournament in Vancouver, Terminal City was the fifth seed, and finished in fifth place. In 2017, Terminal City was the tenth seed at the

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Division 1 Playoff, but lost 197-145 to

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and 257-181 to

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and finished out of the medals. In 2018, Terminal City was the fourth seed at the North American West Continental Cup held in

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, and after losing their quarterfinal to Calgary Roller Derby finished the weekend with a 264-183 victory over

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in the consolation round. In 2019, the Terminal City All-Stars did not compete in WFTDA sanctioned play, and they were therefore ineligible for post-season play for the first time since 2012.

Rankings

* ''CR = consolation round''

International play

Terminal City skaters Luludemon and 8Mean Wheeler were selected for

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at the

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.Kimiya Shokoohi,
Vancouver's Luludemon rolls her way to the top
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'', 12 October 2011 8Mean Wheeler (now skating as MacKenzie), Luludemon and four other Terminal City Skaters, Buffy Sainte Fury, Evada Peron, Eve Hallows and Kim Janna were named to the 2014 edition of Team Canada. In addition, TCRG's Mack the Mouth was named to Team Canada's coaching staff in both 2011 and 2014.

References

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