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By November 2011, the league had 83 skaters, and had created the first men's roller derby team in France. The men's team, the Quad Guards, travelled to London to play Southern Discomfort, in what that team described as "the first international men's roller derby game in the UK". In May 2012, it played the first men's roller derby bout in France, against The Inhuman League from Sheffield in England.
Five skaters from the league were selected to skate for
, MRDA, 1 December 2013
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 ...
league based in Toulouse
Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...
, France
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. Founded in 2010, the league currently consists of two men's teams, three women's teams and one junior team.
The league was founded in February 2010 by Chakk Attakk, following the release of ''Whip It!
''Whip It'' is a 2009 American Sports film, sports comedy drama film co-produced and directed by Drew Barrymore from a screenplay by Shauna Cross, based on her 2007 novel ''Derby Girl''. It stars Elliot Page as a teenage girl from the fictional t ...
'' in France (under the title ''Bliss''). Having skating experience, she recruited the first five women through the Roulez Rose website. In mid-2010, six skaters from the league competed against Les Petits Morts de Bordeaux in the first flat track roller derby bout held in France.
By November 2011, the league had 83 skaters, and had created the first men's roller derby team in France. The men's team, the Quad Guards, travelled to London to play Southern Discomfort, in what that team described as "the first international men's roller derby game in the UK". In May 2012, it played the first men's roller derby bout in France, against The Inhuman League from Sheffield in England.
Five skaters from the league were selected to skate for France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
at the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup
The Roller Derby World Cup is an international women's roller derby tournament formerly organized by ''Blood & Thunder magazine'', and currently organized by the Roller Derby World Cup Committee. Teams of amateur skaters from around the world c ...
.
In December 2013, the Quad Guards were accepted as members of the Men's Roller Derby Association
The Men's Roller Derby Association (MRDA) is the international governing body of men's flat track roller derby. It was founded in 2007 under the name Men's Derby Coalition (renamed to Men's Roller Derby Association in 2011), and currently has 59 ...
.The MRDA Announces New Member Leagues, MRDA, 1 December 2013
Awards
2012 : Vice European champions MERDC in 2012 (Final against Southern Discomfort (London)). 2013 : European champions MERDC in 2013 (Final against Southern Discomfort (London)). 2015-2016 : French champions 2016-2017 : French championsReferences