Brute Leggers. Rum Rollers. Derby Dolls. Dollinquents. Do you feel a roller derby event coming on?
These teams and a few more will compete this weekend in Royal Brawl, the biggest event so far in the flat track roller derby season. The invitational tournament happens this weekend at the Centennial Arena. The two-day event starts Friday at 5 p.m. with opening ceremonies.
The Brute Leggers and the Rum Rollers are both travel teams with Royal City Roller Girls, Guelph’s popular and fiercely competitive roller derby organization. They will be brawling it out with teams from across the country. The event promises to be action-packed, featuring both sanctioned and regulation bouts.
There are two games on Friday night. The first starts at 6 p.m., pitting Ottawa’s Rideau Valley Roller Derby’s Vixens against the Winnipeg Roller Derby League’s All Stars.
Guelph’s Brute Leggers will compete in the second game of the evening, 8 p.m., against Waterloo-based Tri-City Roller Derby’s Thunder.
Saturday’s schedule, starting 9 a.m., features five matches. Guelph is represented in games 1, 2 and 5.
A full weekend pass is $25, $22 for students, seniors, and Canadian Roller Derby Information card holders. Saturday full day tickets are $20 and $18.
Tickets for Friday evening are $12 and $10, and Saturday evening tickets are the same price.
Centennial Arena is a fully accessible venue.
Trackside will be licensed, with Royal City Brewing Company and Wellington Brewery on hand. There will be food by Fionn MacCool’s Guelph and Fo’ Cheezy Food Truck.
There will be a Friday night after party at Fionn MacCool’s, 494 Edinburgh Rd., and a Saturday after party at The eBar, 41 Quebec St. Both go from 10:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. There’s no cover charge.
The Royal City Roller Girls was formed in 2010. Our Ladies of Pain, Killer Queens, and Violet Uprising are its other teams.
RCRG’s 2017 home opener is on Saturday, May 27, from 5-11 p.m.
