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Adelaide Roller Derby

Adelaide Roller Derby (ADRD) is a roller derby league based in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 2007, the league has four competitive home teams; The Mile Die Club, The Good Ship Salty, The Road Train Rollers and The Wild Hearses, and an officiating 'Team Zebra'. There are also two combined representative teams, the "Ads" and the “Rads” that compete against other leagues and are currently ranked 3rd and 15th respectively in the Oceania region. Adelaide Roller Derby's home season is held at the Adelaide Showgrounds, and the league is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA).

History
Adelaide Roller Derby was founded in 2007, with their inaugural season launching in July 2008. Between the club's formation and the start of their first season, the club hosted the first interstate roller derby competition in Australia, Skate of Origin, against the Victorian Roller Derby League. Their first local competition started in 2008 and featured two teams, the Mile Die Club and the Salty Dolls, with the Salty Dolls winning the three-match series. The season started with an appearance leading the Adelaide Fringe parade, and ended in a double-header with a win to the Road Train Rollers. In 2011 four teams competed over six bouts, with a double-header grand final won by the Salty Dolls. In addition to the local season, three interstate/international competitions were played. The first was with Bunbury and Perth teams at Arena Joondalup, Adelaide Roller Derby was featured in the documentary film This Is Roller Derby. The league was accepted into the Women's Flat Track Derby Association Apprentice program on 24 January 2014. In March 2015, Adelaide was made a full member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association . Team Name Change At the first double header of the 2022 season, The Salty Dolls were officially renamed "The Salties", the name change comes after several Non-Binary identifying players joined the league, in attempts to promote inclusion. Death of Sarah Strong-Law On February 21, 2022, the league founder Sarah Strong-Law (aka Barrelhouse Bessy) was killed in a car accident involving a truck on Kangaroo Island. The funeral was broadcast via Facebook Live and Zoom for people in Adelaide who couldn't travel or who were stuck in isolation due to COVID-19. ==WFTDA competition==
WFTDA competition
In 2017, Adelaide was ranked at 23rd overall in the WFTDA, but was ineligible for Division 1 Playoffs for not meeting sanctioned game minimum requirements. In 2019, Adelaide formally qualified for the WFTDA postseason for the first time, as the tenth seed for the North American West Continental Cup held in Orem, Utah in the United States. The Continental Cups model groups teams regionally by geography, and without sufficient numbers to hold a standalone tournament in the Asia Pacific region, Adelaide was sent to Utah. There they upset seventh-seeded Jet City Roller Derby in the opening round, before losing to Sun State Roller Derby in the quarterfinals, and ended the weekend with a consolation bracket win against Rocky Mountain Rollergirls. Adelaide hosted the 2024 Oceania WFTDA Regional Championships at The Great Southern Slam tournament in Wayville, South Australia from June 8-10, 2024. The first and second place teams would be going to the global WFTDA Championships. Adelaide entered as the third seed and won their first game against Pirate City Rollers who entered as the sixth seed and had already won against Canberra Roller Derby League's Vice City Rollers. Adelaide's second game went similarly, winning against the second-seeded Brisbane Punk Blockers, upsetting Brisbane for the second-place spot with Adelaide securing a bid to the Championships. WFTDA rankings • CR = consolation round • no rankings 2020-2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic • NPS = no postseason due to COVID-19 pandemic ==References==
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