Assassination City Roller Derby

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Assassination City Roller Derby
Assassination City Roller Derby.png
Metro area Plano, TX
Country United States
Founded2005
Teams
  • Conspiracy
  • Deadly Kennedys
  • Lone Star Assassins
  • Viva La Revolucion!
Track type(s)Flat
VenueThunderbird Roller Rink
(Past venues: Fair Park Coliseum)
Affiliations WFTDA
Website acderby.com

Assassination City Roller Derby (ACRD) is a women's flat-track roller derby league based in Plano, Texas. Assassination City is a founding member [1] of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). [2]

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Founded in 2005, the league consists of three home teams and one travel team. The home teams compete against each other in league play during the official home season, which typically runs from February to September. [3] The league's All-Star Skaters make up the travel team, called Conspiracy. This group of skaters compete at the interleague level, against teams from other leagues and cities. The games or bouts played at this level affect the league's overall ranking among the top teams in the WFTDA.

ACRD has become active not only as competitors in the roller derby community, but as participants in the local community. [4]

The 2011 season was moved to the Fair Park Coliseum, where it attracted 2,000 fans to its first bout. [5] At the close of the 2013 season Assassination City returned to its roller rink roots at Broadway Skateland, where they played to a packed house and a sold-out crowd for the 2014 season opener, held February 8, 2014. February 2015 ushered the amateur sport into Plano, TX at Thunderbird Roller Rink.

WFTDA competition

Rankings

SeasonFinal Ranking [6] Playoffs Championship
200621 [7] —15 [8]
200726 [9] DNQDNQ
20087 SC [10] DNQDNQ
200916 SC [11] DNQDNQ
201016 SC [12] DNQDNQ
201119 SC [13] DNQDNQ
201225 SC [14] DNQDNQ
2013101 WFTDA [15] DNQDNQ
2014163 WFTDA [16] DNQDNQ
2015244 WFTDA [17] DNQDNQ
2016135 WFTDA [18] DNQDNQ
2017115 WFTDA [19] DNQDNQ
2018125 WFTDA [20] DNQDNQ
201995 WFTDA [21] DNQDNQ
202079 WFTDA [22] Season CancelledSeason Cancelled
202179 WFTDA [23] Season CancelledSeason Cancelled
202279 WFTDA [24] No Sanctioned PlayNo Sanctioned Play

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