Mad Rollin' Dolls

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Mad Rollin' Dolls
Mad Rollin Dolls logo.png
Metro area Madison, Wisconsin
Country United States
Founded2004
TeamsDairyland Dolls (A team)
Team Unicorn (B team)
Quad Squad
Reservoir Dolls
Unholy Rollers
Vaudeville Vixens
Track type(s)Flat
Venue Alliant Energy Center
Affiliations WFTDA
Org. typeLLC
Website madrollindolls.com

Mad Rollin' Dolls (MRD) is a women's flat-track roller derby league based in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded in 2004, MRD is a founding member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), [1] and was the fourth league to join the fledgling organization. [2] Since 2006, Mad Rollin' Dolls have qualified for WFTDA Playoffs and/or Championships every year.

Roller derby contact sport

Roller derby is a contact sport played by two teams of five members roller skating counter-clockwise around a track. Roller derby is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues worldwide, mostly inside the United States.

Madison, Wisconsin Capital of Wisconsin

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County. As of July 1, 2017, Madison's estimated population of 255,214 made it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 82nd-largest in the United States. The city forms the core of the Madison Metropolitan Area which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, and Columbia counties for a population of 654,230.

The Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) is the international governing body for the sport of women's flat track roller derby, and association of leagues around the world. The organization was founded in April 2004 as the United Leagues Coalition (ULC), but was renamed in November 2005. It is registered in Raleigh, North Carolina as a 501(c)(6) business league organization, a type of nonprofit organization.

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League structure

Mad Rollin' Dolls was started in 2004 by "Crackerjack," whose sister "Lucille Brawl" had helped found Texas Rollergirls in Austin, Texas, [2] [3] and "Pamdemonium." Currently, the organization has a four-team home league that competes for an annual championship. The league also has two travel teams that compete internationally. Mad Rollin' Dolls games in Madison are held at the Alliant Energy Center and have been known to sell out, with crowds of 1500 people. [3] [4] As a business enterprise, the league was registered in 2004 as a limited liability corporation, Mad Rollin' Dolls LLC, and converted into a non-stock corporation in 2015, as Mad Rollin' Dolls Inc. [5]

Texas Rollergirls

Texas Rollergirls is a women's flat track roller derby league based in Austin, Texas. Founded in early 2003 and widely credited as the league that started the modern roller derby movement, the Texas Rollergirls were the first flat-track league in the nation to play a version of roller derby using new standardized rules and a track design based on the dimensions of the old banked tracks. As flat-track derby caught on in other American cities, the Texas Rollergirls' rulebook and track design eventually evolved into the specifications that were adopted and ratified upon formation of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) in 2005, of which Texas is a founding member.

Austin, Texas Capital of Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. It is the 11th-most populous city in the United States and the 4th-most populous city in Texas. It is also the fastest growing large city in the United States, the second most populous state capital after Phoenix, Arizona, and the southernmost state capital in the contiguous United States. As of the U.S. Census Bureau's July 1, 2017 estimate, Austin had a population of 950,715 up from 790,491 at the 2010 census. The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin–Round Rock metropolitan statistical area, which had an estimated population of 2,115,827 as of July 1, 2017. Located in Central Texas within the greater Texas Hill Country, it is home to numerous lakes, rivers, and waterways, including Lady Bird Lake and Lake Travis on the Colorado River, Barton Springs, McKinney Falls, and Lake Walter E. Long.

Alliant Energy Center

Alliant Energy Center is a multi-building complex located in Madison, Wisconsin. It comprises 164 acres (0.66 km2) of greenspace and includes the 255,000-square-foot (23,700 m2) Exhibition Hall, the 10,000-seat Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the 29-acre (0.12 km2) Willow Island and the 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m2) Arena. After completing various stages of planning throughout 2013, it was announced on November 26 that Dane County would be awarding a $20.7 million contract to Miron Construction for the construction of two new multi-use pavilions at the Alliant Energy Center. The exhibition pavilions, which total 290,000 square feet, will be replacing the nine current agricultural barns. Construction began following the Midwest Horse Fair in April 2014 with completion set in time for the 2014 World Dairy Expo in late September. The Center welcomes more than one million people attending more than 500 events annually, ranging from local meetings and banquets to large sporting events and major concerts.

Travel teams

MRD has both an all-star and B interleague team, the Dairyland Dolls, which are composed of skaters from the four home teams. These teams compete against other WFTDA and non-WFTDA leagues across the United States.

Starting in 2008, the Mad Rollin' Dolls added a 2nd travel team, Team Unicorn. Their first bout was in Hamilton, Ontario on July 26, 2008. [6]

Hamilton, Ontario City in Ontario, Canada

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. An industrialized city in the Golden Horseshoe at the west end of Lake Ontario, Hamilton has a population of 536,917, and a metropolitan population of 747,545. The city is located about 60 km southwest of Toronto, with which the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) is formed.

Home teams

MRD is composed of four home teams; the Quad Squad, the Reservoir Dolls, the Unholy Rollers and the Vaudeville Vixens.

League Champions by year are:

YearSeason Champion
2016Quad Squad
2015Reservoir Dolls
2014Reservoir Dolls
2013Reservoir Dolls
2012Quad Squad
2011Reservoir Dolls
2010Unholy Rollers
2009Vaudeville Vixens
2008Quad Squad
2007Reservoir Dolls
2006Quad Squad
2005Reservoir Dolls

MRD also includes a recreational league in Madison, originally known as the Mad Wreckin' Dolls and renamed Madison Wreckers Roller Derby in 2016.

WFTDA competition

2006 map showing the first 30 WFTDA member leagues WFTDA MAP.jpg
2006 map showing the first 30 WFTDA member leagues

At the first WFTDA Championships, the 2006 Dust Devil tournament, Madison placed seventh overall. [7] The following year at the first WFTDA Eastern Regional Tournament in Columbus, Ohio, the "Heartland Havoc" event, Madison did not get past the second round. [8]

WFTDA Championships

The International Women's Flat Track Derby Association Championships are the leading competition for roller derby leagues.

The WFTDA East Region Playoffs or WFTDA Eastern Regional Tournament was one of four annual roller derby regional qualifying tournaments for the WFTDA Championships.

In October 2008 the Mad Rollin' Dolls hosted that year's East Region Playoff, "Derby in Dairyland". [9] At that tournament, Madison won their opening game against the Minnesota Rollergirls 143-67, but then lost in the quarterfinals to Gotham Girls Roller Derby of New York, 138-70. Following a win against Grand Raggidy Roller Girls and a narrow loss to Boston Derby Dames, Madison finished the weekend in sixth place. [10]

Gotham Girls Roller Derby flat track roller derby league based in New York City, New York

Gotham Girls Roller Derby (GGRD) is a flat track roller derby league based in New York City, New York. Founded in late 2003, Gotham is the first flat track roller derby league in the metropolitan New York area and a founding member league of the sport's governing body, the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). GGRD is one of the preeminent leagues in roller derby, having won five WFTDA Championships. Today, the league is composed of four New York City-based teams, three travel teams, a developmental travel team, and a juniors program for youth.

Boston Roller Derby

Boston Roller Derby, (BRD), is a flat-track roller derby league based in Boston, Massachusetts. The league was founded as Boston Derby Dames in May 2005, and is a founding member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). The league's all-star team, the Boston Massacre, was one of the top 25 WFTDA Division 1 teams in the world through most of the duration of the divisional ranking system introduced in early 2013, and as of December 31, 2015, the Massacre was ranked at 21. Boston won the WFTDA Division 2 Championship in 2017 and the North America East Continental Cup in 2018.

In 2009, now part of the North Central Region, Mad Rollin' Dolls placed second in the North Central Regional Tournament, "Brawl of America" in Saint Paul, Minnesota. [11] At the 2009 Championships, Madison was eliminated by Boston, 104-98. [12] At the 2010 North Central Playoffs, Madison came in third place, winning their final game 164-143 against Cincinnati Rollergirls, to again qualify for WFTDA Championships. [13] For the second straight year, Madison was defeated in the opening round, this time by Philly Roller Girls, 213-53. [14] In 2011, the Dairyland Dolls entered the North Central Playoffs as the sixth seed, but lost each game and finished the weekend in tenth place. [15] In 2012, Madison entered what would be the final North Central Regional Playoff as the tenth seed, and improved on their seeding by defeating Arch Rival Roller Girls in the seventh place game, 217-119. [16]

North Central Region (WFTDA)

The Women's Flat Track Derby Association's North Central Region was formed in 2008.

The WFTDA North Central Regional Tournament or WFTDA North Central Region Playoffs was one of four annual roller derby regional qualifying tournaments for the WFTDA Championships.

Cincinnati Rollergirls

The Cincinnati Rollergirls is a women's flat track roller derby league based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 2005, the league currently consists of two teams which compete against teams from other leagues, and is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA).

In 2013, the WFTDA changed its playoff structure, and Madison qualified for the WFTDA Division 1 International Playoff tournament in Asheville, North Carolina as the sixth seed, ultimately finishing in ninth place with a 265-195 victory over the Columbia Quadsquad. [17] As the seventh seed in Charleston for Division 1 Playoffs in 2014, the Dairyland Dolls improved on their seeding with upset victories over Boston (176-175) [18] and the Naptown Roller Girls of Indianapolis (166-101) to finish in fifth place. [19] At the 2015 Division 1 Playoff in Tucson, Madison again pulled rankings upsets (this time over Arizona Roller Derby [20] and Baltimore's Charm City Roller Girls [21] )to improve their position over the weekend, going from the ninth seed to sixth place. [22]

For the first time since 2008, Mad Rollin' Dolls hosted a WFTDA Playoff tournament in September 2016. [2] Held at the Alliant Energy Center, [23] the Dairyland Dolls also competed at the Division 1 tournament, where they entered as the tenth seed and left in seventh place. With upset victories over No Coast Derby Girls [24] (Lincoln, Nebraska) and Chicago's Windy City Rollers, [25] Madison had achieved the most D1 playoff upsets in WFTDA history. [26] In 2017, Madison was the eleventh seed at Division 1 Playoffs in Seattle, but lost 225-83 to host Rat City Rollergirls [27] and 241-140 to Bay Area Derby and finished out of the medals. [28]

Rankings

As a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), the Mad Rollin' Dolls were originally member of the WFTDA's East Region, but by the end of 2008 were moved to the North Central Region, and were ranked sixth in the North Central at the end of 2012. [29] The WFTDA moved away from regions and into a division system in 2013, and MRD has consistently placed in WFTDA Division 1 since that time. [30]

Season Final ranking [31] Playoffs Championship
20065 WFTDA [32] —7 [7]
20079 WFTDA [33] R2 E [8] [34] DNQ
20082 NC [35] 6 E [10] DNQ
20093 NC [36] 2 NC [11] R1 [12]
20103 NC [37] 3 NC [13] R1 [14]
201110 NC [38] 10 NC [15] DNQ
20126 NC [39] 7 NC [16] DNQ
201331 WFTDA [40] 9 D1 [17] DNQ
201426 WFTDA [41] 5 D1 [19] DNQ
201542 WFTDA [42] 6 D1 [22] DNQ
201633 WFTDA [43] 7 D1 [25] DNQ
201736 WFTDA [44] CR D1 [28] DNQ

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