Pirate City Rollers

History

The Pirates were founded by Black Dahlia, who had previously played roller derby in the United States. They formed in 2006, and claim to be the oldest roller derby league outside North America. In 2007, the Pirates played their first home season, and they bouted against Richter City Roller Derby in 2009, in New Zealand's first bout between leagues from two different cities, winning 174-88 in front of a crowd of 1,200 people.

In October 2011, Pirate City became an apprentice member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association,. It graduated to full membership of the WFTDA in September 2013, the same year they were crowned the champions of the Derby Royale national tournament.

Teams

Pirate City Rollers have three home teams in their 2015 Intraleague competition. They have two travel teams competing in the New Zealand Interleague competition as well as in games and events overseas.

Home Teams

Travel Teams

International

Pirate City Rollers were the only league from New Zealand to field a team at the Great Southern Slam, the Asia-Pacific region's first roller derby tournament, held in June 2010. They easily beat Sydney and Western Australia in the pool matches, and Perth in the quarter final, before succumbing to Victorian in the semi final, and narrowly losing to hosts Adelaide in the third-place play-off.

The Pirates travel Team 'All Scars' played at Beach Brawl 2015, hosted by Gold Coast Derby Grrls and held in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, USA, 12–14 June, where they aimed to be the first WTFDA internationally ranked team in New Zealand. From their performance at this tournament they debuted at number 87 in the WFTDA 30 June 2015 rankings, 69 places above the other New Zealand team Richter City Roller Derby which also debuted in these rankings.

2011 World Cup

The inaugural 2011 Roller Derby World Cup was hosted by Toronto Roller Derby, and was held 1–4 December 2011 at The Bunker at Downsview Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Seven Pirate City skaters were selected to play for Team New Zealand, with the coach and assistant coach also coming from the league. Team New Zealand finished 8th out of 13 countries competing. Pirate City Rollers skater Skate The Muss was awarded MVP for Team New Zealand.

2014 World Cup

All four of the Pirate City Rollers skaters selected for the 2014 Team New Zealand training squad also made the final 20 selection to play the 2014 Roller Derby World Cup, held 4–7 December at Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas, USA. Team New Zealand finished 5th out of 30 countries competing.

Hire-A-Pirate

Pirate City Rollers are available to skate at a range of events. Past events include: