The 2014 Roller Derby World Cup is an international women's roller derby tournament organized by Blood & Thunder magazine. Teams of amateur skaters from six continents compete for their respective nations.
The 2014 Roller Derby World Cup is the second held, taking place from December 4 through 7, 2014, at Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas, United States. Team USA defeated Team England in the final, repeating their victory from the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup.
Participating countries Thirty countries took part, including all thirteen teams from the inaugural event. As before, the 2014 event was played and officiated under a ruleset developed and standardized by the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), although not a WFTDA-sponsored event. The participating countries were (returning countries in bold):
Group stage All teams competed in the group stage. Each team was placed in one of eight groups, which contained either three or four teams. Each of the top eight seeds was placed in a different group, with the number one seed placed in Group 8 and the number eight seed placed in Group 1. Every team played all the other teams in their group for forty-minute matches, and this process determined the seeding for the elimination stage, which were sixty-minute matches.
Here are the results of the group stage. Each of the eight top-seeded teams won their group.
Group 1 Team3 3 0 783 134 +6493 2 1 428 403 +253 1 2 373 497 -1243 0 3 192 742 -550
DateResult4 December 2014218594 December 2014972084 December 2014315154 December 20141501055 December 2014219805 December 201425060
Group 2 Team3 3 0 994 77 +9173 2 1 301 562 -2613 1 2 314 609 -2953 0 3 267 628 -361
DateResult4 December 2014369274 December 20141671394 December 2014315144 December 20141321395 December 20141081205 December 201431036
Group 3 Team3 3 0 1074 80 +9943 2 1 380 489 -1093 1 2 435 453 -183 0 3 123 990 -867
DateResult4 December 2014319414 December 2014532964 December 201445905 December 2014235705 December 2014296395 December 2014104100
Group 4 Team3 3 0 686 148 +5383 2 1 515 224 +2913 1 2 248 553 -3053 0 3 158 682 -524
DateResult4 December 2014248324 December 2014207454 December 2014126784 December 2014163755 December 2014312385 December 201423053
Group 5 Team3 3 0 1311 46 +12653 2 1 470 531 -613 1 2 238 704 -4663 0 3 173 911 -738
DateResult4 December 201451354 December 2014173964 December 2014349244 December 2014821255 December 2014449175 December 201486273
Group 6 Team3 3 0 895 101 +7943 2 1 395 532 -1373 1 2 376 484 -1083 0 3 164 713 -549
DateResult4 December 2014272314 December 2014742034 December 2014294204 December 20141291425 December 2014329505 December 201421670
Group 7 Team2 2 0 587 73 +5142 1 1 252 371 -1192 0 2 108 503 -395
DateResult4 December 2014286504 December 2014301235 December 201485202
Group 8 Team2 2 0 1142 18 +11242 1 1 224 659 -4352 0 2 157 846 -689
DateResult4 December 2014505154 December 201463735 December 2014154209
Elimination stage
The first two rounds of the playoffs were played on 6 December 2014, the semifinals and finals were played on 7 December 2014.
After the Round of sixteen, the remaining teams were reseeded for the quarterfinals.
Round of sixteen All games were played on 6 December 2014. All times are Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00).
The point differential was used to determine the seeding of the next round.
TimeTrackResultPoint differential9:00AMTrack 1581 75 5069:00AMTrack 2303 133 17011:00AMTrack 1356 91 26511:00AMTrack 2854 6 8481:00PMTrack 1162 205 431:00PMTrack 2383 124 2593:00PMTrack 1464 35 4293:00PMTrack 2708 31 677
Quarterfinals through finals The quarterfinals were played on 6 December 2014. The semis and finals were on 7 December 2014. Team USA won the cup.
References
External links Official Blood & Thunder World Cup info page