The 2018 Roller Derby World Cup was the third international women's Roller Derby World Cup, taking place on February 1–4 at EventCity, in Manchester, United Kingdom, with 38 teams competing. An international roller derby tournament, it was organised by a committee consisting of ten representatives from various areas of the roller derby community."Rainy City to Host the Next Roller Derby World Cup in Manchester, England in February 2018", The Apex, 5 December 2016
Some teams selected their skaters as early as October 2016, when the tournament was expected to be held in 2017.Karen Doherty, "England call for our roller girls", Oldham Evening Chronicle, 12 October 2016
USA Roller Derby successfully defended their title, defeating Team Australia in the final.
Participating teams Teams representing 38 countries participated. While most national teams are representing a country in the conventional sense, the members of Team Indigenous comprise skaters of Indigenous heritage from Canada, the United States, Argentina, New Zealand and Samoa. The Korean team does not specify North or South Korea in its name. List of teams
(as Aotearoa)
Indigenous (as IRN)
(as ZA)
Tournament structure The tournament ran on four tracks over four days, with an opening round of short, 30-minute games on the first day to determine seedings for the second and third days, via a ranking algorithm. The second and third days saw two additional games for each team (for a total of four games guaranteed for all participants), resulting in a final rating and ranking by the same algorithm. The top eight teams in that ranking proceeded to an 8-way elimination tournament, with losing teams playing additional games for final ranking. The teams in positions ninth through sixteenth played one additional game for final ranking. (This system is essentially, a modified Swiss-system tournament for the first three days, with strengths for matchings derived from a power ranking, and Fontes-style matching of multiple games between recalculation of strengths.)
Ranking Round
Blue Round
Pink Round
Yellow Round
Green Round
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Classification games for 5th-8th place
Semi-finals
Final classification games
Match for 15th place
Match for 13th place
Match for 11th place
Match for 9th place
Match for 7th place
Match for 5th place
Third place play-off
Final
Tournament team rankings
Pos. Team Pld W L PF PA PD Rtg 1 7 7 0 1956 374 +1582 1713.0 2 7 6 1 1573 450 +1123 2044.7 3 7 6 1 2028 687 +1341 616.5 4 7 5 2 1841 700 +1141 552.2Eliminated in the quarter-finals 5 7 6 1 1562 672 +890 314.8 6 7 3 4 1073 1018 +55 286.0 7 7 4 3 1520 846 +674 394.7 8 7 2 5 839 1108 -269 351.1Classification games 9 5 4 1 985 528 +457 92.4 10 5 4 1 922 444 +478 96.6 11 5 2 3 550 1250 -700 87.6 12 5 1 4 1161 673 +488 82.6 13 5 4 1 1119 554 +565 80.5 14 5 2 3 765 701 +64 57.1 15 5 3 2 664 689 -25 47.8 16 5 2 3 653 746 -93 46.6Eliminated in the ranking rounds 17 4 2 2 412 539 -127 36.7 18 4 2 2 505 543 -38 35.8 19 4 3 1 510 535 -25 32.5 20 4 1 3 417 923 -506 31.0 21 4 2 2 415 620 -205 30.4 22 4 0 4 520 852 -332 29.8 23 4 3 1 697 412 +285 29.3 24 4 1 3 507 555 -48 24.2 25 4 2 2 396 707 -311 23.6 26 4 1 3 312 845 -533 23.5 27 Indigenous 4 1 3 481 469 +12 23.3 28 4 2 2 475 546 -71 21.4 29 4 2 2 612 551 +61 14.0 30 4 1 3 352 840 -488 13.9 31 4 0 4 236 1300 -1064 10.3 32 4 2 2 336 891 -555 8.1 33 4 2 2 654 1172 -518 6.7 34 4 1 3 315 1121 -806 4.3 35 4 2 2 398 601 -203 3.5 36 4 1 3 202 1194 -992 2.4 37 4 0 4 349 836 -487 2.3 38 4 0 4 221 1041 -820 1.0
Exhibition matches In addition to competition matches, three exhibition matches were played during the tournament.
International Juniors Expo
Broadcast The entire weekend was broadcast online via pay-per-view streaming, and the tournament's fourth day was additionally carried on BBC Sport.
References
External links Official website