Rat City Rollergirls

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The Rat City Rollergirls are a roller derby league in Seattle, USA. The league is composed of four member teams for play within the league, and an allstar travel team to represent the league in competition with other leagues.

1 Member Teams
2 2006 Season Highlights
3 2007 Season Highlights
4 Business Structure
5 Notes
6 External links

[edit] Member Teams

The member teams are:

The Derby Liberation Front - 2005 Season Champions.^[1]
Grave Danger
The Socket Wenches - 2006 Season Champions
The Throttle Rockets, and
The Rat City Rollergirl Allstars - The all star travel team for competition with other leagues in the Women's Flat Track Derby Association.

[edit] 2006 Season Highlights

The Rat City Rollergirls hosted the 2006 Roller Derby "Bumberbout" Flat Track Invitational on Saturday, September 2, 2006, in the Key Arena at Seattle Center.^[2] The Lonestar Rollergirls won the championship, retaining undefeated status. The Rat City Rollergirls finished second.

Within the Rat City Rollergirl league the Socket Wenches won the season championship at Sand Point on October 21, 2006. They beat the formerly undefeated Derby Liberation Front, scoring the decisive points in the final seconds of the match, and of the season.

[edit] 2007 Season Highlights

The Rat City Allstars beat the Rose City Rollergirls in Portland, Oregon.^[3]

Sweeping the Western Regional Tournament, the Tucson Dust Devil, in an upset of the formerly top ranked Texas Texecutioners, the Rat City Allstars rose to first in the national roller derby rankings, up from third, and rose to the first seed for the championships.^[4]^[5]^[6]

[edit] Business Structure

As a business enterprise, the league is registered as a limited liability corporation, Rat City Rollergirls, LLC. Memberships in the limited liability corporation are owned by the skaters. Although stakeholders in the enterprise, the skaters are not paid for their participation.