Dock City Rollers Win 2019 WFTDA Continental Cup – Europe
Dock City Rollers (Seed #2) from Gothenburg, Sweden took home the gold at the 2019 WFTDA Continental Cup – Europe, hosted and organized by Kallio Rolling Rainbow October 5-6 in Helsinki, Finland. This was Dock City’s second appearance at the European Continental Cup, having come in Fourth Place in 2018.
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Antwerp Roller Derby (Seed #8) from Antwerp, Belgium came in Second Place, after upsetting two higher seeded teams, including #1 Seed Dublin Roller Derby in the first game of the tournament. Tournament hosts Kallio Rolling Rainbow (Seed #3), who won the first European Continental Cup in 2018, came in Third Place.
And just like that there are just 24 contenders left in the bracket challenge for @WFTDA Continental Cup in Helsinki 😳 @OLRollerDolls take @DublinRD off the top spot and give us our first HUGE upset of the weekend! pic.twitter.com/gufqUi0vU5
— Michael Watson (@mjjwatson) October 5, 2019
The MVP award was presented to Hipshot of Antwerp Roller Derby. Hipshot “took the track more than 60 jams this weekend, earning lead status more than 60% of those jams, and scored more than 200 points,” and has been called one of the nicest people to skate against by numerous opponents, according to WFTDA Board of Directors member, Lois Slain, while presenting the award.
Numerous upsets throughout the weekend meant there were no perfect brackets remaining in the 2019 WFTDA Bracket Challenge by Derby on Toast and sponsored by WFTDA.tv. Patricide had the most correct predictions with 9/12, and will be entered to win two VIP tickets to the 2019 International WFTDA Championships in Montréal.
Congrats to @dockcityrollers the winners of the @WFTDA ECC 2019 🥇 also to 2nd place @OLRollerDolls and 3rd place @vivalakrr 👏🏻
What an exciting weekend of upsets 🤯 top of the table ended with PATRICIDE predicting 9/12 games! Congrats!
Get in touch for your prize! pic.twitter.com/z1NdOwlufM
— Michael Watson (@mjjwatson) October 6, 2019
Congratulations to all the participating teams, and thanks to all the officials, announcers, photographers, and other volunteers who helped make everything happen. Special thanks to Kallio Rolling Rainbow for hosting and for welcoming the WFTDA community to Helsinki!
Video archives are currently available at wftda.tv for watch pass buyers and will be released after Watch Party Wednesday on the WFTDA Twitch channel. Learn more about accessing the 2019 tournament archives.
Tournament Results
First Place – Dock City Rollers
Second Place – Antwerp Roller Derby
Third Place – Kallio Rolling Rainbow
Fourth Place – Perth Roller Derby
Download Final Brackets
