Help Tri-City Roller Derby get to Regionals

Help us get to playoffs!!

Tri-City Thunder needs help to get to North America Northeast roller derby playoffs – one of the biggest roller derby stages in the world! Please donate now!

After a huge season back playing roller derby since the sport took a multi-year break for the pandemic, Tri-City Roller Derby’s A-team, Thunder, has qualified for the North America-Northeast regional playoff tournament in State College, PA. This is a huge deal because only the top 12 teams in a region of 136 teams qualify.

All playoff games take place the weekend of May 17-19, 2024 – less than a month away! We need to raise enough money to pay for tournament entry and travel, as many of our skaters lack means to cover this sudden and significant cost.

Here’s how we will spend the money we raise:

Tournament entry fee: $685 CDN

Hotel rooms: $8,220 CDN

Gas costs: $3,120 CDN

Derby travel Insurance: $206 CDN

Team Bonding Meal: $700 CDN

Incidentals: unknown

We will also have to pay GoFundMe fees. Any money raised beyond our goal will go toward future away games.

Our first opponent at playoffs is Boston on May 17 at noon. Help us make sure we are there to CRUSH.

More on Tri-City Thunder:

Tri-City Roller Derby formed in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, in 2008, with their competitive travel team Tri-City Thunder gaining status within the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) in 2010. The third Canadian team to obtain membership status, Tri-City Thunder has since competed across North America, playing teams from as far away as Newcastle, England, Berlin, Germany and Auckland, New Zealand.

A 60-59 sanctioned record all time, Tri-City Thunder will be making their sixth postseason appearance and enters the Northeast Regional Tournament the top ranked team in Ontario and the third ranked team in Canada. Among Canadian teams, only Montreal Roller Derby has qualified for more postseason tournaments.

More on North America Northeast playoffs:

The top 12 teams in WFTDA’s North America Northeast region will attend playoffs in State College, PA, from May 17-19. In addition to Tri-City Thunder, teams include Arch Rival (St. Louis), Windy City (Chicago), Gotham A and B (New York), Montreal A and B, Queen City (Buffalo), Ann Arbor, Boston, Minnesota (Minneapolis-St. Paul) and Detroit.

The top three teams from this event move on to WFTDA global championships in Portland, Oregon, in November.