Crime City Rollers is a women's flat track roller derby league based in

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, Sweden. Established in 2010, the Crime City Rollers comprises one home team and two traveling teams representing the league in competition with other leagues. The Crime City Rollers were accepted as an apprentice league of the

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(WFTDA) in July 2011,WFTDA Adds Crop of 15 Apprentice Leagues
", WFTDA, 13 July 2011 and became full members of the association in June 2012.Nine Leagues Become Full WFTDA Members
", WFTDA, 1 June 2012 Eleven skaters from Crime City Rollers were selected for Team Sweden at the 2011

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, and one was selected for Team Finland.

WFTDA competition

In 2015, Crime City first qualified for WFTDA Division 1 Playoffs, entering the

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tournament as the eighth seed and ultimately finishing in sixth place. In 2016, Crime City returned to Division 1 Playoffs, entering the Columbia tournament as the seventh seed and finishing in sixth place again. In 2017, Crime City hosted a Division 1 Playoff, the first WFTDA Playoff to be held outside of North America. The fourth seed in Malmö, Crime City won their quarterfinal against

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215-170, qualifying them for

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for the first time. After dropping their semifinal to

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237-65, Crime City also lost the third-place game to

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181-138 and finished in fourth place. Crime City finished outside the medals at Championships in

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, losing a tight game to

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133-129 and to Arch Rival Roller Derby 220-160. In 2018, Crime City took second place at the WFTDA Playoff in

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, Spain, losing the title game 342-149 to Arch Rival. At Championships in New Orleans, Crime City again faced Montreal in the opening game of the weekend, and again lost to them by 4 points, this time 184-180. Crime City then rebounded in the consolation round, where they won at Championships for the first time, 173-160 over Jacksonville Roller Derby.

Rankings

* ''CR = consolation round''

Played bouts

References

External links

Crime City Rollers
(official website) {{WFTDA Division 1 Women's Flat Track Derby Association Division 1 Roller derby leagues in Sweden Roller derby leagues established in 2010 Sport in Malmö 2010 establishments in Sweden