Jet City Roller Derby (JCRD) is a women's flat track

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league based in

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. Founded in 2006, Jet City is a member of the

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(WFTDA).

History

Jet City was founded as Jet City Rollergirls in July 2006 by four friends,"Some skaters choose wheels before blades", ''Lynwood Enterprise'', 10 August 2007 who were inspired after watching the

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, who held an exhibition game at the

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in March of that year in front of 5000 people. By mid-2007, when they held their first exhibition bout,JCRG History
, JCRG they already had around 60 skaters. They played their first full season in 2008, and became a full member of the

the following year. The league initially played in a 900-seat venue at

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, but moved to its larger 2,000-seat venue in 2011, which they regularly sold out. As of 2017, Jet City hosted games at Shoreline Derby Center in

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and the league consisted of four home teams, as well as an all-star team which competed against teams from other leagues in WFTDA competition. In January 2018 the league announced it was rebranding as Jet City Roller Derby, and coalescing its home teams into two B teams.

WFTDA competition

Jet City first qualified for WFTDA Playoffs in 2010, as the seventh seed at that year's

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, where they finished in seventh place, capped by a 149–95 victory over

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. In 2011, Jet City was the eighth seed at the Western Regional and again played in the seventh place game, this time losing 140-105 to

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to finish in eighth place. After missing Playoffs in 2012, Jet City returned to the new Division 2 Playoffs in 2013 in Des Moines, Iowa, entering the weekend as the fifth seed. After victories over

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and

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, Jet City took first place in the tournament with a 208–113 win against

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and also qualified for

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for the first time. At Championships, Jet City defeated

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195-194 to claim the first Division 2 title. In 2014, Jet City moved up to Division 1 Playoffs as the eighth seed and finished in ninth, finishing with a 183–133 win over

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. Jet City returned to Division 2 in 2015 at Cleveland as the eighth seed and finished in seventh by beating

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179–137. In 2016, a loss to Brandywine eliminated top-seeded Jet City from eligibility for Division 2 Championships, but they secured third place at Wichita with a 132–118 victory over

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. Jet City again qualified for the Division 2 Playoffs and Championship in 2017 as the fourth seed in

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, and finished the weekend in sixth place. In 2018, Jet City qualified for the WFTDA North American West Continental Cup held in

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as the seventh seed, and after losing their opening game finished in the consolation round.

Rankings

* ''CR = consolation round''

References

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