Toronto World Cup Coverage

To the people who ask if / where / when they can watch the World Cup in Toronto:

YES YOU CAN watch the tournament live on Derby News Network.

If you're in Paris, you can also go and have a beer at the Moose, they should broadcast bouts live (to be confirmed).
Don't get it wrong with the jet lags...

I Left My Heart in Team France

It was the name of the event organized by the Petites Morts of Bordeaux to raise funds for the French Team (btw, if you feel like donating go there) in order to help the players and coaches for their expenses at the Derby World Cup in Toronto next week!

The leagues which had players in the French Team

organized fund-raising events.

The Paris RollerGirls made the most of Halloween to throw a "Play Dead or Play Derby" party at Les Filles de Paris, with music -- Skarface (Ska) and DJ Set Dorian Darner (Electro-Rock) & Black Sifichi (Electro), with scary costumes, drinks, cupcakes, surprises and all.

World Cup Preliminary Groups Draw

Haha.

Yesterday evening at 11PM, we were hung on the telephone, hanging out at the hockey rink on the docks of Bordeaux after practice, waiting for the results of the draw.

I won't insult you in illustrating this article with the picture of the original notes I took, because I really had a hard time writing legibly with my cold frozen hands -- I don't have the chance to have found me a deserted pair of gloves at the sports shop the day before, not insinuating anything of course. The illustration of Blood & Thunder, the derby magazine organizing this first-ever international competition, will do:

Du Roller Derby à la FFRS?

Once doesn't make it a habit, but the following article is going to be in French. Anyway only French people will be interested as it is about the evolution of the integration of Roller-Derby at the French Federation of Roller-Sports!

I promise, next time I'll switch back to English!

Aujourd'hui, j'ai appris de source sûre qu'il s'est dit des choses intéressantes au sujet du roller-derby à l'AG de la FFRS (Fédération Française de Roller-Sports)!
Comme vous le savez, nous sommes toléré(e)s en commission "Course". Ce qui est bien mais pas top.

Rock'n Roulettes (Article)

This is a brand-new article written by Dorothée Duchemin for Citazine webmagazine, entitled "Rock'n Roulettes". The journalist attended our last bout against the Gent Go-Go Girls and mixed her feelings of the show with interviews and historical researches.

A captivating and lively article -- although you can spot a couple of mistakes as for the rules. But the atmosphere and spirit are there. And it makes you want to put your skates on!!

 

/!\ FRENCH /!\

Akouphën's 2nd album: "ΣLΣVΣN"

It's got (almost) nothing to do with derby, but I cannot just go on as if nothing had happened:

I'm glad to announce you that my band's second album is out today. That's the way it had to be: ΣLΣVΣN was meant to be released on the 11.11.11.

The title stands for lots of things, the most obvious being that we're in 2011 and that it's the 11th anniversary of the band.

At first Akouphën was a crew intermixing different artistic fields, but as time went by it focused on music. I joined the band in 2005, we made a good bunch of concerts and we issued our first album "Face.A" in 2007 with Ozore Age/Pias. A great first step which I was very proud of, although I was aware that our sound was still a bit young and needed to mature.

I left that very year because I had to move for skating reasons, and I dedicated the next couple of years to my Freestyle Skating career. I put an end to it in 2010 -- switching to derby, and going back to my second passion: music.

Opération Tonnerre: PRG Vs. Go-Go Gent

I haven’t been writing much lately – I mean, actually I did write a lot, for work, which is why I couldn’t take care of this blog. Still I take the time to report on the match of last weekend Opération Tonnerre, featuring the Paris RollerGirls Vs. the Gent Go-Go RollerGirls.

ORGANIZATION & BERCY VENUE

We had managed to get the Bercy Venue just like for Goldfinger against Malmö last June, after weeks of pleading and harassing for them to give us a second chance. We were quite late on the schedule last time and they didn’t like it at all.

This time we had learned from our previous mistakes and the organization was close to perfection, so that the keeper of the gym even came to congratulate the Paris RollerGirls’ organization and confided that he wished that all the clubs using the gym were as squared as us. Epic Win! …And Epic Reward for the girls who spent sleepless night sweating on the event - Marion could tell you more about it than me.