Hammer City Roller Girls

Hammer City, break out your black and yellow as your favourite skaters return to the flat track for their 7th season of roller derby action.

In this season opening double header, both the Eh! Team and the Harlots will square off against squads from Roc City Roller Derby of Rochester, NY.

The action all goes down on Saturday, May 12 at Dave Andreychuk (Mountain) Arena, 25 Hester Street in Hamilton. Doors open at 5:00 pm with the first game set to start at 6:00pm and the second at 8:00pm.

Get your tickets online and save $2 off the door price

Adults – $13 advance / $15 door | Kids 5-12 – $5 | Under 5 years – Free
A portion of proceeds from the door will go to Volunteer Hamilton.

Tickets are also available at these local outlets:
- Freewheel Cycle
- Hammer City Records
- This Ain’t Hollywood
- Blackbird Studios
- Compass, McMaster University
- Varnetta (formerly Roughhouse Skates)

Good stuff to know:
* Licensed beer area, concession stand
* For up-close-action, bring a chair and sit trackside
* Kid-friendly event, with a special activity zone just for them
* Awesome HCRG swag for sale

The after party takes place at This Ain’t Hollywood (345 James St North, 19+) at 10:00PM, where your game ticket stub gets you into the venue to enjoy the DJs and a chance to meet skaters and officials. Plus local food truck rock stars and HCRG supporter Gorilla Cheese will be on hand to wow you with their amazing grilled cheese creations.

Our Other 2012 Home Dates:
- June 16
- July 21
- August 18

Buy season tickets, getting you into all FOUR games, and save!

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Fast skates, hard hits, rink rash and great feats of female athleticism are all part of this sport that’s taking the world by storm and spinning though all aspects of pop culture. Are you a talented artist and a die hard roller derby fan, or just fascinated by imagery that the revolutionary roller derby revival inspires? Then Friday, April 13th could just very well be your lucky day. This Ain’t Hollywood and Hammer City Records are hosting an Art Crawl night with the HCRG that will feature artistic interpretations of the sport, the women who play it and the officials that keep it rolling safe. The Hammer City Roller Girls will be on hand for this James Street North Art Crawl event, just ahead of the May 2012 home opener.

* Art work will be on display at This Ain’t Hollywood (345 James St. North) and Hammer City Records (228 James St N Basement @ Rear off Robert St)

* At 10pm, rootsy rocky The Saints Are Coming and surf trio The Dead Beat are set to take the stage at This Ain’t – Cover is Pay What You Can

* HCRG merch and tickets will be for sale

We are looking for roller derby-related art in all media that we can hang on the walls for the night and for a few weeks afterwards. Paintings, drawings, photos, original graphic art and ‘hang-able’ mixed media works will be considered.
Deadline for submissions/commitment is April 8, 2012.

For more information, email PR@hammercityrollergirls.ca for more info and shipping arrangements (pick ups in the Hamilton area and central-Toronto are possible).

On March 31st, and April 1st, the Hammer City Roller Girls are competeing in the 3rd Annual Quad City Chaos tournament hosted by Toronto Roller Derby. This exciting, action-packed weekend boasts some of the best Canadian Roller Derby teams, and plenty of WFTDA sanctioned action. HCRG will face off against teams from Ottawa, Toronto, and Kitchener.

This two-day tournament will take place at The Bunker, 40 Carl Hall Road, Downsview Park, Toronto, ON.

Tickets can be purchased in advance, visit ToRD’s website for more information.

March 31: HCRG vs Tri-City (2pm)
March 31: HCRG vs Rideau Valley (5pm)
April 1: ToRD vs HCRG (4pm)

By: Biggie Falls

Whether you’ve been a roller derby fan for a decade, or are someone who is just hearing about it now, there is one thing that you need to know about this community… Roller derby parties are crazy!

This was more than evident at the HCRG year end party – PIRATES versus NINJAS. Every one of your favourite derby girls was there, dressed up and ready for combat. Whether they were looking for your bounty, or swinging nunchuks – they were ready to party! As in typical HCRG fashion, this party was held at This Ain’t Hollywood, on January 7th, 2011. As it turned out, a lot of the public was not prepared for what they might see on their regular Saturday night out with their friends.

The night started off friendly enough, sushi for the ninjas and pulled pork for the pirates, on opposite sides of the room of course. But soon it broke out into a full on ninja versus pirate battle! It seems to me like the ninjas won… but I may just be bias on that one. Although, there was one event that the pirates dominated in: The PvN limbo contest, with pirate Jewsy Flawless coming out on top!

Awards were given out to refs, vets and rookies alike to celebrate the many victories HCRG has achieved within the last year, both on and off the track. To end the night, our very own Hot Carl, presented an incredible display of fireworks for us… as you would expect during a Canadian winter, this caused quite a stir with the locals. But it was absolutely wonderful regardless!

If you’re going to take anything away from this story, let it be your new found love and admiration of derby parties, and make it your new mission to come out to an after-party soon!

2011 WHEELIE AWARD WINNERS:

Queen Of Jam-A-Lot
Bitchslap Barbie

Pack Leader
Eduskating Rita

Getting A Leg Up
Jewsy Flawless & Bean Stalker

Hammer City Spirit
Scooby Doom

Rookie of the Year
Naughty Bee

Purple Heart
Miss Carriage

Best Foot Forward
Miss Carriage

Crash Test Dummy
Lucky Lady Pearl

Stickin Around‘
Judge Jodie

Practice Pusher
Bam Bam Bigelow

Rules the Ruleset
Eduskating Rita

Hardest Hitter
Mean Little Mama

Miss Jeckyl/Hyde
Peppermental (Formerly Hammerhead)

Strategic Whiz
Whacks Poetic

Training Maven
Bitchslap Barbie

Merch Mover
Dark Passion Play

Game Day Mainstay
Peppermental

Gives Till It Hurts
Little Red Rollerhood

Working It
Wild Rice (Formerly Tempura Tantrum)

Funds Raised
Scooby Doom

Paperwork Pusher
Judge Jodie

Attendance
Bam Bam Bigelow

Participator
3 way tie! Dark Passion Play, Peppermental, Scooby Doom

REF AWARDS

Friendly Face
Deuce Willis

Ref For Hire
D-Minus

Certifiable Effort
Deuce Willis

Tightest Caller
D-Minus

NEWSLETTER

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The Hammer City Roller Girls are rolling in to the Sour Mash N’ Thrash at This Ain’t Hollywood. The fundraiser is on November 5th, doors at 9:00pm. Tickets are available at the door for $15.00 Featuring performances by White Cowbell Oklahoma, Ginger St. James & the 454′s, and Ninety Pounds of Ugly. Raffles, prizes, 50/50 draw, shooters, dancing and fun on tap! There’ll be a free jello shooter at the door (First come first serve). We’ve got some amazing prizes – including a Derby 101 pack and a $200 Roughhouse Skates gift certificate.

Thank you to our event sponsors: Jet Cafe, Nickelbrook Brewery, Roughhouse Skates, Shear Elegance, The Ship, WhereHeadsMeet, Copydog, Gorilla Cheese, Manifest Yoga, La Petite Spa, Modify your Closet, Hammer City Records and Bean Stalker!

See you there!

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BOUT BLANCHE – OCTOBER DOUBLE HEADER – VS HAMMER CITY!
ToRD challenges the Hammer City Roller Girls to not just one, but TWO bouts! The night opens up with the Smoke City Betties vs. the HCRG Harlots at 6pm, followed by CN Power vs. the Eh! Team (around 8pm).

Doors @ 5PM, bout kicks off at 6PM. Tickets available at the door!

The bout takes place in TORD’s new home, The Bunker, located at 40 Carl Hall Rd Studio 3 in Downsview Park, Toronto.

Ahoy Hammer City landlubbers!

Raise your sails and set course to the Hamilton waterfront on September 11 at 2pm for an outdoor roller derby event that will send you overboard with excitement. For the first and only time this season, the Hammer City Roller Girls (HCRG) will bout against each other, in an all-pirate, no-holds-barred, battle of the buccaneers you don’t want to miss. Who will you raise a grog to? The fearsome Blackbeard Booty or the fast and sassy Jackie Red Sparrows? Both teams will feature a mix of HCRG’s veteran and newer skaters so you know it’s going to be a ruthless plunder for skating supremacy by the sea.

HCRG christened Hamilton Waterfront Trust’s skate pad last summer with a hotly contested intra-league bout, and are thrilled to be back as part of a historical maritime weekend that also features the appearance of the most-traveled tall ship in history, the Pride of Baltimore II.

Sunday, September 11, 2011
2:00PM
Pier 8 Skating Pad (Behind Williams Coffee Pub)
47 Discovery Drive/Foot of James Street

*Admission is pay what you can – our gift to the fans!
*We will be accepting non-perishable food items as donations
*Family friendly *Dog friendly
*Free parking *Concession stand
*Bring your own lawn chair for trackside seating – arrive early to secure a spot
*Come even earlier and check out the tall ship Pride of Baltimore II docked in Hamilton!
*Easy access by transit: HSR’s Bayfront Bus #4 stops a couple of blocks away

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Hamilton, get ready for a double dip of whips and hits in the final home date of the Hammer City Roller Girls’ 2011 season, with both the Eh! Team and the Harlots squaring off against old foes. The action all goes down on Saturday, August 13, at J.L. Grightmire Market Street Arena in Dundas. Doors open at 5:30 pm with the first game set to start at 6:00pm and the second at 8:00pm.

In one match-up, the Hammer City Eh! Team will skate off against the Killamazoo Derby Darlins (Kalamazoo, MI) in a WFTDA-sanctioned bout. These two teams last met in 2008 with Killamazoo coming out on top on their own turf. In the other half of the double header, the Belles of the Brawl (Brantford, ON) will be battling to avenge a loss to the Hammer City Harlots at the CWRDA East Tournament in June.

Tickets:

For adults, tickets are $13.00 in advance and $15.00 at the door. Children’s tickets 6-12 years old are $5.00, and children under 5 are free. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to our community partner, Volunteer Hamilton.

Compass in the McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC, 1280
Main St W)
This Ain’t Hollywood 345 James St N (James @ Barton)
Hammer City Records 228 Robert St (James St N & Robert)
Roughhouse Skates New location at 592 Upper James
The Ship 23 Augusta St
Crash Landing Clothing Store 189 Ottawa St N at Cannon St
Little Bird 164 Ottawa St N
Where Heads Meet 162 Ottawa St N

Purchase tickets online by clicking here.

The Hammer City Roller Girls are recruiting! If you’re derby curious, why wait?! We are looking for team oriented, fun, and spirited women of all ages, no experience necessary. Skilled members of the HCRG will teach you skating basics and the foundations of flat-track roller derby in our 8 week course, Derby 101.

The first day (Meat N’ Greet & registration) will be Sunday, July 24th at 12:00pm at Eastwood Arena.
Eastwood Arena is located at 111 Burlington St, Hamilton, ON. (Burlington @ Mary St)

The first on-skates session will be Sunday, August 7th at 12:00. Derby 101 is 8 weeks long, once a week, Sundays at 12:00. The cost is $80.00 for the course, and $45.00 for mandatory CWRDA skater’s insurance.

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For more information, please email freshmeat@hammercityrollergirls.ca

CLICK HERE to find out more about Derby 101!

The Hammer City Roller Girls’ (HCRG) regional team, Hammer City Harlots, fell to the ROC City B-Sides 208-54 on Saturday, July 9th at the Dave Andreychuk Mountain Arena.

Our hard-hitting Harlots put up a great fight! Congratulations to Judge Jodie #67 for taking home the Harlots’ MVP.

Join the Hammer City Roller Girls! DERBY 101

Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 12:00pm Derby 101 is open to all beginners looking to learn the sport of flat track roller derby. Skilled HCRG skaters will teach you skating basics and the foundations of roller derby. Email freshmeat@hammercityrollergirls.ca to register! More on Derby 101!