You may have noticed that the MRDA Website hasn’t been updated in quite a while, years even! Our IT team and graphics department have been cooking up a fresh new site full of features our members and the derby community have been asking for.

The new site offers instant score reporting, photographs from our events that feature the incredible photographers the MRDA is proud to work with. The new website has a bunch of new an exciting features including (but not limited to):

Our new site also features a new and improved Officials section with dedicated resources that will be curated and maintained by the MRDA Officiating Committee (as pictured below).

A new and improved events section that will help feature MRDA Post Season events as well as events going on within our leagues.

And finally, a live rankings section that will be updated each quarter.

The creators have been focusing on making the site user friendly, aesthetically appealing as well as providing a central place where the most up to date MRDA news can be found. Another fun feature is that each time you visit some of the selected pages a different photograph/photographer will be featured.

We are really excited about the new site and are already planning to roll out a few new features in the coming months. For questions and comments please reach out to [email protected].

The Men’s Roller Derby Association announces a new member league!

MRDA, the international governing body of men’s roller derby, has added a new league to its ranks.

This new league was accepted by a vote of MRDA’s membership to be added to our growing list of MRDA affiliated leagues.

Pittsburgh Roller Derby
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
https://www.facebook.com/pittsburghrollerderby

This league worked hard to gain membership into the MRDA and we look forward to their contribution to the men’s roller derby! Good luck and we will see you on the track!

The MRDA Board of Directors wishes the worldwide roller derby community a Happy New Year.

As 2021 begins, we have obviously been monitoring the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at the surge in COVID-19 almost worldwide and the current vaccine rollout schedule, the Board has decided that we will not move forward trying to plan either playoffs or Champs for 2021. We do not see any timeline in which the majority of leagues will be able to get back to practice with sufficient time to work back to full contact and scrimmaging that would allow for any kind of regular season, let alone one that plays into our normal postseason events.

The Board’s ideal timeline for returning to a proper competitive season is leagues having a full 4 months, ideally 6+, of full-contact practice/ability to scrimmage before competitive games. There is no scenario currently that we can see that would allow teams to have that time for practice and still be able to arrange games that can lead into rankings for our regular postseason.

We will be looking into hosting two regional invitationals (one in North America, one in Europe) in December 2021 if pandemic conditions have eased and leagues have been able to prepare. We will begin looking at this plan in earnest in April/May when hopefully we have a clearer idea how 2021 will look worldwide and what might be feasible.

Stay safe friends. Wash your hands, wear a mask, stay home if you’re sick and follow the guidelines provided to you by your local public health authorities.