MRD's Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2012

What better way to bring in the New Year than flexing your knowledge muscles on the last one?

Come to Retro Bar this Friday 18th January 2013 and take part in MRD's Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2012. The fun starts at 8pm until 10:30pm downstairs at Retro Bar and first prize is a crate of beer!

There will also be a "guess the weight of the cake" competition. The correct answer will win you the very cake you have guessed the weight of - and if you have sampled our tasty treats at a bout before you should already know that it'll be a darn fine cake.

There will be a sweet and savoury food stall, the bar will be staffed to serve drinks and there will also be a small clothes jumble. Items at the jumble will be 50p per item – better than any New Year's sale. The MRD merch will be making an appearance too!

To enter the quiz its £2 per person and free entry if you're not taking part. Quiz teams have a maximum of 6 per table.

RSVP here

What's going on at MRD right now?

Good question! I believe LOTS is the answer.

This blog post will provide a brief summary of events coming up that you may (read: will / should) have more than a passing interest in. We know that there's nothing worse than finding out something very exciting happened yesterday or last week and you weren't involved - so we're doing you a favour!

Saturday, 21 July 2012, 6pm - 8pm

MRD ROLLER DISCO at Sporting Edge

Skates! Music! Cake! What more could you want? Fancy dress encouraged (we're going with a spaceman theme... let your imagination run wild). Children are welcome if accompanied by an adult and skate hire is also available. Entry is £2, you can RSVP to our Facebook event here.

Thursday, 2 August 2012, 7pm

AmsterJAM - An MRD fundraiser at The Roadhouse

We are proudly hosting a band night to help raise money to get us to Amsterdam so that we can bout the Amsterdam Derby Dames this October. Bands TBC very soon (but should include Incassum and Pocketknife, amongst others). £5 entry, Facebook event here. E-tickets will be available via our website very soon.

What else?

In addition to these largely social affairs, we will also be involved in some skating and hitting. This will take place on Saturday, 28 July 2012 in the form of the GREAT YORKSHIRE SHOWDOWN (GYS). It really is great, you know. This will be MRD's third year in the tournament - the first year being MRD's first ever bout and the first ever GYS. This time we have a full squad of skaters new and old and cannot wait.

Also on the weekend of 28 July (as if it wasn't busy enough!) our amazing men's team, New Wheeled Order, will be heading over to Birmingham for the first ever Men's European Roller Derby Championship. It's kind of a big deal. Like them and we will like you.

Then MRD has a bit of a break (I think...) until mid-September when we host another roller derby double-header in our beloved hometown. Think we shall save that for a blog post of its own though, eh? Can't harm to RSVP though, gwan - Facebook event here.

Is that the crazed scribbling of important dates in diaries we can hear?

Finally, although not exactly in-keeping with this summary of forthcoming events - MRD would like to say a massive WELL DONE to our B-team, the Phoenix Furies, for fighting so furiously in their bout against Liverpool Roller Birds on Saturday. You did yourselves and MRD proud!