The Tiger Bay Brawlers are a roller derby

Roller derby

Roller derby is a contact sport played by two teams of five members roller skating in the same direction around a track. Game play consists of a series of short matchups in which both teams designate a scoring player who scores points by lapping members of the opposing team...

 league based in Cardiff

Cardiff

Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...

, Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

. Founded in April 2010, the league has a single bouting team, and an affiliated recreational league.

History

The Brawlers formed in mid-2010. They played their first bout, against Bristol Harbour Harlots, in January 2011. This was the first public roller derby bout in Wales.

The team's coach, BB Bombshell, was selected to play for a UK All Stars team in October 2010, In July 2011, the Brawlers became the first Welsh league to affiliate to the UK Roller Derby Association.

In September 2011, the team appeared on an episode of BBC's Eggheads

Eggheads

Eggheads is a BBC quiz show created by 12 Yard Productions, first broadcast in 2003, and presented by Dermot Murnaghan. For the 2008 series, Jeremy Vine was brought in to present on nights when Murnaghan was hosting the spinoff series Are You an Egghead? This happened again from October 2009 while...

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