Tilted Thunder Rail Birds
| Metro area | Seattle, Washington |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Teams | Rolling Blackouts Royal Crush Saint Hellions Sugar Skulls All Star Travel Team |
| Track type(s) | Banked |
| Affiliations | RDCL |
| Org. type | 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization |
| Website | http://www.tiltedthunder.com/ |
Tilted Thunder Rail Birds (TTRB) is a Seattle, Washington based, all-female, banked track roller derby league. They are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization run by a volunteer force of skaters and league members committed to promoting and raising awareness of women's roller derby, especially banked track roller derby. TTRB is composed of strong, friendly, intelligent, enthusiastic women from all walks of life pursuing emotional growth and physical strength by challenging their perceived limits. As a league, they also wish to promote mental and physical empowerment, development of skills, loyalty on and off the track, individuality, and friendship - throughout the entire sport, both locally and nationally.
The modern reincarnation of community-based, Do-It-Yourself banked track roller derby is only just beginning to experience the kind of growth that flat-track roller derby saw only a few years ago. Not only is TTRB the only modern banked track league in the Pacific Northwest, it is one of only a small handful of modern DIY banked track leagues in the country. Modern, DIY leagues who have already built their banked tracks include: Los Angeles Derby Dolls, San Diego Derby Dolls, and Arizona Derby Dames (Phoenix). Even though there are over 400 modern flat-track leagues in the United States, TTRB was only the 7th roller derby league to build a banked track in the nation. TTRB is the only one of these banked-track leagues who is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Tilted Thunder has four home teams, an All Star travel team, and two junior derby programs: Peeps and Chicklets.
Mission statement: As a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, Tilted Thunder is committed to fostering serious competition on a national and international level, developing amateur athletes for competition, and promoting the physical and mental strength and independent spirit of amateur female athletes.
Tilted Thunder is a founding member of the Roller Derby Coalition of Leagues.
Tilted Thunder is one of several active banked track roller derby leagues in the country. The skaters bout under the Roller Derby Coalition of Leagues (RDCL). Between 2008 and 2011 Tilted Thunder was made up of two teams, Red Team and Purple Team. In 2011 the first season featured the four current intra-league competitors:
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