Paris Roller Derby All Stars arrive as Namur championships begin
Paris entered Namur ranked third in Europe, carrying a 5-3 record and 1,312 points for, the kind of profile every challenger has to solve.
Paris Roller Derby’s All Stars arrived in Namur as the benchmark everyone else in the bracket had to chase, not ignore. With a 5-3 record, 1,312 points scored and 1,018 allowed, Paris entered the 2026 WFTDA European Regional Championships looking like a team that can still dictate terms when the pack starts moving. The tournament opened June 12-14 at Centre Namurois des Sports Tabora in Namur, Belgium, with Namur Roller Derby hosting and WFTDA offering live streaming and multilingual announcing coverage.
That standing is not an accident. Paris Roller Derby, based in Paris, France, traces its roots to February 2010, and the All Stars have spent years building the kind of continuity that matters in postseason play. WFTDA’s stats page lists Paris as third in Europe, with a GPA of 368.76, and marks the team’s highest-ever regional ranking as third, set in December 2024. Skaters such as dorkmistress, Toxic Lady and Hémo' have carried a program that has become the standard for French roller derby, because Paris rarely needs a perfect bout to stay dangerous.
The recent results show both the ceiling and the pressure points. Paris beat London 227-106 on May 9, then ran into a tighter test the next day and lost 177-143 to Rainy City. On April 11, Nantes handed them a 149-114 defeat. That is the real clue for anyone trying to knock them off in Namur: Paris still has the gear to bury teams when the lines are clean, but elite opponents can slow them down if the pack loses shape or the jammer rotation gets thrown off rhythm.
The seeding story makes that even sharper. WFTDA based the 2026 postseason bracket on the April 1 rankings, which left Paris behind Rainy City A and Toulouse in the Europe order, with London, Nantes, Crime City A and Antwerp Love next in the mix. Toulouse remains Paris’s biggest rival on WFTDA’s records, and that rivalry sits inside the larger question of the weekend: who can force Paris into a bout they do not want to skate?
Paris’ own history suggests the answer will have to be precise. Their best-ever result was a 465-33 win over Appalachian on May 14, 2016, and their closest-ever game was a 124-122 loss to Rainy City on June 9, 2024. Those numbers say the same thing from opposite ends: Paris can overwhelm, but they can also be dragged into a knife fight. In Namur, that is the gap every challenger has to exploit.
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