Toulouse and Rainy City surge on Saturday at European championships
Rainy City’s 187-100 rout of Crime City and Toulouse’s 168-140 upset of Paris reshaped the Namur bracket in one Saturday.
Saturday in Namur stopped feeling like a stack of separate bouts and started looking like a bracket reset. At the 2026 WFTDA Regional Championships: Europe, held June 12-14 in Namur, Belgium, and hosted by Namur Roller Derby, the seeded draw meant every score changed the route to Sunday’s most valuable placement games, and Toulouse and Rainy City were the teams that most clearly bent that path.
Roller Derby Toulouse delivered the day’s sharpest statement with a 168-140 win over Paris Roller Derby, a result that carried extra weight because Paris had hammered London Roller Derby 184-103 the night before. Toulouse did not just survive a contender, it beat one that had already shown it could blow out another major opponent, and that is why the French side’s margin mattered as much as the win itself. The Flat Track Stats week summary tagged Toulouse’s result as one of the weekend’s biggest upsets, and the score backed that up: Paris was forced down a step just as it looked ready to claim control of the upper half of the bracket.
Rainy City Roller Derby made an even louder argument. Already ranked No. 5 in the current Flat Track Stats standings on June 14 and listed by WFTDA Stats as 8-0 in Europe with 1,880 points for and 655 against, Rainy City beat Helsinki Roller Derby 182-97 and then closed the night by crushing Crime City Roller Derby 187-100. Those are not just wins, they are bracket-shaping margins, the kind that tell every other contender there is a gap to close. Against Helsinki, the 85-point spread showed control from the start. Against Crime City, the 87-point finish looked even more emphatic.
The rest of the day reinforced how quickly the field was sorting itself. Crime City opened with a 129-113 win over Nantes Roller Derby, close enough to keep Nantes in the picture. Nantes then answered with a 170-109 victory over Helsinki, another result highlighted among the week’s biggest upsets, while London recovered from Friday’s loss by beating Antwerp Roller Derby 120-90 before Toulouse’s result pushed the night back toward the French side.
That is the pressure now hanging over the contenders: every misstep in Namur changes who gets the cleaner Sunday lane, and Saturday belonged to the teams that could turn scoring bursts into bracket leverage.
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