Announcing Development Committee
Resources for Roller Derby Announcers
Since 2020 there has been a real growth in the amount of roller derby that is broadcast every weekend. With the WFTDA Regional and Global Championship tournaments returning in 2024, we saw an opportunity to kick-start development, support, education, and resources to increase and improve roller derby announcers across the world.
Announcing should be treated in the same way as officiating in that there are clear paths and support structures for development and improvement. We do not have enough good, experienced announcers, and we could all learn more from each other.
In an effort to support the development of roller derby announcing, the WFTDA has created the Announcing Development Committee (ADC), with the ambition to develop and share experience, guidance, advice, information, and best practice for announcers and leagues. The intention is for ADC to work with announcers and with the Roller Derby Announcers Association to develop and create educational resources which can be shared across organisations and announcers.
The other driving factor for the ADC is to provide announcing and broadcast support to WFTDA Tournament hosts..
Our goal was to recruit a group of announcers from a range of experiences, countries, and languages to develop the ADC and work plan. We want to take the knowledge and experience across our announcer community to help define standards and examples of what good announcing is. We are not an easy sport to understand and to address the barriers in attracting new people to watch our content—and to reach wider distribution channels than we currently do—we need to improve how we explain the sport to other people. And there is also so much more that can be done in developing resources for those more remote or less able to travel announcers—and developed in multiple languages.
ADC Members
The members of the Announcing Development Committee (ADC) represent experienced and newer announcers, house, stream and production as well as representing regions and communities around the world. The members are::
AK 40oz – Detroit, MI, USA
Bob deQuickly – Tasmania, Australia
Chelvi Bomb – Monterrey, Mexico
Cinna-bomb Roll – Monterrey, Mexico
Comic Drop (Sans MS) – Nantes, France
Diss Cussions – Lancaster, PA, USA
dorkmistress – Bridgend, Wales, UK
Hémo’ – La Roche-sur-Yon, France
Iron Lung – Denver, CO, USA
PR Mageddon – New Orleans, LA, USA
Say-J – San Diego, CA, USA
Shady Hawkins – Dallas, TX, USA
Spider – Chicago, IL, USA
Sven Will Be – Newcastle, UK
TchaiKILLsky – Denver, CO, USA
ADC Resources
Here is where we’ll list the resources created by the Announcing Development Committee. Follow the WFTDA Resources blog and social media for updates.
Announcer Guide
In 2025 the ADC developed an Announcer Guide for WFTDA. The guide is designed to provide advice and guidance to roller derby announcers no matter where they are in their announcing journey, including topics ranging from how to get started and finding your voice, to the different types of announcer roles and how to find events to volunteer for.
WFTDA is providing this guide as an educational resource for members and others in the community, and advise that it be shared with both new and experienced announcers. Additional resources are being developed.