Beast of The East
Every spring, Montreal roller derby hosts an invitational tournament at Arena St Louis known as The Beast of The East. Sixteen teams play a tournament of abbreviated bouts over the course of the weekend. The tournament is open to home teams only - not travel, or "all-star" teams - and is typically the last weekend in April. The 2012 edition played April 20 and 21.
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Famous quotes containing the words beast of the, beast of, beast and/or east:
“his head
May not lie on the breast nor his lips on the hair
Of the woman that he loves, until he dies.
O beast of the wilderness, bird of the air,
Must I endure your amorous cries?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“his head
May not lie on the breast nor his lips on the hair
Of the woman that he loves, until he dies.
O beast of the wilderness, bird of the air,
Must I endure your amorous cries?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it through millions of centuries. It does not surrender so easily to weaklings like you and me.”
—Martin Berkeley, and Jack Arnold. Lucas (Nestor Paiva)
“I’m glad we’ve been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.”
—Elizabeth, Queen Mother (b. 1900)