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November 16, 2010
'Last Year at the World Cup, There Were Broken Bones.': Tomorrow in New York City, the Quiddich World Championship will be decided. Invented in 2005, Muggle Quiddich is now played at hundreds of high schools and colleges around the world. Forty six teams are meeting this weekend for the fourth annual world championship. The game is co-ed, full contact, and strangely faithful to JK Rawling's fictional sport. The IQA's official rules lay out how to play. Chasers play a basketball-like game of throwing a ball through one of three hoops. Beaters try to bean opposing players with a ball, dodgeball style. And the seekers chase the golden snitch, portrayed by a guy in a gold jump suit. Early in the game the snitch may go anywhere on or off the field, so games are often interrupted by snitches and seekers from adjoining fields running through. Game footage helps give an idea of how a typical game goes. And here is some coverage of day one of the World Championship (via MetaFilter).
I'm somewhere in between "goddamn that's funny" and "goddamn that's sad." But since I love the books and advocate anything that gets nerds exercise, I guess the former wins out.
posted by tahoemoj at 03:02 PM on November 16, 2010
I love it. Why not?
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 07:47 PM on November 16, 2010
The capes, brooms between the legs, and painted-on round glasses, not to mention not being able to fly like in the actual Harry Potter movie, makes the game a bit ridiculous in a nerdy-type of way. If this game could be played in the air it would be pretty damn cool.