Quidditch (not just at Hogwarts)

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<p>Seems as though it began at Middlebury ...</p>

<p>Vassar</a> Quidditch Team heads to World Cup</p>

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<p>What fun!!!! And good exercise.</p>

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<p>Now I wish schools I was thinking about had it!</p>

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<p>The World Cup was incredible - I just got back from watching it :) This is the first year it's been intercollegiate, so there were only two schools there (Middlebury beat Vassar, in case anyone's interested). But they're trying to expand - I know Marlboro, Oberlin, Bucknell, and Tulane have started teams.</p>

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<p>Wheee! I just sent link to my D. I think they have a really fun idea. Maybe a good IM sport for schools full of Ultimate Frisbee types.</p>

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<p>That's awesome! I'd do it.</p>

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<p>I'd do it. I'd suck (because well. It's a sport. and i'm anti-sporty) but, it'd be so much fun!</p>

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<p>I think it needs a redesign because as is, it just looks silly. </p>

<p>There must be a better way to incorporate the broom than running around trying to hold it between your legs. No sport can really work that requires you to encumber yourself with a piece of equipment that serves no purpose. I like the dodgeball element. I think maybe the broomsticks should be shortened and instead of running with them between your legs, they could be used as a sort of shield to fend off or repel the dodgeball. And I don't get the point of the snitch just running off around the campus and coming back every 10 minutes. I think the snitch should be a kind of spoiler, able to run in suddenly and intercept the deflated volleyball and then run off around the field (not the campus) until captured by one side or the other, something like flag football. The game has potential, but I don't see it right now. Make the broom an anti-dodge ball defense and you've got something.</p>

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<p>Does anyone ever get jabbed in the belly or groin by those brooms?</p>

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<p>They played it at Penn this weekend and used swimming noodles instead of broomsticks. Seems a little safer when you get jabbed.</p>

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<p>[url=<a href="http://www.alivans.com/custom/cart/edit.asp?p=84422%5DThese%5B/url"&gt;http://www.alivans.com/custom/cart/edit.asp?p=84422]These[/url&lt;/a&gt;] are the brooms they use. No one got jabbed during the five hours of play that I watched. And there are no contact rules, so getting jabbed is really the least of the players' worries...</p>

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I think it needs a redesign because as is, it just looks silly.
No sport can really work that requires you to encumber yourself with a piece of equipment that serves no purpose. ... something like flag football. ...

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<p>Well, the point of the game is to mimic the Quidditch games in the books as closely as possible - hence the brooms and the behavior of the Snitch - and to have a ridiculous amount of fun doing it. It's supposed to be silly; the fact that it's taken on elements of genuine athletic competition is a fun surprise. They could make it more like dodgeball or flag football or any other serious sport, but then it wouldn't be Quidditch!</p>