Quidditch?

[flyandski365]

http://www.internationalquidditch.org/

“Muggle Quidditch,” or “Ground Quidditch,” began in 2005 as an intramural league at Middlebury College in Vermont. The rules were adapted from JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels by Alexander Manshel, the first Quidditch Commissioner.

In 2006, Alex Benepe took over as the Middlebury Commissioner and, in 2007, founded the Intercollegiate Quidditch Association following the first intercollegiate Quidditch match between Middlebury College and Vassar College on November 11, 2007.

Since then the IQA has helped students from more than 400 colleges and 300 high schools form teams, and over half of them are active already. The vast majority are based in the US, where Quidditch is represented in 45 states. US teams are split into five regions: Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West. Other countries with teams or leagues that play by IQA rules include Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, India, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.

In 2010 the IQA changed its name to the International Quidditch Association and became a registered nonprofit organization. Today the IQA comprises the Commissioner and President, Alex Benepe, and college volunteers making up the Board of Directors, seven Regional Directors and a dozen Regional Correspondents who work together to network and coordinate matches between schools around the country.

The IQA serves to promote Quidditch as a new sport and lead outreach programs to increase athletic participation among children and young adults and bring magic to communities.

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[Yukonrider]

http://www.internationalquidditch.org/



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Think of it as the virgin club

[blackhand]

Holy shit.

[fez]

Think of it as the virgin club

aka what band geeks do when there isnt a football game to play at.

[Vt-Freeheel]

Take a test fight on a broom! Dork central

[Grange]

The snitch is a person with yellow shorts?!

[Art Shirk]

[iscariot]

I heard it was a demonstration sport for 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

[sar13]

so embarrassed by my alma mater...

[ectreeskier11]

harvard quidditch captain's kinda cute.

[Tippster]

Oh dear...

[frozenwater]

She is also the only one sporting a cape. In a game of geeks, the geeks think she is too geeky.

I could sort of get the concept, have a couple of balls, run up and down the field like with soccer only using your hands, and have some hoops at the end to try and get it through.

But in the video they decided to randomly insert brooms inbetween thier legs, I can only assume on the off chance that they suddenly develop magical powers and can fly.

I would be the kid too poor to show up with my custom hand made ancient broom and would in fact be cruising around on a swiffer.

[Poop~Ghost]

chick goes to epic nerd-dom @ 1:40.

[Flyoverland Captive]

I fear for the future of our children. Good Lord, these are COLLEGE KIDS?!

[Grange]

Oh dear...

"Nice defensive play by the Keeper, and she plays three instruments."

[dumpy]

So if you took out the broomsticks and overt nerdery, this might be a cool sport.

From what I can tell:

rugby+basketball+dodgeball-tackling-dribbling=quidditch-broomsticks-nerds

Yeah, a few of the girls are cute too, not sure about their personalities though.

Edit: It looks like there might be a dose of hide and seek mixed in with the snitch

[Art Shirk]

There is only one dude in that Haavaad clip. He is probably rakin in some serious nerd-tuppy.

[JimmyCarter]

A bunch of kids who wanted to play ultimate but couldn't bring themselves to smoke pot.

[Art Shirk]

A bunch of kids who wanted to play ultimate but couldn't bring themselves to smoke pot.

[Neurodoc]

so embarrassed by my alma mater...

Pffft, you should be.

Particularly as the MIT Quidditch team has their brooms outfitted with jet packs.

[Dickeymotto]

There was this one time, at band camp...