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Quidditch, [4] officially and commonly known as quadball since 2022, is a team sport that was created in 2005 at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, United States, and was inspired by the fictional game of the same name in the Harry Potter books by the author J. K. Rowling. [5]
Quidditch (/ ˈ k w ɪ d ɪ tʃ /) is a fictional sport invented by author J. K. Rowling for her fantasy book series Harry Potter. It first appeared in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997). In the series, Quidditch is portrayed as a dangerous but popular sport played by witches and wizards riding flying broomsticks.
Quidditch – Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, a team sport with four balls and seven players on each team who ride around on broomsticks Speedball – futuristic and violent mix of handball and hockey featured in the cyberpunk inspired games of the same name
US Quadball, formerly known as US Quidditch, [3] is a non-profit organization that governs the sport of quadball in the United States of America. Quadball is a sport that combines elements of basketball, dodgeball, and rugby. The sport is played at more than 100 colleges and 50 independent clubs in the United States.
In this stage, the player competes for the Hogwarts Inter-House Quidditch Cup for one of the Hogwarts House teams – Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, or Slytherin. Each House team is represented by its Seeker, and each Seeker is a specific character from the books (Harry Potter for Gryffindor, Draco Malfoy for Slytherin, Cedric Diggory for ...
Major League Quadball (MLQ), formerly Major League Quidditch, is an amateur quidditch league based in the United States and Canada. [1] [2] The league is composed of 15 city-based teams—13 in the U.S. and 2 in Canada. The MLQ season runs from June to August, with each team playing twelve games in the regular season.
The International Quadball Association (IQA), [2] previously known as the International Quidditch Association, is the governing body for the sport of quadball.It was founded as the Intercollegiate Quidditch Association in 2009 following the first intercollegiate quidditch match.
Quidditch Through the Ages is a 2001 book written by British author J. K. Rowling using the pseudonym of Kennilworthy Whisp about Quidditch in the Harry Potter universe.It purports to be the Hogwarts library's copy of the non-fiction book of the same name mentioned in several novels of the Harry Potter series.