International quidditch association handbook

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Rowling, or their affiliates. Start playing Find a team near you or learn how to start your own. In the centre of the Pitch is a circle where the balls are all thrown into the air and the match begins. During the game a player can get a penalty for fouling breaking a rule.

On the face of it, Quidditch scoring is unfair. So what makes it so popular? Do witches and wizards just watch it for the violence and fancy broom tricks? Not at all. Quidditch is always played in a series. The Quidditch Cup at Hogwarts goes to the team with the most total points, not the one who has won the most matches. Nowhere in the standings does it note how many matches each team won. In the original books, there was no evidence of whether a similar scoring system was used for the Quidditch World Cup , and speculation was that finalists Bulgaria and Ireland were the top scorers in the world during the Quidditch World Cup qualifying year GF8.

However, after new writing by J K Rowling appeared on Pottermore for the Quidditch World Cup playoffs leading up to the final match QWC , we now know that it is a knock-out tournament, with the point score tally reset to zero after each match. Quidditch pitch. Quidditch stadium. Quidditch World Cup stadium. International Association of Quidditch. British and Irish Quidditch League. International Confederation of Wizards Quidditch Committee.

The colourful, exciting history of this thousand-year-old sport is detailed in the excellent book, Quidditch Through the Ages , also available in a Muggle edition. Proceeds from the early editions went to a worthy cause.

According to "Quidditch Through the Ages", the name "Quidditch" comes from Queerditch Marsh , the place where the game originated in the s. I love making up words. There are a few key words in the books that wizards know and muggles, as in us - no-magic-people, don't know.

Well, "muggle" is an obvious example. Then there's "quidditch. A journalist in Britain asked me She said to me, "now, you obviously got the word "quidditch" from "quiddity," meaning the essence of a thing, it's proper nature," and I was really really tempted to say, "yes, you're quite right," because it sounded so intellectual, but I had to tell her the truth, which was that I wanted a word that began with "Q" -- on a total whim -- and I filled about, I don't know, 5 pages of a notebook with different "Q"-words until I hit "quidditch" and I knew that was the perfect one - when I finally hit "quidditch.

Lexicon timeline of Quidditch. Rules of play Quidditch is played up on broomsticks up in the air. Scoring On the face of it, Quidditch scoring is unfair. British and Irish Quidditch League International Confederation of Wizards Quidditch Committee Further information The colourful, exciting history of this thousand-year-old sport is detailed in the excellent book, Quidditch Through the Ages , also available in a Muggle edition.

Table of Contents. Related Entries. Quidditch-related places. Originally inspired by the game in the Harry Potter series, quidditch has grown since the inaugural match in to be a sport played by thousands of players in over 40 countries.

Seven players on each team compete to outscore their opponents by scoring the quaffle through one of the opposition hoops, defending their own hoops with tackles and bludgers, and catching the snitch to end the game. We work with our members to facilitate international competition and cooperation, develop the sport through rulebooks, and to bring quidditch to a worldwide audience.

Starting with the rules that go into effect in the summer of the process occurring in December through mid-year , the IQA will be instituting a new rulebook process. This process has been designed to give NGBs more input, have greater transparency for the public, and to keep our rules more stable while simultaneously allowing the rules to be nimble enough to respond to new issues as they arise. Quidditch is played in over 40 countries and is constantly growing. As one of the only mixed-gender contact sports in the world we pride ourselves on being an inclusive and welcoming sport.

Regardless of your gender, age, ethnicity, or ability; quidditch is a sport for everyone and there is a place for you. From the elite level of international competition to the grassroots of a local fixture, quidditch is a sport that encourages excellence.