Yes, it's that bad.
Posted on 11/12/2010 10:43:59 AM PST by knittnmom
It's part rugby, part dodgeball and part fantasy. But as Harry Potter's magical, fictional game of Quidditch takes off as a real sport, it's only part fun and games.
Quidditch, the brainchild of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, has taken flight in hundreds of colleges and high schools in America. It's given birth to an international organization and it's even inspired a competitive World Cup, which is being played in the heart of Manhattan this week.
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I prefer 43-man Squamish myself. I was born to play right Outside Grouch!
Ah, my arch-nemesis! I wasn't allowed into the house last night, so that made me the Left Outside Grouch!
Muggle Quiddich is kind of lame but it’s all we have.
(6 days until the 7th movie)
Yes, it's that bad.
Surely they made a console/PC game of this already. Why try to actually do it?
I thought the game rules were fundamentally flawed, the real goal was to get the little winged ball, not to put the bigger balls through those goals.
I was watching the first HP last night and they were furiously trying to get those balls through the goal and then HP punked them at the last second by capturing that thing.
I was a Baggage Smasher during the 1988 World Championships. I didn’t get to officiate in the Final, although I did call one of the quarter-final matches.
I was okay as a player, but not great. I was even the starting Shallow Brooder for my High School squad, but after repeated bouts of ‘knitted brow’ syndrome I was forced to give up playing.
I became an official to keep me close to the game, and it worked for a while. But my innate competiveness made me yearn for more. I wanted to participate in something!
Since my previous injuries prevented a return to the Flutney, I decided to take up motorcycle road-racing in order to satisfy my need to compete. It was fun. Not quite as exciting as Squamish, but definitely safer.
Catching the golden snitch scores 150 points and ends the game, but scoring points is still very important. Remember from "Goblet of Fire," during the World Cup match, Krum from Bulgaria caught the snitch ending the game, but the Irish were up by more than 150 points, so Ireland won the game.
Wow, what a geek I am!
Mark
...at least the gold ball is hanging out of a pocket.
No It was only the last second because capturing the snitch ends the game and gives the capturer 150 points - normally enough to win
Goaling the other balls is intended to build up a lead of more than 150 points - placing you in a position where the other side CANNOT win.
As a football fan, I could see my team staging a fourth quarter comeback, down 3 points just to see a little punk grab a golden ring on the field and end it right there.
This would be great game to foment riots in the muggle’s world.
Oh, someone else who remembers that! I got so many belly laughs out of reading and rereading the description of the game when I was eight!
” it’s not just about the sport, it’s about the atmosphere around it,” she said. “It’s a competitive game, but it’ll always be a very fun atmosphere”
You want atmosphere? How about an autumn Saturday on campus in the South? Gainesville. Athens. Auburn. Clemson. Oxford. Blacksburg. Baton Rouge. Tuscaloosa. College Station. Norman.
The movies were misleading about the rules of Quidditch. According to the books, the games ends when the snitch is caught, but the actual winner is determined by the number of points scored. Thus, if a team made enough goals with the larger balls, it would be possible for them to win even if the other team caught the snitch.
How is that different from the other team being 3 points ahead just before the final siren and seeing one of your players score a touché, winning the game?
Thanks for that clarification - like Brett66, I wondered why they bothered with the bludgers.
Yes, it was a blatant "make Harry an instant hero" plot device.
A snitch capture should be worth, say 25 points or so. Enough to matter, and to prevent ties.
A decent "muggle" version of the game should ditch the brooms, let the chasers just run with the ball. If you're hit by a bludger or tackled by another chaser, you have to turn the ball over. The seekers would have to roam the pitch jockeying for position, while a cannon of sorts randomly (time and direction) fires a snitch into the air. A capture only counts if it is caught on the fly by a seeker.
But I agree that such a system is flawed in that you wouldn't WANT to end the game if it meant a loss, but then again, if you are more than 150 pts down, you want the game to end as quickly as possible before they rack up more points against you (as your team is obviously getting CREAMED)!
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