<p>My son is heading up to Middlebury College this weekend as his college team is participating in the “2009 International Collegiate Quidditch World Cup.” Son plays chaser.</p>
<p>[Quidditch</a> World CUP 2009 !!!](<a href=“http://www.collegequidditch.com%5DQuidditch”>http://www.collegequidditch.com)</p>
<p>Anyone else have a kid involved? Or a kid at Midd who will be attending? Or a kid who might be interested in playing quidditch in college?</p>
<p>Too funny! Loved the banner across the top of the site – “The weather will be rain or shine.” Why, yes, it will! (Perhaps it should say, “Competition will be held rain or shine?”)</p>
<p>No to all of the above, but my son was smiling when our tour guide at Notre Dame told a story of finding some kids hiding in the bushes on campus - they were involved in a game of Quidditch! :)</p>
<p>My D is playing Quidditch–but she’s in Texas. She was talking about the cool uniforms (capes) they’re wearing. . .she told me her position, but I don’t remember (I know nothing about the sport). It sounded sort of rough to me–teams are coed at her school.</p>
<p>I guess this is equivalent to the Dungeons & Dragons folk back in my day. I remember walking through campus and you’d see some oddly dressed character scooting off to a ‘game’.</p>
<p>Never heard of Quidditch without high-flying broomsticks. How do they play it on the ground? atomom, sounds much more like a UT thing than A&M. Is that where your D plays?</p>
<p>Here’s a video from last year’s World Cup:</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Stuck in Vermont 102: Quidditch World Cup](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kfoEf-R3qY]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kfoEf-R3qY)</p>
<p>So far as I know, the teams are coed. The sport is supposed to be like a combo of soccer, dodgeball, basketball and water polo. They do play with “regulation” brooms – just run around with them between their legs rather than flying them, though.</p>
<p>Here’s a list of teams participating this year:
Emerson
McGill
Vassar
Middlebury
Chestnut Hill
Ive’s Pond
Boston University
Green Mountain College
University of Vermont
Texas A&M
Villanova University
Virginia Commonwealth University
Louisiana State University
QC Pittsburgh
Syracuse University
Moravian College
Umass Amherst
Lafayette
St. Lawrence
Miami of Ohio
Yale
Harvard</p>
<p>What do they use for a snitch?</p>
<p>I’m a Beater on my school’s Quidditch team (we’re not competing in the Cup since we just formed this year). The Snitch is a tennis ball stuffed in the end of a soccer sock tucked in the back of the Snitch-Runner’s shorts. It’s really funny because the snitch hides till after about 5-10 minutes of the game, and once he gets back on the pitch, everyone gets really excited and yells “THE SNITCH IS BACK!!!”</p>
<p>That video is hysterical!!!</p>