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Nov 19

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Middlebury Quidditch Team Does Not Qualify for World Cup

Middlebury’s Quidditch team did not do well enough in the Northeast Regional Championship this weekend to qualify for the Quidditch World Cup VI, which will be held on April 13-14, 2013 in Kissimmee, FL.

This came as a shock to many, as Middlebury has won every World Cup in history up to this date (five total), including a close World Cup last year. Middlebury had never even lost a game before last year’s World Cup. Here are some reactions on Twitter:

  MiddBlog is in touch with the Quidditch team and will update this post when we get more details.

Jun 5

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Middlebury Left Out of London Quidditch Expo Games

Believe it or not, it’s already June. Most of us have probably already started internships or summer jobs and will spend our free time lazing around in the sun, re-reading “The Hunger Games,” catching up on episodes of Modern Family and anxiously counting down the days until the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Before the games officially begin, the International Quidditch Association (IQA) will be hosting the first Olympic Expo Games in Oxford during the city’s torch lighting ceremony. According to the IQA website, the location was “intentionally [set] outside of London to avoid the complexities and security concerns in the city, and organized before the Olympics begin to make it more viable for press to come and cover the event.”

Team USA’s jerseys for the 2012 Expo Games.

Team USA was selected by IQA Regional Directors, IQA founder Alex Benepe ’09 and team coordinator Luke Zak of the University of Minnesota, selected for his “experience and organizational skills in the sport.” Twenty-one first string players were selected, in addition to one snitch and one referee. In advance of the selection process, the IQA stipulated that Team USA would be made up of at least one player from six regions with a 5:2 gender ratio, or female players comprising 15% of the team.

A minimum of 11 players were selected based on their athletic abilities and experience with Quidditch. The remaining players were chosen due to their “fundraising, organizational, leadership and networking experience,” as well as their skill and experience with Quidditch. A second string team of understudies or “standby fliers” was selected based on the same qualifications in the event that a first string player becomes injured or is unable to attend the Expo.

The IQA received over 150 nominations for the Olympic Expo US team and in the end, not a single Middlebury Quidditch player was selected to represent the United States in Oxford.

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Nov 13

Middlebury Wins Quidditch World Cup V

A team picture of the Middlebury Quidditch team who just won the Quidditch World Cup for the fifth straight year (picture courtesy of @WellyKilson)

The set of brooms Middlebury won today.

Middlebury won an exceptionally exciting Quidditch World Cup earlier tonight, catching the snitch to beat the University of Florida 100 to 80. Their victory preserved their perfect Quidditch championship record in the game’s five year existence. The team won the game despite losing star player Phil Palmer ’12 early in the game to injury, and getting a red card for a tackle from behind.

The path to the cup was not as easy for Middlebury as in years past, suffering their first loss ever to the University of Michigan yesterday, and coming back from 30-0 against Boston University in the round of 16 earlier today.

Check out this Twitter for play by play of the game, and also check out MiddBlog’s coverage of the World Cup.

Quidditch World Cup wins from years past: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007

**UPDATE** Phil Palmer ’12′s injury is a bad sprain, not a break.

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