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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.

Nov 26

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Midd in the News: NYMag’s “Neighborhood News”

New York Magazine gave Middlebury a sassy shout-out in the “Neighborhood News” round-up from their November 28, 2011 issue. The weekly feature highlights strange and out of the ordinary news stories from the five boroughs.

via New York Magazine

Sure, college-age kids running around on broomsticks and tackling each other to the ground playing a once-fictional game and winning an international competition for the fifth year in a row is newsworthy. But was it necessary to include the cost of tuition? Simply put, no.

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