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Quidditch World Cup at University
Nevt Week: Marlboro vs. Puddlemere United
Who says you can't play Quidditch just because you don't 1)have a flying broomstick or 2)have any way to make anything really be a snitch or 3) it doesn't really even exist?
Some college kids are giving it hell anyway!
"At Middlebury, Alexander Benepe and several friends came up with their spin on Quidditch last year after tiring of a weekly game of bocce ball on Sunday and marveling over the latest Harry Potter movie. About 30 Middlebury students played pickup games almost every weekend this fall, usually two or three matches, before heading to a championship "Quidditch World Cup" that drew five teams and about 60 players this month.
"We are the first college students who grew up reading Harry Potter," says Mr. Benepe, a sophomore from New York City. "It's very much a book of our generation."
"At Marlboro, students have ditched the brooms. The toy helicopter is launched from a slingshot to re-create the snitch and must be caught before it touches ground. For bludgers, students hurl water-soaked foam balls. Both schools use a volleyball as the quaffle. At Middlebury, it is aimed at gold-painted Hula Hoops mounted on chairs. Dodgeballs are used as bludgers in the Middlebury game.
Middlebury College's Lumberjacks team exult after winning the 'Quidditch World Cup.' In front, a caped Alexander Benepe, one of the creators of Middlebury Quidditch, kneels next to Rainey Johnson, who played the elusive golden snitch.
Injuries, foul weather and nasty play punctuate the competition at Harry Potter's academy, the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy. It isn't much different in Vermont. At a windy recent game at Marlboro played in snow flurries, a volleyball quaffle slammed into the face of Sean Gerety, an 18-year-old freshman with a Potter-like shock of dark hair and round glasses. Clutching his bloody nose, he ran from the field."
I bet NO ONE calls these guys dorks. I like the books and this is a bit too far, even for me.
Who says you can't play Quidditch just because you don't 1)have a flying broomstick or 2)have any way to make anything really be a snitch or 3) it doesn't really even exist?
Some college kids are giving it hell anyway!
"At Middlebury, Alexander Benepe and several friends came up with their spin on Quidditch last year after tiring of a weekly game of bocce ball on Sunday and marveling over the latest Harry Potter movie. About 30 Middlebury students played pickup games almost every weekend this fall, usually two or three matches, before heading to a championship "Quidditch World Cup" that drew five teams and about 60 players this month.
"We are the first college students who grew up reading Harry Potter," says Mr. Benepe, a sophomore from New York City. "It's very much a book of our generation."
"At Marlboro, students have ditched the brooms. The toy helicopter is launched from a slingshot to re-create the snitch and must be caught before it touches ground. For bludgers, students hurl water-soaked foam balls. Both schools use a volleyball as the quaffle. At Middlebury, it is aimed at gold-painted Hula Hoops mounted on chairs. Dodgeballs are used as bludgers in the Middlebury game.
Middlebury College's Lumberjacks team exult after winning the 'Quidditch World Cup.' In front, a caped Alexander Benepe, one of the creators of Middlebury Quidditch, kneels next to Rainey Johnson, who played the elusive golden snitch.
Injuries, foul weather and nasty play punctuate the competition at Harry Potter's academy, the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy. It isn't much different in Vermont. At a windy recent game at Marlboro played in snow flurries, a volleyball quaffle slammed into the face of Sean Gerety, an 18-year-old freshman with a Potter-like shock of dark hair and round glasses. Clutching his bloody nose, he ran from the field."
I bet NO ONE calls these guys dorks. I like the books and this is a bit too far, even for me.