Quidditch looking for a new name "to distance themselves" from JKR

[FannyCann]

Also there is the small matter that the name is trademarked be Warner brothers.

But who knew? I certainly had no idea there were to US Quidditch leagues running around with broomsticks between there legs!

Quidditch leagues changing name of sport
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Ha ha haaaaaa! If I were JKR, I'd be killing myself laughing at these silly billies.

Another funny tweet:

"You should see their polo team!

They've each got two empty halves of coconut and they're bangin' em together."

twitter.com/jgpetruna/status/1472254420184350721?s=20

Matt Bateman, president of QuidditchUK, said it fully supported the change. “We cannot continue to call ourselves quidditch and be associated with JK Rowling while she continues to make damaging and hateful comments against the many transgender athletes, staff and volunteers who call this sporting community home,” he said.

Hasn't he just defamed JKR? What a prat.

This full-contact mixed-sex game is more dangerous for women, who are at greater risk of concussion:

www.npr.org/2019/04/13/708111436/for-some-quidditch-players-the-magic-wears-off-as-injury-risks-grow-clearer?t=1639838051775&t=1639844964581&t=1639995209084

"Another topic of debate is the co-ed nature of the game and whether it's safe for differently gendered people to be tackling one another — not only because players don't wear protective padding, but also because of the size differences between players."

'Differently gendered people', FFS

Good to see they are using pvc pipe for the broomsticks instead of wood. I would support a move to foam rubber, personally.
The risk assessment is the most interesting thing about this.

If that isn't Freudian I will eat my hat.

Is it a sorting hat?

To be honest if I was Rowling I’d want them to distance themselves from me. How embarrassing that firstly you’re pretending to play a magical game from a kid’s book, and secondly that you want to change the name of it to distance yourself from the woman who invented it.

I mean will it still have the same rules? If so what’s the point. I do think some people have too much time on their hands.

@Deadringer

What a pack of thicks.

😂

The simplest and most to the point response really.

@ArblemarzipanTFruitcake

I'm not clear what they do about the golden snitch but either someone is throwing it or they have a battery operated "flying" ball thingy with wings.

I was curious enough to look this up and apparently it's put inside a sock that dangles from a player's shorts.

?????

I genuinely don’t know what to say. So that person acts as the snitch then the seekers chases them and try to grab the crotch sock? Please say it isn’t so.

@Fenlandia

This full-contact mixed-sex game is more dangerous for women, who are at greater risk of concussion:

www.npr.org/2019/04/13/708111436/for-some-quidditch-players-the-magic-wears-off-as-injury-risks-grow-clearer?t=1639838051775&t=1639844964581&t=1639995209084

"Another topic of debate is the co-ed nature of the game and whether it's safe for differently gendered people to be tackling one another — not only because players don't wear protective padding, but also because of the size differences between players."

'Differently gendered people', FFS

They probably didn't realise that the obvious prerequisite for mixed sex contact sports is an infirmary run by a witch who can cure broken bones by magic.

This full-contact mixed-sex game is more dangerous for women, who are at greater risk of concussion

Wow. If I was JK I would want them to change the name to something else. This is JKs whole point isn't it. Womens safety. And a game has been created from her fantasy book, made into a bizarre reality, and women are getting injured as a result of it. You couldn't make this shit up.

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

Good to see they are using pvc pipe for the broomsticks instead of wood. I would support a move to foam rubber, personally. The risk assessment is the most interesting thing about this.

Surely there is an opportunity for the manufacturers of swimming noodles to make a commercial killing here.

They could even produce the noodles in Hogwarts house colours. Editorial note, No they couldn’t , you have clearly misunderstood the whole issue.

This has to be the ultimate illustration of male privilege.
Woman invents game involving broomstick flying for children’s story.
Woman makes millions of pounds from story.
Men start playing game for real.
Men change fictional game’s name to dissociate themselves from female author/inventor.
This is reported as a serious story.

@JellySaurus

Matt Bateman, president of QuidditchUK, said it fully supported the change. “We cannot continue to call ourselves quidditch and be associated with JK Rowling while she continues to make damaging and hateful comments against the many transgender athletes, staff and volunteers who call this sporting community home,” he said.

Hasn't he just defamed JKR? What a prat.

Sounds like defamation to me. I hope he gets a solicitors letter from her.

ArblemarzipanTFruitcake
I'm not clear what they do about the golden snitch but either someone is throwing it or they have a battery operated "flying" ball thingy with wings.

I was curious enough to look this up and apparently it's put inside a sock that dangles from a player's shorts. 
?????

I genuinely don’t know what to say. So that person acts as the snitch then the seekers chases them and try to grab the crotch sock? Please say it isn’t so.

It isn't so @Kanaloa ! It seems it dangles from the back of their pants so not technically the crotch. And the player with the snitch wears a bright yellow shirt so even someone contending with cracked and steamed up glasses like Harry Potter so often had to, will have no difficulty finding the snitch.

I KNOW this is not the point of any of this discussion, but this has wound me up (from the BBC article):

The team with the most points at the end wins, unless one side locates and catches the Golden Snitch which scores them an unassailable game-winning 150 points.

No, catching the Golden Snitch does not give an unassailable score! Of course it doesn't. I've seen this incorrectly stated so many times. Even in the bloody books the World Cup final ended with the Snitch being captured by the losing team.

Arghhh!

Sorry, pedant rant over.

@Horizons83

To be absolutely fair if the snitch is attached to a guy in a yellow shirt it’s probably quite easy to catch so I imagine in grass pitch quidditch the catcher of the snitch is usually the winner of the game. Maybe that article was specifically referring to ground quidditch?

Otherwise surely they’d have mentioned the iconic Viktor Krum performance at age only 18.

@Kanaloa, no, they were referring to the original game, as I checked and the 'muggle' game only gives 35 points for the Snitch... (not a geek, really )

I joined my university team thinking it would be a bunch of HP fans having a laugh. Turns out they took it really seriously, so I got the T-shirt and never went back

I posted a thread here about it years ago when they announced that trans women counted as women under the gender rules. There was a trans woman on my team, who’d turn up in fishnet tights under denim shorts when everyone else was in sporting gear. I can only imagine what people would have said if a woman did that.

Matt Bateman, president of QuidditchUK

Imagine that on a CV. Fuck.

@MrsTerryPratchett

Matt Bateman, president of QuidditchUK

Imagine that on a CV. Fuck.

We had someone applying for pupillage (training contract for barristers) who included playing for their college team on their application form. We were

WTF @PenguindreamsofDraco I can't imagine the interview which there would be just for fun some places.

@MrsTerryPratchett

WTF *@PenguindreamsofDraco* I can't imagine the interview which there would be just for fun some places.

Eh, we get all sorts Over the years we've had one who boasted of having conversational Latin. Another sent us a link to his latex insect mask modelling website. One a link to his band's website featuring their song 'Fukdapolice'.

Another sent us a link to his latex insect mask modelling website.

I'd be very careful how I rejected that one.

@MrsTerryPratchett

Another sent us a link to his latex insect mask modelling website.

I'd be very careful how I rejected that one.

We used a veeery big fly swatter

Running around a field, with ‘broomsticks’ between your legs, a ball in an old sock attached to your backside and maximum gender rules, sounds very Pythonesque. They’ll probably want to distance themselves from John Cleese too, I’d imagine.