QuidditchUK

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QuidditchUK
File:QuidditchUK Logo.png
Abbreviation QUK
Formation 2011
Legal status Non-Profit Organisation
Location
President
 Melanie Piper
Vice-President
 James Burnett
Website www.quidditchuk.org

QuidditchUK is the official governing body of quidditch in the United Kingdom, and affiliated with the International Quidditch Association. Its current president is Melanie Piper, and the Vice President is James Burnett.[1] It began in 2011 as a Facebook group intended to act as a network for quidditch teams and players within the UK to communicate with each other, become aware of local teams and resources,[2] to set up matches and new teams.

History and internal structure

Since its humble beginnings, QuidditchUK has become vastly developing organisation as, after hosting the Summer Games[3] in August 2012, there was a massive growth of quidditch teams throughout the country. It was at this point that QuidditchUK decided to advance from a network for UK teams and players, to become an established governing body of quidditch in the UK.

A staffing structure was set up whose aim would be to develop and promote quidditch in the United Kingdom. QuidditchUK has a president (initially entitled Chairman):

QuidditchUK Presidents
Duration of presidency Name Previous position within QuidditchUK
2012-2014 Ben Morton[4] n/a
2014-2015 Amy Maidment[5] Assistant Marketing Director
2015- Mel Piper[6] Teams Director

The organisation also has an Executive Management Team,[7] including a Vice President, whose position holders can be seen below, and various departments[8] composed of volunteers within the Quidditch community.

QuidditchUK Vice-Presidents
Duration of vice presidency Name Previous position within QuidditchUK
2012-2015 Matthew Guenzel[9] Head of Gameplay
2015- James Burnett[10] Gameplay Director

Competitive structure

The first British and Irish Quidditch Cup was held on 9–10 November 2013, at University Parks in Oxford, England.[11] The host team, Oxford's Radcliffe Chimeras, won the trophy, beating Avada Keeledavra[12] in the final with Bangor's Broken Broomsticks placing third. The Second BQC[13] was held at Wollaton Hall and Deer Park, Nottingham on 7–8 March 2015 and was won by Southampton Quidditch Club 1.[13]

QuidditchUK operated a 'Challenge Shield' league event which ran 2014-2015; beginning with a mini-season from its inception in August 2014 through to the end of November 2014. This competitive format was phased out in 2015 in favour of two regional competitions occurring in the Autumnal months for the following year's national tournament held in the Spring.[14]

Currently there are various regional competitions established by both the International Quidditch Association (IQA) and QUK who have established two regional tournaments known as The Northern Cup[15] and The Southern Cup.[16] These regional tournaments are verified by QUK and the teams who compete here, or at two other QUK sanctioned events,[17] are seen to go onto the national tournament which is the British Quidditch Cup.

Additional to the official tournaments there are invitational tournaments in the UK, both current and historical, which include:

Teams

These are the teams involved with UK Quidditch listed as they appear in QuidditchUK's team directory:[21]

Currently actively competing Quidditch teams:

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  • Bangor Broken Broomsticks
  • Brizzlepuffs Quidditch Club
  • Cambridge University Quidditch Club
  • Chester Centurions
  • Derby Union Quidditch Club
  • Durham University Quidditch Club
  • Flying Chaucers
  • HogYork Horntails
  • Holyrood Hippogriffs
  • Huddwart Lions
  • Keele University Quidditch Club
  • Kinlochleven Midges
  • Leeds Griffins
  • Leicester Thestrals
  • Loughborough Longshots
  • Manchester University Quidditch Club
  • Norwich Nifflers
  • Nottingham Nightmares
  • Oxford University Quidditch Club
  • Portsmouth Horntail Strikers
  • Preston Poltergeists
  • Reading Rocs
  • Southampton Quidditch Club
  • SQC
  • St Andrews Snidgets
  • Taxes Quidditch
  • The London Unspeakables
  • The Seven Swans
  • Tremough Quidditch Club
  • University of Exeter Quidditch Club
  • Warwick Quidditch Club
  • Werewolves of London

European competition

UK teams were invited to the European Regional Championships, organized by the IQA, in Parc du Woluwé, Brussels, at the start of February 2014. Two British teams, both representing Oxford University Quidditch Club were able to attend: the Oxford Quidlings, and the British Champions, The Radcliffe Chimeras, who won[22] the competition. In 2015[23] and 2016[24] the teams with the best performances at the national tournament BQC qualified those teams on to compete in the European Quidditch Cup.

National team

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Main article: Great Britain national quidditch team

QuidditchUK also plays hosts to Team UK[25] which represents the UK in international quidditch tournaments. The team made its debut in 2012 at the Summer Games in Oxford where it placed 5th of 5 teams. Team UK travelled to Burnaby, B.C., Canada for the 2014 IQA Global Games to compete and ranked 4th. In 2015 Team UK competed in the inaugural European Games held in Sarteano, Italy placing second behind France, after a close final that ended 90*-50. In July 2016 Team UK[26] will once again be competing in the IQA World Cup, formerly known as the Global Games, in the host city of Frankfurt, Germany.[27]

See also

References

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