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Not only for Harry Potter: Quidditch world Cup 2016
Flying broom, life-threatening duels and the all up in the air. Quidditch has become well-known by Harry Potter. But the Sport has made the leap into reality: There are even world Championships.
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No Hocus-Pocus!
The players of the 21 national teams at this year’s world Cup to take Quidditch very seriously – for all the fun . This is also the faces of the Australian team players are showing here. In combative circle formation, all the players swear on your game. The Quidditch world Cup takes place from 22. up to 24 July in Frankfurt.
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At first glance, chaotic
Quidditch is not exactly clear. Five balls are simultaneously in play: Three”hits”, soft balls can discard the “driver” of other players, and so temporarily out of the game (blue, yellow, purple, in the picture). With the “Quaffle”, a Volleyball, points are scored. The yellow player (the picture) is wearing the “Snitch” that must be caught.
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Hard-fought
In the hunt for the “Snitch” can it go to the point. Here’s the Mexican “seeker” in the game against Turkey is trying to go with a Tackle to the Ball with success. This is sometimes fought with rough attacks.
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Hit!
Well, the so-called “Bludgers” are soft balls. Because some litter can also go into the eye. As here, at the Training of the German national team. Quidditch is an extremely body-hugging game.
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The round must the round!
To get the “Quaffle” through one of the three Torringe, is not so easy. Here Christian zimpel man (left) tries to “guardians” and Co-Trainer Adrian Schleen (on the right). Dexterity and quick reactions increase the chances to points.
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Twelve eyes see more than two
The different actions on the court, a single arbitrator would be overwhelmed. Therefore, there are six: One chief referee, three assistants, two goal line referee and a “Snitch”-referee. They all have specific tasks. Here you discuss the matter with the “Snitch” and the team captains before the game.
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Fair play in any case
Even if Australia beat the team of Germany with a 150:10 in the test game after the final whistle, all the players hugged each other after a friendship. The German Co-Trainer Adrian Schleen saw the defeat: “Now we be underestimated, but on the weekend all by surprise,” he says in a DW Interview.
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Panini-Images: Quidditch Trading Cards
The creativity is also about this Sport on the court. The Fans want more: For the world Cup, there are to buy extra collectible cards, where all players are mapped to the national teams. The Teams exchange their cards with each other.
Author: Ruben Kalus
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No Hocus-Pocus!
The players of the 21 national teams at this year’s world Cup to take Quidditch very seriously – for all the fun . This is also the faces of the Australian team players are showing here. In combative circle formation, all the players swear on your game. The Quidditch world Cup takes place from 22. up to 24 July in Frankfurt.
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At first glance, chaotic
Quidditch is not exactly clear. Five balls are simultaneously in play: Three”hits”, soft balls can discard the “driver” of other players, and so temporarily out of the game (blue, yellow, purple, in the picture). With the “Quaffle”, a Volleyball, points are scored. The yellow player (the picture) is wearing the “Snitch” that must be caught.
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Hard-fought
In the hunt for the “Snitch” can it go to the point. Here’s the Mexican “seeker” in the game against Turkey is trying to go with a Tackle to the Ball with success. This is sometimes fought with rough attacks.
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Hit!
Well, the so-called “Bludgers” are soft balls. Because some litter can also go into the eye. As here, at the Training of the German national team. Quidditch is an extremely body-hugging game.
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The round must the round!
To get the “Quaffle” through one of the three Torringe, is not so easy. Here Christian zimpel man (left) tries to “guardians” and Co-Trainer Adrian Schleen (on the right). Dexterity and quick reactions increase the chances to points.
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Twelve eyes see more than two
The different actions on the court, a single arbitrator would be overwhelmed. Therefore, there are six: One chief referee, three assistants, two goal line referee and a “Snitch”-referee. They all have specific tasks. Here you discuss the matter with the “Snitch” and the team captains before the game.
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Fair play in any case
Even if Australia beat the team of Germany with a 150:10 in the test game after the final whistle, all the players hugged each other after a friendship. The German Co-Trainer Adrian Schleen saw the defeat: “Now we be underestimated, but on the weekend all by surprise,” he says in a DW Interview.
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Panini-Images: Quidditch Trading Cards
The creativity is also about this Sport on the court. The Fans want more: For the world Cup, there are to buy extra collectible cards, where all players are mapped to the national teams. The Teams exchange their cards with each other.
Author: Ruben Kalus
In the Original movie Harry Potter, it looks like this: High up in the air, the players flying on their brooms. They will fight for victory, whether in rain, snow or the worst of the storm. A single game can last for days.
To get an idea of the real game, which is the result of the Potter template,, here is a brief introduction: There are two teams each with seven players (women and men mixed) with each other. Three of the players (the “hunters”), try a Ball (to throw the “Quaffle”) through three Torringe at the end of the field to achieve points. The “guardian” tries to prevent them from doing so.
The “clap”, two free-flying massive balls, trying to push arbitrary players from their brooms. Two other players, the “drivers” that try to prevent thugs like this. The “finder” tried to meanwhile, a small Golden ball with wings to capture. He grabs you, he quits the game and brings his Team extra points.
Quidditch is a mixture of Rugby, Handball and dodgeball, and is played with a full body
From the books into reality
Ten years ago, it has managed to the fictional magic of sports to real life, and since then has rapidly developed, and not just among Harry Potter Fans. You must have not read the books, to have fun with it. This is the player a total of 21 teams from all over the world emphasize that this weekend at the
Quidditch world Cup in Frankfurt am Main to compete against each other.
“I think, generally speaking, most people find it weird that we play Quidditch, and see it as a Harry Potter thing,” says Laurens Grinwis Plaat Stultjes, the President of the Belgian Quidditch Association and team Manager of the Belgian team. Even among die-hard Harry Potter followers, it’ll give Fans who find Quidditch as a game, in real life, strange. Still, Quidditch was growing as a young sport in Belgium is relatively fast. The Belgian Team hopes to finish in the first four.
The “Snitch” embodies an independent player with the pants attached to the Ball, to catch it is
That Quidditch is often dismissed as weird or as a spinning mill, are expected to lie mainly on the broom, usually soft PVC bar, the need to keep the players continuously between the legs. Admittedly, This sight is a bit strange, because the broom can’t fly, of course. But they are by no means useless, declares Bex McLaughlin from the UK: “they are a Handicap. As in Rugby the Ball is only to the rear or in football, the play is allowed to throw. Without a broom, the game would be much faster and more dynamic, but also more dangerous. It would give bigger differences between the different sexes.”
The USA as a big favorite
Most of the players call on the eve of the world Cup, in addition to training sessions, also several demonstration games are held, the United States as a promising favorite. They won the last two World Championships in 2012 and 2014. Surprising this is not, because Quidditch was invented in 2005 in the United States by a handful of people.
James Hicks and his USA Team are the favorites
Now there are several hundred Teams and thousands of players. A development that is for the Coach of the U.S. team, James Hicks, is still impressive: “It started with a couple of Kids playing on a Campus and is today an international Sport,” he says in a DW interview. As the winner, he sees the USA, but still, after all, no game is played, and Quidditch-anything could happen. Other favorite teams in Australia, France and the UK.
The German Team has set itself the goal to make it among the first ten, reveals the “seeker” Christian zimpel man who plays in the Association for the Bonn Rheinos. “Compared to other countries, we are lagging in time a bit, but I think that we have quite a Chance to reach our goal,“ he says.
Two years ago, the first Teams were founded in Germany. From an initial four teams are now twelve official Teams. From the world Cup in their own country zimpel man promises a major boost for Quidditch in Germany. Already several have been sold a hundred visiting cards.
The German Team hopes to make it beyond the preliminary rounds to the round of sixteen
Fun and ambition go Hand in Hand
With all the sporting ambitions of a friendship that prevails before the world Cup in Frankfurt, and family-like atmosphere among the Teams. The players greet each other before the Match with a hug, and the audience, to ensure, through active Mietfiebern in a good mood. “Quidditch, anyone can be how he is,” says the German Co-coach and “guardian” Adrian Schleen in the conversation. Whether man or woman, every play. There are established Gender rules: no more than four players of one sex may at the same time on the field, while also Transgender are taken into account.
The enthusiasm for Quidditch Kaan Bolat, the Turkish Coach, whose Team has shrunk due to the political unrest in Turkey, from 21 to 15 players summarizes well: “Quidditch is welcome, it is open and stands for equality. All understand each other, swap jerseys and have a good time. All of this makes Quidditch for me the best Sport in the world.”