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QuidditchUK Starts Season with Community League Fixtures

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QuidditchUK Starts 2022-2023 Season

QuidditchUK ended the 2021-2022 season recently with the British Quidditch Cup, and the new season starts this weekend.

Like last year, QuidditchUK will start the 2022-2023 season with the first Community League Fixture. It will be held on July 2 in Salford, England, and will be a one-day event played in a round-robin format with seeded divisions based on the results from last year. Last year, however, one of the Community League Fixtures had to be canceled, and the gameplay and impact had to be changed. Teams that weren’t able to attend the community fixtures last year should be divided between the divisions.

    Ten teams decided to attend this year and were divided into three divisions. The schedule of games is already published. One of the participants is Werewolves of London Firsts, who won the European Quidditch Cup recently.

Division 1

Werewolves of London Firsts

Velociraptors

Olympians

Division 2

Southsea Quidditch

Werewolves of London Seconds

Kelpies

Oxford Mammoths

Division 3

West Country Rebels

Phoenix Quidditch

Prometheans

QuidditchUK hasn’t announced any other tournaments yet. There is a possibility that QuidditchUK will have a similar plan to last year. That means we could wait for two other Community League Fixtures in summer and autumn. QuidditchUK didn’t mention for which region the first Community League Fixture is being held, but according to the teams, we could suggest Southern England.

Despite the new season starting soon, the last one isn’t all finished. The QuidditchUK Awards from the past season should be given soon. QuidditchUK canceled the event with the awards ceremony on June 8 because it wouldn’t be able to run an event of high quality with a busy summer calendar. Instead, the award ceremony should have been live-streamed on June 29, but it was postponed due to technical difficulties.

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QuidditchUK Season Ends and British Quidditch Cup Champions Crowned

Last weekend was full of Muggle quidditch events. Not only were the US Quidditch Cup and European Quidditch Cup Division 2 held on April 23–24 but also QuidditchUK’s Development Cup.

Development Cup was held on April 23 in Derby, United Kingdom, as the last tournament of the season. It’s a small tournament for new and developing clubs who have the opportunity to grow and gain experience.

This is also the reason why there is a strict policy on who can compete in the tournament. Anyone who competed this season as a player in the European Qualifier Tournament or European Quidditch Cup; any current player for a QuidditchUK National Team other than Team Wales; or anyone who competed for any national team that finished in the top 11 (except Canada) at International Quidditch Association (IQA) World Cup 2018 is ineligible to compete.

This year, the Development Cup had only three teams – Bangor & Co., Bristol Bears, and Glasgow Grim Reapers. All of them are small teams with around ten players each at this tournament. All three teams played against each other two times.

The final ranking wasn’t published, but according to the results on Quidditch Scheduler, it looks like Bangor & Co. won all the games and won first place, with the Bristol Bears in second and the Glasgow Grim Reapers in third. What is most evaluated at this tournament is that all three teams and their players gained a lot of experience during matches. If they are lucky and continue to grow as a team, they might attend the British Quidditch Cup someday.

    This season, the British Quidditch Cup is also over. It was held in Sheffield, United Kingdom, on April 9–10. It’s a bigger tournament than Development Cup and is divided into two divisions for university and community clubs. Both divisions have 11 teams which were parted into three flight groups.

After the group stages ended, all the teams continued into a knockout bracket based on the results of the group stages. The losers of the first three games in the bracket continued into a three-team round-robin, and the losers of the other four games in the bracket continued into the consolidation bracket, while the winners continued into a semi-final and final games.

    This structure was the same in both divisions. It led to the final match between London Quidditch Club and Werewolves of London in the community division. It was a very exciting and balanced match, ending with the final score of 170-160 with Werewolves of London as the winners. The final match in the university division was similar and also exciting. The final score was 130-120, and Southampton QC won against the Exeter Eagles.

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