Quidditch World Cup Winner Crowned in New York
Posted on Wednesday, November 17th, 2010 by Germain Lussier
Did you see Michael Vick’s game on Monday Night Football this week? What? This is a movie website and we don’t cover sports? But what if those sports are based on a super popular film franchise who has its penultimate movie coming out this week?
We recently reported that the 4th annual Quidditch World Cup, based on the sport created by J.K. Rowling in the Harry Potter series, was being held in New York City. 46 teams ended up competing this past weekend in this huge exhibition of “muggle quidditch” (which you can read all about here) and Vulture has a fantastic run down of the entire event. They’ve got hilarious t-shirts seen in the crowd (“I got 99 problems but a snitch ain’t one”), incredible examples of merchandise, and even some celebrity sightings (Hello, Benjamin Linus!). But, really, it was all about the cup and the final match pitted the defending champions, and creators of the game, from Middlebury College in Vermont against a Cinderella team from Tufts University in Massachusetts. Read about how it went down after the jump. Read More »
