"The earthbound variation is called Muggle Quidditch. The sport originated in 2005 when a student at Middlebury College adapted the game for the nonmagical world. Its popularity quickly spread, and today more than 150 colleges throughout the United States have Quidditch teams.
As in the fictional game, each Muggle Quidditch team has seven players: three chasers, two beaters, a keeper, and a seeker. Chasers score points by throwing a quaffle, or volleyball, through one of three hoops (worth 10 points) while trying to avoid bludgers, or dodgeballs, that are thrown by beaters. (If chasers are hit by a bludger, they must drop the quaffle.) The keeper's job is to protect the three goalposts, while the seeker must capture the snitch -- a sock stuffed with tennis balls carried by a person (typically a cross-country runner) dressed in gold. Capturing the snitch nets an additional 30 points and ends the game."
The visual I have for this game is f'n ridiculous! So you mean you took the mystical magical sport of flying on broomsticks and chasing a ball with wings at unbelievable speeds and turned it into running around the quad with a volleyball and an idiot dressed in gold with 3 tennis balls stuffed in a sock?? Got it.
Man college sure has changed. I remember just a bunch of people gettin sickie woo wasted, sleeping with a lot of "6"s and praying to pass calculus. oh well... if living on ramen noodles and getting no exercise other than kegstands is wrong.. I don't wanna be right.
*Update* Nevermind I just saw the video and I've learned that the kids playing this are usually the ones that fuck up the grading curve. So hopefully with something for these nerds to do Kane can pass this Molecular Transgenics class.
What the hell.. here's the video.
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Oh my God... that's sad. My college years consisted of a lot of alcohol and learning how to attend class hungover. In my days, those kids would have had the shit beat out of them. Where is the world heading?
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