Only an All-Star Game NBA can compete, in registered points, with the Belgian armada… of Quidditch! Belgium has indeed become on Sunday the first European country to win the Quadball World Cup (ex-quidditch), by spraying Germany in the final 170-90.
While only the United States (four coronations in 2012, 2014, 2018 and 2023) and Australia (a victory in 2016) had hitherto won the supreme title of this atypical sports discipline from the saga Harry Potterthe Belgian Griffins were able to prevail at home, in front of around 2,000 spectators unleashed in the Tubize stadium.
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This competition, which saw France obtain 6th place (out of 31 teams present), allowed the Quadball to highlight its strong values of diversity and inclusion. This is also the main reason, in addition to the complexity linked to the rights held by Warner Bros, which prompted the International Federation to officially distance itself from Quidditch in 2022. And this because of the many transphobic controversies linked to the words of JK Rowling, the famous British author of the series Harry Potter.
In fact, the rules and the world of quadball follow the traces of Quidditch. Namely, two mixed teams of seven players and players competing, with the aim of sending the ball most often to one of the three hoops arranged around the field (10 points) then catch the “flag”, which acts as a golden live (30 points) in order to close the meeting.
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All on a bench/fortune stick, of course. And to see the overflowing joy of the Belgian team when winning the 6th World Cup in history, we understand how much quadball is considered a real sport by its practitioners.
