Quidditch in Spain

Last updated August 09, 2019

The quidditch is a sport created in 2005 in Middlebury, Vermont, United States from the Quidditch of the novels of Harry Potter. It did not get to Spain until the year 2012. Nowadays there are near to 16 teams all over the country.

Middlebury is the shire town of Addison County, Vermont, United States. The population was 8,496 at the 2010 census. Middlebury is home to Middlebury College and the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History.

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History

Origins

Quidditch has its roots in the fictional Harry Potter sport of the same name, however to denote the difference, the fictional sport uses the capitalised "Quidditch" whereas the sport played as per the IQA rules uses the uncapitalised "quidditch". The sport was created in 2005 at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont by Xander Manshel and Alex Benepe, who later became the first commissioner of quidditch.^[1] It has grown into its own separate and distinct sport after seven^[2] publications of rulebooks.^[3]

Quidditch is a fictional sport invented by author J. K. Rowling for her fantasy book series Harry Potter. It is a dangerous but popular semi-contact sport played by witches and wizards riding flying broomsticks.

Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. It was founded in 1800 by Congregationalists, making it the first operating college or university in Vermont. The college currently enrolls 2,526 undergraduates from all 50 states and 74 countries and offers 44 majors in the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences.

2012 - Quidditch reaches Spain

In 2012 Raquel Carrasco, from Madrid, discovered the US Quidditch Cup, as well as the International Quidditch Association that coordinated the sport all over the world, so she decided to create his own team, Madrid Lynx. She worked alone until, in 2013, the Barcelona Eagles and the Dementores from A Coruña arrived. There also appeared some small teams, specially near Barcelona and Madrid, but they did not live long.

The US Quidditch Cup, is a quidditch tournament held in the United States and organized by US Quidditch. Held every year since 2007, it features collegiate and community clubs primarily from the United States. The tournament was formerly known as Quidditch World Cup, but that name now refers to the international championship IQA World Cup.

The International Quidditch Association (IQA) is the governing body for the sport of quidditch. It was founded as the Intercollegiate Quidditch Association in 2009 following the very first intercollegiate quidditch match. In 2010, the IQA took its current name, and 2016 saw its induction as an international sports federation with its creation of the Congress. It now comprises more than ten national associations governing quidditch in their respective nations.

Barcelona is a city in Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the sixth most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, Madrid, the Ruhr area and Milan. It is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, and bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range, the tallest peak of which is 512 metres high.

2014 - First attempt to create the association

At the end of 2013 Barcelona Eagles went out for the first time to compete in Europe and, later, took part in the European Quidditch Cup 2014. The growth of the team was remarkable benefited of the proximity with Europe and of the willing the team had to go abroad. However, Madrid Lynx and Dementores did not follow the same philosophy and closed to their own trainings. It was then when the Barcelona Eagles saw the need to create the Spanish association to be able to actively participaty in the decisions that were decided in European level. Sadly, this project had to be postponed.

The European Quidditch Cup, also known as EQC and formerly as the European Quidditch Championship, is the culminating championship tournament for the sport of quidditch in Europe. It began to be legitimised in 2014 when the International Quidditch Association became an international federation for quidditch. The first tournament took place in 2012 in France as quidditch began to develop across Europe. Today, the tournament is the highest level of championship in Europe besides the European Games with league-level tournaments being the qualifying competitions. In 2019, Division 1 of EQC was held in Harelbeke, Belgium, where the Paris Titans won the championship for the fourth time in their history.

2014 - Associació de Quidditch de Catalonia

In autumn 2014 it was announced that an NGB (National Governing Body) would be needed, with its classificatory tournament to attend to the 2015 European Quidditch Cup, which led the Barcelona to again trying the creation of the Spanish NGB. Due to the lack of interest of the other teams of the peninsula and with the creation of two new teams in Catalonia (Wyverns in Barcelona and Nightmare Grims in Tarragona), they decided to create the Associació of Quidditch of Catalonia.

Tarragona is a port city located in northeast Spain on the Costa Daurada by the Mediterranean Sea. Founded before the 5th century BC, it is the capital of the Province of Tarragona, and part of Tarragonès and Catalonia. Geographically, it is bordered on the north by the Province of Barcelona and the Province of Lleida. The city has a population of 201,199 (2014).

2014-2015 - Expansion

The great growth of the quidditch arrived since autumn of 2014. New teams appeared state, reaching in less than a year to a greater amount of active teams than the majority of countries of Europe. On the first of March it was played the Catalan Cup, won by the Barcelona Eagles classifying to the 2015 European Quidditch Cup.

2015 - Asociación Quidditch España

Seeing the increasing growth of teams and players in the country, Spaniards went back to trying to create the NGB. With the help of the mates from the AQC and with players from all over Spain, they created the statutes and gave form to the board.

July 2015 - European Games

In July 2015 the European Games where hold in Sarteano, Italy. In this tournament both Catalonia and Spain took part, finishing in the 7th and 9th place respectively and serving as a window to show the world the state of the quidditch in the country.

September 2015 - Officially in the IQA

In the September 2015th congress meeting of the IQA Catalonia was promoted to member league and Spain was officially declared a developing league, waiting to the Spanish Cup to be officially recognized as a member league.

October 2015 and future - AQE and the AQC tournaments

October has been an active month regarding official news. On 19 October it was announced that the first Spanish Cup will be held celebrate in Rivas-Vaciamadrid in February 2016 and in October 20 it was announced the collaboration of the AQC and the AQE to celebrate the first edition of the Regional Cup, where will play between regional selections in the 12the December in Barcelona .^[4]

Teams

Associació de Quidditch de Catalunya

Aragon

Imperius Zaragoza (Saragossa)

Catalonia

Barcelona Eagles
Nightmare Grims (Camp Of Tarragona)
Wyverns (Barcelona)

Asociación Quidditch España

Andalucia

Club Jerez Quidditch
Malaka Vikings
Sevilla Warriors
Thestrals Granada

Community of Madrid

Madrid Lynx
Madrid Wolves

Valencian community

Levante Phoenix

Basque Country

Bizkaia Boggarts
Gasteiz Gamusins

Galicia

Dementores (A Coruña)
Lion's Blood (Vigo)
Pontevedra Q.C.

Tournaments

AQC's tournaments

Copa Catalana
Year	Host	Champion	Score	Runner-up
2015	Barcelona	Barcelona Eagles	130-70*	Nightmare Grims

AQE's tournaments

Spanish Cup
Year	Host	Champion	Score	Runner-up
2016	Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Madrid

AQC+AQE tournaments

Cup of Regions
Year	Host	Champion	Score	Runner-up
2015	Barcelona

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References

↑ Plummer, Willis. "Alex Benepe, Quidditch Commissioner, On the Upcoming Quidditch World Cup" . Retrieved 2015-09-29.
↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 21, 2013. Retrieved July 23, 2013.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
↑ "Get the Rules - International Quidditch Association". Internationalquidditch.org. Archived from the original on 2013-05-25. Retrieved 2013-06-24.
↑ «La primera Copa de España de quidditch se celebrará en febrero en Rivas-Vaciamadrid.

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[1] Plummer, Willis. "Alex Benepe, Quidditch Commissioner, On the Upcoming Quidditch World Cup" . Retrieved 2015-09-29.

[2] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 21, 2013. Retrieved July 23, 2013.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)

[Internationalquidditch.org-3] "Get the Rules - International Quidditch Association". Internationalquidditch.org. Archived from the original on 2013-05-25. Retrieved 2013-06-24.

[4] «La primera Copa de España de quidditch se celebrará en febrero en Rivas-Vaciamadrid.