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 European Games 2022 Review- Our 50th Episode! Germany's Leander Troll and Norway's Stein Elgethun join us for our 50th episode to talk all about July's IQA European Games 2022 tournament in Limerick, Ireland.  We debrief on the key aspects of the final international quidditch tournament before the sport's rebrand as Quadball and speculate on what's to come at next year's World Cup in Richmond, USA. Thank you to everyone who has listened and supported the pod for the first 50 episodes. It's amazing to have reached this milestone and it's been great to share people's lived experiences of the sport with the global community. We look forward to the future of the sport as we rebrand to become 'The Total Quadball Podcast' for our new series coming soon. Listen on Spotify Listen on Anchor Photo Credit- Quadball England Photo Credit- Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography Photo Credit- Squadball Photos Photo Credit- Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography Fa...

European Games 2022 Preview Guests Suzanne Fischer and Emma 'Jandels' Humphrey join us to look ahead to this weekend's European Games 2022. We return to Limerick, Ireland for another international tournament this time with 20 national teams from across Europe (as well as Australia and Hong Kong) competing to win the European crown. We talk about our previous experiences of EG as a tournament, what to expect (or not expect) from the attending teams, the gameplay format, Day 1 fixtures, and ultimately who we feel will win the tournament. Listen on Spotify  Listen on Anchor Photo Credit- Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography We hope you enjoy this episode and for those will be attending the tournament in Limerick this weekend, we look forward to seeing you there! #LiveTheGame 

 Episode 41- EQC Division 1 2022 Preview For the start of the new series, OSI Vikings' Jakob Lenz and Werewolves of London's Luke Twist join us to discuss the upcoming European Quidditch Cup Division 1 tournament taking place this weekend in Limerick, Ireland.  We look back at some of our favourite memories from past EQCs before turning our attention to this year's edition of the tournament. We discuss what we're looking forward to about the tournament plus the teams and games to watch. Listen on Spotify Listen on Anchor Paris Titans celebrating winning EQC Division 1 in 2019- Elstad Quidditch Photography Jakob Lenz at EQC 2016- Van Klaveren Quidditch Photography Luke Twist at EQC Division 1 2019- Elstad Quidditch Photography Please excuse some of the audio issues encountered in the episode. We've mitigated this as much as possible so hopefully you can still enjoy the content of the episode without much trouble. We hope you enjoy this episode and we look forward to ...

Rumpeldunk, Travelling and Defying the odds- Elisabeth Jørstad  For the first episode of March and fifth total, we turn our attention to Scandinavia, speaking with Norway's Elisabeth Jørstad. Elisabeth tells us about her wide-reaching career which has led to her playing on club teams in Norway, UK, USA and Belgium as well as playing for the Norwegian and UK national teams. We compare and contrast these experiences as well as talk about the development of NTNUI Rumpeldunk* (Elisabeth's first team and multiple time Norwegian national champions) and Norway as a whole, celebrating some of their great achievements in the sport including defeating Paris Titans in 2017 and France in 2019. As always, thanks to our listeners for following the pod and for sending in your mailbag questions. Make sure you give the Total Quidditch. facebook page a 'like' so you can keep up to date with future episodes.  *= for those who don't know, Rumpeldunk is the Norwegian word for quidditch,...

Hi everyone, Happy New Year and welcome to the first article of 2021!  I hope everyone is well during these difficult times. I intended for this to be released several months ago however, life got in the way so here we are. I wanted to write a piece to talk about  The Eighth Man 's Fantasy Fantasy All-Timer Tournament & Draft. A hypothetical fantasy quidditch tournament that took place  from April till July last year in which I was  participating as a General Manager (GM) . As a GM, my aim was to put together a roster of some of the best quidditch players of all time, battling it out against 7 other GMs in order to see who can create the best team. In this scenario, each GM drafts a roster of 14 players to play a tournament under MLQ (Major League Quidditch) and USQ (US Quidditch) rules, including the 4 max gender rule. You can draft any player who has ever played competitive quidditch in any country and select them in their prime (allowing retired and injured...

This week, the quidditch world was rocked by the tragic news of Antwerp QC announcing that they will no longer exist as a club with immediate effect. Guest writer Nick De Leu (Player & Coach for Ghent Gargoyles and player with the Belgian Gryffins- the Belgian national team) reflects on Antwerp's influence on European quidditch at the end of their 7 year existence while also taking into consideration various perspectives on the Dodos' legacy from prominent figures in the European quidditch community.  Extinction event: remembering how Antwerp QC helped shape European quidditch by Nick De Leu Antwerp QC A celebrating winning EQC 2017. Photo Credit- Antwerp Quidditch Club/Bruggeling Quidditch Photography The end of Antwerp QC was a bombshell for European Quidditch. The generation that claimed EQC 2017 and formed the core of a Belgian squad that earned silver at World Cup 2018 is calling it quits, and there are no successors to continue the franchise. But the team will be re...

Here we are, at the end of a project that started back in mid-July. 8 General Managers (GMs) drafting 8 teams of the best talent in European quidditch history. 5 weeks of drafting to form a 16 player roster with 1 captain and 1 coach per squad. 128 players total from 17 different countries. Only one 1 winner. As you can see, numbers are going to be a key feature of this piece. It's the moment of truth, the time to reveal the results of the Public Vote, Judges Vote and combined scores to determine the winner of this European All-Time Fantasy Fantasy Draft & Tournament.  Before we jump into it, it's worth reminding you how the voting works. The final result is determined via a Public vote (accounting for 45% of the teams' final scores) and a Judges vote (accounting for 55% of the teams' final scores). The judging panel consists of 11 judges- 3 independents and 8 team judges, the team judges only ranked the other 7 teams in order to maintain impartiality, in the same f...