Total Quadball.

 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...

Leading & Learning, Cones and Berlin Beginnings- Miguel Vázquez Miguel Vázquez joins us to talk through his career in the sport. Miguel details his path to quidditch via Fencing & Rugby, the early days of Spanish quidditch, the development of the Spanish national team and its various milestones, club level quidditch with the Madrid teams and the Bizkaia Boggarts, his leadership style, and his move to playing with Berlin Bluecaps and training with the German national team. Listen on Spotify Listen on Anchor Photo Credit- Claire Purslow Quidditch Photography Big thanks to everyone for their mailbag questions, our biggest mailbag to date! We hope you can keep up that effort for future episodes. #LiveTheGame

Livestreaming, Research and the Life of a quidditch volunteer- Annemieke Drost & Toni Zimpel For this episode, we talk to our first Dutch guest, Annemieke Drost, and our second German guest, Toni Zimpel. Annemieke and Toni invite us into the world of live-streaming quidditch with Ruhr Phoenix TV (RPTV), their roles in the livestream team before, during and after a tournament as well as their views on the broadcasting of quidditch as a sport. We also discuss the topics of gender within commentating and analysis, volunteering and applying research to quidditch to help improve the experience for volunteers at future tournaments and events. Click here to listen to the episode on Spotify Click here to listen to the episode on Anchor Annemieke Drost at EG2019. Photo Credit- Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography Toni Zimpel (centre) at EG2019. Photo Credit- Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography Big thanks to Annemieke & Toni for a really fun chat about an aspect of quidditch few have yet to...

Collective Development, Innovation and Extra Spicy Mustard- Leander Troll Leander Troll- Chaser for Germany and Rhinos Bonn, joins us for this episode as our first German guest on the show. He tells us about how he started playing quidditch with the UBC Thunderbirds in Canada before then returning to Germany to help set up Rheinos Bonn and play for Germany, both with which he has been involved with a steady rise towards the elite tier of European quidditch. We talk about key components of this development such as the impact of the 2016 World Cup, the German infrastructure for growth and playing quidditch, team camaraderie and tactical innovation. Click here to listen to the episode on Spotify Click here to listen to the episode on Anchor Photo Credit- Claire Purslow Quidditch Photography Episode Timestamps- 2:00- Starting quidditch in Vancouver with UBC 7:48- Returning to Germany and helping set up Rheinos Bonn/Early days with the Rheinos  14:07- the 2016 World Cup in Frankfurt and...

Hello there! While the world is under Coronavirus lockdown and sadly no quidditch is currently being played, let's revisit one of the games from 2019's European Games in Bamberg, Germany. Honestly, European Games 2019 isn't a tournament I've really given much thought about since it happened. I was away at summer camp in the US at the time, almost entirely unplugged from the outside world so mentally I feel very disconnected from it but I guess now is as good a time as any to dive into some of the game footage available online. Special shout-outs to my friends Amund and James (UK coach for this tournament) for requesting this article, I hope they enjoy it just as much as the rest of you. Remember, if you would like me to do analysis on a specific game, please leave a message in the comment section here or on the facebook page (with a url link to the footage) and I will take it into consideration. Of the matches I've watched, this is one of the more entertaining o...