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Setting goals, Living your wizarding dreams and Going Down Under- Andrew Hull In this episode, we talk with long time Team UK and Velociraptors QC keeper Andrew Hull. Andrew tells us about how he got into quidditch through his love of Harry Potter, his early days at Bangor and with Team UK, joining Oxford from Bangor and the big transformation he made as a player during that season, the first year of playing with Raptors, his time playing down in Australia, the 2018 World Cup, a bizarre celebrity experience at a Harry Potter festival in Denmark and his desire to continue playing quidditch at the highest level. Click here to listen to the episode on Spotify Click here to listen to the  episode on Anchor Photo Credit- Howard Orridge Timestamps will be added at a later date. Thanks to our listeners for their mailbag questions as always, love to see the engagement with the show! #LiveTheGame 

  Personality, Triumph and Villainy- Jay Holmes Another in-depth interview in this 9th episode of the podcast. We talk to Jay Holmes, now former Head Coach of Team UK and former Captain of Velociraptors QC. We take a real honest and reflective look into Jay's rise through the ranks of the UK game, starting off with his time playing for Bangor, his transformation following the 2016 World Cup when he first joined Raptors, his successful leadership within the club and ultimately culminating in him taking charge of the national team as Head Coach. As a major figure within UK quidditch, we also discuss Jay's battles with mental health, coping with criticism and animosity as well as his captaining and coaching methods. Click here to listen to the episode on Spotify 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. Ph

Hi all, bringing you a bit of a different kind of article today. The idea for this one comes from an article that featured in the Knowledge section of Guardian Sport in  the Guardian  a few months ago. The concept of the article looks at a hypothetical scenario in football where, instead of the familiar league structure, the Premier League organisers instead decided that the title of national champions would be passed on like a Championship Belt is in Boxing. Whoever beats the current 'belt' holders in a single match becomes the champion until they lose and the team that beats them is now the new champion (e.g. Manchester United are the current champions but if they lose to Chelsea then Chelsea become the new champions). Considering the history of the Premier League and the nature of football in which upsets happen frequently, the article created some interesting hypothetical scenarios so naturally it seemed like a good idea to apply this concept to quidditch. While the history

  Leadership, Psychology and a Notepad- Ash Cooper For episode two, we spoke with Ash Cooper, the most decorated player in UK quidditch history and well renowned coach. Ash tells us about his early days with Oxford's Radcliffe Chimeras, his approach to captaining and coaching through fitness and psychology, his work on quidditch injury studies and how a notepad helped shape the landscape of UK quidditch as we know it today. Click here to listen to the episode Photo Credit- Howard Orridge Yet again, big thank you to everyone for sending in their mailbag questions. To keep up with news on future episodes, make sure you head to the Total Quidditch. facebook page and give it a 'Like'. This is also where you can suggest your mailbag questions in the comments on the announcement posts or by messaging the page. Hope you enjoyed this episode and are excited for more to come! #LiveTheGame 

Tactics, Dodgeball and Fame- Lucy Quidditch Here it is, the first episode of the Total Quidditch. Podcast!  We spoke with Velociraptors QC and Team UK star beater Lucy Quidditch. We covered all kinds of topics from her early days at Nottingham, to her tactical and critical analysis of herself and the sport, her new passion for Dodgeball and her experiences of playing quidditch at the highest level. Click the link here to listen to the episode. Photo Credit- StaceynDavid Thripp Big thanks to everyone who sent in their mailbag questions, we look forward to receiving more in the episodes to come. To keep up with news on future episodes, make sure you head to the Total Quidditch. facebook page and give it a 'Like'. This is also where you can suggest your mailbag questions in the comments on the announcement posts or by messaging the page. Hope you enjoyed this episode and are excited for more to come! #LiveTheGame

Hello world, It's with great pleasure that we can announce that Total Quidditch. is starting a brand new and exciting project. TQ has mostly existed as a written based platform but now we're taking to the airwaves.  Introducing... the Total Quidditch. Podcast!  Photo Credit- Claire Purslow Quidditch Photography The goal With this new podcast, we're aiming to provide you with a different type of quidditch content. At TQ, we love to analyse the sport and break it down in a way that everyone can understand, enjoy and improve from and this vision has had a major influence on what we've produced so far. However, while analysis is both interesting and valuable, it's also important to consider the people who play quidditch and make it the sport that it is. In the episodes to come, we are going to be talking with various players and people from across the quidditch community. Talking with individuals from a variety countries and backgrounds and providing them with a platfor

In the semi-final of January's European Qualifier Tournament (EQT), Three-time Northern Cup champions Velociraptors QC faced off against newly formed community team London QC, runners up at this season's Southern Cup. A new addition to the QUK calendar, EQT 2019 was a 12 team tournament comprising of 5 teams from the QUK North Region and 7 from the QUK South Region who battled it out for the 6 UK spots in the European Quidditch Cup (EQC) Division 1 tournament and 2 UK spots in the European Quidditch Cup Division 2 tournament which are to be held in May and April respectively. Having already secured their spots in EQC Division 1, London QC (LQC) and Velociraptors QC (Raptors) had their second encounter of the season following LQC's shock out of range win at Battle Royale III in October with the winner gaining a guaranteed first seed for EQC and a spot in the final to play Werewolves of London. Despite trailing by a 50 point margin at one point, Raptors leveled the season se