We’ve written about the Quidditch World Cup before — it’s a competition in which muggles play a real-world version of the fictional Harry Potter game. Below, check out actual video from the event at Middlebury College. Do you wonder what Muggle Quidditch players look like? You’re about to find out.
Warning: this video contains nerds and jocks. And, weirdly, nerdy jocks.
See also: Calvinball, Quidditch and other fictional sports you can play and Curling Term or Quidditch Term?
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Somewhere, LARPers (Live Action Role Players) are proclaiming this a geekfest.
Wow.
posted by CL Robertson on 5-6-2010 at 12:53 pm
Hooray, Middlebury!!
posted by Tamsyn on 5-6-2010 at 4:02 pm