Muggle Quidditch in 2 minutes

It is incredible to me that I still get notifications from this video, and that it's still one of the most watched "how do you quidditch?" explainers on YT. "Muggle quidditch" has changed considerably since 2012, and this is in many many ways not the best material to learn about it. A few years too late, I would like to update this description to offer more up to date and useful information to anyone who stops here.

Some useful references:

If you're curious to try I warmly encourage you to get in touch with a nearby team, your country's National Governing Body, the IQA. Or even reach out to me, I'm always happy to help!

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Today (2023) many countries have active teams, we've had national teams play 5 World Cups, 4 European Games, and 2 Pan-American Games, Europe plays 2 yearly club level continental competitions. About a year ago the US spearheaded a name change to "quadball" which is meant primarily to gain independence and legitimacy. (Long story short, our survival so far is in no small part thanks to Warner Bros' saying: as long as you make no money we're ok with it.) The growth has slowed considerably in recent years but it continues.

To anyone who has left, and will leave, disparaging comments I can probably say nothing to change your mind. I can offer what I have lived in these years, do of it what you will.
Quidditch, or quadball, however you'd like to call it, is a very interesting sport to play. Your team plays the same sport but also 3 very different ones at the same time, and they have to work together if you want to win. I have played several sports but never found the same mix, and it keeps being fascinating. There's room for competition as well as casual goofing around, and all sorts of people join us. I've known sports fiends who joined to have a laugh and dunk on nerds, who are still around now. As well, we have plenty of bookworms who had never done a minute of sport in their life who now work out, train, learn tactics, and love competitive play.
I've played in 10 or so countries, met people from all over some of which are still among my best friends, met my now wife - who stopped playing before I ever started, but that's another story and shall be told another time. I've co-founded and chaired a small national sports organization, started a team, captained and coached a national team, helped organize tournaments including a World Cup (as small as my contribution was)...
None of this might be extraordinary, but it's been a big part of my life for almost a dozen years, and most of it was FUN. It's by far not the only interest or even the only sport for me, but current me would be a little worse off without it, and likely a different person.

More on theme with some of the comments. Yes, we are (mostly) aware it can look dumb. We care relatively little. It's a genuinely interesting, challenging, and competitive sport. Most people who play it nowadays take it seriously enough, at the same time most of them know that when your sport requires a stick between your legs it's a good reminder not to take everything *too* seriously. Especially when it's all about running after a few balls on a field, or watching someone else do it.
Try it, don't try it, like it, don't like it. It won't upend our lives or yours. Might make it more fun though.

[lizardlenny]

No rules being a snitch? I'd just jump in my car and let the game play on forever.

[laurasingleton]

"The snitch is pretty much god."

[Ghahu]

this is so fucking ridicilous
i love it

[CollieFlowr]

I am the UK Head Snitch and will be snitching at the next World Cup. Being a snitch is awesome!! I love playing tricks on the seekers :D they can be so thick sometimes. I sat in the crowd one time and they had no idea where  was (I was in disguise)

[justinlawlor]

😂 I was told this would be hilarious to watch, I was not disappointed.

[Independentfellow]

the biggest problem I see with this game is the pointless brooms held between the players' legs. In the books it is their conveyance, but here it makes the players seem immature, undignified, and discreditable. Obviously my opinion is not universal, as there are people willing to be seen playing this in public. Whatever get these (adults in most cases) outside and running around I guess. If this puts a smile on your face, go for it.

[oncerpotter]

Seriously guys, If you are commenting on this fantastic video like " what the fuck is this?" Then why are you even watching this. And secondly, if you haven't read the books or watch the movies of Harry Potter then that explains why. And besides Quidditch is a brilliant sport that gives a lot action. And to @MordecaiVertecimes comment, the points are like that. That's how its like in the books and the films.

[jerona]

Kinda crazy how this is worldcup and the girl at 00:45 doesn't even dismount her broom after being beat. I hate when players do that, they need to be carded so hard xD

[EmilyA]

That's a good way to do Quidditch, but I have a question--if you're organizing a Quidditch match between, say, two schools, then do you have to find a third party who doesn't attend either school, to be the Snitch?  Because, if it was between School A and School B, and the Snitch person attended School A, then he or she is obviously going to be loyal to School A, and (maybe even subconsciously) try harder to run away from the School B players.

[Corry]

Hey well at least the muggle version has a reasonable snitch score instead of a score so ridiculous that the rest of the game is practically pointless.

[robjapan]

I like everything but the broom thing is silly. I think the snitch is awesome but maybe it would be better if it was a ball handing from a drone that flew above the playing field?

[ScienceDiscoverer]

Can't they use some drone as a snitch?

[GeorgeTheGeneral]

"What are these Muggles up to ??? THEY ARE RUNNING ON A BROOM THAT CAN'T FLY ??? AND WHERE'S THE FCKING SNITCH????"
-Dumbledore asked calmly-

[gracefields]

Next all they need is the triwizard tournament!!!

[thepurpleflute]

Over half of this video is about the snitch. I don't particularly like that this undermines all the other players that are not snitch nor seeker (and I've been a snitch/seeker player in Mid-Atlantic for 4 years now). At first, I was intensely disappointed about the lose of off-pitch snitching, but at this point I find that this sacrifice has made this sport more respectable to those who already have a hard time getting over that we're on brooms. There is now a more competitive atmosphere to Quidditch that I absolutely love and I think nowadays the other 7 positions outside of snitching (the people who are actually competing) have gained much more recognition now more than ever; particularly, I find, the beaters are the most important. It doesn't matter how agile, big, focused a seeker is-- the slightest tap of a bludger could make this player lose the game. I am a gold-ranked snitch(bitch), and beaters are the gods of the game.

[Holzawaffle]

I can't decide who I am in Qudditch! First I wanted to be Seeker. Then Chaser. In Muggle Qudditch, Snitch or Beater.

[CoolMonkey-jely]

I love HP. I've read all the books (except the spin offs) seen all the films, listened to the audio books, been to the theme park and going to the new one in October. ever since I saw philosopher/ sorcerer's stone I've wanted to be a wizard and fly on brooms. but I think this is SAD. my schools putting a game on and you can sign up but I'm not gonna cos it just feels like the saddest thing ever.

[Bedhed]

Very cool. Dont see why they have to have brooms though

[mugglesarecooltoo]

What do you do if the snitch takes your broom?

[netspider]

My first reaction too really. And second, and third... But turns out it's cool!