Quidditch World Cup

Quidditch World Cup

Full name	IQA World Cup
sport	Quidditch
abbreviation	WM
Association	International Quidditch Association
League foundation	2012
Teams	29 (2018)
Title holder	United States (3rd title)
Record champions	United States (3 titles)
Website	iqasport.com

The Quidditch World Cup , officially IQA World Cup , is an international Quidditch competition for national teams for the world title. It is held every two years by the International Quidditch Association , the global umbrella organization for the Quidditch sport. For the first time, the tournament took place in the run-up to the 2012 Summer Olympics as the Summer Games in Oxford . In 2014 it was held under the name Global Games .

The last Quidditch World Cup took place in Florence from June 30th to July 1st, 2018 . The reigning world champion is the United States . The 2020 World Cup was scheduled to take place from July 18-19, 2020 in Richmond, Virginia , United States. In April 2020 it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is now set to take place from July 31 to August 1, 2021.

history

prehistory

National associations that have already participated in a Quidditch World Cup. Dark blue: Participation in every World Cup so far. Red: Participation withdrawn for the time being

Venues

Oxford Frankfurt am Main Florence Burnaby

For the first time an international Quidditch tournament was held in 2007 under the name IQA World Cup . However, it was a tournament for club and university teams, held annually by the then International Quidditch Association . Due to the strong centralization and concentration of the association on the USA, a structural reform in the international Quidditch sport took place in 2014: The IQA, founded in 2005, was transformed into a national US umbrella organization and renamed US Quidditch. At the same time, a world association was created with the new International Quidditch Association. The club competition mentioned was last held in 2014 under the name IQA World Cup .

IQA Summer Games (2012)

The first Quidditch World Cup for national teams finally took place on July 8, 2012 in Oxford, England. It also represented the first international Quidditch competition outside of the USA. The tournament was named IQA Summer Games in reference to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the same month . As part of the official Olympic torchlight ceremony in Oxford on July 9, 2012, a public demonstration game between the United States and the United Kingdom took place in this context. Five teams participated in the IQA Summer Games: Australia, France, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. The mode included a round robin followed by a knockout phase, for which the best four teams in the preliminary round qualified. By beating France in the final, the US team became the first Quidditch world champion.

IQA Global Games (2014)

The 2014 Quidditch World Cup took place as the IQA Global Games in Burnaby, Canada, but was hosted by the US Quidditch Association. For the first time Mexico and Belgium took part in an international tournament. The seven teams initially played against each other in a round-robin tournament system. Depending on their placements in this Round Robin, they qualified for the placement games for first, third and fifth place. The USA managed to defend their title in the final against Australia, Canada won the bronze medal.

IQA World Cup (since 2016)

After renaming the club competition IQA World Cup in US Quidditch Cup a Quidditch World Cup could take place under the name of national IQA World Cup in 2016 for the first time. The German Quidditch Federation was awarded the contract to host the tournament in Frankfurt am Main. At the same time, the importance of the tournament increased significantly. The Quidditch sport received national attention for the first time in the German press, which led to a sudden increase in Quidditch teams in Germany. The number of participating teams grew from 7 to 21, with Asia and South America also being represented for the first time. For the first time, Germany and Austria also took part in the Quidditch World Cup. The team from Australia won the final against the defending champions from the USA by catching the snitch . In the third edition, this was the first time that the US team was not world champion. The bronze medal went to the Canadian team, who prevailed against the United Kingdom team in the remake of the game for 3rd place in 2014.

The 2018 Quidditch World Cup took place in Florence from June 30th to July 1st, 2018. With 29 participating teams, another record was set. After the same four teams reached the semi-finals in the previous two tournaments, two new teams, Belgium and Turkey, won a medal in 2018. The US team, which faced world champions Australia twice in the course of the tournament and both emerged victorious from the game, was finally able to secure the third title.

Award

The award is made by the International Quidditch Association. Applicants can be national umbrella organizations, individual associations, organizations or local governments or municipalities. Comprehensive documents must be submitted for the application, including information about the sports facilities and accommodation options available. In addition, IQA representatives carry out on-site visits. Since 2018, the organization of the Quidditch World Cup has been awarded together with the three continental championships and thus around a year and a half before the tournament.

qualification

So far, national teams do not have to go through a qualification phase to participate in Quidditch World Cups. However, in order to participate, the teams must represent a regional or national governing body.

In contrast to other sports, players in a national team do not necessarily have to have the corresponding citizenship. Eligible to play for a national team are all players who play Quidditch over a longer period of time in the respective country and are registered as players with the national governing body there.

First time participant

The table below provides an overview of a nation's first participation in a Quidditch World Cup.

year	First time participant
2012	Australia	Canada	France	United States
	United Kingdom
2014	Belgium	Mexico
2016	Brazil	Germany	Ireland	Italy
	Catalonia a	Netherlands	Norway	Austria
	Poland	Slovakia	Slovenia	Spain
	South Korea	Turkey
2018	Finland	Hong Kong	Iceland	Malaysia
	New Zealand	Switzerland	Czech Republic	Vietnam
Hints aThe autonomous community of Catalonia has its own national Quidditch association. Spain and Catalonia therefore compete independently of each other in the Quidditch European and World Championships.

Tournaments at a glance

The following table gives an overview of the results of the individual tournaments.

year	host		final				Game for third place				Teams
			winner	Result a	2nd place		3rd place	Result	4th Place
2012 details	Oxford		United States	160 *: 0	France		Australia	60 *: 50	Canada		5
2014 details	Burnaby b		United States	210 *: 0	Australia		Canada	70 *: 40	United Kingdom		7th
2016 details	Frankfurt am Main		Australia	150 *: 130	United States		United Kingdom	190 *: 60	Canada		21st
2018 details	Florence		United States	120 *: 70	Belgium		Turkey	110 *: 60	United Kingdom		29
2020 details	Richmond
2022 details	not yet taken
Hints a The score of the team whose seeker caught the snitch is marked with an asterisk in accordance with the standardized result notation. b The American Quidditch Association US Quidditch was the official host of the 2014 Quidditch World Cup.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	United States	3	1	0	4th
2	Australia	1	1	1	3
3	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
5	Canada	0	0	1	1
	United Kingdom	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1
Total		4th	4th	4th	12

Web links

• The World Cup in the Harry Potter sport "Quidditch" , sports show, July 3, 2018 (video)
• Quidditch World Cup: Athletes on Brooms , Euronews, June 28, 2018 (video)

Individual evidence

1. ^ International Quidditch Association: World Cup Dates Announced. Retrieved September 17, 2019 . 
2. ↑ IQA World Cup 2020 Postponed to Summer 2021 , Veronika Kohoutová on MuggleNet .com, April 18, 2020
3. ^ IQA Announcement: The Future of Quidditch Development | US Quidditch. Retrieved July 2, 2018 . 
4. ↑ US Quidditch World Cup 8. Retrieved July 2, 2018 (American English). 
5. ^ Alan Black: London 2012: Olympic Quidditch Expo Tournament Preview . In: Bleacher Report . ( bleacherreport.com [accessed July 2, 2018]).
6. ↑ Global Games | US Quidditch. Retrieved July 2, 2018 . 
7. ↑ DH Vancouver Staff: Team USA wins gold at Quidditch Global Games 2014 in Burnaby (PHOTOS, VIDEOS) | Daily Hive Vancouver . In: Daily Hive . July 20, 2014 ( dailyhive.com [accessed July 2, 2018]).
8. ^ IQA Staff: International Quidditch Association - World Cup 2016. Retrieved July 2, 2018 (British English). 
9. ↑ Julian Dorn, Frankfurt: Quidditch in Germany: Not even flying would be nicer . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 2, 2018]).
10. ↑ You Don't Know Jack: Germany - A Case-Study In Success | Quidditch Post . In: Quidditch Post . March 14, 2018 ( quidditchpost.com [accessed July 2, 2018]).
11. ^ Nikita Kane: International Quidditch Association - World Cup Recap. Retrieved July 2, 2018 (UK English). 
12. ^ IQA Staff: International Quidditch Association - 2018 IQA World Cup to be hosted by Florence between June 27 - July 2 2018. Retrieved July 2, 2018 (British English). 
13. ↑ IQA Quidditch World Cup 2018 To Be Hosted in Florence, Italy | Quidditch Post . In: Quidditch Post . November 1, 2017 ( quidditchpost.com [accessed July 2, 2018]).
14. ^ IQA World Cup 2018 - International Quidditch Association . In: International Quidditch Association . ( iqasport.org [accessed July 2, 2018]).
15. ↑ International Quidditch Association: IQA World Cup 2018 Day 2 July 1, 2018, accessed July 2, 2018 . 
16. ↑ International Quidditch Association: IQA Events 2019-2020 Bid Package. Retrieved July 2, 2018 .