#quadball

[jephanz]

You know what would really boil Joanne's piss?

This weekend is the Quadball World Cup in Belgium and all of the toilets are completely gender neutral.

Men, women, non-binary, trans people all in the same loo and- surprise- nothing happened.

(Quadball, formerly known as quidditch, the sport that is so transconclusive it has a dad name)

[swede1952]

Good morning, friends. 🌼🌷🪻

18 May 2025

Yesterday, while lounging around, I decided to watch some sports on TV and stumbled upon a game of Quadball. This fast-paced sport is based on the fictional game of Quidditch from the Harry Potter series. It’s undeniably nerdy—perhaps even a bit silly—since players run around with a broomstick (well, a regulation-length stick) between their legs. I had seen it once in The Internship and assumed it was just a comedic invention. But as it turns out, Major League Quadball (MLQ)—formerly known as Major League Quidditch—is a real, professional league in North America. Who knew?

"Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?" – Viktor Krum, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

[utility-seeker]

ANYWAYS super excited to see the admirals vs aviators this weekend. both teams are ones i’m a little unfamiliar with (usually with the east division i pay more attention to boston and NY) so i can’t wait to see what players i should be having my eye on a little bit more

[ztremx]

One of our brooms was used in Hocus Pocus II. The scene was filmed at Hex Old World Witchery in NOLA

[brisingr-sword]

last night had a dream that i wanted to get food that wasn’t dining hall food so i went to an applebees alone and then at this applebees i ran into john green and for some reason we started talking about quadball

[birdylion]

Half the posts that turn up when you search tumblr for "quadball" are from people who say that they have never played the sport and take great delight in mocking it for its recent change from "quidditch" to "quadball", most of them saying something along the lines of "it doesn't matter if they change the name, the sport was still originally invented by JKR and she's bad and therefor nobody should play it".

It's such an obvious example of what happens 1. when people who don't know anything about a topic still have strong opinions on it, and 2. when people care more about being "on the right side" of things than actually looking into the thing.

Quadball is (with Ultimate Frisbee I think) one of the very few team sports that allows trans players to play as their stated gender, no questions asked. It allows nonbinary players to play as nonbinary. It is a mixed gender, explicitly gender inclusive sport that tries to write its rules in such a way that this works in practice, not just in theory.

So. If you care about trans people more than about being on the right side, then quadball, as it exists in our world, is a good sport, no matter its origins. If you just want something to hate, then by all means, throw one of the two or maybe three sports that are radically inclusive under the bus. But don't think you're doing anyone any favours except your own feeling of self-righteousness.

Quadball was the only sport available to me where I could play as male before I went through the (long and arduous) official procedures. All the teams I know try their best to be welcoming to and safe for trans (including nonbinary) players. In times when just existing in public was a fight, my team had my back and was one of the few spaces where I could just exist as myself, no questions asked, no need to prove my gender to anyone. This is what the people involved in it are doing with it. Either listen to us or shut up.

[intexda]

[jyuu-daime]

i think quadball is one of the funniest sports in the world. saying as someone who has watched a handful of quadball matches. these fuckers are incredible