Quidditch is a fictional sport developed by J. K. Rowling for the Harry Potter book series. It is described as an extremely rough but very popular semi-contact sport and has now been adapted for muggles (non-magical people). Matches are played between two teams of seven players running with broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals. The sport can best be described as a mixture of football, rugby, basketball, and dodgeball combined into one action packed game.
The first Intercollegiate Quidditch match was between Middlebury College and Vassar College on Nov. 11th, 2007. Since then, more than 200 institutions from around the world have joined the league. The vast majority are based in the US, and are divided among five regions: The Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and Northwest. Other countries with teams or leagues that play by the IQA rules include Canada, Mexico, Argentina, England, Iceland, France, Israel and Australia. Additionally, dozens of High Schools around the world have started playing by official IQA rules as well.
