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darling clementine (neattrick) wrote in goose_ooc,
@ 2017-03-12 19:38:00

Entry tags:

* quidditch madness, player: jj

USA PRO QUIDDITCH, now a semi-regular feature
This is a monster post because I'm two weeks behind, which is entirely IJ's fault

WEEK THREE
At the end of the first phase, this is how the scores stood.

Phoenix ranked in at 450, just missing advancement. Their expected spot went instead to Washington DC. Also missing advancement were Sparks and Elysian Fields, and with three top-ranked teams knocked out of competition, the playing field is left open for teams like Middletown, Princeville, and Roanoke, which are all currently tied for sixth place.

Galesburg put up a particularly poor showing this year, ranking dead last with only 8 goals scored and no snitches caught. Following their disappointing final match, their seniormost chaser Buddy Schulze announced that he was leaving the team to take an advisory position at Contrail, a top-of-the-line broom manufacturer.

Teams Advancing: Belvedere, Drake Kill, Fitchburg, Klamath, Middletown, Olympus, Point Pleasant, Princeville, Roanoke, Sweetwater, Wasilla, Washington DC

PHASE TWO MATCH-UPS

WEEK FOUR	WEEK FIVE	WEEK SIX
Fitchburg vs Sweetwater Klamath vs Belvedere Roanoke vs Wasilla Princeville vs Middletown Olympus vs Washington DC Point Pleasant vs Drake Kill	Drake Kill vs Belvedere Wasilla vs Klamath Middletown vs Sweetwater Fitchburg vs Washington DC Point Pleasant vs Olympus Princeville vs Roanoke	Sweetwater vs Middletown Olympus vs Wasilla Drake Kill vs Klamath Roanoke vs Belvedere Washington DC vs Fitchburg Princeville vs Point Pleasant

WEEK FOUR

HOME TEAM	SCORE	AWAY TEAM	SCORE
Fitchburg	360	Sweetwater	110
Klamath	170	Belvedere	160
Roanoke	110	Wasilla	10
Princville	230	Middletown	150
Olympus	120	Washington DC	200
Point Pleasant	80	Drake Kill	290

Far and away the most exciting game this week was Roanoke vs Wasilla. Over the course of the 90 minute game, Roanoke's beaters took out two starting chasers and two reserves, leaving Wasilla's chasing team extremely short-handed. Wasilla was awarded three penalty shots over the course of this match and missed all of them.

Fitchburg gains on Drake Kill, while Wasilla and Point Pleasant fall behind the pack.

WEEK FIVE

HOME TEAM	SCORE	AWAY TEAM	SCORE
Drake Kill	100	Belvedere	60
Wasilla	30	Klamath	170
Middletown	20	Sweetwater	100
Fitchburg	450	Washington DC	50
Point Pleasant	110	Olympus	240
Princeville	180	Roanoke	230

Belvedere did an admirable job preventing Drake Kill from widening their lead, catching the snitch when they were 90 points down to prevent the scoreboard leader from scoring any more goals. Wasilla, with a chasing team still recovering from heavy injuries, scored only 3 goals against up-and-comers Klamath.

In a week of close matches with strong work from keepers and beaters, Fitchburg wiped the floor with Washington DC, scoring forty goals over the course of the lengthy five hour game. They now have a 270 point lead over Drake Kill, and both teams are considered safe to advance to phase three.

While Wasilla is currently in 12th place with 580 points, a good match for them next week (or bad ones for everyone else) could still earn them a spot in the third phase, so nobody's out of the running just yet!

CURRENT SCORES, WEEK FIVE

Belvedere	720
Drake Kill	1280
Fitchburg	1550
Klamath	1120
Middletown	730
Olympus	950
Point Pleasant	670
Princeville	970
Roanoke	900
Sweetwater	820
Wasilla	580
Washington DC	720

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	qnnc 2017-03-12 11:20 pm UTC (link)
	i continue to be in awe (Reply to this) (Thread)

	neattrick 2017-03-12 11:23 pm UTC (link)
	this whole thing is honestly just me like playing with my imaginary action figures and occasionally updating you guys on what's going on (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	qnnc 2017-03-12 11:24 pm UTC (link)
	and??? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neattrick 2017-03-12 11:24 pm UTC (link)
	i'm glad y'all are nerds too (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	qnnc 2017-03-12 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	jj this is online harry potter roleplaying none of us are nerds you take that back right now (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neattrick 2017-03-12 11:26 pm UTC (link)
	sorry, you guys are all cool cats and i'm glad you let me hang out with you (Reply to this) (Parent)

	paladins 2017-03-12 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	god i need to recheck which teams my characters bet on but ty jj i love this (Reply to this) (Thread)

paladins
2017-03-12 11:27 pm UTC (link)

also fun trivia. i actually bothered to read the rules of quidditch before today's match, and i learned two things i was doing wrong:

1) when players get injured or killed, they are not replaced. you just keep playing without a goddamn seeker. which i guess i should've known from how harry's matches work considering he was murdered like four times during a quidditch match and they never subbed anyone in, but oh my god????? anyway so i'm calling this one american rules

2) when you get a penalty, the other team gets a penalty shot. that probably should've been obvious. i don't know why it never occurred to me. so anyway. now we're going to get penalty shots in our matches

this is a Professional Harry Potter Game i'm running here

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neattrick
2017-03-12 11:30 pm UTC (link)

I KNEW ABOUT THE SUBBING THING but honestly it's stupid to me like if both the seekers get taken out does the game just... never... end??

Also, apparently, the World Cup is a knockout tournament, which really just doesn't make sense for the way the sport is scored

JK Rowling apparently knows as much about sports as I do

Also did you read the article on Quodpot because it sounds like a deeply stupid game it's basically hot potato

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stokers
2017-03-13 12:09 am UTC (link)

maybe you keep playing until the seekers have gotten a nap and recovered from their injuries so they can start playing again. quidditch is a Logical Sport

...wait what

w h a t

i just. i mean. okay. i mean i guess that works better for the sake of drama when the world cup is this big BULGARIA OR IRELAND!!!!!! WHO WIN thing but also why would you do that and then make Hogwarts Quidditch work a completely different way????

quodpot is the stupidest game ever and i refused to have it present at gb. however i like making reference to it because i'm trying to passive-aggressively prove to JKR that i haven't completely flipped the bird at all of her american canon

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	neattrick 2017-03-13 12:13 am UTC (link)
	Qualifying for the World Cup takes place in 16 groups over 2 years with cumulative scoring, and then the top-scoring teams go into a 16 team knockout competition (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

QUIDDITCH SPOILERS??

idfk
2017-03-13 12:44 am UTC (link)

i think there's a 4 hour cap on qualifying games now, in case the seekers are incapacitated or just don't catch the snitch. whoever scored the most points at the end of 4 hours wins.

also, the qualifying for world cup is based on a cumulative win-loss point system instead of cumulative score. ex: 180-110 score today; pretending these are professional teams, gooseberry would win 2 points for winning plus an extra 1 point for winning by over 50 points but less than 100. 3 points total toward qualifying for QWC. ilvermorny wins 0 points. (these points might be different for americans since their snitch is worth 50 and not 150 by international rules) at the end of the 2 years, the 16 teams with the top points qualify for world cup. if two teams are tied on points, the team that caught the snitch the most often ranks higher.

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	Re: QUIDDITCH SPOILERS?? idfk 2017-03-13 12:48 am UTC (link)
	ALSO IDK THE SCORING SYSTEM FOR NATIONAL GAMES or International Quidditch Tournament. that's just what the wiki has on world cup. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: QUIDDITCH SPOILERS?? neattrick 2017-03-13 12:48 am UTC (link)
	that's so complicated wtf (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: QUIDDITCH SPOILERS?? idfk 2017-03-13 12:50 am UTC (link)
	it's similar to how football is ranked except there's bonus points awarded based on the difference in the scores. but they don't keep up with cumulative scores based on goals, just points earned from win-loss. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: QUIDDITCH SPOILERS?? neattrick 2017-03-13 12:53 am UTC (link)
	That makes Hogwarts' cumulative scoring system even weirder tbh (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: QUIDDITCH SPOILERS??

idfk
2017-03-13 12:58 am UTC (link)

i know. idk why it's cumulative based on scores, especially if they're going for pro quid which uses a different system. i guess because it's way easier to keep track of? and it's a children's book and it's just easier to explain how teams won that way. a lot of the detailed quidditch rules come from Pottermore, which is geared toward the harry potter fans who are older now and might be more familiar with real-world sports rankings.

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	qnnc 2017-03-12 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	quinn would be honoured to find out she was responsible for the first penalty shot. that's very hockey. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ijustknowit 2017-03-12 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	I'm so bummed I missed betting in my school frenzy, but I'm still in constant awe of this. I don't know who to cheer for next week! MY home team (Wasilla! We really do love wolves) or my character's home team (GO HOOP SNAKES!) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	neattrick 2017-03-13 12:09 am UTC (link)
	BTW if you want to say Jesse bet on the Horsemen we can totally retcon that since they've been disqualified already! And if anyone else wants to retcon in bets that's cool. they just can't win. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ijustknowit 2017-03-13 12:15 am UTC (link)
	Sure! Thanks! Jesse went all in on the Horsemen like the rube that he is. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neattrick 2017-03-13 12:15 am UTC (link)
	someday he's gonna make a killing. someday (Reply to this) (Parent)

	YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? ijustknowit 2017-03-12 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	I need to know. Cricket: Olympus, obvz. Though she really doesn't know anything about sports. Every once in awhile her dad owls and is like, "How 'bout them Hoop Snakes?" And she's like, "Yeah! Good game [...] ??? :/" Jesse: I'm thinking Sleepy Hollow Horsemen. They're his home state's team, but also he is pro-dicking around (see: Gooseberry Shinny matches). (Reply to this) (Thread)

Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM?

neattrick
2017-03-13 12:06 am UTC (link)

Clem's a big supporter of the Sweetwater All-Stars, which absolutely everyone would know because she has a lot of All-Stars swag (both wearable and up in her room). I'm not going to fully open this can of worms, but she also has a favorite Quodpot team, which is the one her father played for and is local to Shreveport.

Reece is also a fan of Sleepy Hollow. His family's preferred sport is baseball, though, and they're Yankees fans.

Todd is a fan of Elysian Fields.

Ariadne, being British, is a fan of the Falmouth Falcons, but only nominally. She's never really followed the sport.

Ivy's family have always been big supporters of the Klamath Krakens, so the team's recent rise to prominence has been exciting for them. Ivy's not really a fan of the sport outside of school, but she'd probably say the Krakens, or maybe whatever her friends' favorite teams are (unless Laurel has a strong opinion, in which case her favorite team is whatever Laurel's favorite team is)

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	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? ijustknowit 2017-03-13 12:19 am UTC (link)
	Jesse and Reece may never speak about their preferred baseball teams. Baseball is also Jesse's preferred sport, but he's a Mets fan because he is poor and likes shitty teams. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? qnnc 2017-03-13 12:21 am UTC (link)
	Quinn insists both Reece and Jesse are dead wrong, and terrible Azurcrests. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? ijustknowit 2017-03-13 12:27 am UTC (link)
	And, yet, she is forced to go to Mets home games with Jesse because tickets are literally 1/4 of the price. And 1/20 (on a good day) of Yankees tickets. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? qnnc 2017-03-13 12:29 am UTC (link)
	She never complains about this arrangement. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? neattrick 2017-03-13 12:23 am UTC (link)
	reece lives in the upper east side, so 💁 (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? kingulysses 2017-03-13 05:00 am UTC (link)
	jj i miss baseball so much :( (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? iviie 2017-03-13 05:07 am UTC (link)
	you can still like keep up with it, it doesn't stop existing while you're in ireland (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? kingulysses 2017-03-13 05:12 am UTC (link)
	where do things go when i'm not looking at them jj do they just disappear also FINE i'll amend my statement: i miss getting midday tipsy on $12 yuenling (go phillies!) and watching 200lb teenagers hulk out (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? iviie 2017-03-13 05:16 am UTC (link)
	that's fair and i forgive you for being a phillies fan. your mascot is bad (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? kingulysses 2017-03-13 05:29 am UTC (link)
	thank you and you're not wrong. god bless america. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? cricketq 2017-03-13 04:49 pm UTC (link)
	Yeeeeah!!! WOOO!!! PHILLIES!!! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? kingulysses 2017-03-13 04:58 pm UTC (link)
	SEE aleena gets me (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? kingulysses 2017-03-13 04:30 am UTC (link)
	fyi ulysses used a freshman proxy to bet on them hoop snakes like four times lmao (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? iviie 2017-03-13 04:31 am UTC (link)
	* five (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? kingulysses 2017-03-13 05:32 am UTC (link)
	guess who has a lot of local sports pride and pretty much no concept of the value of money (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? cricketq 2017-03-13 04:52 pm UTC (link)
	If Cricket doesn't know, she doesn't have to punish him. (She probably knows. Doesn't understand or care). (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM? kingulysses 2017-03-13 05:08 pm UTC (link)
	LIPS = ZIPPED (ngl he probably told her immediately lol he feels no shame about losing like 40 dragots to this) (Reply to this) (Parent)

Re: YOUR CHARACTER'S TEAM?

qnnc
2017-03-13 11:36 am UTC (link)

quinn complains loudly about this not being a USA/canada league like the NHL/NBA/MLB (nomaj sports know what's up). she's all for the saginaw psychopomps because they jive with her play style (all mess, no survivors).

kurt doesn't follow quidditch but, if forced to, would hold a little pennant for the middletown dewayos because of 'home state pride.' secretly he roots for the jeffersontown jackalopes on account of them having a cute mascot and being underdogs. look at them go!!!

casey dgaf. his parents make quodpot brooms; theirs is a quodpot-only household. but when his gramps gets nostalgic for "the old country" (said ironically) he tries to get casey interested in the elysian fields high flyers.

kazim wishes saira had "a team" so he could root for their rivals. i think he likes the mystery of the phoenix flamebirds.

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