Transforming Harry Potter's fictional competition into a physically demanding, real-life sport, Quidditch has secured its place as one of the fastest growing collegiate club sports today. MUDBLOODS follows the resilient underdogs of the UCLA Quidditch team as they make their way to the Fifth Annual Quidditch World Cup in New York City. Through nail biting victories and losses, the dreamers, creators and athletes who make up this exceptional community come together to make this magical sport into something you could've never imagined, until now.
-- official website
Transforming Harry Potter's fictional competition into a physically demanding, real-life sport, Quidditch has secured its place as one of the fastest growing collegiate club sports today. MUDBLOODS follows the resilient underdogs of the UCLA Quidditch team as they make their way to the Fifth Annual Quidditch World Cup in New York City. Through nail biting victories and losses, the dreamers, creators and athletes who make up this exceptional community come together to make this magical sport into something you could've never imagined, until now.
-- official website
In my experience, a quidditch team is one part Harry Potter literary geeks and one part athletes who have been banned from every other college sport for unnecessary roughness. If you've never seen it in the real world, it's very entertaining,. very fast, and while it sounds like a joke, it's not for the squeamish. Daniel Radcliffe was on The Daily Show a few years ago and Jon Stewart asked him if he'd ever played it. "No," he said. "...But I'd like to think I'd be pretty good."
The documentary is available now.
Just in time for the 5th Annual Philadelphia Brotherly Love Cup at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia.