European Quidditch Cup

The European Quidditch Cup, also known as EQC and formerly as the European Quidditch Championship,[1] is the culminating championship tournament for the sport of quidditch in Europe. It began to be legitimised in 2014 when the International Quidditch Association became an international federation for quidditch. The first tournament took place in 2012 in France as quidditch began to develop across Europe. Today, the tournament is the highest level of championship in Europe besides the European Games with league-level tournaments being the qualifying competitions. In 2019, Division 1 of EQC was held in Harelbeke, Belgium, where the Paris Titans won the championship for the fourth time in their history.[2][3]

European Quidditch Cup
Tournament information
Month playedMarch/April
Established2012
Administrator(s)Quidditch Europe

European Quidditch Cup vzw

Participants32
WebsiteOfficial EQC website
Current champion
Paris Titans

History

Originally held in Lesparre-Médoc, France, EQC has since grown into the largest quidditch tournament in Europe. EQC 2014 saw teams from almost more countries than the 2014 Global Games, and EQC 2015 is expecting to receive teams from at least twelve different quidditch-playing nations.[4]

Qualification

EQC 2015 saw a different form of qualification than its predecessors that introduced a team limit to the tournament as well as qualification guidelines. The Quidditch Europe committee has planned to change the qualification format for EQC 2016 and onward. Currently, the committee for EQC is distributing bids to individual nations based on discussions with NGBs' representatives and team pre-registration. It is for each national governing body of quidditch to determine how individual bids will be partitioned to teams under their jurisdiction.

Going forward starting with the 2018/19 season, the European Quidditch Cup will be held in two divisions, Division 1 and Division 2, in order to facilitate both highly competitive gameplay at the top end and the ever-growing player base in Europe overall.[5]

Hosts
Locations of the European Quidditch Cups

EQC 2018 was held in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Germany.

2017's edition of the tournament was held in the Belgian city of Mechelen after Gallipoli 2016.

EQC 2015 was being hosted by Oxford University's quidditch club and QuidditchUK.[6] EQC 2014 was hosted by the then-Belgium Muggle Quidditch (current: Belgian Quidditch Federation) and the Brussels Qwaffles. The first EQC was hosted by the then-French Quidditch Association (current: Fédération du quidditch français).[7]

Selection procedures

Interested teams or NGBs submit a bid proposal outlining their location, the cost and the benefits attached to their bid to a sub-committee composed of Quidditch Europe members. The sub-committee then chooses the bid and selects from an applicant pool the tournament director.

Past champions of Division 1
Year Host Winner Score Runner-up Third place Score Fourth place Number of teams
2012[8] Lesparre-Médoc
Paris Phénix		 50*–20
Paris Frog
Milano Meneghins		 120*–70
Anthéna Lesparre		 6
2014[9] Brussels
Radcliffe Chimeras		 100*–30
Paris Phénix
Brussels Qwaffles		 50*–20
Lunatica QC		 12
2015 Oxford
Paris Titans		 150*–80
Radcliffe Chimeras		 Not played
Southampton QC1 vs. Nottingham Nightmares		 32
2016 Gallipoli
Paris Titans		 120*–60
Deurne Dodo A
(Antwerp QC)		 Not played
METU Unicorns vs. Nottingham Nightmares		 40
2017 Mechelen
Antwerp QC		 120*–110
METU Unicorns
Werewolves of London		 80*–60
NTNUI Rumpeldunk		 32
2018 Pfaffenhofen
an der Ilm
Paris Titans		 130*–70
Antwerp QC
METU Unicorns		 160°*–140*°
Velociraptors QC		 32
2019 Harelbeke
Paris Titans		 170*–90
METU Unicorns
Werewolves of London		 170*–80
ODTU Hippogriffs		 32
RankTeamChampionRunner-upThird placeTotal
1 Paris Titans4004
2 Antwerp QC1203
3 Paris Phénix1102
Radcliffe Chimeras1102
5 METU Unicorns0224
6 Paris Frog0101
7 Nottingham Nightmares0022
Werewolves of London0022
9 Milano Meneghins0011
Brussels Qwaffles0011
Southampton QC10011

Past champions of Division 2
Year Host Winner Score Runner-up Third place Score Fourth place Number of teams
2019 Warsaw
SCC Berlin Bluecaps		 120*–50
LSV Looping Lux Leipzig
Vienna Vanguards		 190°°°–180*°°
Augsburg Owls		 16
2020 Brescia
 24
RankTeamChampionRunner-upThird placeTotal
1 SCC Berlin Bluecaps1001
2 LSV Looping Lux Leipzig0101
3 Vienna Vanguards0011

See also

References
  1. "European Regional Championship". International Quidditch Association. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  2. "EQC2019 Division 1 to be held in Harelbeke, Belgium". Quidditch Europe. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  3. "EQC2019 Division 2 to be held in Warsaw, Poland". Quidditch Europe. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  4. "EQC pre-registration". Quidditch Europe. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  5. "quidditcheurope | EQC Basics". quidditcheurope. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
  6. "EQC III Announced". Quidditch Europe. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  7. "Tournament Director Selected". Quidditch Europe. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  8. "2012 European Championships". Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  9. "EQC II". Retrieved 4 December 2014.
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