A Ugandan team is raising money to attend the genuine-world championship of the broomstick-borne sport played in the Harry Potter novelsA crowdfunding campaign aiming to get Uganda the first African team to compete in the Quidditch World Cup has more than quadrupled its goal,less than two weeks after launch.
The worldwide quidditch tournament is due to prefer residence on 23 and 24 July in Frankfurt. The competition, run by the International Quidditch Association, and has taken residence biennially since 2012,with the US winning the 2014 championship (the UK came fourth). It is based on the game made famous in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books – both versions prefer residence on broomsticks, although broomsticks in the genuine world have so far stubbornly refused to flit.
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Source: theguardian.com