European Quidditch Cup

European Quidditch Cup

Tournament information
Month played	April
Established	2012
Administrator(s)	Quidditch Europe
Website	Official EQC website
Current champion
Paris Titans

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 shifted to become an international federation for quidditch. The tournament began in 2012 as quidditch began to develop across Europe, being held in France. Today, the tournament is the highest level of championship besides the European Games with league-level tournaments being the qualifying competitions. EQC 2015 was held on 18–19 April 2015 in Oxford, UK.^[2]

EQC 2017 will be held on 25-26 March 2017 in Mechelen, Belgium.^[3]

History

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

Format

It is still unknown what the format of EQC 2015 will be. EQC 2014 saw a round-robin set-up on two-pitches.

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 (or sub-national regions in the case of Catalonia) 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.

Hosts

Lesparre-Médoc

Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

Oxford

Gallipoli

Mechelen

Locations of the European Quidditch Cups

EQC 2015 is being hosted by Oxford University's quidditch club and QuidditchUK. 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).^[5]

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

Year	Host		Winner	Score	Runner-up		Third place	Score	Fourth place		Number of teams
2012[6]	Lesparre-Médoc		Paris Phénix	50*–20	Paris Frog		Milano Meneghins	120*^–70	Anthéna Lesparre		6
2014[7]	Woluwe-Saint-Pierre		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		Not played METU Unicorns vs. Nottingham Nightmares				40
2017	Mechelen

Rank	Team	Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Total
1	Paris Titans	2	0	0	2
2	Paris Phénix	1	1	0	2
	Radcliffe Chimeras	1	1	0	2
4	Paris Frog	0	1	0	1
	Deurne Dodo A	0	1	0	1
6	Nottingham Nightmares	0	0	2	2
7	Milano Meneghins	0	0	1	1
	Brussels Qwaffles	0	0	1	1
	Southampton QC1	0	0	1	1
	METU Unicorns	0	0	1	1

See also

• International Quidditch Association
• Muggle quidditch

References

1. "European Regional Championship". International Quidditch Association. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
2. "EQC III Announced". Quidditch Europe. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
3. "quidditcheurope". Retrieved 2016-09-25.
4. "EQC pre-registration". Quidditch Europe. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
5. "Tournament Director Selected". Quidditch Europe. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
6. "2012 European Championships". Retrieved 5 December 2014.
7. "EQC II". Retrieved 4 December 2014.

External links

• IQA website