Quidditch, the game inspired by the Harry Potter franchise, will now be known as Quadball. There's a couple of reasons for the change — here's what we know about it.
"As a community, we want our sport to be inclusive of people of different ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, ages, languages, genders, sexual orientations. A key demonstration of this is the Gender Rule in quidditch, whereby players are able to play as the gender that they identify, as including non-binary genders."— which means anyone else who wants to use it has to pay for it.
That's expected to begin after this weekend's final international tournament under the Quidditch brand —, held in Ireland — which features teams from all over Europe as well as Hong Kong and Australia."The IQA will work with its member national governing bodies on developing a timeline for adopting the new name following the European Games," the group says.Quidditch Australia hasn't yet confirmed its own name change plans.
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