IQA World Cup IV explained

IQA World Cup IV
Sport:Quidditch
Year:2010
Location:New York City
Start Date:14
End Date:18 November 2010
Administrator:International Quidditch Association
Tournament Format:Pool play
Single elimination bracket
Venues:DeWitt Clinton Park
Teams:46
Champion:Middlebury College
Runner-Up1:Tufts University
Next:IQA World Cup V
Previous:IQA World Cup III

The IQA World Cup IV was the 2010 edition of the IQA World Cup (now the US Quidditch Cup), a quidditch club tournament then organized by the International Quidditch Association.

The tournament was hosted in New York City at DeWitt Clinton Park. It was the first year that the cup was hosted in outside Middlebury, Vermont.

The World Cup featured 46 teams and 757 players from Canada and the United States. The IQA set a record with 40 media outlets and 20,000 spectators attending the tournament all together.[1]

On August 15, 2010, the IQA announced that New York University would be hosting the tournament, making it the first time the World Cup was played in a major city.[2]

Bracket

Middlebury College won the bracket 100–50 against Tufts University.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: World Cup Report . internationalquidditch.com . International Quidditch Association . https://web.archive.org/web/20110406081524/http://www.internationalquidditch.org/worldcup-2010.html . 2011-04-06 . usurped . 2016-06-17.
  2. Web site: K. . Ryan . 2010-08-15 . Quidditch World Cup Leaves Middlebury for New York . midd-blog.com . MiddBlog . https://web.archive.org/web/20131014102906/http://midd-blog.com/2010/08/15/quidditch-world-cup-leaves-middlebury-for-new%C2%A0york/ . 2013-10-14 . dead . 2016-06-17 .