Because Quidditch and Legos are enough for one episode, this is Buglecast episode 243

for November 17th 2011.

Welcome to Buglecast episode 243. This is a special episode. We have two interviews

conducted over the past week, one by Keith, actually, right, in New York, Micah.

Yeah, Keith Hawk was with a number of bugleletts staff, including myself, at the Quidditch World Cup,

which took place at Randall's Island. Cool. And who won the Cup, by the way?

Well, no surprise, Middlebury College won the fifth consecutive Quidditch World Cup,

but they did lose their first game ever. So they had been completely undefeated.

They had never lost a match. I don't know what their official record is, but they had never lost

a match in five years there, of course, of the founding institution of Muggle Quidditch anyway.

And they lost their first match on Saturday to Michigan. So that was the big news of the day

on Saturday, but they got it back together on Sunday and made their way through the playoffs,

and, of course, defeated the University of Florida for the Quidditch World Cup.

Guys, I just think they have to be the least interesting team to follow if they're always winning.

I mean, well, and the most rewarding team to follow, but here you have a team that started the

game, you know, started the college Quidditch, and they're so good at it that they never lose.

I don't know how Quidditch ever got off the ground like that.

Like, it's right, because wasn't everybody else who wanted to be a part of it. They lost, you know,

they came in and...

Yeah, but I think if you look around, it's just the number of people that were there, both from

a team standpoint. They had close to 100 teams from four different countries,

Canada, the United States, Finland, and Australia, and those were the four countries.

...