Wed. 07/20 - Real-Life Quidditch Changes Its Name
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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
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🗓️ 20 July 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | it's wednesday july 20th 20 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. The real-life sport inspired by Quidditch has announced their new name, and I have a lot of thoughts. |
| 0:49.7 | Plus, a few companies in Japan have introduced standing nap boxes into their offices, and on the anniversary |
| 0:57.6 | of the moon landing, NASA has announced the launch windows for the kickoff mission of our return |
| 1:03.7 | to the moon. |
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| 1:09.9 | The Real Life Quidditch League's U.S. Quidditch, Major League Quidditch, and the International |
| 1:16.2 | Quidditch Association have officially changed their names, in part to further distance themselves |
| 1:23.3 | from Harry Potter's increasingly controversial author. The sport is now called quad ball. The national |
| 1:31.7 | governing body will now be U.S. quad ball. The semi-professional league and the U.S. and Canada will now be |
| 1:37.8 | major league quad ball, and the international governing body will eventually become the international |
| 1:44.0 | quad ball association. They first announced that they would be and the international governing body will eventually become the International Quad Ball Association. |
| 1:46.6 | They first announced that they would be making the change last December, |
| 1:50.5 | and after consulting with players and fans of the sport settled on quad ball, |
| 1:55.6 | which stands for the four balls that are in play during a game, |
| 1:59.6 | as well as the four different positions of |
| 2:01.8 | players. The changeover is happening today for U.S. quad ball. Major League Quidditch will make the |
| 2:07.9 | change following the 2022 MLQ Championship in August, and the International Quiddish Association |
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