I know it's just a made-up sport in a silly fantasy book about witch boarding school... but... how dumb is the position of seeker? Can you imagine that in any real sport? You're sitting there watching a match unfold between Germany and Argentina... it's been going on great for 4 quarters, both sides have scored goals but it's currently tied, the crowd is going wild with anticipation as one team pulls ahead....aaaaaand.. then some guy standing off to one corner of the field who has nothing at all to do with the game completes some arbitrary and unrelated task and, that's it, the game is over. Nothing else is relevant. Just incredibly stupid. From a game design standpoint it's non-interactive and dull. People would riot. Like if they inserted a rule that during the Super Bowl if one random dude on the bench solved a Rubiks Cube puzzle... then the game was halted and scores reset and that dude's team automatically won. Nobody would think that was a good idea.
In total agreement with you on this one, Kal, and I'm a Potter fan. I think it would be better if the game still ends when someone catches the snitch, but it isn't worth any points. That way, at least there would be a contest between the seeker who tries to get it while the team is ahead, and the other seeker who tries to prevent him/her from getting it without getting it themselves until the other team goes ahead. Then there's always the possibility that while those two are away in the clouds fighting over the snitch, someone scores down below changing the whole scenario without them knowing. Much as I like the idea of quidditch, the rules have never made sense to me.
I totally agree. besides the dull part. No matter what people are excitable, so they would still scream for their team, like it is the only thing in the world...
I had this exact thought the first time I saw the first movie. "Wait, that's it? None of the other stuff matters if that guy catches a little winged ball?" IMHO, Quidditch is easily the dumbest part of those stories.
Given these absurd rules, I'd field a team of mainly seekers, with maybe a goalie and a defender so the other team doesn't get too far ahead. Why bother with scoring your own points?
I have no interest in either Harry Potter or sport, but I would say from a story perspective the key was to keep Harry central to the plot. So the key is to invent a game where a weakling like him can be a hero. The game's viability as an actual sport is irrelavent in this case.
The key characteristic of a haiku is that it contains two imagery references separated by a kireji, or "cutting word" and is comprised of three phrases. The kireji is usually at the end of the first or second phrase.
Simply having 17 syllables does not make a true haiku.
What about Canadian english speakers to which the question applies? Also any real sport requires some degree of athleticism so I would argue "sportsman" is a subset of "athlete"
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* 90
* old
* dead
Ohhhh, I get it...
* nanogenarian
* nongenarian
* nangenarian
I give up. *sigh*
Simply having 17 syllables does not make a true haiku.
I will admit though, that it took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to come up with that answer.
I wrote 'triped'