Major League Quadball

Major League Quadball
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024 Major League Quidditch season
SportQuidditch
Founded23 March 2015
CommissionerEthan Sturm
Amanda Dallas
Divisions3
No. of teams15
CountriesCanada (2 teams)
United States (13 teams)
Most recent
champion(s)		New York Titans
Sponsor(s)Diaza Apparel
International cup(s)Benepe Cup
Official websiteMLQ Official Website

Major League Quadball (MLQ), formerly Major League Quidditch, is an amateur quidditch league based in the United States and Canada.[1][2] The league is composed of 15 city-based teams—13 in the U.S. and 2 in Canada. The MLQ season runs from June to August, with each team playing twelve games in the regular season. The playoffs includes the top 12 teams competing in the MLQ Championship in late August, culminating in the championship series. The winning team is awarded the Benepe Cup.

History

Major League Quadball was founded in 2014 by Ethan Sturm, who joined with Amanda Dallas in hopes of elevating the sport of quidditch to higher levels of competition.[3] Sturm and Dallas currently co-commission the league.[4]

In December 2021, US Quadball (USQ) and Major League Quadball (MLQ) announced their intention to change their names to distance themselves from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's views on transgender people and to avoid potential legal battles with film studio Warner Bros., the distributor of the Harry Potter films and the owner of trademarks on the word "Quidditch".[5][6] Following a poll of members, MLQ decided to change its name from "Major League Quiddich" to "Major League Quadball" in July 2022. The change was carried out jointly with US Quadball. The name refers to the number of balls used in the sport and the number of positions held in the field and was to be adopted following the conclusion of the 2022 MLQ championship.[7]

Structure

Current league structure

In its current structure, the league consists of three geographically divided divisions, each with five teams. Each team may have up to 30 players on their franchise roster, and may have up to 21 players rostered (and thus eligible to participate) in each series the team plays.[8] Additionally, teams may have up to 18 players on their practice squad.[9]

The North Division includes much of the geographic Midwest region of the United States, plus Toronto. The five teams in the North Division are the Minneapolis Monarchs, Chicago Prowl (previously the Indianapolis Intensity), Detroit Innovators, Cleveland Riff, and Toronto Raiders.

The East Division includes all MLQ teams in the geographic Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, plus Ottawa. The five teams in the East Division are the Boston Forge, Charlotte Aviators, New York Titans, Washington Admirals, and Ottawa Black Bears.

The South Division includes all MLQ teams in the geographic South Central region of the United States, plus Kansas City. The five teams in the South Division are the Austin Outlaws, San Antonio Soldados, League City Legends, New Orleans Curse, and Kansas City Stampede.

During the regular season, teams plays a three-game series against all other teams in their division throughout June and July. All three games are played in each series, regardless of the outcome of the first two games, though the team that wins at least 2 out of the 3 games is said to have won the series. Teams are ranked within their divisions as a result of these series' outcomes.

The top four teams in each division are then invited to the MLQ Championship in August. The top two teams from each division gain a bid directly to the quarterfinals of the championship bracket, while the third- and fourth-place teams get placed into the play-in bracket. In the play-in bracket, each matchup between teams is decided by a single game, as opposed to the usual three games played in the regular season. The play-in bracket yields two teams, which get slotted into the final two quarterfinal berths. From there, the eight teams play in a standard single-elimination bracket, with each matchup being a best-of-three series (similar to the regular season, with the exception that a third game is not played unless necessary to decide a winner), until a champion is crowned and wins the Benepe Cup.[10]

Starting in 2018, teams sometimes play "SuperSeries" during the regular season, which involve three teams playing at one location over two days, with each team playing a full three-game series against the others. SuperSeries were developed in an attempt to save costs for the players.

Past league structures

The first season took place in 2015 with eight teams split into two divisions of four teams each. The North Division was composed of the Cleveland Riff, Detroit Innovators, Indianapolis Intensity, and Rochester Whiteout, and the East Division was composed of the Boston Night Riders (now the Boston Forge), New York Titans, Ottawa Black Bears, and Washington Admirals. MLQ had an extremely successful first season, picking up partnerships with Savage Apparel (now VII Apparel), Peterson's Brooms, and Destination Toledo, holding 12 regular-season, three-game series, and hosting the 2015 MLQ Championship in Toledo, Ohio.

In the 2016 season, MLQ doubled the size of the league to 16 teams and geographically expanded it with the creation of the South and West Division.[11] The new teams were located in Austin, Kansas City, League City, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco.[12] The same sixteen teams competed in 2017.

In 2018, the Phoenix Sol relocated to Boise, Idaho as the Boise Grays. During the Boise Grays' first match of the 2018 season, a brawl broke out between the Grays and Salt Lake City Hive. MLQ immediately disbanded the Boise Grays for the remainder of the 2018 season as punishment for the brawl.

In 2019, MLQ reorganized the league into 3 divisions with 5 franchises in each division. As part of this reorganization, three changes happened: (1) all franchises in the West Division were disbanded due to long inter-divisional travel times, (2) three new teams were added to the remaining divisions (the Minneapolis Monarchs and the Toronto Raiders joined the North Division, while the San Antonio Soldados joined the South Division), and (3) Rochester Whiteout moved from the North Division to the East Division.

In 2021, Charlotte was added as an expansion franchise due to Ottawa and Toronto's inability to cross the border due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. In this season, Charlotte took Ottawa's spot in the East and the North division only competed with 4 teams.

In 2022, with Toronto and Ottawa's return, Rochester Whiteout returned to the North (the division they had left upon the addition of Toronto and Minneapolis) and Ottawa rejoined the East. This left the North Division with six teams instead of the usual five, necessitating a new regular-season structure. For the first six weeks of the season, the North Division was split into two conferences of three teams, with Detroit, Minneapolis, and Chicago playing each other and Cleveland, Rochester, and Toronto playing each other. Each team played a three-game home series and a three-game away series within their conference during those opening six weeks. This gave them a final standing within their conference. Then, all six teams traveled to the North Division Championship. During that weekend, the North Divisional Champion was crowned and the division's four bids were handed out.

In 2024, MLQ indefinitely paused operations for the Rochester Whiteout franchise, citing a lack of quadball infrastructure in the Rochester area, as well as trouble fielding full rosters in previous seasons, and the departure of the team's head coach. With this change, the North Division returned to five teams, with the teams once again competing under the same regular-season structure as the East and South divisions.[13]

Organizational structure

MLQ is a nonprofit run entirely by volunteers. All central operations - such as people operations, accounting, marketing, and administration - operate remotely, and there is no central headquarters for personnel.

MLQ has over 100 volunteers across 8 departments. Departments include: Gameplay; Finance; People Operations; Marketing; Creative; Digital Media; Diversity Equity & Inclusion; and Events. At the top of the organization are Commissioners Amanda Dallas and Ethan Sturm. Each of the 8 departments has a Director who oversees operations and reports to the Commissioners. Directors' departmental teams are composed of managers, coordinators, and assistants.

Franchise staff (such as coaches, assistant coaches, managers, and assistant managers) apply each season and are hired only for the duration of the MLQ season. Franchise staff select the rosters for their own teams.

Referees are hired on a series by series basis.

Teams

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Major League Quadball teams
Team City Joined
East Division
Boston Forge[14] Boston, Massachusetts 2015
Charlotte Aviators Charlotte, North Carolina 2021
New York Titans New York City, New York 2015
Ottawa Black Bears Ottawa, Ontario 2015
Washington Admirals Washington, D.C. 2015
North Division
Chicago Prowl Chicago, Illinois 2023
Cleveland Riff Cleveland, Ohio 2015
Detroit Innovators Detroit, Michigan 2015
Minneapolis Monarchs Minneapolis, Minnesota 2019
Toronto Raiders Toronto, Ontario 2019
South Division
Austin Outlaws Austin, Texas 2016
Kansas City Stampede Kansas City, Missouri 2016
Houston Legends Houston, Texas 2016
New Orleans Curse New Orleans, Louisiana 2016
San Antonio Soldados San Antonio, Texas 2019

Inactive Teams

Team City Division(s) Years active Fate
Phoenix Sol Phoenix, Arizona West 2016-2017 Relocated to Boise, ID, became Boise Grays.
Boise Grays Boise, Idaho West 2018 Dissolved for disciplinary reasons.
Salt Lake City Hive Salt Lake City, Utah West 2016-2018 Dissolved due to long travel time for play with other teams.
Los Angeles Guardians Los Angeles, California West 2016-2018 Dissolved due to long travel time for play with other teams.
San Francisco Argonauts San Francisco, California West 2016-2018 Dissolved due to long travel time for play with other teams.
Indianapolis Intensity Indianapolis, Indiana North 2015-2022 Relocated to Chicago, IL, became Chicago Prowl.
Rochester Whiteout Rochester, New York North, East 2015-2023 Placed on "indefinite pause" due to lack of local quadball infrastructure.

Expansion Teams

Team Division Year Franchise Granted
Phoenix Sol West 2016
Salt Lake City Hive West 2016
Los Angeles Guardians West 2016
San Francisco Argonauts West 2016
Minneapolis Monarchs North 2019
Toronto Raiders North 2019
San Antonio Soldados South 2019
Charlotte Aviators^ East 2021

The West Division was eliminated at the end of the 2018 season due to extensive travel time for the teams. In addition to the 3-team expansion in 2019, the Rochester Whiteout were moved from the North Division to the East.

With the addition of Charlotte in 2021 (and their retention for 2022), and the return of Toronto and Ottawa for 2022, Rochester was moved back into the North Division.

^The Charlotte Aviators temporarily joined the East Division as an MLQ Trial Expansion Team* for the 2021 season and were invited to return in the same capacity in 2022.

League champions

Year Team
2015 Boston Forge (Prev. Boston Night Riders)
2016 Boston Forge (Prev. Boston Night Riders)
2017 Austin Outlaws
2018 Austin Outlaws
2019 Boston Forge (Prev. Boston Night Riders)
2020 N/A (Season Cancelled)
2021 Austin Outlaws
2022 Austin Outlaws
2023 Austin Outlaws
2024 New York Titans

References

  1. ^ EPatton, Mary Claire (19 August 2021). "San Antonio has a Quidditch team and they're competing for a major league title". KSAT 12.
  2. ^ "Quidditch is changing its name to quadball to cut ties with J.K. Rowling". BBC. 20 July 2022.
  3. ^ ERDEKIAN, ALEX (29 July 2016). "As Quidditch Gets Serious, Boston's Team Leads the Way". Boston Magazine.
  4. ^ Phelan, Kevin (29 April 2015). "Quidditch comes to Tarrytown". lohud.
  5. ^ "Quidditch leagues set to pick new name after JK Rowling trans row". BBC News. 20 December 2021. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  6. ^ Guy, Jack (20 December 2021). "Quidditch leagues to change name, citing J.K. Rowling's 'anti-trans positions'". CNN. CNN. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Sport Inspired by Quidditch Announces New Name". Major League Quadball. 19 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Tryouts". Major League Quadball. Retrieved 2024-06-27.
  9. ^ "Join an MLQ Practice Squad". Major League Quadball. Retrieved 2024-06-27.
  10. ^ "MLQ Championship ｜ Aug 17-19, 2024 ｜Howard County, Maryland". MLQ Championship. Retrieved 2024-06-27.
  11. ^ Dallas, Amanda (25 August 2015). "MLQ to Expand to West and South". Major League Quidditch. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
  12. ^ Dallas, Amanda (2016-02-16). "MLQ 2016 Coaches Revealed". Major League Quidditch. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
  13. ^ "MLQ to Pause Rochester Operations". Major League Quadball. Retrieved 2024-06-27.
  14. ^ Previously the Boston Night Riders.

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