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Note: If you're a Harry Potter fan who can extrapolate a wizarding sport into Fenspace, add your description here and delete this note, kthxbai --[[User:Mal-3|Mal-3]] 23:10, 23 November 2008 (UTC) | Note: If you're a Harry Potter fan who can extrapolate a wizarding sport into Fenspace, add your description here and delete this note, kthxbai --[[User:Mal-3|Mal-3]] 23:10, 23 November 2008 (UTC) | ||
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| + | /* notes on possible implementation: | ||
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| + | * Played in pressurized arenas, usually formed from tiny asteroids, hollowed out especially for the purpose. | ||
| + | * Zero-gravity environment; goal rings are at the poles. Spectators behind glassteel panels with forcefield "cushions" protecting them (and players) from crashes? | ||
| + | * Brooms are waved mini-jets/rockets but behave more like aerodynamic flight than spaceflight (standard quirk of the strain of handwavium used to make them?) | ||
| + | * Similarly, the bludgers and snitch are tiny gravcraft with rudimentary AIs. | ||
| + | * The quaffle is just an ordinary ball. | ||
| + | * Rules and play are surprisingly similar to the books/movies, despite the microgravity environment. | ||
| + | * There are six "professional" teams, each with its own stadium asteroid. | ||
| + | * There is one "exhibition" team -- the Chudley Cannons. They are among the most skilled players in the system, but their schtick is to lose consistently, and in as entertaining a manner possible -- they pull "impossible" stunts and comedy routines on the pitch. It's obvious that if they played seriously and in the league proper they could be champions, but they're in it for the fun and the skill, not the points. | ||
| + | --[[User:Bob Schroeck|Bob Schroeck]] 03:56, 29 January 2010 (UTC) | ||
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Note: If you're a Harry Potter fan who can extrapolate a wizarding sport into Fenspace, add your description here and delete this note, kthxbai --Mal-3 23:10, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
/* notes on possible implementation:
- Played in pressurized arenas, usually formed from tiny asteroids, hollowed out especially for the purpose.
- Zero-gravity environment; goal rings are at the poles. Spectators behind glassteel panels with forcefield "cushions" protecting them (and players) from crashes?
- Brooms are waved mini-jets/rockets but behave more like aerodynamic flight than spaceflight (standard quirk of the strain of handwavium used to make them?)
- Similarly, the bludgers and snitch are tiny gravcraft with rudimentary AIs.
- The quaffle is just an ordinary ball.
- Rules and play are surprisingly similar to the books/movies, despite the microgravity environment.
- There are six "professional" teams, each with its own stadium asteroid.
- There is one "exhibition" team -- the Chudley Cannons. They are among the most skilled players in the system, but their schtick is to lose consistently, and in as entertaining a manner possible -- they pull "impossible" stunts and comedy routines on the pitch. It's obvious that if they played seriously and in the league proper they could be champions, but they're in it for the fun and the skill, not the points.
--Bob Schroeck 03:56, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
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