Hey quidkids!


For this year Easter weekend, the Paris Phenix went to the Netherlands !

We went to the Wizard Wear Quidditch Cup that took place during the Elfia festival, in the castel of Haar Haarsuilens.

The aim of that cup was to make people discover muggle quidditch in the Netherlands. There was a Belgian team, the Dodos who won the cup, and the other teams were mixted from the Belgian Qwaffles, Dutch people who wanted to try quidditch and us from France.

This weekend has simply been magical! The festival was awesome! All the outfits, the activities, the settings, the mood, all the stands made us feel like inside a movie.

The tournament was very well organized, the pitch was really good, every players got the opportunity to play a lot and had a lot of fun! And it was the same during the night from saturday to sunday. We got to sleep all together in a big room.

We want to say a big thanks to those who welcomed us and allow us to live this wonderful moments and we hope we will be able to see you all very soon during the next tournament or event !

On the week-end of February 2nd, the European regionals happened in Brussels. Of course, the Paris Phenix team was there as part of the dozen teams who participated.

Photos from La Gazette du Sorcier and Lille Black Snitches

The tournament took place at the Woluwé parc. The atmosphere felt magical! All players from the different teams were very happy to meet each others, the organization was great  concerning supplies as well as the emergency service. Even the rain, the cold and the mud contributed in making the event unique! And many kids came along, passers-by stopped around with their dogs and discovered quidditch!

On the first day, all the games happened within three pools of four teams. 

At the end of the first day, we were ranked 7th with a score of 90.

The second day was only playoff games. There were two kinds of playoffs :

The main one were we play 1/8, quarter, semi-finals and the finals against Oxford Chimeras. A game that we will remember and enjoyed very much. Oxford Chimeras won this game 30 to 100. 

The second playoffs were for the teams who were eliminated on the first playoffs.

Here is a summary of the games and scores made by La Gazette du Sorcier.

In the end we finished second, but we are not disappointed, we gave our best and this experience will remain unforgettable.


Here are our videos from the tournament :

We have not posted anything new here for a long time, but the team has kept on being busy. We have new players, new shirts too, we took part to an event organized by a library on the occasion for the release of the new Harry Potter game, we also won our first tournament of the 2013 season.


On November 23rd, Belgium Muggle Quidditch organised a tournament gathering seven international teams : Barcelona Eagles (Spain), Beerters and Qwaffles from Belgium, the Blacks Snitches from Lille (France), Toulouse Muggle Quidditch (France), Frog from Paris and us Paris Phenix.

Our team won the tournament and here are the details of the games : 

Paris Frog 140* - Belgian Beerters 0 
Lille Black Snitches 50* - Barcelona Eagles 90
Belgian Qwaffles 30 - Paris Phenix 60*
Toulouse Quidditch 0 - Paris Frog 140*
Barcelona Eagles 50* - Paris Phenix 20
Belgian Qwaffles 30 - Lille Black Snitches 50*
Belgian Beerters 0 - Paris Phenix 200*
Lille Black Snitches 110* - Toulouse Quidditch 30
Paris Frog 70* - Barcelona Eagles 0
Lille Black Snitches 20 - Paris Phenix 80*
Barcelona Eagles 20 - Paris Phenix 100*
Paris Frog 30 - Paris Phenix 60*

NB : the star shows the team who caught the snitch.

Let us now listen to some of our players : 

The first thing that comes to my mind when thinking back about this tournament is PRIDE !

After our defeat against the team of Barcelona Eagles I knew we would have to change something if we wanted to make it to the first place. And I was afraid that  the fact that this was the first tournament for many of our players might make it more difficult. But my team showed me I was so wrong. As I had been wounded I could not play the three last games but instead I have been able to admire the courage of the Phenixes who wsood up and walked straight to victory. That was a delightful scene to watch. And I can never be any prouder of my team than on that moment when they defeated Paris Frog, thus winning the tournament. That was magic.

As for the rest of the tournament, I have to congratulate the organizers, who managed to give us such a good day in spite of the cold and difficult conditions. And I congratulate both teams from Belgium and Barcelona Eagles for their frst competition. I have been impressed by their level and I do believe that quidditch in Europe is going to have a great future!

Since I never took part in any competitive team sport, joining the Phenix team for the Brussels tournament was an unprecedented experience for me. Set in an enchanting weekend, Saturday was filled with emotion, despite the pervasive cold which threw some shivers in.
On D-day, we helped the organisers set up the tents, the goal posts and get everyone registered and then all teams gathered to sing their national anthem before the tournament started. Our first two games were quite unsettling. The new team-players were getting to know old players who can’t always come to practice, and vice versa, so our gameplay was a little touch-and-go. I hardly played, most of the time I spent on the field, I was being a Bludger target, so I don’t think I will keep an everlasting memory of these first games. After our second game, which was the first time the Phenixes were defeated in Europe, the team lost a little of its composure… but we still wanted to win, and we still could ! From then on, any defeat would be eliminatory. We had one job :  have fun and enjoy what could be our last minutes on the pitch. Oh, yeah, and we were also supposed to score goals, catch the Snitch and so on, of course. The game against the Beerters put us in higher spirits: nice gameplay, a Chaser scoring while performing a hoop jump, one-for-all and all-for-one, a victory 200 to 0 and I got to play longer. This was followed by a long pause, then three games in a row.
I didn’t play during quarter finals against Lille’s Black Snitches, on account of I was filming the game. Against the Barcelona Eagles, I experienced my first Brooms Up. The tension has been defused since the referees started counting « 1, 2, 3 » before we start charging for the balls, but playing warmed me up anyway. Take a good position, block the attacking team, steal the Quaffle, make a decisive pass, watch our team score, enjoy the ensuing euphoria ! At Quidditch, only a few players are on the pitch, which ensures that everyone is giving their best while the many many suppleants support them. In game or not, everyone is mesmerized by the game, Quaffle, Bludgers and Snitch captivating forty-two players at once. This last but one game has been my greatest Quidditch experience so far : suspense, nice gameplay, and a lot of fair play from both teams…. We could almost have forgotten the cold and the oncoming dusk. When our Seeker caught the Snitch, securing our spot in the finals by ensuring our victory against the team that had defeated us earlier that day, we were set on winning this tournament !
The final came, Frogs vs. Phenix, the most expected game of the day that was, in the end, far from fascinating. Play was constantly stopped and even if I was on the pitch for quite a long time, I feel like I played very little. At some point, one of our Chasers got injured, there was no fault but our spirits sank anyway. With an even score of 30-30, ten minutes before the pitch lights had to be turned off (it was pitch dark and we would have had to resort to sudden death) our Seeker caught the Snitch, and so we won. Our team jumped for joy and later we met some players from other teams for a beer in town, a good-natured night out to the glory of Muggle Quidditch. 

This tournament has truly been magic for me. I have been so glad to discover a new town,  so happy to share this moment with my team of Paris Phenix and to see again my friends from Toulouse with my little sister, blessed by the presence of my parents (particularly of my dad's who has watched his daughters play official games for the first time!), delighted to meet or see again so many quidkids... and with it all, I had my first (even so very small) experience in referring, and I had fun playing (particularly against Barcelona Eagles!)

I can only thank the organizers for it all!!!

As we told you on our last post, the big convention called the Geek Faeries was cancelled. Paris Frogs and Lille Black Snitches and us were supposed to hold exposition games and introductions there. But well, fate was not going to hold quidditch players back! And indeed, our three teams gathered last saturday at the student housing of la cité universitaire de Paris.

When everyone arrived, we started doing warms up together. Then, we mixted the three teams together to play friendly games. While part of us was playing, the other part was taking pictures, chatting, and making acquaintance. We were all in the best of mood. Some people who were new to quidditch had come along to have a go at our sport and we also had our friends from the French Harry Potter website La Gazette du Sorcier. Thanks to them, pictures, videos and informations were given to the Geek Faeries so that their audience could follow us.

We then ended the day with a little tournament opposing each team against each other.

After that we didn't stop the party there. The Geek Faeries convention was supposed to start with a Yule Ball and we re-created it. The Black Snitches and the Phenixes spent the night listening to wizard rock, chatting and learning to know each other better, along with our friends from the Gazette.

And finally on sunday the two teams gathered for a last small practice, and have a last happy afternoon together before we said goodbye to our guests.

After a few months of being too quiet on this website, here is what happened for the team.

1rst : We went to quidditch world cup!! 
Yes we did. We were only 11 but we play our hardest! We won the first game against Oklahoma State University. Then we lost the other games with one of our player wounded and sent to the hospital against the University of Rochester. Nevertheless, our team was awarded the Fair Play Trophee


2nd : We gave a couple of exposition games
In May and June we gave a couple of exposition games and also did some introductions to quidditch in different places of Paris.


3rd : Geek Faeries
The Geek Faeries is a geek convention happening every year near Paris. This year we were planned to make introductions and exposition games with two other teams : The Black Snitches of Lille (North of France) and Paris Frogs. This was meant to be 20 to 22nd of September. The convention was cancelled a few days before it started. So the Black Snitches contacted us asking wether we could host their team in Paris. Together we organized a quidditch week-end. Next to our own project, the Geek Faeries convention took a new start and decided to make the convention happen online instead of not at all. So the quidditch teams were asked to participate and Paris Frogs joined us for the week-end. 
So in the end, this week-end from the 20th of September to the 22nd you will be able to stream our practices and introductions and mixt games on the geekfaeries website!

So keep up with us!
And we have loads of projects for this years, travelling, games,competitions. We'll keep you updated!

Our roster has been sent for the World Cup!! Paris Phenix is definitely going to be present at the World Cup VI!!

This being done, we decided to launch a late campaign on indiegogo. The journey is costing a lot of money for all of the players. Now we are more than 100% sure to be going, and things are being booked, we are looking for some support from you. You know the money you gave would only be used at the World Cup.

Any kind of help would allow us to leave for Florida in the best conditions.

We thank you in advance for any kind of help : anything would be precious for us, and it is alos very important for us that you help us spread the word about our campaign. Thanks!

Our victory at the European Championship qualified us for the World Cup VI on April 13 and 14 in Kissimmee, Florida.

Our team is still looking for any kind of financial support in order to help us go there. We hope we will proudly represent France during this week-end. Three European teams only are qualified.