The Holyrood Hippogriffs are one of the oldest  quadball clubs in the UK. Founded in 2011, we are a club based in Edinburgh, and compete across the UK and Europe.

We mostly comprise of students at Edinburgh's universities but anyone is welcome to join us. We train regularly on the Meadows in Edinburgh - get in touch by email or on social media if you want to join us!

QuidditchUK’s official 5th edition of the Northern Cup was held at  the Sheffield Hallam University Sports Park on the 23rd & 24th  November. 

With taking place only two weeks after Southern’s  London team ‘domination’, the Northern regional event included 20 teams  to the party in 5 groups of 4 teams each. Groups A-E featured a mixed  range of abilities across the plethora, with no notable ‘Group of  Death’.

Natural weather conditions caused despair for the event,  which was already on the ropes before the weekend had even begun with  flooding in Sheffield during the weeks leading up to the tournament.  Unfortunately, all grass pitches were deemed unsafe and were out of  action all weekend. Thankfully, everyone who had marvelled at the idea  of playing on 3G pitches had their prayers answered as they became the  only space that fell under correct health and safety regulations by  approval of the Tournament Committee, who did a fantastic job managing  the event and keeping it afloat all weekend. 

After a rough  start, Northern 2019 managed to deliver an exciting regional event with  intense matches all round. The final game of the weekend included  freshers to UK Quidditch, the core Manchester community team,  Olympians  Quidditch Club. The Olympians played against hat-trick gold medal  winners, Velociraptors Quidditch Club as they claimed victory over their  second team, the Megalodons in the Semi-Finals. After a good crack at  the BQC 2019 bronze medalists, the Olympians were nine goals down from  the Raptor’s ferocious lead by 120 total points, before catching the  snitch to end the game at 120° – 60*. Afterwards, the dinosaurs of the  north obtained their fourth consecutive win since the club’s genesis in  2016, which is a feat no other team has ever been able to crack in any  regional or national tournament in the United Kingdom. 

Congratulations to the Velociraptors for ultimately  winning the tournament as all their players played valiantly all  weekend. A well deserved effort goes to our finalists, the Olympians,  who took home a cool silver for their first official QUK tournament.  Joining them on the podium was Edinburgh’s Holyrood Hippogriffs Firsts  who reclaimed the Northern bronze medal two years in a row.  Congratulations to both clubs for their successes at the weekend. 

For winning Northern Cup this year, the Velociraptors have been given  a pass in competing at the European Qualifier Tournament as regional  winners are awarded a top seed spot at Division 1 of the European  Quidditch Cup hosted in Belgium in May 2020. Other teams to qualify for  EQT aside from the podium finishers include VQC’s second team,  Megalodons (4th); Leceister Thestrals (5th); Liverpuddly Cannons (6th) and the Chester Centurions (7th).

QuidditchUK would like to ultimately thank its large influx of  volunteers for this year’s Northern Cup, from non-qualified tournament  roles alike to tournament committee posts running gameplay, media, event  and management duties. Special thanks go to Fran Morris, the Tournament  Director, who ran a smooth running tournament despite all the odds  against them. Fran and their team’s success gave our athletes more games  for their money despite poor weather conditions throughout the weekend.  

Congratulations go to the Velociraptors for retaining their title of  Northern champions for four seasons in a row. We’d like to extend our  praise to all our players and teams who competed this year making this  Northern Cup one to remember (hopefully not for the weather!). More  importantly, a massive consideration goes out to all volunteers who ran a  fantastic tournament giving their time, resources and talent across the  event.


You can find the full final rankings for the weekend here

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QuidditchUK’s official 5th edition of the Northern Cup was held at  the Sheffield Hallam University Sports Park on the 23rd & 24th  November.

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Position	Season	Tournament	Team
3rd	19/20	Northern Cup	Holyrood Hippogriffs Firsts
3rd	18/19	Northern Cup	Holyrood Hippogriffs Firsts
3rd	17/18	Northern Cup	Holyrood Hippogriffs Firsts
2nd	16/17	Development Cup	Holyrood Hippogriffs Seconds