Quadball

Quadball is an official team sport that began as "muggle Quidditch" in 2003 and officially became Quadball in 2022. Two teams of seven players each, astride PVC pipes and opposing each other on a rectangular pitch, compete with the primary objective of passing a ball through the defenders' hoops, while preventing their opponents from passing it through their own hoops. The sport is played around the world. Rules of the sport are governed by the International Quadball Association (IQA), and events are sanctioned by either the IQA or that nation's governing body. A team consists of a minimum of seven (maximum 21) players, of which six are always on the pitch: three chasers, one keeper, and two beaters. The seventh position, known as a seeker, joins each team after a time period known as the "seeker floor" (20 minutes under all three major rulesets). The pitch is rectangular, 66 by 36 yards (60 by 33 m), with three hoops (3, 4.5, and 6 feet (91, 137, and 183 cm)) at either end. Teams are required to be gender-balanced: each team may have a maximum of three non-seeker players who identify as the same gender on the field at one time, making quadball one of the few sports that not only offers a gender-integrated environment, but an open community to those who identify as nonbinary. To score points, chasers or keepers must get the quadball—a slightly deflated volleyball—into any of the three opposing hoops, which scores the team 10 points. To impede their opponents, beaters can use dodgeballs to hit opposing players and temporarily remove them from play. Once hit by an opposing dodgeball, that player must dismount their stick, drop any ball being held, and return to touch their own team's hoops before re-entering the game. The ultimate goal is...