Friday, March 30, 2012

New Conference and Regional Allignments

Hi,
First I want to say how thrilled I am to have so many views and votes on my poll! I hope that you guys will keep returning to my site because of the reports on tournaments that I normally post before the IQA announces, the interviews with people (if you want to have an interview with me featuring your Quidditch team/region/tournament, please contact me) and also my interesting foresights into the future of Quidditch.
Here is one of those foresights. Back in December, I began to make an allignment and conferences that I believe Quidditch teams will play in eventually based on quality of Quidditch teams, academics, geography, and past Quidditch tournaments. With the addition of the ICBA, Quidditch becomes a lot more interesting. Teams like Kansas, Missouri, and Marquette, who are in the Midwest, are now going to regularly play teams from the South Region in the Collegiate Cup. (Texas, LSU, Texas A&M) Since I am not sure what direction Quidditch will go in, I basically subbed the ICBA in for the IQA's South Region because most of the ICBA's teams right now are from the South. Also, there is the problem of Middlebury. Middlebury fits in perfectly with the Massachusetts Quidditch Conference (Emerson, Boston, Harvard, Tufts, and UMASS) They have the same academic culture, the Mass Quidditch Teams aren't so shabby, and all of those teams played at the Middlebury Classic. But, Middlebury has no varsity team until about a month before the World Cup when their intramural champion is chosen. But, I believe they will eventually have to change. The IQA is now requiring teams to play at least 5 games and I bet they'll increase that in coming years. If Middlebury still doesn't join the MQC, the situation will be similar to Notre Dame and the Big 10.
Without further ado, here are the conferences.

Southeast
FQC (8)
Florida
Miami
Ringling
South Florida
FAU
Florida State
Rollinsa
Florida Gulf Coast

South
Red River North Conference (7)
Texas Tech
Oklahoma State
Southwestern Oklahoma State
Kansas
Missouri
Wichita State
Marquette

Red River South Conference (8)
Texas A&M
Texas Lutheran
Sam Houston State
Texas Christian
Baylor
Texas
Texas State
Rice

Gulf Coast Conference (4)
LSU
Southern Alabama
New Orleans
Southern Miss

Midwest
B1G Quidditch Conference (8)
Minnesota
Illinois State
Pittsburgh
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue
Michigan
Michigan State


Tri-Valley Conference (8)
Eastern Michigan
Miami
Ball State
Grand Valley State
Jetpack Ninja Dinosaurs
Bowling Green State
Carnegie Mellon
Denison

Northeast
Massachusetts Quidditch Conference (10)
Vassar
Yale
Vermont
Green Mountain
Middlebury
Harvard
Tufts
Emerson
Boston
UMASS

UNYQC (7)
Rochester
Ives Pond
SUNY Geneseo
SUNY Cortland
SUNY Fredonia
Syracuse
Edinboro
RIT

New York 4 (4)
NYU
NY Badassilisks
Hofstra
Stony Brook

Mid-Atlantic
Keystone Quidditch Conference (10)
Villanova
Chestnut Hill
Delaware Valley Dragons
Franklin and Marshall
Shippensburgh
Kutztown
Pennsylvania
Johns Hopkins
Maryland
Lafayette

Virginia-North Carolina Quidditch Conference (10)
VCU
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Christopher Newport
William & Mary
Richmond
James Madison
Duke
UNC
NC State

Canada
Canadian-Eastern Division (10)
McGill
Queen's
Carleton
McMaster
Ottawa
Toronto
Ryerson
Guelph
St Lawrence

Canada-Western Division (2)
UBC
Victoria

West
Rockies Division (6)
Arizona State
NAU
Utah Crimson Fliers
BYU
Denver Dementors
Northern Colorado

Pacific Division (10)
UCLA
USC
Cal Berkeley
San Diego State
Silicon Valley Skrewts
San Jose State
Occidental
Moorpark
Claremont
Stanford

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