IQA World Cup IV

IQA World Cup IV

2010
Tournament information
Sport	Quidditch
Location	New York City
Dates	14–18 November 2010
Administrator	International Quidditch Association
Tournament format(s)	Pool play Single elimination bracket
Venue(s)	DeWitt Clinton Park
Teams	46
Final positions
Champion	Middlebury College
Runner-up	Tufts University

The IQA World Cup IV was the 2010 edition of the IQA World Cup (now the US Quidditch Cup), a quidditch club tournament then organized by the International Quidditch Association.

The tournament was hosted in New York City at DeWitt Clinton Park. It was the first year that the cup was hosted in outside Middlebury, Vermont.

The World Cup featured 46 teams and 757 players from Canada and the United States. The IQA set a record with 40 media outlets and 20,000 spectators attending the tournament all together.^[1]

On August 15, 2010, the IQA announced that New York University would be hosting the tournament, making it the first time the World Cup was played in a major city.^[2]

Bracket

Middlebury College won the bracket 100–50 against Tufts University.^[1]

	First round				Round of 16				Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
					Pittsburgh Q.C.	110
					Boston	20
	Boston	140
	Minnesota	50
									Pittsburgh Q.C.	110
									Ive's Pond	10
					Rochester	40
					Ive's Pond	50
	Tom's River Hydras	0
	Ive's Pond	30
													Pittsburgh Q.C.	40
													Tufts	50
					Emerson	70
					Texas A&M	50
	Texas A&M	230
	Michigan State	40
									Emerson	50
									Tufts	60
	Tufts	80
	Vermont	10
					Tufts	120
					Chestnut Hill	40
																	Tufts	50
																	Middlebury	100
					Louisiana State	110
					Yale	40
	Massachusetts	10
	Yale	40
									Louisiana State	40
									Vassar	70
					St. Lawrence	10
					Vassar	80
	Vassar	60
	Lafayette	10
													Vassar	0
													Middlebury	60
					Villanova	80
					McGill	20
	McGill	90
	Harvard	10
									Villanova	20
									Middlebury	110
	Penn State	70
	NYU	30
					Penn State	0
					Middlebury	110

References

1. "World Cup Report". internationalquidditch.com. International Quidditch Association. Archived from the original on 2011-04-06. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
2. K., Ryan (2010-08-15). "Quidditch World Cup Leaves Middlebury for New York". midd-blog.com. MiddBlog. Archived from the original on 2013-10-14. Retrieved 2016-06-17.