Re: Games in Science Fiction?

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:15:23 +0000, "Marcus L. Rowland"
<forgottenfutures@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ignoring the scoring thing in Quidditch, which I agree is pretty daft,
having only one team per house, with kids from all ages and most kids
not participating, is also nonsense. When I was at school pretty much
everyone was required to train for sports and play rugby / cricket in
the season unless they could get a medical exemption, with three sports
afternoons a week for different years - for example, the first few weeks
of the season were spent on training, after that on a Tuesday the teams
playing might be e.g.

But they do it differently in wizard schools. And in my school -- most
people were not on a sports team.

--
chuk
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