ayyyy brother Oh mange it is finally September 8th and it is time for the start of a new season of
the best sport ever Quidditch to think just one week ago those kids were boarding the Hogwarts
Express for a new school year can't wait to see who the slytherins picked up the season
[Music] I wonder what the Venn diagram of Harry Potter fans and football fans looks like I'm
thinking there's not a huge cross-section there but I'm definitely in it I always loved when the
Quidditch matches showed up in the book because it usually meant that the plot was going to advance
a lot Harry would lose all the bones in his arms or see the grim and faint after Dementors entered
the field or it detention from Umbridge and an indefinite suspension from Quidditch which is all
very entertaining and everything and it serves to move the plot along nicely but it also does
one other thing which is to distract you from the fact that Quidditch makes no sense in fact in one
of our earliest videos Jay explained all of the reasons why this is true and now just four short
years later I'm going to solve those problems the biggest problem with Quidditch is hands
down the overwhelming importance of the snitch I mean this sport has 99 problems and the snitch
is all of that as a refresher in case you're not constantly rereading the books like some
people we may or may not know catching the snitch earns your team 150 points and ends the game when
I first heard that I loved it it sounded like such a whimsical rule to the game but really
it's just dumb the issue is that because it has a set value and it controls the length of the game
it is either way too powerful or not powerful at all in all but one of the games that we see at
Hogwarts none of the team's chasers were able to achieve a score differential of more than
150 points which means that every other game was decided by a snitch capture and the rest of the
points were basically irrelevant hypothetically though and it sounds like it has the games could
last for days which would mean that the scores would get so high that the snitch capture would
become kind of meaningless for example imagine one team being up by a couple thousand points
it would no longer make any difference there is very little middle ground when a snitch catch
seems fair and meaningful imagine you lose a game 140 to 150 that means your team was up by 14 goal
aka you dominated and still lost snitch please what makes it works is that we often hear the
students talk about how the accumulated point total makes a difference across the season if
that's true it actually encourages poor play on the part of the Seekers so that their teams can
just rack up points the other main issue with the game is broomstick regulation I mean I'm sorry but
it is just not fair that some brooms are actually faster and more controllable than others it's like
one team is allowed to use steroids and the other isn't and regardless of how the brooms compared to
one another more importantly is how they compare to the snitch now we all know snitches be crazy
and that's a good thing the crazier the better but it's hard for them to be crazy when broom
technology is actually outpacing them and as we just outlined that really affects the game a lot
because the shorter the game the more valuable the snitch is you can't advance the brooms and
just leave it a basic snitch so how do we fix it I have a few simple solutions first let's set a time
limit for the game personally I think four hours seems reasonable for one playing four days seems
crazy but as a fan how are you even supposed to plan for that who wants to buy tickets to
a game they may not be able to see the end of and what about student teams are they allowed
to miss class if the match isn't over a can we make this game lasts all week I've got a exam
on Friday I'd really like to get out of it also gives the teams enough time to score a lot while
still keeping the snitch relevant but it gives it a different role because instead of ending
the game it just gives the team with the catch a huge bonus momentum can be extremely critical in
sports for example per the current rules if you are down 100 to 300 you barely have any incentive
to catch the snitch because even if you do you lose but on the other hand if it's just worth
150 extra points it immediately puts your team back in the running with a huge momentum shift
it also stops point accumulation from being a problem because everyone is always encouraged
to score as many points as they possibly can what in the same amount of time like seriously chrome
catching the snitch is so dumb what to put his team out of their misery yeah cuz that's how pro
athletes think they lose that game 170 to 160 it's not like Bulgaria needed to score 15 more
times they needed to score twice of course if the snitch is catchable mid-game then what becomes of
the Seekers after it's caught my thought is instead of three chasers you have four with
one having a specific designation as seeker this means pre catch you can either have your seeker
look for the snitch or play as the additional chaser role and have one man up on the opposing
team if you have ever watched hockey or soccer or water polo that's a big Venn diagram you know how
big of an impact going up one player can be and lastly you would just need to regulate the broom
so that everyone either had to ride the same one or there were certain specifications that you had
to meet or could not exceed and boom there you go Quidditch fixed see at the World Cup or my
question of the day what do you guys think should the snitch and the game or should it just count
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