<div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 15pt;">Optional Event: Quidditch Tryouts</span></strong><br/>(https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/quidditch_stadium_by_facegrater-d8jpbo1.jpg)</div><br/><div align="center"><em>Unlike the standard GM events, this event is not considered mandatory participation. <br/>It is an event centered on the quidditch teams desperately trying to fill their rosters after a cheating scandal saw their rosters depleted! <br/>To help keep events easier to differentiate in this thread please use the header below.</em></div><br/><div class="codeheader">Code: <a class="codeoperation" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return smfSelectText(this);">[Select]</a></div><pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"><code class="bbc_code">[center][b][color=red][size=15pt]Quidditch Tryouts[/size][/color][/b][/center]<br/>[floatleft][img width=150 padding=10]IMAGE URL HERE[/img][/floatleft]<br/>[b]NAME:[/b] Your Character Name<br/>(Optional)[b]WEARING:[/b] Optional description of what your character is wearing, or a link to their outfit.<br/>[b]Blood Status:[/b] (Pureblood, Halfblood, or Muggleborn)<br/>[b]Wand[/b]: (Wood, Core, and Length)<br/>[b]House/Year[/b]: (Character's House and Year at the school)<br/>[b]Date[/b]: (Day of the Week, Month, Day and year I.E. Friday, September 1st ,2017)<br/>[b]Time/Day:[/b] General time of day. Morning/afternoon/evening/night. Can specify with values such as dawn/noon/midnight.<br/>[b]LOCATION:[/b] Where your character is at in context of the current thread - optional sublocation (ex: Simpsons Residence - Kitchen)<br/>[b]CONTENT:[/b] General level of content. Drama/Conversation/Humor/Smut/Etc.<br/>(Optional)[b]MOOD MUSIC:[/b] [url=link]YouTube or BandCamp link to music to set the mood[/url]<br/>[b]TAGGING:[/b] Any characters and potential NPC's being referenced or directly spoken with in this post.<br/>[hr]<br/><br/>BEGIN POST CONTENT HERE</code></pre><br/><hr/><hr/><br/>The rumors were all over the place already. All four houses had several key members kicked out of the quidditch team for cheating. The chain of events in fact started over the summer in diagon alley. The Gryffindor Captain happened by chance to spot the Slytherin Captain attempting to purchase a vial of Felix Felicis. Rather than calling him out, he instead wrote letters to the other team members, and those team members wrote letters to the players of other houses. The plan may have been at first to call out Slytherin but word got spread around,<em>thanks to a slytherin beater</em>that Ravenclaw also got a vial for their team. From there poor decisions and competitive outrage saw Gryffindor and Hufflepuff follow suite.<br/><br/>Naturally of course when the new school year started the Ravenclaw Captain got caught. Which lead to the exposure of one after the other. Within the first week of being back at Hogwarts the Quidditch teams were completely unrecognizable as in some cases only one returning player was left on the team. New captains were assigned from those there were the most experienced left on the teams, and to make matters worse for the new captains they were tasked with finding new players themselves.<br/><br/>This meant new tryouts were needed and they were needed to fill full rosters, which meant between practice all four teams needed time to go through them. Accusations of favoritism and fairness were flung out. Schedules conflicted, and the idea that one team would have more time to practice as a full team had several letters sent to the Headmaster. Finally the headmaster decided that on September 23rd would officially be a tryout day. All four teams would tryout together, and would need to learn to share. If that was unsatisfactory then they would simply have to deal with opponents having a advantage to start the year.<br/><br/>The word spread out to the entire school that first years were being permitted to try and all the teams were desperate. If you wanted to join the 23rd was the best chance to get onto the team. Tryouts would start at 11:00 AM and students would get situated into teams to compete against one another and show their skills.