QUIDDITCH & CHEER TRYOUTS

[goosemods]

QUIDDITCH TRYOUTS

It a bright, sunny morning, and there are a lot of open spots on the Quidditch and cheer teams. If anything, this seems to have made competition even more fierce. Mr. Thorn sips a mug of coffee as he waves through the various teams, offering advice and keeping people in line with a sharp eye.

HOW THIS WORKS

• You do not have to post to this to keep your Quidditch or Cheer position. This goes for cheerleaders, first string players and reserves.


• However, we encourage you to do so anyway because it's fun and the more we know about your players and teams, the easier it is for us to write Quidditch games and add notes about what the cheerleaders and mascots are doing. There's a lot of pressure on captains to be active and involved in order to bring a team together, so get to know your players! Create a team dynamic! We want to create an interesting narrative for you and your team, even if there can only be one winner, and it's easier when we have a good feel for how your team relates to one another.


• If you want to participate, fill out the form below and post it to the Tryouts comment header.


• Captains don't try out, the team's already yours! But feel free to respond and react to your would-be players, or give an opening pep talk. Although Quidditch teams are set in stone, it's on you as a player to justify these decisions ICly. Assume that the players you got were the best ones available to you and the wisest choices! Mr. Thorn will advise, but captains get final say.
  • Quidditch teams have already been established beforehand and are set in stone. You don't need to participate in this post to keep your spot, it's just for flavor and fun. If you applied in as a cheerleader or reserve player, the same goes for you. That said, we do encourage captains to post and interact with their team! An involved captain makes a tightly knit team!
  
  
  • If you're playing a captain: Your character will have made these decisions on their own. Mr. Thorn will advise, but he does not have final say, only your captain does. It's your responsibility to justify their selections ICly. Assume that those who made the cut were the most skilled players/cheerleaders available.
  
  
  • You may make your captain's choices known as early as Monday, Sep 4, or you can wait until Thorn posts the lists for everyone to see next week.
• Tryouts start at 8:00 AM and last until 11:00 AM. They all take place at roughly the same time, but other teams can try to scope out their rivals in free moments.


• Anyone's permitted to come and watch, as long as they're respectful. Mr. Thorn doesn't care if you want to yell ans scream for your friends, though! There's nothing that inspires an athlete like the roar of a crowd!


• Characters who aren't on a team may try out! We'll assume they don't make the cut unless you hit up the dropbox asking the mods if the character qualifies to be a Quidditch reserve or cheerleader. Remember, there are limits on how many of these characters you can play.

» captains: Team captains have a moment before tryouts begin to stand in front of the hopeful athletes and tell them what they're expecting, or give them words of encouragement.

Name:
House:
How are they feeling about their team?: Nervous about replacing graduated players/cheerleaders? Excited about their first time as captain? Confident in their skill level?
What do they expect from tryouts?: What do they tell those trying out that they're looking for?
What, in your opinion, is their team/squad best at?: If you say everything I'm hitting you on the nose with a newspaper.

<b>Name:</b> <b>House:</b> <b>How are they feeling about their team?:</b> Nervous about replacing graduated players/cheerleaders? Excited about their first time as captain? Confident in their skill level? <b>What do they expect from tryouts?:</b> What do they tell those trying out that they're looking for? <b>What, in your opinion, is their team/squad best at?:</b> If you say everything I'm hitting you on the nose with a newspaper.

» Tryouts: Tryouts begin, whether you're an old player confident that you'll keep your spot, or a new kid hoping to make the team for the first time.

Name:
House:
What position(s) are they trying out for?: Just list them, regardless of what they end up getting.
How does their tryout go?:
Their strengths:
Their weaknesses:
Anything else?:

<B>Name:</b> <B>House:</b> <B>What position(s) are they trying out for?:</b> Just list them, regardless of what they end up getting. <b>How does their tryout go?:</b> <b>Their strengths:</b> <b>Their weaknesses:</b>

» Audience: If you've come to support your friends, your team, or just to scope out some cute jocks, now's your chance! You may also play out miscellaneous scenes here.

» OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

Comments

OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[goosemods]

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[heathclifflacey]

...I like how Nisha and Heathcliff are essentially opposites. BALANCE. Or something.

Also omfg Jaime. Your captain goals are adorable. ♥

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[lupofiasco]

Shhhhhh ♥

I love all these kids :(

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[ulixes]

hey i love every one of these kids and i want them to succeed

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[threatens]

Only One Can Win

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[ulixes]

right right right and clearly it's gonna be ebonhide but still i love and support all of them

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[sunsoutgunsout]

is this a highlander situation

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[cheer_leader]

is this also where we do cheer try outs or...??

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[goosemods]

Yep! I think people are just doing their Quidditch kids first.

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[sunsoutgunsout]

"kind of a handful." should be the coppersquad motto

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[quickbuck]

rowdy boys

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[bitterlysweet]

Very cute very loud

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[peanutbuttercup]

Hey cameron and I are having a heated argument in the starbucks over how much a good racing broom costs and after crunching some numbers we concluded that Harry's Firebolt would have cost about 10,000 dollars in 2017 USD

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[bitterlysweet]

LMAO GOD

Reid's on Sy's old broom, Calvin's on a family hand-me-down, and Archie's on a school loaner. :')

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[jumpcut]

casey's parents make bespoke brooms for pro quodpot players and i always thought they'd be as expensive as the vatican so this checks out with the bullshit i made up in my head

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[prophesie]

i'm fucking flabbergasted i mean there's flashing money and then there's flashing money and THAT

anyway if anyone was wondering i'm assuming that brooms are kind of like racing bikes? you can get one for a few hundo, but the truly top of the line broom/bikes are gonna run you upwards of ten g, easy. rich kid on high school team meansssss ulysses' broom probably costs like a thousand bucks? $999, lmao. idk. god. i'm still thinking about this.

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[ferdie]

It was my personal headcanon that Leo's broom was donated by his middle school in some kind of help this kid program
It was not firebolt material but I had to justify a broom at all bc they sound real pricey

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[puphart]

mod q! i'm pretty sure i already asked this question but i lost the answer, i'm sorry. :( did the kids know about the mascot positions before hand? like, they didn't arrive today and find out about this new thing, right?

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[goosemods]

Uh yes, we can assume that it was announced sometime before today that mascots had been added to the cheer teams. It's only your AMAZING COSTUMES that are waiting for your public debuts. ;*

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[puphart]

me, writing kurt's tryout and coming to the realization that if kurt had grown up with the internet he would absolutely have gone furry: oh. oh. oh, no.

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[princeprincess]

Magic saved Kurt from that dark fate.

Mini-meme: What's your character's fursona?

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[sheepish]

i feel like ennis should/would be a furry but i won't let him stoop that low

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[jumpcut]

super super relevant today

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[racingstripe]

coppertale

Re: OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

[sochill]

I love ittttttt