Try-Outs

[Adrian Mackenzie]

Quidditch Try-Outs!

Slytherin
Captain: [PENDING] Savannah Brooks
Keeper:
Seeker:
Chaser 1:
Chaser 2:
Chaser 3:
Beater 1: Savannah Brooks
Beater 2:




Gryffindor
Captain: [PENDING] Gabby Brocklehurst, Brooke Davidson
Seeker: Gabby Brocklehurst
Keeper: Liam McAdam
Chaser 1: Brooke Davidson
Chaser 2:
Chaser 3:
Beater 1:
Beater 2:


Ravenclaw
Captain:
Seeker: Emma Delacour
Keeper:
Chaser 1:
Chaser 2:
Chaser 3:
Beater 1:
Beater 2:



Hufflepuff
Captain: Amberlynn Halden
Seeker: Amberlynn Halden
Keeper: Derek Diggory
Chaser 1: Marisol Bou
Chaser 2: Ryan Magby
Chaser 3:
Beater 1:
Beater 2:


Full Name: First and Last Names
Year/House: All Years are now being accepted!
Experience: You must have experience either in a Flying Class or on a previous HOGWARTS Quidditch Team
Desired Position: Captain*, Keeper, Seeker, Chaser [1, 2, 3], Beater [1, 2]
Quidditch RP Sample: Must include your character playing your desired position

*Captain: If the position of Quidditch Captain is desired by more than one person of the House...there will be separate Try-outs consisting of a reason of why you should be captain and a RP Post showing what you would do as captain. If the position is popular enough, I will make a Co-Captain Position.





[b]Full Name:[/b]
[b]Year/House:[/b]
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[b]Desired Position:[/b]
[b]Quidditch RP Sample:[/b]


[Savannah Brooks]

Full Name: Savannah Brooks
Year/House: 7, Slytherin
Experience: Flying Class, Previous Hogwarts Quidditch Team, 14 years of Flying
Desired Position: Captain, Beater 1
Quidditch RP Sample:

Vannah circled the Pitch not paying any attention to how nervous she was. Once she started paying attention, it would all be over. She would shut down...start to freak out, but she had a lot of practice. Quidditch was her sport, this was her team. She worked them hard and today it would finally pay off.

The whistle blew, and Vannah signaled to the rest of her team to dismount. She took her place in front of her team facing the caption of the other team. A mischievous grin spread across her face as she shook hands with the captain, her grip was firm. She made it clear to the other team that they. And somehow, they usually got what they want.

The whistle blew again and the balls were released. Vannah had her club in hand. She whacked a bludger towards one of the new players and watched in amusement as it hit the girl's shoulder causing her to nearly fall off the broom. Vannah did all this while keeping an eye on her teammates and instructing them the way they had practiced. The victory would be hers, she was sure of it.

[Gabby Brocklehurst]

Full Name: Gabby Brocklehurst
Year/House: 4th, Gryffindor
Experience: Flying class, 11 years of flying
Desired Position: Seeker/ possibly captain
Quidditch RP Sample:

Cassie kicked off hard against the ground and shot skyward. She shut out the roaring crowds and focused solely on finding the elusive snitch. She circled well above the furious play with the quaffle beneath her, keeping an eye out for bludgers.

She heard something whistling through the air toward her and just before a bludger would have gone crashing into her spine she rolled to the side, letting it soar past her. As soon as she saw one of her beaters streak toward it she put it out of her mind, straining to see a flash of gold against the dazzling sky.

There it was, near the ground. Without a moment's though Gabby streaked toward the ground, narrowly missing a collision with one of the ravenclaw chasers. She caught sight of the other seeker out of the corner of her eye and urged her broom on. She stretched out her hand, it was within in her grasp. A tiny spurt of speed from her broom was all she needed to grasp the snitch triumphantly between her fingers.

[Marisol Bou]

Full Name: Marisol Bou
Year/House: 6, Hufflepuff
Experience: Hogwarts Quidditch
Desired Position: Chaser
Quidditch RP Sample:

Mari flew around thew Pitch to warm up. She was glad to be apart of the team again after her absence. She held the Quaffle as she passed it to her teammates waving in and out of other players and poles. As soon as the bell sounded, Mari felt something hard hit her shoulder and all she could remember was floating through the air before the blackout.

[Brooke Davidson]

Full Name: Brooke Davidson
Year/House: 5th Gryffendor
Experience: Flying class and team at old school
Desired Position: Captain, Chaser 1
Quidditch RP Sample:

The game had barely begun and already the other team was ahead, Brooke cursed under her breath as she flew towards the opposing chaser. She smiled as she saw the other chasers quickly fall into Parkin's Pincer, those extra hours of practice had been paying off after all. Losing wasn't an option, she was there to win and she would do it too. There was no question in that matter, Brooke had never once in her life let herself consider losing at anything and she wasn't about to start know.

They converged at the exact same moment and Brooke was easily able to grab the quaffle. The other chasers from her team stayed close by and when she saw one of the opposing chaser getting to close she quickly went into Porskoff Ploy going up at an almost vertical angle causing the opposing chaser to follow her as she dropped the quaffle to one of her own team mates. She was fine not being the one to score as long as one of her teammates did.

She flew towards the hoops when she spotted something wrong. As the Quaffle was headed through the hoop she saw the opposing keeper put his arm and part of his body through through the hoop to prevent the score. "He's flacking." She yelled down at the ref, just incase he hadn't been looking.

[Emma Delaceur]

Full Name:Emma Delaceur
Year/House:3rd year/Ravenclaw
Experience:Flying Class
Desired Position:Seeker
Quidditch RP Sample:

Emma whirled around the Quidditch Pitch on her Nibous 2001 broomstick.She took in a deep breath and tried to swallow down the nervousness. She then scanned the grounds for what she needed:the snitch.This was it.She had to make the team.She had to focous.

Then she spotted exactly what she needed.The snitch was hovering around a set of goal posts on the oppasite end of the field.Ignoring all the other players she zoomed toward the golden ball.She put out her hand,but only grabbed air.The snitch had only just escaped her grasp.

Come on! she thought What was all that extra practice for?....I have to get that snitch!

Now,determinened,she whirled after it.Chasing it across the pitch.Emma had to dodge some players,and unfortunately bumped shoulders with one,and an active Bludger,but she eventually caught up with the ball.Then reaching out her hand and accelerating speed,she grabbed for it.

She hovered in the air and nervously looked into her palm.She had caught the Snitch!

[Adrian Mackenzie]

Thank you to everyone who tried out. If you signed up for a certain position, excluding captain, you got it. Your RP Examples were perfect.

TO THOSE WHO TRIED OUT FOR CAPTAIN:

To Savannah Brooks: If no one else claims the captain position in a week, it will go to you.

To Gabby Brocklehurst and Brooke Davidson: You both have one week to send me an owl (username: professor) explaing why you want/deserve the captain position and a seperate RP post showing what you would do as captain. If I receive both owls before a week is up I will decide sooner.

If I get as much demand for captain on other teams I will make a co-captain position on each team and whoever does not make captain will make co-captain.

[Liam McAdam]

Full Name:Liam McAdam
Year/House:5td year/gryffindor
Experience:Home, catching fruit while riding a horse (don't ask why)
Desired Position:Keeper
Quidditch RP Sample:

Liam walked onto the pitch and secretly clamped the replacement arm on his left arm so no one would notice he did not have a real one. He picked up a rental broom and went to the position where the three hoops were, yet he had some problems keeping balance. After all, it was a bewitched peice of wood, not a horse. 'Ready....when you ..are.." he said to the chaser who was testing him, his english broken. As the large red ball hurtled to the tallest hoop, he moved upwards and managed to catch it. He then threw it back, only to have it thrown to the hoop on the right. He had to kick the ball this time as he would have fallen off if he tried to catch it. The final ball was a trick shot as it went for the top, but curved and headed for the left. He thought he had missed the ball, but it nailed him right in the head and dropped into his hands. I...did it!? I can't believe it. he thought.

(I got lazy, so I translate the thoughts)

[Adrian Mackenzie]

ACCEPTED!

well done (:

[Amberlynn Halden]

Full Name: Amberlynn Halden
Year/House: Sixth Year, Hufflepuff
Experience: Four years of flying
Desired Position: Captain, Seeker.
Quidditch RP Sample:

As the whistle blew for the start of the match Amberlynn sunk her feet into the ground and kicked off zooming up to the goal post making sure she was out of the sun and able to see. Amberlynn had the feeling that she had left her stomach somewhere back on the ground, the previous butterflies she had had vanished replaced by emptiness and a strong will in catching the snitch.

Amberlynn zoomed around the goal posts for a while before flying into the center of the field in search of the small glittering ball. Amberlynn watched the seeker of the opposing team closely for a while, determined to find the snitch before they did. Amberlynn moved around the pitch slowly her eyes scanning every inch of the field.

Her eyes scanned the quittich pitch once more, widening as she saw the small glittering ball, she zoomed toward it her hair flying backward and the wind stinging her eyes, Amberlynn didn't bother to check if the other seeker was behind her, a stupid error as the seeker of the opposing team drew closer to her broom she stretched her arm out and clasped the fluttering golden ball in her small hand.

[Adrian Mackenzie]

ACCEPTED!

well done (:

the position for captain will be open for one week. if no one else signs up it will go to you.

[Ryan Magby]

Full Name: Ryan Magby
Year/House: Sixth Year, Hufflepuff
Experience: Hufflepuff team chaser for two years, five years of flying
Desired Position: Chaser, Captain
Quidditch RP Sample:

Ryan caught the quaffle and sped off down the pitch. He was zooming around players left and right as he came up to the hoops. He took only a second to decide that he was going to use one of the oldest tricks in the book. Ryan took off for the right hoop with his eyes focused on the hoop, causing the keeper to follow him over to the goal. Ryan was very close to the hoop and without taking his eyes off the keeper he launched the ball to the left goal hoop and smiled at the keeper as it went over him and through the hoop.

[Druscilla Grace]

Full Name: Druscilla Grace
Year/House: Ravenclaw, Sixth year
Experience: Was on the old Ravenclaw team
Desired Position: Beater
Quidditch RP Sample:

Dru flew out, her team robes flapping around her, the small bat firm in her hand. She had never considered hserself the best flier, she was decent, but was bad to concentrate so hard on a goal that everything else disappeared, even other players. She had been working on it, though, doing little exercises she had read about, and knew she was ready for the match. Even so, she was still a little surprised when she saw the bludger so close to a Ravenclaw chaser.

She zoomed forward, the adrenaline pulsing through her veins. She shouted a warning to the chaser so that he'd get out of the way and she aimed a swing at the ball. It hit, and she did a small victory punch into the air as she watched it fly off towards the opposite side. It wasn't exactly intended to hit anyone else, but it was meant to fly so close as to scare them a little. She watched it zoom over someone's shoulder, causing them to drop the quaffle, and she grinned, turning with her broom to keep an eye out.

[Adrian Mackenzie]

ACCEPTED!

very well!

TO AMBERLYN HALDEN AND RYAN MAGBY:

Please send me an owl (username: professor) explaining why you should be the captain and a seperate RP post explaining what you would do as captain. You have one week. If I receive both posts before a week a captain will be chosen earlier. A co-captain position is a possibility.

-Professor Adrian Mackenzie

[Derek Diggory]

Full Name: Derek A. Diggory
Year/House: 7/Huff
Position: Keeper
Experience: On the previous team

RP Sample:

Derek double-checked the binding on his keeping gloves as he hovered in front of the middle ring. He knew full well that they were perfectly well done-up (after all, he'd already checked them three times) but Quidditch was a serious business, and you could never be two prepared.

As the balls were released, Derek circled the three rings, at a steady pace, without ever once taking his eye off the Quaffle. He felt like a coiled spring, ready at any second to dart one way or another to block an incoming shot.

Diggory often compared playing keeper to guarding a sleeping Dragon. There were long periods of inactivity, punctuated by irregular bursts of adrenaline. One thing was for sure- you couldn't let your guard down for a second. He'd learned that the hard way, when he first got onto the team, having been caught out a couple of times by lightning-fast counterattacks. It wasn't an experience Derek cared to repeat.

Sure enough, within a minute, one of the red-clad chasers was bearing down on his rings, and Derek sped forward to meet him. The shot flew straight into Derek's midriff, and he closed his hands around it and swiftly released it to one of his team-mates in yellow. Crisis averted. This time.