I hate myself for remembering, and am likely wrong, but isn’t the snitch worth 150 points and ends the game? So if the opposing team was 151 points ahead catching the snitch would lose the match? I’m not going to look it up, I don’t care enough about being right in regards to Harry Potter and I’m not even sure why I commented outside of my inate need for information to be correct…
That’s correct - however, 150 points is a ridiculously high number that’s almost impossible to overcome. Every time the snitch was caught, that team won the game.
This was a thing in the third book where Harry had to make sure they’re a certain number of points ahead before catching the snitch so that they’d not just win the match but also their school league.
It’s fifteen goals. While unlikely, it’s totally possible for a team to score fifteen goals more if the skill difference is high enough and the game is allowed to go for long enough.
There were some historic matches mentioned in one of the books, that apparently went on for weeks or even months, fifteen goals would be a really low number for that kind of match. The duration of a match only depends on how good the seekers are, a match can be over in five minutes which is really lame, or go on for ages which is also lame.
You’re definitely right about it being a poorly-contrived scoring system, but there are a few games in the books where the team lost the game but grabbed the snitch. It’s always described as a “stem the bleeding” type decision
Edit: sorry, now seeing the replies to your other comments saying this, I guess you know by now 😅
I hate myself for remembering, and am likely wrong, but isn’t the snitch worth 150 points and ends the game? So if the opposing team was 151 points ahead catching the snitch would lose the match? I’m not going to look it up, I don’t care enough about being right in regards to Harry Potter and I’m not even sure why I commented outside of my inate need for information to be correct…
That’s correct - however, 150 points is a ridiculously high number that’s almost impossible to overcome. Every time the snitch was caught, that team won the game.
They won the game, but they may have lost the league if winning comes down to point differences.
This was a thing in the third book where Harry had to make sure they’re a certain number of points ahead before catching the snitch so that they’d not just win the match but also their school league.
It’s fifteen goals. While unlikely, it’s totally possible for a team to score fifteen goals more if the skill difference is high enough and the game is allowed to go for long enough.
Is there any example of a real life sport where one play (that can only be done once per game) equals making 15 goals? That’s just bad rules.
Not a sport, but in mahjong, dealer yakuman are worth 35x a 1-han hand
There were some historic matches mentioned in one of the books, that apparently went on for weeks or even months, fifteen goals would be a really low number for that kind of match. The duration of a match only depends on how good the seekers are, a match can be over in five minutes which is really lame, or go on for ages which is also lame.
You’re definitely right about it being a poorly-contrived scoring system, but there are a few games in the books where the team lost the game but grabbed the snitch. It’s always described as a “stem the bleeding” type decision
Edit: sorry, now seeing the replies to your other comments saying this, I guess you know by now 😅