US Quadball standardizes Quadballfest format for 2025 season

US Quadball is standardizing Quadballfest for 2025, turning it into a fixed weekend blend of competition, education and social time with regional variations layered on top. The shift recasts the event as more than a tournament stop: it is now an on-ramp for new players and a holding point for the people already inside the sport.

The organization said the previous version suffered from a lack of clarity, with teams not always knowing how to present it or what it was supposed to be. The new structure is built to remove that uncertainty. Saturday brings a fantasy tournament, on-field and off-field workshops, recruiting sessions, tournament operations, branding, Coaching 101 and a late-night social event. Sunday shifts toward a US National Team open training camp or tryouts, pickup quadball and skills competitions with prizes, including best shooter, a dunk competition and seekers versus flagrunners. In one weekend, Quadballfest now pulls together the sport’s entry points and its highest level.

That design fits the arc of a sport that traces back to October 9, 2005, when Alex Benepe, Xander Manshel and other Middlebury College students first played at Battell Beach. US Quadball says the game has grown into a community of thousands of athletes, coaches, volunteers, officials and supporters, and the organization itself rebranded from US Quidditch to US Quadball in 2021 after polling. The name was chosen to reflect both the number of balls and the number of positions in the sport.

The 2025 schedule spreads that model across three regions. New Brighton, Minnesota hosts Quadballfest on October 18-19. Snohomish County, Washington follows on November 8-9, with the Seattle-area event at Meadowdale Athletic Complex in Lynnwood. Cabarrus County, North Carolina closes the run on December 6-7. US Quadball has framed each site as a weekend built to bring together newcomers, veteran athletes, coaches, officials and fans.

The national-team piece gives the format an extra layer of weight. US Quadball says the United States National Team is the official national quadball team, recognized by the International Quadball Association, and has won IQA World Cup gold in 2012, 2014, 2018 and 2023, along with the inaugural IQA Pan-American Games in 2019. That makes the tryout and training-camp window at Quadballfest more than a showcase; it is a direct bridge from local participation to the top of the sport.

By tying fantasy play, workshops, official games and national-team access into one repeatable template, Quadballfest is becoming one of US Quadball’s clearest tools for rebuilding participation and keeping players connected long after the final whistle.