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  | &lt;span class=&quot;byline&quot;&gt;Alex Tapak&lt;/span&gt;
  
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      &lt;p&gt;Carnegie Mellon men&#039;s tennis plays Robert Morris University and Duquesne University on Saturday, beating the former and falling to the latter.&lt;/p&gt;

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      &lt;p&gt;The CMU Marauders are Carnegie Mellon&rsquo;s newest club sports team on campus &mdash; Quidditch. The game of Quidditch is based off the game played in the Harry Potter series. Quidditch consists of players flying on brooms and shooting at hoops high in the air for points, while players hit balls at each other, and one player attempts to catch the Snitch. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Carnegie Mellon Quidditch team was founded by senior computer science major Shashank Pradhan on the predication that Carnegie Mellon students do not have enough fun. Over 100 colleges across the country have Quidditch teams. Right now the Carnegie Mellon team has about 125 members, although only about 18&ndash;20 of them are active participants in the organization.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The game of Quidditch is played very similarly to how it is played in the Harry Potter series. The only real differences are that players in this version do not have the ability to fly, the Golden Snitch is a player, and the bludgers do not fly. There are 14 people on the fiel...&lt;/p&gt;

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