That said, many felt the Badassilisks’ journey was a great success. The team–whose supporters included dozens of fan club spectators, a woman dressed as Harry Potter villainess Bellatrix Lestrange, in black dress robes with visible stitches on her fitted bodice and nightmarish, jet black hair, and a makeshift mascot of another woman wearing fangs and a green sequined gown cascading down the grass to appear like the Badassilisk serpent–exited the Quidditch World Cup Division 2 playoffs at No. 4. That was quite the win by their standards.

Hehe, our fans are awesome, and our mascot is awesomer. We <3 you Cassie and Carol!

The full article, with an awesome narrated slideshow interviewing 2 of our players, can be found here:

http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/dollarsandsense/2011/12/13/new-york-hosts-a-quidditch-tournament/

Thanks so much to Sabrina Khan for the great article!