I had the sense right at the start that she hadn't liked sports much in school. Which is fine, btw! But quidditch is her way of showing that Harry has something heroic about him--yet being good at quidditch turns out to be unimportant and, like the house elves, gets shunted to the side over time.
Shrug, the game? Unimportant except as a way to connect with his father who was also a good player and to develop his broom skills which as a plot mover became very important
Sorry for taking this seriously, but: the "Quidditch World Cup" video game actually had a decent solution to this.
It basically played like two games in sequence. The first was a hockey game, and how you performed on that gave you handicaps and boosts for the second game, which was racing.
I'm not sure that's why/how they did it. The game was published by Electronic Arts, and as far as I can tell, they mostly just lifted code from a few existing "EA Sports" titles and took a hot glue gun to them. The result was a better game than what she wrote about.
The rules are designed as "raise the stakes" nonsense where an entire team can be losing but singular lonely hero can swing a victory as the last act of the game.
It's football if field goal kicks are worth 75 points in the last 2 seconds of the game.
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It basically played like two games in sequence. The first was a hockey game, and how you performed on that gave you handicaps and boosts for the second game, which was racing.
It's football if field goal kicks are worth 75 points in the last 2 seconds of the game.
Rowling is intrinsically a monster.