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The Northern and Southern Cups are the two major regional quidditch tournaments of the United Kingdom. Organised by QuidditchUK, the tournaments serve both as qualification prerequisites for other tournaments, such as the European Quidditch Cup, and major tournaments in of themselves, often considered the most important tournaments of the year, after the British Quidditch Cup.
History
The idea for a regional tournament originally came from Southampton Quidditch Club, who devised an independently organised Southern Cup, which was due to take place in February 2014. Inspired by this, Keele Quidditch Club created a counterpart "Northern Squirrel Cup", open to all the teams who weren't invited to Southern Cup (on the basis of geographical location). Due to adverse weather conditions, Southern Cup's expected debut was cancelled, but the Northern Cup went ahead as planned in March 2014. Eight teams competed, with Bangor Broken Broomsticks winning the tournament after beating Nottingham in the final. Southern Cup eventually went ahead in November of that year - the next quidditch season - where another eight teams competed. Southampton, the hosts, were defeated in the final by Radcliffe Chimeras.