Patrick grabbed his whistle from around his neck and gave a shrill
TWEET for the players attention. Amplifying his voice he began to speak,
"return to the ground now for quidditch tryouts." There was his back bone. He had this. There was zero reason to even question his abilities anymore. He was listening to his housemates talk about...
LawrenceLucas' hair. He supposed green wouldn't be a bad idea, however the ever erinaceous Scrimgeour might deduct house points, but he supposed that was something for his prefects to worry about.
Turning his attention back to those on the ground he smiled,
"alrighty. Today we're goin' to be doin' something a smidge different than years past. I figured since many of us are new, or transfers rather than have you pick a position now, we're going to be participating in a skills challenge." He grinned at his brilliant idea. Well it was mostly brilliant if everyone was a good sport about it.
"So for this we're going to go through different tasks and fun events to see who is the best at each skill set. The first seeker drill is a broom agility course to see how fast you can dodge sudden obsticals like the players who randomly pop up durin' a game." He pointed over toward the section of the field that he had gotten help in charming the dummies to fly around and bump into the seeker for that round.
"The first station for beaters is going to be an apple smash game. You're going to have apples thrown at you and whoever smashes the most apples wins. Even if you aren't wanting to be a beater" He loved playing this game as a child and would like to see his beaters able to smash as many as they possibly could. He figured even if the person wasn't their beater they would have fun.
"For the chasers you will be playing an egg toss while flying. This is to make sure you have soft hands when catching the quaffle in the air." Although he was pretty sure most of them would think it was stupid. He really didn't care.
"And for the Keeper skills, we will be playing dodge ball collectively as a wrap up skill with all members trying out."
His hands went to his hips and he smiled out at the group. He really did have this whole captain thing down pat.
"We're going to rotate through all but the keeper. Keeper will be the final skill set to be tested. Any questions?" OOC: Hi friends, we'll likely be moving on in a day or two if we can, you can post about each skill set in a post or start and just meander through each skill set with your teammates. Get interactive it's fun. Also if you've been lurking, join in because this is fun. Don't forget to fill out the survey at the top as well.