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The second UK Memory Championship - 4 New World Records
In a very successful competition over the weekend we have seen World Class performances that put even Team GB's performance at the Olympics in the shade:
World Ranking Changes:
Ben moves from number two, back to World Ranked Number One (the top spot was taken from him by Gunther Karsten in the 2007 German Championships)
- Ben has 7798 championship points against Gunther's 7631.
With a score of 6356, Boris Konrad moves into the top ten in the world (from 11 place to 9th place). This means Dominic O'Brien, for the first time ever, finds himself outside the top 10!
Katie Kermode, in only her second competition moves up 20 places from world ranking 46 to 26th place (with a score of 4383) - Katie is predicted to rival Astrid Plessl from Austria (the greatest Woman Mnemonist to date). - And she's British!
Trophies: Gold - UK Open Champion 2008 - Ben Pridmore Runner up (UK Competitors) - Katie Kermode (overall 4th place) Bronze (UK Competitors) - James Ponder (overall 5th) Best International competitor - Boris Konrad (overall 2nd)
A special mention should be made to Gaby Kappus - The top females competitor in overall 3rd place (not eligible for a trophy as she is second placed international competitor)
World Records:
5 minute random words - Boris Konrad 106 words (previous record 84 held by fellow German Johannes Mallow)
5 minute Binary numbers - Ben Pridmore 930 digits (Ben attempted 930 and recalled them perfectly - no errors) - Ben previously held the record with 795.
15 minute numbers - Ben Pridmore 819 digits (previous record 700 held by Clemens Mayer) - This score also beats the Millennium Standard of 800.
10 minute cards - Ben Pridmore 364 cards (attempted and perfectly recalled 7 decks) - previous record 312 also held by Ben - This score also beats the Millennium Standard of 333.
5 minute Historic and Future Dates - Ben Pridmore 91 - Not a world record but just beats the millennium standard.
Speed Cards interesting observation:
Gold - Boris - 54.41 seconds
Silver - Gaby - 54.50 seconds
Bronze - Ben - 56.41 seconds
Note only 9 hundredths of a second between Boris and Gaby. (Ben is slower as he need to make certain of the pack to clinch the top spot in the World Rankings).
THANK YOU TO THE SPONSORS OF THE UK OPEN MEMORY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008
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The New Memory Arbiters Handbook
Filament Publishing, who published the Memory Yearbook for the Mind Sport of Memory, have now published a pocket handbook for Artbiters and Competition Organisers. It costs £7.50 can cen be purchased from the WMSC by clicking on the link http://www.worldmemorychampionships.com/Arbiters_Handbook.asp
An insight into the Ten Memory Disciplines
Jennifer Goddard, President of the Australian Memory Sports Council and the only Level Three arbiter in the world, has produced an excellent series of ten streamed video to explain the The Memory Disciplines. They can be viewed on http://www.fuzz2buzz.com/en/node/1054
CALL FOR COMPETITORS - The World Memory Championships 2008
The Prize Fund for the 2008 World Memory Championships has just been announced by the sponsors, Intelnacom. The total fund will be US$30,000 which will be distributed as follows;
$10K First Prize
$5K Second Prize
$3K Third Prize
$1K for each of places 4 to 10
For each of 10 disciplines:
$250 First Prize
$150 Second Prize
$100 Third Prize
Full details for the arrangements for this years competition on http://www.worldmemorychampionships.com/competitor_information.asp
French Open Memory Championships
The first French Open Memory Championships will take place on September 20th 2008 in a small town 13km to the west of Paris called Maisons-Laffitte. The event will be in French, English and German and will be supervised by WMSC Chief Arbiter Phil Chambers. The organiser is Françoise Thuillier who can be contacted on fm.thuillier@orange.fr
Welcome to new countries
The Worlds Memory Sports Council welcomes the Phillippines, France, Poland, Slovenia, India and Lithuania as the latest countries to form their own National Memory Sports Council to promote and administer the Mind Sports of Memory. We welcome them on board and look forward to supporting them with thier first memory competitions.
The Australian Memory Championships
The Australian Memory Championships will take place on 27 and 28th September, 2008 at the Gold Coast, Queensland and further details will be sent out as soon as possible.
German Memory Championships
Klaus Kolb, the President of the Memory Sports Council of Germany has announced the date of the 11th German Memory Championships which will take place on the 25th / 26th July in Tuttlingen. Further information info@ggk.de
SCHOOL MEMORY CHAMPIONS ASTOUND THE EXPERTS!
HANNAH WARD (14) of Roade School Sports College, Roade, Northampton has just been crowned the first UK Schools Memory Champion
The competition is the brainchild of eight times World Memory Champion Dominic O’Brien, Chief Arbiter of the World Memory Sports Council PhilChambers and Tony Buzan, co-founder of the World Memory Championship, best selling international author and lecturer on the Brain and its workings – all renowned figures in the world of Mind Sports.
It’s been a tense and nail-biting time for over 300 secondary school students as they waited for the judges to announce the overall winners of the very first Schools Memory Championship, with the Awards ceremony for the winners held at The Park Inn Hotel, Northampton, on Monday 2nd June.
Joining Gold Medal winner Hannah Ward on the podium, were Silver Medallist DAVID LUCK (14) from Huxlow Science College, Wellingborough and Bronze winner ELLEN BILTCLIFFE (14) from Magdalen College School, Brackley. The competition is sponsored by Aimhigher, a national government initiative to encourage students into higher education. The Aimhigher programme is run by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), with support from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). Inspire, the Ascot-based educational and training consultancy, and has been co-ordinating the event.
“The UK Schools Memory Championship has been created to help pupils discover the Mind Sport of Memory and to develop their mental skills to aid them with their studies,” explains competition co-founder Dominic O’Brien. “The five Memory disciplines have been chosen to closely correspond with those of the World Memory Championship, whilst being easily transferable to school subjects. “With exam success dependent on making good use of one’s memory, mastering memorisation techniques early on is a great platform for success” adds Dominic.
USA Memory Championships
The 2008 USA Memory Championships were held on Saturday March 8th in Con Edison's headquarters at 4 Irving Place in New York, USA. Please join us in congratulating our seven Finalists: Chester Santos, Paul Mellor, Ram Kolli, Ronnie White, Jenny Frielle, Daniel Naftalovich and Brice Morey!!! The new USA Memory Champion is Chester Santos and the new USA Memory Champion Team is Hershey. Press inquiries...please contact Renee Sall of Maximum Exposure PR for additional information at 201-315-4337. The results of the USA Memory Championship are not included in the WMSC world rankings as a non standard competition format us used. http://www.usamemorychampionship.com/
German Memory Championships which will take place on the 25th / 26th July in Tuttlingen - , international standard - 30 min numbers, 30 min cards, 30 min binary, historic dates, spoken numbers (100, 200, 300), abstract images, 15 min names & faces, 5 min numbers, 15 min words, speed cards.
UK Memory Championship, national standard.16th-17th August 2008 Simpson-on-the-Strand, London
Australian Memory Championships 27 and 28th September, 2008. Gold Coast, Queensland. Further details will be sent out as soon as possible.
The first Memory Yearbook 2008
The Official handbook for the Mind Sport of Memory
The World Memory Sports Council, the governing body for the Mind Sport of Memory, is proud to announce the publication of the very first Memory Yearbook 2008. For anyone involved in the sport at a competitive level, this new book is an essential.Every memory competition recognised by the WMSC, is included with the results from each discipline. The full World Rankings are included as are the list of all Grand Masters of Memory.
There are articles from and about the top memorisers in the world plus essential information for anyone wanting to organise a memory competition, including a detailed description of each of the ten memory disciplines.
There are reports on the year from the National Memory Sports Councils around the world complete with many photographs of competitions and the personalities in the sport. If you have participated in a memory competition during 2007, you are in the book!
The book also looks back at the way the sport first started with articles for the two founders, Ray Keene OBE and Tony Buzan. There is also information on becoming a member of the International Guild of Mind Sports Arbiters.
The book will be available from early 2008 and can be obtained from the World Memory or the Buzan websites price £15 (USD $30) plus post an packing within the UK of £2. Pre-orders are now being accepted and will posted out as soon as the first copies are received. Email the secretary.
Animated Graph Feature
Have you discovered the animated graph feature on the competition statistics section of the site? You can "replay" a competition, discipline by discipline and see how each competitor fares in relation to the rest. To see this feature, go to "Records and Results" then "Statistics". You will then see a link to "Championships". Select the event you want to see, and you will then have the option of clicking on a tab to select each of the disciplines. The final tab on that line is the "Replay" feature. Depending on the resolution of your computer screen you may need to adjust your view, using the internal scroll bars, to reveal the Replay tab, or the full list of championships. Thanks to our WMSC Official Statistician, Simon Orton for developing this excellent facility.
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Following the great success of the 2007 World Championships in Bahrain, which has been hailed by competitors and press alike as the best competition so far, at the Awards Presentation following the competition Tony Buzan announced that the 2008 World Memory Championships will return to Bahrain for a second time.
The event will once again be sponsored by INTELNACOM, the high tech venture capital company recently established in Bahrain.
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| In what is being seen as the warm up to the World Memory Championships in Bahrain, sixteen elite mental athletes competed in the prestigious Aesculap Memo Masters 2007, German Open Memory Championship, including two past World Champions from the UK. The event took place over two days, 27th and 28th July 2007 at the Aesculap Academy in Tuttlingen, Germany. |
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| Ben Pridmore from Derby breaks Speed Cards World Record |
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| Ben has broken the '30 Seconds Barrier' - the Holy Grail of the Mind Sport of Memory - for memorising a shuffled deck of 52 playing cards and then recalling them correctly, and in order: |
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| 26.28 seconds (Bet you couldn't even say them in that time!) |
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