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Experience first-hand the genius of Tony Buzan, international memory maestro and the creator of Mind Maps, as he lectures in London - for the first time in over a decade.
World renowned expert on the brain and its awesome capability, Tony Buzan, will be holding his first open course in London, England for more than a decade – at
Savoy Place, London WC2 - on 15th July 2008.
The one-day course, entitled MIND MAPS, MEMORY AND CREATIVITY promises to be a power-packed day, in which Tony will explain and demonstrate how two of the human brain’s most powerful attributes – Memory and Creativity - can be elevated from the ordinary to the infinitely extraordinary, using the wizardry of Mind Maps®.
For further information on Tony Buzan’s one-day public course MIND MAPS, MEMORY AND CREATIVITY, or to book a place, please visit www.buzantraining.co.uk, call the Bookings Department on 01628 482765 or email events@buzantraining.co.uk. Book before 15th May and receive a 10% discount on the full course price (£295 + VAT).
Mind Mapping fans may also like to attend one or both of the other two courses in this series which are also priced at £295 + VAT:
Wednesday 16th July:
SPEED READING AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
In just one ground-breaking session, Tony teaches you to increase the speed of your reading by up to 400%, improving your concentration and comprehension – and supercharging your ability to retain information. He explains how your eyes and brain absorb information - and offers practical techniques and exercises so that you can put your new skills to use straight away.
Thursday 17th July:
DRILLING DOWN INTO MIND MAPS: PRESENTATION SKILLS
In this highly detailed and immensely informative workshop, Hilde Jaspaert - Buzan Master Trainer and Buzan Regional Director, Europe - outlines how everyone, regardless of their level of education and experience, can increase their learning potential, memory, notetaking, creative thinking, problem-solving ability… and self confidence – with especial emphasis on developing and delivering presentations in a clear and interesting way.
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.
The UK Open Memory Championships
Venue: Simpsons-in-the-Strand, London (Historical home of Memory Sports)
Dates: 16th-17th August 2008
Timing: 08:45 (for start at 09:00 sharp) - 12:30 Saturday,
08:45 (for start at 09:00 sharp) - 12:45 Sunday
Format: Standard National Competition
Prize giving ceremony: 18th August
Entry fee for competitors - £20. Entry fee plus Gala dinner £40
Non competitors - Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony £50 per head.
Seminars and Workshops (half day Saturday afternoon only) - £80
Provisional Schedule:
9:00 Random words 5 min memorisation 10 min recall
9:30 Binary Numbers 5 min memorisation 15 min recall
10:00 Names and Faces 5 min memorisation 10 min recall
10:30 Numbers 15 min memorisation 30 min recall
11:30 Cards 10 min memorisation 20 min recall
12:30 END OF DAY ONE
9:00 Speed Numbers 5 min memorisation 15 min recall
9:30 Abstract Images 15 min memorisation 30 min recall
10:30 Historic Dates 5 min memorisation 15 min recall
11:00 Spoken Numbers Trial 1 100 seconds memorisation 5 min recall
11:30 Spoken Numbers Trial 2 200 seconds memorisation 10 min recall
12:00 Speed Cards Trial 1 up to 5 min memorisation 5 min recall
12:30 Speed Cards Trial 2 up to 5 min memorisation 5 min recall
12:45 FINISH
Media enquiries welcome. Further information from Phil Chambers phil@worldmemorychampionships.com
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
Polish Memory Championships 2008
In April, 19th 2008 (Saturday) Windmill Foundation (Fundacja "Wiatrak") organizes the second Polish Memory Championships 2008 in Bydgoszcz/Poland. More information: www.mistrzostwapamieci.pl The event will be supervised by the WMSC Chief Arbiter and will be to National Competition Standards
French Schools Memory Championships
The first French Schools Memory Championships are planned to take place on June 13th 2008 in a small town 13km to the west of Paris called Maisons-Laffitte. Further information will be published shortly. The organiser is Françoise Thuillier who can be contacted on fmthuillier@wanadoo.fr
USA Memory Championships
The 2008 USA Memory Championships were be 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/
2008 World Memory Championships
The venue for the World Memory Championships is now confirmed as the Gulf hotel in Manama, Bahrain. The event takes place between the 23rd to the 26th of October 2008 and will take place as a part of the Festival of the Mind.Competitors and visitors can book their accommodation direct with the hotel
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Superior Room |
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Deluxe Room |
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81 |
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Grand Deluxe Room |
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90 |
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Platinum Room |
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The above rates are on a per room per night basis, exclusive of Breakfast and exclusive of the Service Charge (15%) and Government Taxes (5%).All our rates are quoted in Bahraini Dinars (BD).Please note triples are not available at The Gulf Hotel. Breakfast will be charged for additional BD 7.500 plus 15% Service charge and 5% Government Levy.The Hotel will be glad to arrange for your guest the transportation from and to the airport with the following rates: Shuttle Bus BD 4.000 per person per trip. Limousine BD 8.000 per person per trip
Contacts:
Ms. Imbi Sarv – Conference & Convention Sales Manager Tel: +973 17 746405 Fax: +973 17 710637 Mobile: +973 36551455 E-mail: ccsm@gulfhotelbahrain.com
Ms. Michelle Carreon – Reservations Group Coordinator Tel: +973 17 746341. Fax: +973 17 712088 Email: rgc@gulfhotelbahrain.com
Reference Festival of the mind 2008 Or World memory championship 2008
Sunday 20 April - North German Championship, Niebüll, regional standard competition - 5 min names & faces, 5 min numbers, poem, 5 minute binary, 5 min words, historic dates, speed cards.
Probably Sunday 4 May - Cambridge Memory Championship, Cambridge, national standard competition - 5 min words, 5 min binary, 5 min names, 15 min numbers, 10 min cards, 5 min numbers, abstract images,
historic dates, spoken numbers (100 & 200), speed cards. (Note - still waiting for final confimation)
End of May - Derby Memory Championship! - Organised by Ben Pridmore who says"I'd like to organise another competition here in my home town, I have a nice venue that's relatively cheap and I think it would be popular. I'd really like to do a two-day, international standard competition, like the German championship, but then if I did that I would hate not being able to take part myself...
Early June? - South German Championship, regional standard.
June 13th - French Schools Memory Championship, Maisons-Laffite, Organised by Françoise Thuillier. Further information to follow soon.
Late July 11th 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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