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Australian Memory Championships

2011 Australian National Open Memory Championships was held on 10-11 September in Melbourne. Participants from all over the world participated in a small but well contested event.

Those who attend a National Championship can be eligible to participate in the 2011 World Memory Championships www.worldmemorychampionships.com which will be held in
Guangzhou China 6-11 December 2011.

For information on the 2012 Australian Memory Championships please email jennifer@buzan.com.au.  Jennifer is Convenor of the Australian competition and Senior Arbiter at the World Memory Championships. If you would like to talk to Jennifer about the competitions email her anytime. 

And if you would like to discuss how Improving Your Memory can make you and your team more successful, see our public programs page, or email Bill Jarrard at bill@buzan.com.au to ask about tailoring our programs for your organisation:

  • Improve Your Memory
  • Memory and Being Memorable
  • Memory & Sales Success

These program are guaranteed to make you more successful!


 

On our sister site www.mindwerx.com we have released a series of 10 videos to provide insight into how a National Memory Championships is run.

These 3-4 minute on-line presentations show examples of the 10 Disciplines and are suitable for people interested in competing in a memory event, volunteers who help adjudicate and journalists and others.

Memory Competition Rules and Examples


Report from 2010 World Memory Championships

Twenty year old Wang Feng, the reigning Chinese Memory Champion, stormed to victory at the 19th World Memory Championships in Guangzhou, China, winning the Gold Medal and smashing previous championship records in a hot contest against rivals from Germany and the UK.

There were 128 finalists from over twenty countries competing for the title. Wang, a history student from Wuhan University, clinched the title in the final discipline of ten, when he correctly memorised a shuffled pack of 52 playing cards in just 24 seconds.

Wang is the first Chinese citizen to win the World Memory Championships, widely considered a symbolic breakthrough for Memory Sport in China.

Wang's final result establishes him firmly as the planet's top memory man and his performance will be enshrined in the Book of Mental World Records. His closest rivals were the German Champion Johannes Mallow from Magdeburg, in Silver position, with defending titlist, Ben Pridmore of Beeston, UK winning the Bronze.

Pridmore's single most impressive exploit in Guangzhou was his record breaking memorisation of 28 shuffled packs of playing cards within a one hour limit. Simon Reinhard of Munich was fourth overall.

In the team competition, Germany took the Gold Medal, ahead of China in Silver with the UK capturing Bronze.

The 2011 World Memory Championships will be held in Guangzhou, China 6-11 December, go to http://worldmemorychampionship.com/ for more details.


 


Watch this 19 minute video of 2007 World Memory Championships in Bahrain. Includes interviews with Tony Buzan. People from across the globe came to compete for the ultimate prize.

 


 

Report from the 2009 World Memory Championships

 

BEN PRIDMORE retained the title of World Memory Champion at the conclusion of the 18th World Memory Championships in London.

After three days of intense competition, the 18th World Memory Championship had a nail biting finish on Saturday 14th of November, which could not have been closer.

However, reigning Champion Ben Pridmore from the UK, emerged victorious, making this his third World Memory Champion title.

 

 

Over the ten disciplines, which took place over the three days of the competition, Ben's cumulative Championship points were 7,854. Runner up was Johannes Mallow from Germany with 7,321 Championships points followed, in third place by fellow German Simon Reinhard with 7,137.

Despite achieving a higher score than last year, previous World Memory Champion Dr Gunther Karsten had to settle for forth place with 6,958 - only 28 points less than what it took him to win the Championships in 2007 - a sure sign of the increasing achievements of top competitors year by year.

CONGRATULATIONS to Junior Memory Champion Dorothea Seitz and also to the Kids Memory Champion Song Xiatong.


Full information can be found at www.worldmemorychampsionships.com

Perhaps you can join us in 2012!


The New Memory Arbiters Handbook


Filament Publishing, who published the Memory Yearbook for the Mind Sport of Memory, have published a pocket handbook for Arbiters and Competition Organisers. It costs £7.50 Can be purchased from the WMSC.


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.
 




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