Canny Minds sponsor UK Open Memory Championships 2009
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Mark in General
YOUTH TRIUMPHS AT UK MEMORY CHAMPIONSHIPS!
“I was absolutely terrified when I first arrived”
says 15-year-old who beat World Champion
A new generation of Memory competitors achieved amazing results at the third annual UK Open Memory Championships, which took place over the weekend of 15th/16th August in London’s Strand Palace Hotel, sponsored by CannyMinds.com.
As expected, World Champion – and World Ranked Number One – Ben Pridmore (32) from the UK comfortably won the overall competition with a score of 6,447 Championship points. However, he didn’t have everything his own way…
Spectacular performance from 15-year-old Eva Ball
The results that rocked the Memory community were achieved by diminutive, but characterful Eva Ball (15) from Coventry. Early in July, having trained her Memory for only a few weeks, Eva came top in her school competition and then went on to win this year’s UK Schools Memory Championships. In this, her first World Ranked Memory Championships, Eva achieved a staggering two Silver Medals and a Gold. The Gold Medal was for the 5-Minute ‘Names and Faces’ discipline (this being the very first time she had competed in the event), where she correctly recalled 39, beating Ben Pridmore into 4th place. Eva’s Silver Medals were in ‘5-Minute Random Words’ where she scored 43, and in ‘15- Minute Abstract Images’.
“For a first competition, her results were truly amazing” says 8 times World Memory Champion Dominic O’Brien. “She obviously has a great future in the Sport.”
Says Eva: “I was really pleased to have done so well. I thought I was lucky winning the UK Schools Memory Championships in July, but when I was invited to come to the UK Memory Championships, I didn’t take it too seriously as I was going to be the youngest competitor and I thought I’d just be a novelty! In the end I enjoyed every minute of it, as everyone was very welcoming, but I was absolutely terrified when I first arrived. I was sure I was destined to come last!
“To actually beat the current World Champion in the ‘Names and Faces’ discipline was mind-blowing. I had never competed in that subject before, but I found it quite easy really. I must have the sort of brain that likes remembering things visually.
“I’ve been asked if I am going to compete in the World Championships, which are also being held in London – in November. I’m going to have to think about it, as I’ll be up against the world’s best and most competitive Memory brains – but it is a big temptation to see whether I, as a teenager, can beat any of them!”
Ameel Hoque (21) from the UK – World Ranked Number 44 – was originally introduced to Memory by a chance visit to his school some years ago by Dominic. He beat twenty-five other contestants to take the Silver Medal position with 4,093 Championships points in just his third competition – his best score to date. Florian Dellé from Germany, who has been competing since 2003, also achieved a personal best with a score of 3,035 to take the Bronze Medal position, and was also the top ranked Overseas Competitor in the competition.
The 2009 UK Memory Championships has a spectacular array of competitors (26 entrants from 13 countries with papers in 10 languages) – As a result the competition has outgrown the Bishop’s Room in Simpsons and it will now take place across the road into the Grenville Suite of the Strand Palace Hotel. The lectures will still take place in Simpsons, as will the prize ceremony.
The weekend timetable:
Saturday 15th August
09:00 Welcome and Opening
09:30 Random Words: 5 minutes memorisation / 10 minutes recall
10:00 Binary Numbers: 5 minutes memorisation / 15 minutes recall
10:30 Names and Faces: 5 minutes memorisation / 10 minutes recall
11:00 Decimal Numbers: 15 minutes memorisation / 30 minutes recall
12:30 End of day One – Seminars in Strand Palace Hotel Conference Centre.
Sunday 16th August
08:30 Welcome – Results of day one
08:45 Cards: 10 minutes memorisation / 20 minutes recall
09:30 Speed Numbers: 5 minutes memorisation / 15 minutes recall
10:00 Abstract Images: 15 minutes memorisation / 30 minutes recall
11:00 Historic and Future Dates: 5 minutes memorisation / 15 minutes recall
11:30 Spoken Number Trial One: 100 seconds memorisation / 5 minutes recall
11:45 Spoken Number Trial Two: 200 seconds memorisation / 10 minutes recall
12:00 Speed Cards Trial One: 5 minutes memorisation / 5 minutes recall
12:15 Speed Cards Trial Two: 5 minutes memorisation / 5 minutes recall
12:30 End of competition
18:30 Prize Ceremony
To understand what each Memory Discipline involves, click on this link http://www.fuzz2buzz.com/en/node/1054
Below is the press release regarding our sponsorship of the UK Open Memory Championships 2009.
It was announced today that brain training website www.cannyminds.com will be the title sponsors for the UK Open Memory Championships 2009.
This year’s championship will be held in London on 16th and 17th August at Simpsons in the Strand.
Cannyminds.com is the UK’s first web portal to offer a comprehensive selection of brain training books, games, DVDs, and audio books to challenge and stimulate the mind. The range includes language courses, board games, How To books and a reading & viewing group. The site also offers expert articles and advice on mental agility and challenging puzzles and quizzes developed especially for Canny Minds by Mensa’s puzzle editor.
Jenny Low from Canny Minds said: “We’ve been going to the gym for years to keep our bodies fit and healthy so it’s about time we all started putting the same effort into our mental fitness and agility.
“The guys who compete at the UK Memory Championship are some of the most intelligent people in the world but they have to put in enormous amounts of training to be the best. We are delighted to be sponsoring this year’s championship and look forward to announcing the champion in August.”
Chris Day, general secretary of event organisers The World Memory Council said: “This year’s memory championship is set to be fiercely competitive. As more people take brain training seriously we’ve found the standard of competition has improved dramatically.
“As the UK’s leading brain training website and online retailer www.Cannyminds.com is the perfect partner for the championship. Brain training isn’t just for the memory champions, it should be a part of everyone’s routine.”
To find out more about the UK Open Memory Championships visit www.worldmemorychampionships.com and to find out the latest news including the games schedule and up to date scores visit www.cannyminds.com.
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26. Aug, 2009
Your ‘About Us’ says you are a ‘brand new’ internet retailer but the press release above says you are the UK’s leading x, y, z.
From what I can see your products are all sold in any good WHSmith’s?
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Brian (again)
26. Aug, 2009
I also found the 17 products I looked at on this website on Amazon and Play.com.
How can you claim to be the first web portal offering these products in one place?
Brian.
Jenny
02. Sep, 2009
Hi Brian,
Thanks for writing in. We are a new website retailer specialising in products which help to ‘train the brain’. There are very few other retailers who sell our full range(which will gradually expand) and no other retailers who sell only brain training products. Some(very few) WHS stores or Amazon will stock much of our range but it is very difficult to find! We select the range on its merits and try to recommend and categorise to help our customers. Over time we hope that we will develop some unique products of our own. And we are helped by genuine brain training experts from the puzzle and memory worlds. I hope that this answers your comments fairly. The Canny team.
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