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The UK Open Memory Championships has just been announced and will take place on August 22nd and 23rd in London. We are delighted that the Science Museum have invited us back for a second year.
The schedule will follow the same pattern as last year and will be published shortly. The registration fee has been held once again at forty pounds which contributes to the cost of preparing the paper and translations. To register click on the Paypal button:
The new World Memory Champion is Grand Master JOHANNES MALLOW from Germany with a cumulative score of 8413 championships points. In Silver Medal position, having been head to head through the competition, was fellow German SIMON REINHARD with a score of 8344. In Bronze Medal position was JONAS von Essen from Sweden in his first World Memory Championships with a score of 6692.
LATEST ADULT SCORES CLICK HERE
In the Kids competition, which is run at the same time, the scores were
| 1 | Dong Xun | 2828 |
| 2 | Jamyla D. Lambunao | 2277 |
| 3 | Anne Reulke | 2249 |
| 4 | Jakob Krautloher | 1852 |
and in the Junior Competition the results were
| 1 | Konstantin Skudler | 3667 |
| 2 | Saswat Satapathy | 3495 |
| 3 | Sri Vyshnavi Yarlagadda | 3040 |
| 4 | LI Hua Xi Rui | 2994 |
| 5 | Ni Ziqiang | 2416 |
| 6 | Timo Sprekeler | 1787 |
| 7 | Princess Grace N. Mendoza | 1579 |
| 8 | Ian Roi Spencer A. Betiong | 1064 |
| 9 | Blessie Mae Ayalde | 885 |
| 10 | Lam Tin Lok | 534 |
The team of international arbiters who marked the results were lead by the head of the Australian Memory Sports Council, Jennifer Goddard and the competition itself is supervised by the chief arbiter of the World Memory Sports Council, Phillip Chambers.
"Memory is a lost art" says founder Tony Buzan "these days we rely on our phone, iPads and computers to memorise things of our behalf, as a result we are not exercising our most important mental muscle - our Brains"