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THE CAMBRIDGE MEMORY CHAMPIONSHIP 2006

DATE - Sunday 7 May 2006 9:00am - 6:00pm

Part of the Cambridge Mind Sports Olympiad (website updated soon -
http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/msocam/), which takes place on Saturday 6 May and
Sunday 7 May. There are many other board games and mental skills
competitions to take part in on the Saturday, so please do come for the
whole weekend if you can!

LOCATION - Netherhall Upper School, Queen Edith's Way, Cambridge, UK CB1 8NN

HOW TO GET THERE -
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=netherhall+school+cambridge&output
=html&latlng=52202544,131236,12366996939064976519

Or see details on the Cambridge MSO website

FORMAT - This competition will follow the all-new 'National Standard', with
ten short disciplines as follows:

Discipline Memorisation time Recall time Millennium
Standard

Words 5 min 10 min
100
Binary 5 min 10 min
750
Names & Faces 5 min 10 min
80
Numbers 15 min 30 min
800
Cards 10 min 15 min
250
Speed Numbers 5 min 15 min
375
Abstract Images* 15 min 30 min
TBA
Historic Dates 5 min 15 min
92
Spoken Numbers 100 x 1 sec 5 min
200
200 x 1 sec 10 min
Speed Cards <5 min 5 min [2 trials]
30 sec

* Abstract Images is the new discipline, replacing the Poem/Text in this
year's World Championships. The attached file gives details, an official
standard will be announced soon.

PRIZES - For the winner and the highest-scoring beginner, plane tickets,
hotel accommodation and entry fee for the World Memory Championship 2006 in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! Plus other cash prizes!

(If you win and you're rich enough to pay for your own trip to Malaysia,
perhaps you could consider passing the prize on to a poorer runner-up? I
hate to think of people not being able to go.)

ENTRY FEE - £5, free for beginners (a beginner is somebody who has never
competed in ANY memory championship before)

TRANSLATIONS - Spoken numbers will be in English only (sorry - the
technology to run the discipline in multiple languages isn't available).
Words and dates can be provided in any language requested in advance.

CARDS - If you wish to use your own playing cards, it would be a help if you
could bring them on the Saturday so that they can be shuffled in advance.
But if that's not possible, it's okay.

RECALL PAPERS - You may use your own recall papers for all disciplines if
you wish, with the usual rules (they must be handed in at the start of the
competition).

HOW TO ENTER - Email me! [edited so as not to stick my email address on the internet for evil machines to grab - post a comment if you don't know it] As soon as possible,
please, so that I know how many people are coming.

HELP! - If you would like to help as an arbiter/card
shuffler/paper-hand-out-and-collector/recall checker/stopwatch holder
instead of competing, it would be appreciated. I don't know how many we'll
need just yet, but it's better to have too many than too few!

Hope to see you there!

Ben