The Grand Prix (without cars)

Under the watchful gaze of the Marquis of Granby's horse's bum, the 2020 European Grand Prix othello championship commenced this weekend, in the scenic surroundings of Trinity College, Cambridge. In a room full of huge portraits of aristocrats, 24 competitors from around the continent came together - a really good number for an 11-round tournament followed by a grand final.

The EGP system has changed this year, with just four tournaments (with an overall winner based on points from their best three results), plus a separate European Championship. But the Cambridge event is just the same as it's always been, even if the part of the city around the railway station has changed enough for me to nearly get lost on my way to my hotel, the "Cambridge Central" Travelodge. Near the station, nowhere near the centre.

I wasn't really expecting to do anything special, although I've been playing a little bit on the internet in the last few weeks to remind myself how the whole othello thing works. And the first day was typically unexceptional - I won my first game, against Chiara Gigliucci, 33-31, and the WZebra computer says we took turns playing losing moves in winning positions an embarrassing number of times. Still, it's really only the last losing move that counts, and luckily I didn't play it. I was comprehensively beaten by Marc Tastet, Marcel Sneek and Matthias Berg, but did record wins against Mark Plowman, Sophie Tastet and (entirely undeservedly) Remi Tastet, who lost on time but should have won. So when we stopped for the day and went to the traditional Indian restaurant meal, I was on four wins out of seven - a good way towards my usual target of five and a half. But I was expecting to come up against top players in the four remaining games on Sunday...

As it turned out, though, my first game on Sunday was against Wendy de Graaf, who isn't as top as some, and for the first time in the tournament I thought I played a good game, getting a nice win. Five out of eight is definitely above the half-way mark!

Then in round nine I was up against Imre, who's always the toppest of the top players. But I'd mentioned at the meal on Saturday night that I've beaten him a surprising number of times in the past, and I was pleased to see I was playing black, which always works better for me, and it ended up working out very nicely! We had a very fun game revolving around the kind of position you can see on the right, where I'm trying to arrange things so I can play to B2 without him being able to play A1, and he's trying to stop me. And I ended up winning 34-30! (WZebra, which can be a real killjoy sometimes, suggests that Imre really should have won, but never mind, it's the actual result that counts!)

After nine rounds, there was no clear leader, with Takuji and Jan on seven points, and five of us on six - Marc, Imre, Matthias, Roel and me. Exciting!

So in round 10 I was up against Jan - I'm white this time, and the game had all kinds of wild and crazy positions of the kind that I find indescribably beautiful - I had to play this move, just because I think it's brilliant that it prevents Jan playing C5. It did make me think "Okay, it really looks lovely, but what do I do from here?", because he can still play to B6, and I still need to find another way to stop him being able to go anywhere good, but I'll go with a pretty-looking move any time. And then later he played a Stoner trap on me, when I'd just been thinking earlier that my favourite thing to do is play Stoner traps even when they don't seem likely to get enough discs to win - and eventually I did end up winning, 37-27!

With one round to go, that made it Takuji in the lead with 8, and Marc, Imre, Jan and me on 7, with Roel, Bruce and Guy behind us on 6. I was in with a chance of making the final! A slim chance, I'll grant you, because my tie-break score was comfortably the lowest (lots of narrow wins and heavy losses will do that to you), but a chance nonetheless! I'd be playing Takuji, and if I absolutely thrashed him, or the other three seven-pointers messed things up against their opponents, it was still theoretically possible!

I had beaten Takuji once before - it was in 2003, so I felt that I was really due another win, especially since I was so totally on a roll here. I'm playing black, and got into a situation that I really didn't think was hopeless - it just looks like there's a way to make him run out of moves if I play the bottom section right, and eventually force him to play into a disastrously bad place... but as it turns out, there wasn't a way, or at least not a way that didn't require him to do something silly, which he didn't. So I ended up losing 44-20, and had to give up on that dream of playing in the grand final. Which is a good thing, all in all, because I was meaning to go home at lunchtime, and if I'd had to stay in Cambridge I wouldn't have got back to Redditch until the middle of the night.

Guy had beaten Jan in the final round, but Imre and Marc won their games against Wendy and Bruce, with Imre getting enough discs in his game to sneak into second place on tie-break. The final table after the 11-round swiss looked like this:

Takuji Kashiwabara 9

Imre Leader 8
Marc Tastet 8

Roel Hobo 7
Matthias Berg 7
Guy Plowman 7
Jan de Graaf 7
Ben Pridmore 7

Bruce Kyte 6
Marcel Sneek 6
Remi Tastet 6
Wendy de Graaf 6
Ian Turner 6

Stefan Murawski 5
Luke Plowman 5
Mireille Blijleven 5
Chiara Gigliucci 5
Mark Plowman 5

Maria Serena Vecchi 4
Jasmijn de Graaf 4
Sophie Tastet 4

Linda Sneek 3
Anya Plowman 2
Katherine Bywater 0

That meant a grand final between Takuji and Imre, which Imre won 33-31 and 44-20, and a 3rd place match between Marc and Roel, which Roel won 35-29. So despite my best efforts, Imre won the British EGP for Britain, and I got a share of 5th place!

This also gets me a certain amount of points in the European Grand Prix - I'm not sure how many, because they were talking about changing the rules and I don't remember seeing the result of the vote. But okay, I think this is going to be my 'thing' this year. I'll go to all the EGP tournaments if I can - Barcelona on 21-22 March, somewhere in the Netherlands on 27-28 June, Copenhagen on 15-16 August! And the European Championship in Rome on 2-3 May! I've never really travelled the world for othello competitions - I went to France once, and it's quite possible that there are others I've forgotten, but doing the complete EGP is definitely a new thing for me!

Apparently this year is a good time to travel the European Union, anyway, before they introduce visas and blue passports and things, in the unlikely event the government does something about it. The Grand Tour is on!

Further to the last blog

They're now showing the missing episodes of Bluey, and claiming that they're "new". So that's all right then. Anyway, I really should update my millions of readers with more of my everyday humdrum activities, shouldn't I? I'm going to Cambridge this weekend for the othello EGP, and what's more I'm thinking seriously about going to Italy later in the year for the inaugural European Championship! Or whatever it's called! I'll blog all about it, possibly.

Lost dogs

Remember me saying last year that Bluey is a really brilliant cartoon that you should watch? Well, I did - if memory serves it was on father's day last year, so go and look it up. Anyway, it's now showing in this country on Disney Junior, but for some reason they only seem to be showing 38 of the 52 episodes. And what's more, some of the episodes they aren't showing (Shops, The Adventure, Camping) are the best ones in the whole series!

Is this some kind of anti-Bluey conspiracy? Possibly an evil witch's curse? A case of me just not having noticed that Disney Junior are in fact showing every episode after all? Whatever it is, somebody needs to do something about it!

I can travel the world once more

Yes, I'm all sorted for passport until 2030, an impossibly distant year that's clearly never going to happen. They've changed since last time round - the photo page is at the front now, and there's a whole page next to it headed "This page is reserved for official observations". And under that, it says "There are no official observations."

I want an official observation! Couldn't they have observed "This is a fine-looking fellow, and still impressively youthful-looking for 43"?

Well, now I just need to get some new stamps in it. Where should I go first?

The Mental Marvel

Or should that be "the mental DC"? Last year, at the exact time when I took a week off work to use up my remaining holidays, someone had the brilliant idea to start a Facebook group dedicated to charting the progress of the DC superhero universe a month at a time since 1938. We're up to 1946 now, and it's given me a good reason to track down and read all kind of obscure gems, like this one here! In Real Fact Comics #5, DC's "educational" comic that mainly existed to counteract the growing belief that comics were turning American kids into crooks and delinquents, there's the story of Dr Bruno Furst!

Unlike a lot of the 'real facts' in the comic, it's very nicely written - citing the important memory principles and techniques and even giving a namecheck to Simonides! If any American kids of 1946 actually read it, maybe it started a few people on the road to a career in memory!

The march of time

Long-time bloglings may recall that ten years ago I had to renew my passport, and expressed the firm belief that I was never going to be 43. Just look at those Young Zoomies, receding ever further into the mists of distant memory! To be fair, I haven't changed all that much in the past ten years, have I? It just looks like someone's dusted my face liberally with flour - maybe I'll just tell people I work as a baker, and haven't actually aged a day since 2010! And I'm most definitely going to ignore the possibility that I might one day be renewing my passport again, at the age of 53! That's something that will DEFINITELY never happen!

What I should have done before posting my old passport back to the passport people (you can take digital photos now and apply for the renewal online, but you still have to physically post your old one to them from the post office, thereby saving no time at all unless you're the person who had to stick the photos onto the passports) was going through it like I did ten years ago, and reminiscing about all the places I've been on that passport in the last ten years. Maybe I'll do that when I get it back. Lots of Chinese visas in this one, since they take up a whole page each time, rather than just a little stamp! How am I going to top what I've done from 2010 to 2019? It's safe to say my career as an international memory man is winding down... I need to find a new reason for globetrotting!

And while I'm being all retrospective...

25 years of the national lottery? Wow. I bought seven tickets for the first draw, I'm embarrassed to admit. I was an 18-year-old student with no money. One of them won £10, so with hindsight I really should have quit while I was ahead, invested the £3 profit and been a millionaire by now.

Sonic Twosday

I bought Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Mega Drive at 1:27pm on Saturday February 6th, 1993, at Dixons in Boston, Lincolnshire. The assistant's name was David. See, I told you I've got a good memory!

Actually, my memory is obviously a lot worse than people say it is, because I just found tonight that the till receipt is still in the box, tucked inside the free poster! And I really don't remember it being there, although logically I must have noticed it now and then in all the time I've spent playing that game cartridge in the last nearly 27 years!

It all makes me try to reconstruct what my 16-year-old self was doing buying it in February. I guess it must have been a case of saving up my leftover Christmas money and pocket money until I could afford the discounted bargain price of £35 (Mega Drive games normally cost £40) that Dixons were selling the world's coolest game for. I'm glad to say the month-and-a-half of waiting was well worth it, because I've had a whole lot of fun with that game over the years!

(And since I was in Boston, we would have been at our mother's house that weekend, so I would have had to wait till we went home on Sunday to actually plug it into the Mega Drive - I tell you, the waiting must have been well nigh unendurable!)

I'd only got a Mega Drive for Christmas in 1992, so when Sonic 2 first came out in November that year, we'd had to be content with the (luckily, equally wonderful) Master System version. I've still got that, too, naturally, but I didn't keep the receipt for that one, or indeed anything else I've ever bought, as far as I can recall.

I'm not sure whether I put the receipt in the box in an uncharacteristic moment of caution in case the game didn't work when I eventually got it home, or if David put it in there when he sold it to me. Probably David.

Triangular football

Quite literally eight times out of ten, the last match days of the European championship qualifying tournament are a waste of everyone's time, since it's already been settled who will qualify. But then you occasionally get a wonderfully cool arrangement like Wales vs Hungary, where the winner qualifies, but if it's a draw, it's Slovakia! I really hope there's an army of travelling Slovakian fans attending that game in Cardiff tonight (instead of, say, their own game, in Slovakia), enthusiastically cheering for a stalemate and urging both teams not to score any goals. I'd go along and do it myself, but it's cold outside.

Our Pathetic Age

Do you know what happened eight years ago this coming Saturday? That was the day I recorded the single coolest and best illustration of the kind of thing memory people visualise when they're memorising a pack of cards! Actually, a surprising number (ie greater than zero) of people do remember that, and it's currently being discussed on the Art of Memory forum, which is always nice to see! Let's share it with the world again, in case anyone hasn't seen it in this pathetic age of ours.


DJ Shadow "Scale It Back" from Ewan Jones Morris on Vimeo.

DJ Shadow has a new album out on the 15th, which nobody has asked me to make a music video for, but I'm sure it's wonderful. As a thank-you to the man who bought this bizarre concept for a video in 2011 from the visionary directors Ewan Jones Morris and Casey Redmond, please everyone go out and buy "Our Pathetic Age" next Friday!

Vacationing

I've got this week off work, more to use up my remaining annual-leave days before the end of the year than because I particularly need to do anything, so I thought I'd devote the week to some interesting writing projects  - and have in fact spent the whole time so far cheerfully procrastinating and doing nothing. But I feel entirely entitled to do that anyway, since I could stay in bed all week if I really wanted to. Anything I do is impressively productive!

I really should blog about things a bit more often, though...

The ice age

Perhaps we're not quite icy yet, but it's definitely getting cold. I really don't like winter. One of these days, I'll win the lottery, and spend the entire six months after my birthday in the southern hemisphere, every year.

The silver anniversary

Just to complete the series of memory championship posts, the length of time I've been competing in the things is another subject we were talking about in France - after all, next year it'll be twenty years since my first championship.

I've just looked up the date, and the first day of the World Memory Championship 2000 (Alexandra Palace, part of the fourth Mind Sports Olympiad), was Monday August 21st. That was, of course, not only the first time I took part in a memory competition, but also (after competing in the first day) the day when I bought a memory book and learned how to use these memory techniques I'd heard people talking about.

It would be nice if the MSO championship next year was on the exact anniversary, but the 21st is a Friday next year, so it's probably not going to be possible to do that. I'll look into it, though...

More by luck than judgement

As I wait for a plane in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport (beautiful sunny weather again, too, like we've had all weekend), let me wrap up my personal account of the championship - I'll write a less Zoomy-focused version for the IAM website when I'm back home, if for some reason you care about anyone other than me.

I should at least mention that I forgot Daniel Fogel when listing the people who've travelled here from the four corners of the earth (and also the middle, which is where whoever coined that phrase would presumably have placed Israel) - it's always great to see a new nation joining the world of memory sports! And I didn't mention that the sheer volume of French competitors was record-breaking too - this is a country that's really going from strength to strength.

And the race for second place behind the all-conquering Andrea was exactly as exciting as I said it would be - luckily, I managed to get a solid 100 digits in spoken numbers, leaving me still in contention after only 130 in images (I really must learn how to do that, one day - as I explained to everyone who asked, the discipline didn't exist when I was last in training for memory competitions), and it all came down to speed cards. On the first trial, I did a 'safe' 34.18 seconds, which really turned out not to be very safe at all - I misread the third pair of cards, 2 of hearts and 8 of spades, as 'chef', which is 2 of spades and 8 of hearts, and fortunately was able to remember all the others and deduce the mistake I must have made. It's strange, though - that's not a kind of mistake I ever make, but I suppose it's the kind of thing that's bound to creep in when I'm so out of practice.

Preeda had done a 40.48 seconds, though, and was slightly ahead of me, so I needed to improve on that time if I was going to get second place (Andrea had done 26.99, which is very leisurely and relaxed for him - I can't wait to see the kind of things he does when he's up against an opponent who can give him a run for his money!). I decided I might as well try to beat that old personal record I was talking about, so went as fast as possible... and still only managed to stop the clock at 25.31 seconds. I'm slowing down in my old age.

The recall, though, was wonderful - lots of gaps in my memory, putting them together in the end with thoughts along the lines of "well, all those images are ones I might possibly have seen, and I've used up all the cards, and I suppose it's at least possible that they occurred in that order..." and it turned out to be all correct! I've never in my life produced a correct pack that I'd been so dubious about!

So, perhaps undeservedly, I just managed to nab the silver medal spot. Andrea was of course the brilliant winner-by-miles, Guillaume took the title of French Champion, and the full results can be seen on the IAM stats site. Looking forward to the next one!

1	ANDREA MUZII	Italy	7604 (7604)
2	BEN PRIDMORE	England	4338 (4338)
3	PREEDA HONGPIMOLMAS	Thailand	4207 (4207)
4	SUSANNE HIPPAUF	Germany	4009 (4009)
5	NORBERT REULKE	Germany	3758 (3758)
6	SILVIO DI FABIO	Italy	3722 (3722)
7	GUILLAUME PETIT-JEAN	France	3500 (3500)
8	LARS CHRISTIANSEN	Denmark	3070 (3070)
9	MICHAEL KARIUS	France	2890 (2890)
10	DANIEL EVANS	Wales	2732 (2732)
11	JOHNNY (JUAN) BRIONES	USA	2727 (2727)
12	FLORIAN MANICARDI	France	2661 (2661)
13	YVES BLANCHARD	France	2262 (2262)
14	SEBASTIEN MARTINEZ	France	2174 (2174)
15	LEO LEBARQUE	France	2111 (2111)
16	DANIEL FOGEL	Israel	2053 (2053)
17	ARNAUD FEGUEUX	France	1966 (1966)
18	VICTOR SEGOND	France	1667 (1667)
19	PIERRE BRUZI	France	1644 (1644)
20	YANN CAUMARTIN	France	1466 (1466)
21	DIMITRI HEIDET	France	1188 (1188)
22	MAXIME BERGER	France	786 (786)
23	JOEL LICCARDI	France	675 (675)
24	ROMAIN PERNIER	France	644 (644)
25	JIMMY RICAUT	France	619 (619)

Age is just a (large) number

My new comment-giving blogling, the infamous executioner Jack Ketch, observes that I must be one of the most venerable, or at least elderly, names on the list of competitors in this championship - I'm not the oldest one here, I'm happy to say, but I am in the top five if you put us in order of age.

There's no denying that I'm the old man of memory championships nowadays - it's worth mentioning that today is Andrea's birthday, and he's 20. Tomorrow's my birthday, and I'll be 43.

It really is great that we've got a new generation arising to win these things and break all the records - between Andrea, new Indian superstar Prateek, Mongolian mastermind Munkhshur, and others, it's an exciting time! (And it really is awesome to see how excited Andrea gets when he breaks a record! It reminds me of me, when I was young...)

The need for speed

It turns out I'm in the middle of an epic battle for second place, after the first day's excitement. Andrea is, not unexpectedly, far and away ahead of everyone else, after some mind-blowing scores (ten packs and thirty cards of an eleventh in ten minutes!), but there are six of us fighting for the other places on the podium...

And with spoken numbers, images and speed cards tomorrow, it really looks like I'll have to get a good time in the cards to secure second place. I've been decidedly hit and miss with speed cards in competitions lately, but maybe this would be a good time to improve that personal best? It's been 24.97 seconds for ten years now. I've very literally stood still while everybody else surged ahead!

Salut from Cergy

It's the first morning of the French Open, and it's a high-tech competition using computers, so I can say hello to my long-neglected bloglings in this pause after the first discipline (we're running late due to technical problems, so it's definitely an official memory championship). We've got a room full of memorisers from around the world - I'm wearing my XMT 2015 shirt, and Johnny Briones is coordinating nicely in his 2016 equivalent. Norbert Reulke, another original XMT veteran, sadly isn't wearing his shirt, but everybody who was and wasn't there is firmly in agreement that we need another big World Memory League Championship.

We've also got Preeda, Lars, Susanne, Andrea, Silvio and Dan from places as exotic as Thailand, Denmark/Germany, Italy and Wales, lots and lots of French people (remember when there were nearly no French memorisers at all? Not any more!), Boris and Francoise running the show admirably, Guillaume expertly sorting out the aforementioned technical problems and even wearing a beret to make the event extra-French, Dimitri Heidet has an awesome Salvador Dali moustache, and everybody has their names in big letters on their desk, so I don't have to pretend I know who they are!

Okay, long numbers is about to start. Stay tuned!

Back in the swing

I really haven't posted enough on this blog, lately. I'm going to have to fix that - I never did do a full write-up of the MSO championship in London in August, nor my holiday in the Azores in September, and I haven't at all mentioned that now it's October and I'm in France for the French Open Memory Championship.

Well, I'm in France right now. It's the French Open Memory Championship at the weekend, and I'm feeling entirely happy about things. Not my chances of winning the competition, because I've done literally no training for longer than even I can remember, but I'm downright delighted with my ability to find my way around places today! After an early start this morning to get the plane from Birmingham, I arrived in Paris early on, found the airport train station was temporarily closed, got a bus from the airport into the city centre, successfully found a comic shop that sells this week's American comics (allowing me to buy Powers of X #6 before anyone spoiled it for me, although as it turns out there's nothing really spoilerable in it anyway), then got on a train pointed in the direction of Cergy and got off at the first stop to see if it looked like the kind of place where my hotel and the competition venue might be. And it was - the hotel's practically right next door to that station, and it was only on a last minute whim that I got off at the first Cergy station rather than the middle one of the three!

And in the kind of situation that always makes me nostalgic for the days when I went to memory competitions more regularly, I was greeted by someone in the hotel reception whose face looked familiar, said it was great to see him again, acted like I was in a great hurry to get to my room and said I'd see him a little later, looked through old photos on Facebook until I was fairly sure who I'd been talking to, and now can confidently go to the "Optional Pre-Registration / Enregistrement facultatif" at the nearby competition venue in a couple of hours, nonchalently say "Hi again, Preeda", and then all the other strangers in the room will believe that since I know one person's name, I know all their names too, and all kinds of social awkwardness will be avoided.

Unless they read my blog, of course, but I don't imagine anyone still does that. After all, I never post here any more.

Azorean Adventures

I'm back home from my raffle-prize holiday on São Miguel island, and I've got a terrible cold, which probably isn't the fault of the Azores - I blame England. It was wonderfully hot and sunny out there (except when it was hot, cloudy, windy and rainy) on the little lump of volcanic rock in the middle of the Atlantic, and I wish I was still there. Can someone arrange another free holiday for me, please?

Online Memory League Championship, new season!

Apologies to anyone who's reading my blog and hoping I'll post my usual rubbish. I'll get back to it some day soon. Meanwhile, here's a post from the Art of Memory forum that I wanted to put here too because it's easier to post things from my Excel spreadsheet without messing up the formatting...

The new season of the Online Memory League Championship will start on Monday October 7th. If you want to register, please fill in the form at this link: https://memoryleague.com/#!/league/register 

New rules for this season - the season starts on October 7th, and ends on November 17th, with playoffs starting on November 18th. Divisions will be around 6 players, meaning everybody will have 5 matches to play in that time period. No exceptions - anybody who has not played all their matches by that point will be removed, starting with the players who have played the fewest matches, until everybody in a division has played everybody else.

Before the season starts, we will confirm with every registered player that they still want to compete, and make sure they have at least one match (preferably more than one!) scheduled. Hopefully this will mean we don't have so many drop-outs and we can get the season finished!

Players will be allocated to divisions based on their current ranking as at the date the season starts, but if they've already earned a position in a division based on the last season, they can't be put in a division lower than that.

The usual rules apply to the season - here they are, copied and pasted from last time:

 The Online Memory League Championship is a competition open to everybody. Competitors are divided into groups of around six players (with each division consisting of two groups) - new players this season are put into divisions based on their leaderboard position, so you will be playing against people at the same kind of level as you.

 In a season, each competitor will play each of the others in the group once, with one match per week, on a schedule drawn randomly at the start of the season. Players can be flexible about when they play their matches, depending on availability and circumstances, but should try to stick to the schedule as much as possible. You will need to communicate with your opponents - leave messages on the Memory League website, or the Art of Memory forum, or the Facebook group "World Memory Championships". We can help you get in touch with people - just send me a message if you need help!

 Matches will consist of six games - each player chooses three different disciplines, with the choice alternating. The first player on the scheduled match list chooses the first discipline; the schedule will be arranged so that each player gets a roughly equal distribution of 'home' and 'away' matches. Draws are possible, both in individual disciplines and in the match as a whole.

 If the match is a 3:3 draw, the players can (if they both agree to it) play a one-game 'decider', which can be any discipline they choose. If they don't both agree to play the decider, then the match is a draw.

 The league table gives two points for a match won, one for a match drawn. Players on the same number of points are ranked by number of disciplines won.

 At the end of the season, the bottom two in each division are relegated to the division below, and the top two in each division are promoted to the division above. There are play-offs between the runner-up in each group and the second-last in a group from the division above to determine promotion and relegation.

 The top four in the first division go into play-offs for the grand title, followed by a grand final to determine the League Champion!

All these rules can be changed if enough people want to change them, but I think this is the consensus of what people want! Please post any comments or questions here! :slight_smile: 

These are the players who have signed up so far - we will email everybody to ask for confirmation that they want to play, before the season starts.

ML name	AOM name	Rating	Lowest possible division
John Graham	@Johnnyworldwide	9095	Division 1
Léo Lebarque	@Wist	8084
Sylvain Arvidieu	@Sylle	7822	Division 1
Lucas Vo	@LucasforV1	7682	Division 4
Silvio B.	@SilvioB	7423	Division 1
ClaireBookworm	@ClaireBookworm	7245
Eugene	@Stanichnikov	7107	Division 4
akuta	@akuta	7016
Silvio	@SilvioSDF	6833	Division 1
Jan Zoń	@zonjan	6830	Division 1
Andrej Savickij	@Sava	6351	Division 2
Mohamed Ramadan	@mohamed22	6239	Division 2
🔥BurningDesire🔥	@MemoryMasterN	6047	Division 4
Sanchit Sharma	@Shasan	5788	Division 1
syustel	@syustel	5491	Division 2
batman	@batman	5483
Simon Orton	@Simon	5449	Division 3
comeon	@comeon	5449
Erol Ozvatan	@Erol	5191	Division 3
guilfoyled	@guilfoyled	5177	Division 3
Egor Dubrovin	@EgorDubrovin	5151	Division 1
Max	@Max	5151	Division 1
Anastasia Woolmer	@Nicety	5145
mangocthang	@mangocthang	5107
Andrey Safronov	@AndreySafronov	5078	Division 4
Davide Carosini	@davide.wiki	5060	Division 3
Ignacy	@Ignacy	5046	Division 2
Ilya Gubenko	@Ilya_Gubenko	5015	Division 4
pierre.bruzi	@pierre.bruzi	5008	Division 3
Finwing	@Finwing	4852	Division 4
Brainrunning	@Brainrunning	4792
Alexander Panfilov	@Alex92	4681
YOUngl	@Gayankaa	4500
Nikolay Ershov	@bredahaka	4471
SHAHiN	@mahdi4264	4325
Dimi	@myelife	4055	Division 4
ArMan kHaN	@walterlewin42@gmail.com	3700
Ian Fennell	@Ian_Fennell	3622	Division 5
dimimore	@Dimimore	3616
erdemwisdom	@Erdem	3181
udaysolanki	@udaysolanki_141	2984
Binyamin	@Binyamin	2700
angusbrock	@AngusBrock	2600
Mircea	@Mircea	2488
claudiafvickery	@ClaudiaVickery	2000
Floortjeb	@Floortjeb	1700
Rolando	@butterworm	1400
mort	@Mort	1300
twulf	@twulf	800
Santi1bent	@Santi	300
pun	@punera	300
brandau.andrew	@brandau101	200
Asta La Beasta	@oscar4
israel_olaolorun	@Akinsraeldplayer
justkow	@justkow
matkow	@matkow		Division 4
p.plyukhin	@p.plyukhin
Peaceful warrior	@praveen2611
Ben Pridmore	@Zoomy		Division 2