Return of the mojo

 It's the Asian-Oceanian Open this weekend!

You may remember [first and only memory joke in this blog post, I promise] that we have three 'slam' opens each season, at different time zones, so that everyone gets at least one that happens at more or less convenient hours. This is the one that's hugely inconvenient for me - it starts at one o'clock in the morning - and I've taken advantage of the absence of several of the world's best players to qualify for the event this time round!

But more importantly, I've rediscovered my mojo when it comes to memory league and memory competition in general! I've got reasonably good results in online matches recently, and I'm feeling enthusiastic about the whole thing again! It's been a while since I was in that kind of mood about memory!

Of course, getting past the round of 16 seems a bit unlikely - Koba is really a lot better at all the disciplines than I am...

But I did that 23.83-second pack of cards today in a friendly game, the first time I've gone really fast in head-to-head competition for a long while, and it worked very nicely. I can go a fair bit faster in numbers, too, and images. And although I've not had a good words attempt for ages, it's still possible for me to do better than the top 5 recent scores up there. I'll try to set some personal highs in the early hours of Saturday morning, even if my opponent still does better!