The USA Memory Championship is a tournament-style competition of memory games to challenge our competitors, known as Mental Athletes. The event is done in two stages: Qualifying Events (online virtual) and Championship Events (live staged events)
USA Memory Champion: The top scoring MAs from the Qualifying Events (held virtually on July 30th) advanced to the Championship Round, known as the Finals, to determine the USA Memory Champion. Our USA Memory Championship will be held on Saturday, October 1, 2022.
Qualifying Events
MAs must compete in all four events to be considered for the Championship Round. Raw Scores for individual events will be calculated into Championship Points utilizing a Bell Curve and will be rounded to two decimal places. After all four events, the top (at least eight (8)) scoring MAs will advance to the Championship Round.
What is USA Memory Championship?
The USA Memory Championship is a competition for ‘thinking’ games. Set up as a sporting event for Mental Athletes, the tournament consists of memory-challenging tournament-style competitive events including memorization of 135 names and faces, a shuffled deck of cards, an unpublished poem, and speed numbers. Mental Athletes compete for gold, silver, and bronze awards in individual competitions. The top Mental Athletes from these events will advance to the Championship Round to compete for the title of USA Memory Champion.
What is the mission of the USA Memory Championship? The USA National Memory Championship was introduced by Tony Dottino, President of Dottino Consulting Group, Inc., in 1997. While applying neuroscience to pragmatic applications in the business world, Tony was amazed that most people are unaware of the amazing potential of their brains. As he discussed their “unlimited and amazing brain” he discovered that most were deathly afraid to talk about the subject, especially as it related to memory. Their number one concern: as you get older, you lose your memory.
Tony set out to educate people, both professionally and personally that, “Your brain is like a muscle. Exercise it! When given the proper training, it gets stronger, regardless of age!” While attending a business seminar, the speaker suggested that you do something unique to get your message across, like conducting the first competition of something. As timing would have it, Tony Buzan had been talking about a local event he conducted in an English Pub where people competed with each other to demonstrate their memory. The links and connections between the “two Tonys” got going and the 1st USA Memory Championship was held. The rest, as they say, is history.
The USA Memory Championship and its organizing committee are dedicated to the intellectual achievement of people by providing an understanding of the unlimited abilities of the human brain. We provide a forum to compete in the most fundamental skill of mental ability – memory
Who can compete?
ONLY UNITED STATES CITIZENS thirteen (13) years and older are eligible to compete. If requested, the applicant must prove eligibility status by providing documentation as listed below:
United States of America citizen as supported by official government-issued documents such as a state notarized birth certificate with a photo ID or USA-issued passport.
Can you watch the event live?
Spectators are invited and welcome to attend the live event. Additionally, the event will be live streamed via YouTube and Facebook Live.
Source: https://www.usamemorychampionship.com/events/#champEvents
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