Memory Competitions

2012 USA MEmory Championship Part III of III

2016-10-22T09:22:39+00:00

focus on building my business. On the other hand, 2nd place still sucks. The competitive nature in me is not content with a second place finish. I want the national title back. Will I make time to get better at memorizing to break some records again and earn the title back? Will I put myself [...]

2012 USA MEmory Championship Part III of III2016-10-22T09:22:39+00:00

2012 USA Memory Championship Continued

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1st Event Names and Face I wrote down around 103 names and ended up with a score of 98. Which is far below my near 130 last year but…well…heck. I wasn’t here to win. Just have fun! Then the scores were announced. Wait a minute? Nelson scored a 63!! That is…well…a very bad score for [...]

2012 USA Memory Championship Continued2016-10-22T09:22:37+00:00

2012 USA Memory Championship | We HAVE to Stop Meeting Like This

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We have to stop meeting like this…..Seriously,…   I mean have you ever had déjà vu? Have you ever had déjà vu? Please keep in mind that although this is told from MY perspective. The USA Memory Championship is not about Ron White. It is about all the mental athletes, Tony Dottino, Karen Pinson, Ed [...]

2012 USA Memory Championship | We HAVE to Stop Meeting Like This2016-10-22T09:22:37+00:00

2011 USA Memory Championship Recap Nelson Dellis Wins – Page 2

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This is part 2 of article at http://brainathlete.com/2011-usa-memory-championship-nelson-dellis-wins-recap/ Article continues.... My brain was calm, very well rested and I felt good. If I was not to be the winner today it wouldn't be because my brain wasn't ready. It was...

2011 USA Memory Championship Recap Nelson Dellis Wins – Page 22016-10-22T09:06:14+00:00

2011 USA Memory Championship Nelson Dellis wins – Recap

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My focus for the 2011 USA Memory Championship began in earnest in October. I had set out to implement Ben Pridmore's memory system for cards. Yep, that is right - I was out to create an image for every possible card combination of two random cards. If you pull two cards out of a deck at random and place them side by side there are 2704 different possibilities. I hired someone to put all these combination in a Power Point presentation. Once this 2704 slide monstrosity had been assembled the task of creating images for all the combination's began. Finally by the first week in December and two months later it was complete. By December 18th I had memorized 1300 of the slides but soon realized that if I was to master this system it could very easily take a full year and I was only 80 days out from the tournament. Two months had been wasted and on Dec 18th I scrapped the plan and the real training for the 3-Peat began.....

2011 USA Memory Championship Nelson Dellis wins – Recap2016-10-22T09:06:14+00:00