Live-Report: WMCS 2009 – Day 3

Posted on 14. Nov, 2009 by Flauwy in Memory Championships, News

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• 10:09 AM: Good Morning everyone and welcome to day 3 of the World Memory Championship 2009 in London.
• 10:09 AM: The competition is already running and we are now in the middle of the recall period of the Random Words event.
• 10:10 AM: I will give you the fresh results of the Hour Cards event in a minute.
• 10:12 AM: 15 minutes remaining.
• 10:18 AM: The results of the Hour Cards are up.
• 10:23 AM: 1 – Ben Pridmore – 1144
  2 – Simon Reinhard – 1040
  3 – Dr. Gunther Karsten – 939
  4 – Cornelia Beddies - 896
  5 – Su Ruiqiao – 893
• 10:24 AM: With this result we have Johannes leading the competition closely before Ben. Third is Gunther with less than 400 points behind Ben.
• 10:27 AM: 1 minute remaining…
• 10:27 AM: And it’s over.
• 10:50 AM: I was just talking to a couple of the competitors I haven’t spoken to so far.
• 10:50 AM: There are really a lot of them here.
• 10:50 AM: We are preparing no the Spoken Numbers.
• 10:50 AM: We just listened to a demo speaking of the numbers.
• 10:51 AM: Henry – Good morning. We have an exciting day ahead…
• 10:52 AM: The recall sheets are handed out beforehand and placed on the floor.
• 10:53 AM: I will go now to the front and shoot a video of the first attempt. Make some comments who you would like me to film in attempt 2.
• 10:56 AM: Henry – How many new World Records have been set this year so far? I note two: Gunther in Abstract Images and Su Ruiqiao in One Hour Numbers. Any others?
• 10:57 AM: Yes, Dorothea Seitz broke the Junior II record in Abstract Images. Johannes Mallow broke the record in Historic Dates with 118 dates.
• 10:57 AM: I am certain that there are other new Junior I + II records but we haven’t really checked that yet.
• 10:57 AM: Henry – Have you interviewed Dominic this year? It would be interesting to hear who the standard of memory in competition has changed over the years. I think when he started that three decks of cards was seen like a super-human feat, and look where we are now! It would be interesting to hear his thoughts on how standards have improved and what he thinks the next milestones in memory are.
• 10:58 AM: Good idea Henry. I always wanted to make an interview with him but since he is very busy with arbiting it wasn’t so easy to get him in front of the camera. Maybe later today.
• 11:01 AM: The first attempt is over.
• 11:01 AM: Henry – This page on WMC.com does not reflect Johannes’ Historic date record: www.worldmemorychampionships.com and Dorothea’s record is not acknowledged here: www.worldmemorychampionships.com Florian, can you nudge however looks after these pages?
• 11:02 AM: Chris Day is updating the official website. I talk to him about it.
• 11:28 AM: People are still waiting for their results. I heard rumors about several people doing a perfect 100 like Boris and Wang.
• 11:29 AM: Here are the results.
• 11:29 AM: Joint 9 – 28 digits – Ron White & Ameel Hoque
• 11:29 AM: 8 – 32 digits – Are Risa
• 11:29 AM: 7 – 43 digits – Christian Schäfer
• 11:30 AM: Joint 5 – 57 digits – Wang Feng & Simon Reinhard
• 11:30 AM: 4 – 62 digits – Corinna Draschl
• 11:30 AM: 3 – 67 digits – Ben Pridmore
• 11:30 AM: 2 – 74 digits – James Patterson
• 11:31 AM: 1 – 100 digits – Boris Konrad
• 11:31 AM: Boris did a perfect 100 and got 700 points.
• 11:31 AM: Excellent result for James, too.
• 11:32 AM: They are now gathering around their results hanging on the wall.
• 11:40 AM: Second attempt starts in a minute.
• 11:40 AM: I’ll go to the front filming.
• 11:47 AM: Steffen – Hi Florian, I’m just back again from work. Doro really had much luck at hour cards regarding Christians very low results. What about her first try spoken numbers? Steffen
• 11:48 AM: Doro got only 4 digits in her first attempt.
• 11:50 AM: Gosh I was just using my tripod for filming and I am very angry about its poor quality. It is making mad sounds when moving. This is not hearable for the competitors but it will ceratinly be on the video.
• 11:51 AM: dorobabba – I hope Doro’s second attempt will work better!
• 11:52 AM: I shouldn’t have been so cheap with my tripod. It was only 20 Euros. A good one costs hundreds of Euros…
• 11:52 AM: Sorry for my complainings
• 11:55 AM: One minute recall remaining.
• 11:56 AM: And they’re done!
• 12:06 PM: Anonymous – thx, it’s great to hyve you there!
• 12:07 PM: I just updated todays article image for the live report. You see Shi Junheng preparing for the Spoken Numbers event.
• 12:13 PM: I was just talking to Almantas Šarakojis from Lithuania and realized that he was the last one I haven’t got a picture from yet. Now I got them all
• 12:21 PM: Simon Orton – Hey Florian, great coverage of the WMC! How is the technology for the Spoken Numbers this year? Are there multiple languages or is it all in English?
• 12:22 PM: Hi, it is all in English
• 12:22 PM: But the quality is good.
• 12:23 PM: Results of the second attempt:
• 12:23 PM: Nelson Dellis – Good morning, Florian! great work again…can’t believe its already the last day :/
• 12:23 PM: 8 – 55 digits – Johannes Mallow
• 12:23 PM: 7 – 57 digits – Simon Reinhard
• 12:23 PM: 6 – 62 digits – Corinna Draschl
• 12:24 PM: 5 – 63 digits – Su Ruiqiao
• 12:24 PM: 4 – 67 digits – Ben Pridmore
• 12:24 PM: 3 – 74 digits – James Patterson
• 12:24 PM: 2 – 94 digits – Ameel Hoque
• 12:24 PM: 1 – 107 digits – Boris Konrad
• 12:30 PM: k.nikhil – 12:30:00 PM
• 12:31 PM: They are preparing for the third and last attempt of Spoken Numbers. They get now 300 digits. It is now time for a new world record or never.
• 12:38 PM: They did it. Memorization of the 300 digits is over. The 15 minutes of recall time have started.
• 12:49 PM: 5 Minutes remaining.
• 12:49 PM: dorobabba – Do you know what is Doro’s result from the second attempt?
• 12:49 PM: Dorothea got 35 in her second attempt.
• 12:52 PM: And the recall is over.
• 12:55 PM: Doro just told me that she got 60 in her third attempt and she is happy about it.
• 12:56 PM: dorobabba – Thanks,I think thats enough for Doro. Are there any results og random words?
• 1:00 PM: Steffen – Great :-))) Btw, I just wonder, which is the actual junior world record at Names/Faces. Do you have any ideas? I only found Joachim Thaler (168) at WMC 2006 and Astrid Plessl (151) during WMC 2003. But don’t know whether they were juniors at that time? Steffen
• 1:01 PM: No sorry, I don’t't. But it should stand on Memocamp.com under the N&F
• 1:02 PM: Yes: memocamp.com
• 1:03 PM: Youth Daniela Collado Diaz Infante 149 745 Ciudad de Mexico 2005, Mexico
  Children Katharina Bunk 127 635 , Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia
• 1:03 PM: so Doro got a new world record^^
• 1:05 PM: Someone should check all the junior and kids results.
• 1:15 PM: Andrej Savickij – Hi Florian. I hope you can offer to many participants WMC to take part in OMC.
• 1:15 PM: k.nikhil – Is Doro smiling..
• 1:15 PM: k.nikhil – What’s happening inside.
• 1:15 PM: k.nikhil – where u r
• 1:15 PM: Sorry, Konstantin Skudler and I checked his results.
• 1:15 PM: People are walking around, talking, chatting, counting
• 1:15 PM: I don’t see Doro
• 1:20 PM: k.nikhil –
• 1:48 PM: k.nikhil – Warten auf die endgültigen Ergebnisse ..
• 1:48 PM: k.nikhil – Zeit 1:30:00 PM
• 1:48 PM: k.nikhil – ein Schnappschuss..please
• 1:48 PM: k.nikhil –
• 1:48 PM: Steffen – Hi, I have just checked the world ranking at names/faces. Joachim Thaler (168 in 2006) was born in 1987, Astrid Plessl (151 in 2003) was born in 1984. All other people with more than 150 point definitely were adults. So the 150 of Doro seems to be a new Junior world record! Steffen
• 1:48 PM: Sorry I was away getting myself some food.
• 1:52 PM: k.nikhil – sorry Meister :+
• 1:53 PM: People are already sitting on their tables, going through the cards one last time before the last event: SPEED CARDS
• 1:57 PM: k.nikhil – Was eine Leidenschaft for memory-sports.com. Flauwy you are going to be a Global Hit Tonight- This is for sure..
• 1:57 PM: Thanks
• 2:04 PM: k.nikhil – zeit 2:00 PM
• 2:04 PM: k.nikhil – hardwork zählt.
• 2:04 PM: Florian K – Hey Florian, didn´t you want to get your grandmaster this WMC ? I can´t find you in the Results and … thanks for live reporting
• 2:05 PM: I haven’t forgotten you all. But they are still preparing and I am busy with uploading my newest video.
• 2:06 PM: We are getting Random Words now:
• 2:06 PM: 10 – Guo Chuanwei
• 2:07 PM: 9 – 167 words – Ben Pridmore
• 2:07 PM: k.nikhil – newest video ehrfürchtig
• 2:07 PM: 8 – 174 – Su Ruiqao
• 2:07 PM: 7 – 188 – James Patterson
• 2:07 PM: 6 – 191 words – Cornelia Beddies
• 2:07 PM: 5 – 198 words – Johannes Mallow
• 2:08 PM: 4 – 210 – Corinna Draschl
• 2:08 PM: 3 – 236 words – Boris Konrad
• 2:08 PM: 2 – 244 words – Dorothea Seitz
• 2:08 PM: 1 – 248 – Simon Reinhard
• 2:12 PM: Steffen – cool
• 2:12 PM: k.nikhil – what a guy..simon
• 2:12 PM: Spoken Numbers result:
• 2:12 PM: 10 – Corinna Draschl
• 2:12 PM: 9 – Su Ruiqiao
• 2:12 PM: 8 – Ben Pridmore
• 2:12 PM: 7 – 70 digits – Simon Reinhard
• 2:12 PM: 6 – 72 digits – Cornelia Beddies
• 2:13 PM: 5 – 74 digits – James Patterson
• 2:13 PM: 4 – 94 digits – Ameel Hoque
• 2:13 PM: 3 – 100 – Boris Konrad
• 2:13 PM: 2 – 108 – Johannes Mallow
• 2:13 PM: 1 – 118 digits – Gunther Karsten
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• 2:14 PM: Steffen – This is the third junior world record for Doro Steffen
• 2:14 PM: Top ten in final compitition before Speed Cards
• 2:14 PM: 10 – Dorothea Seitz
• 2:14 PM: 9 – Guo Chaunwei
• 2:14 PM: 8 – Weng Feng
• 2:14 PM: 7 – 5572 – Su Ruiqao
• 2:14 PM: 6 – 5766 – Cornelia Beddies
• 2:15 PM: 5 – 6082 – Boris Konrad
• 2:15 PM: 4 – 6482 – Dr. Gunther Karsten
• 2:15 PM: 3 – 6610 – Simon Reinhard
• 2:15 PM: 2 – 6903 – Ben Pridmore
• 2:15 PM: 1 – 7271 – Johannes Mallow
• 2:16 PM: Guys this is extremly exiting
• 2:17 PM: Johannes is leading with 270 points. But Ben can beat him with a perfect run under 30 seconds in Speed Cards
• 2:17 PM: k.nikhil – 7271 amazing
• 2:17 PM: k.nikhil – yes it is..
• 2:17 PM: It will be very very close guys
• 2:17 PM: I will film both of them.
• 2:18 PM: k.nikhil – Ben is going to beat Johannes in speed cards. What you think?
• 2:19 PM: I think Ben will use BOTH of his tries to go as quick as possible.
• 2:19 PM: This is so tight that he needs something under 30 seconds
• 2:21 PM: Steffen – What time is Johannes able to show?
• 2:21 PM: k.nikhil – U R True
• 2:21 PM: Caeles – Hannes is going to do it!!!!
• 2:21 PM: Johannes record in Speed Cards is 59.65 sconds
• 2:21 PM: Steffen – If Johannes would go for 60 sec, then 35 sec would be enough for Ben!
• 2:26 PM: Caeles – he can do it under 40, too!!
• 2:26 PM: Tom – The lower the better for Ben. He has to win by 25 seconds if he does 35 seconds but only by 11 seconds if he does 25.
• 2:27 PM: The better half of the competitors left the room.
• 2:27 PM: I have to help as an arbitor now – so I will take my netbook with me through the room
• 2:27 PM: Be a little patient with me
• 2:38 PM: Dai Grifiths – There must be a lot of tension in the room now !
• 2:38 PM: We are preparing the cards
• 2:40 PM: it starts very soon
• 2:42 PM: Jennifer is explaining the Speed Stacks Timer
• 2:43 PM: It starts now. I will watch and film Idriz Zogaj from Sweden
• 2:51 PM: 5 minutes memorization is up.
• 2:51 PM: Recall starts now.
• 2:52 PM: Idriz did a save 3:50
• 2:55 PM: The young boy Li Yiming from China did it in great 1:54 and got them all together already…
• 2:57 PM: And over…
• 2:59 PM: Li Yiming had no mistakes.
• 2:59 PM: Extremly good time for such a young boy.
• 3:00 PM: This is Grand Master standard!
• 3:08 PM: Picture of the beaming boy incoming
• 3:08 PM: The second group took place!
• 3:10 PM:
• 3:14 PM: They will start any second now. I will go over to Johannes and film him.
• 3:32 PM: I am back.
• 3:32 PM: The second groups first attempt is over.
• 3:32 PM: I am sorry to say that Johannes failed to put his deck together.
• 3:33 PM: He memorized it in 58.88 seconds.
• 3:33 PM: Ben instead did a great 31.xx seconds and had no mistakes.
• 3:33 PM: Johannes hands were shaking in the end. He seemed to be very nervous.
• 3:34 PM: There was a lot of pressure in the room.
• 3:34 PM: Boris went for 49.xx seconds or so but failed too.
• 3:36 PM: xieliuxin – how are the chinese people
• 3:36 PM: xieliuxin – how is guochuanwei
• 3:36 PM: So Ruiqiao did an excellent time of 39.72 seconds with no mistakes.
• 3:36 PM: Tom – Wow, Johannes needs about 51 seconds or better to stay ahead of Ben. Ben’s time will put him just below his best, so if Johannes comes back, he may get #1 in the world too!
• 3:38 PM: Gunther did 62 seconds – no mistakes
• 3:38 PM: Guo Chuanwei did 66 seconds
• 3:39 PM: Yuan Wenkui did 37.08 seconds
• 3:41 PM: xieliuxin – how about shi junheng
• 3:42 PM: I will ask him after the next attempt.
• 3:43 PM: 60 seconds to go before attempt 2…
• 3:43 PM: I will film Ronnie white now.
• 3:46 PM: xieliuxin – great, thank you
• 3:47 PM: Ronnie finished with something under 1:20. I wonder who I will film in the final round of group 2
• 3:47 PM: Ben Pridmore will now try to break his world record.
• 3:47 PM: Simon Reinhard will try that too.
• 3:48 PM: But I haven’t got any Chinese competitors yet with Speed Cards.
• 3:48 PM: So I might film So Ruiqao…
• 3:48 PM: What do you you think?
• 3:49 PM: xieliuxin – maybe you can ask zhu shaomin
• 3:50 PM: I will have to look at his results from round one first. I really wanna film something amazing.
• 3:50 PM: 5 minutes recall have started.
• 3:52 PM: xieliuxin – how is Miss zhu
• 3:52 PM: Who? What is the full name?
• 3:54 PM: xieliuxin – zhu shaomin
• 3:54 PM: I’ll try to find out.
• 3:56 PM: And they are done.
• 3:57 PM: xieliuxin – when will the final result come out
• 3:57 PM: After the next attempt
• 3:58 PM: Shu Shaomin did her deck in 2 minutes.
• 3:59 PM: xieliuxin – great and she will be a new GM
• 4:00 PM: wow, I envy her
• 4:00 PM: shijunheng is standing next to me
• 4:01 PM: xieliuxin – say hi to her
• 4:03 PM: Ok, the second attempt of group two starts now.
• 4:03 PM: xieliuxin – how does he feel
• 4:03 PM: He is very happy.
• 4:04 PM: Gou Chuanwei just told me that he tries to to 15 seconds now
• 4:05 PM: Steffen – Johannes has to do 51,5 sec! (if Ben failes his second try)
• 4:05 PM: xieliuxin – please tell him his students are all proud of him
• 4:05 PM: I will!
• 4:05 PM: Speed Cards result attempt 1:
• 4:06 PM: 9 – 1:23 – Dorothea Seitz
• 4:06 PM: 8 – 1:10 – Cornelia Beddies
• 4:07 PM: 7 – 1:06 – Guo Chuanwei
• 4:07 PM: 6 – 1:02 – Gunther Karsten
• 4:08 PM: 5 – 1:02 – zhang shiyu
• 4:09 PM: 4 – Weng Feng
• 4:09 PM: 3 – 39 – Su Riqiao
• 4:10 PM: 2 – 37s Yuan Wong Kwai
• 4:10 PM: 1 – 31.55 seconds – 958 points – Ben Pridmore
• 4:17 PM: xieliuxin – how young is the youngest GM
• 4:17 PM: xieliuxin – so Ben will be No.1
• 4:17 PM: We don’t know exactly about the youngest GM
• 4:18 PM: I think Katharina Bunk did it youngest
• 4:18 PM: she might have been about the same age as Zhang Shiyu
• 4:18 PM: xieliuxin – so zhang shiyu may be the youngest
• 4:18 PM: xieliuxin – how old is he
• 4:19 PM: Like I said I don’t really know about that.
• 4:20 PM: I am afraid we have to resaerch it after the tournament.
• 4:22 PM: xieliuxin – i am so proud of our chinese team!say hi to all of them
• 4:24 PM: I just had a nice chat with Guo Cuanwei while the arbitors rechecked the scores.
• 4:25 PM: A few more minutes before the very final round.
• 4:25 PM: I will film Guo Chuanwei but I haven’t decided who I film with my second camera.
• 4:27 PM: xieliuxin – zhang shiyu is ok
• 4:27 PM: Johhanes will go for 50 seconds to beat Ben.
• 4:31 PM: xieliuxin – will you be there when it’s held in China next year
• 4:31 PM: Florian K – good luck for Hannes: go for gold!
• 4:31 PM: Yes I will be in China next year and COMPETE myself.
• 4:32 PM: ok it starts now
• 4:32 PM: Clash of the titans
• 4:32 PM: most exiting speed cards EVER
• 4:39 PM: 11 – speed cards who win?
• 4:39 PM: Anonymous – 1 – 31.55秒- 958分-本Pridmore ?
• 4:39 PM: WOW!
• 4:39 PM: this is just awesome
• 4:39 PM: We have extremly good results
• 4:40 PM: Ben: 25.97
• 4:40 PM: Su: 27.22
• 4:40 PM: Simon: 20.xx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• 4:41 PM: Johannes I couldn’t see completly but he was under 50 seconds
• 4:41 PM: If ben fails and johannes gets his deck together, johannes will win
• 4:41 PM: If Simon gets it together he will beat the world record
• 4:41 PM: xieliuxin – WOW
• 4:42 PM: Ben looks really confident
• 4:42 PM: Gunther got abot 49 seconds
• 4:42 PM: I couldn’t see boris but he was very fast too.
• 4:43 PM: Anonymous -
  Su: 27.22 ?
• 4:43 PM: cant see Su
• 4:43 PM: ok yes sorry
• 4:44 PM: he got 27.22 yes
• 4:44 PM: Tom – Amazing finish, any of Ben, Johannes or Simon could win, depending on who gets their pack together
• 4:44 PM: simon doesn’t look confident but you’ll never know
• 4:45 PM: remember the south german chmpioship this year
• 4:45 PM: he got it together last second
• 4:45 PM: johannes looks bad
• 4:45 PM: ben finished
• 4:45 PM: boris is struggeling
• 4:45 PM: simon gets it
• 4:45 PM: boris too
• 4:46 PM: johannes too
• 4:46 PM: su too
• 4:47 PM: everyone failed
• 4:47 PM: magi13 – The one with the best concentration will win. Passion and skill. Love and Guts. The future of this sport is shining like the sun. :3
• 4:47 PM: Guys: EVERYONE failed
• 4:48 PM: Ben Pridmore is the new World Memory Champion!
• 4:48 PM: Anonymous – everyone failed ?
• 4:48 PM: Nelson Dellis – Amazingggg
• 4:48 PM: No new world record.
• 4:49 PM: II don’t know the other results yet but since the favourites all failed Ben might have won the Speed Cards with his first round attempt of 31 seconds
• 4:49 PM: xieliuxin – pity
• 4:49 PM: Anonymous – SO WHO WIN SPEED CARDS?
• 4:49 PM: magi13 – Ben Pridmore rules. ^_^
• 4:49 PM: Nelson Dellis – did you get videos of the speed cards??
• 4:49 PM: I filmed the final
• 4:49 PM: You can watch all five of them in the video
• 4:51 PM: WENG FANG won!!! He got 31.02 seconds!!!!!!
• 4:51 PM: Nelson Dellis – omg sounds awesome!!
• 4:51 PM: Anonymous – Ben Pridmore 31 WIN ?
• 4:52 PM: WANG FENG won the speed cards with 31.02
• 4:53 PM: magi13 – who’s the new world memory champion?
• 4:53 PM: BEN PRIDMORE stays the WORLD MEMORY CHAMPION
• 4:53 PM: xieliuxin – Chinese people are awesome!!!
• 4:54 PM: Steffen – and junior world champion?
• 4:54 PM: Anonymous – WANG FENG won the speed cards with 31.02?
• 4:54 PM: Yes, Wang Feng won the Speed Cards
• 4:54 PM: Nelson Dellis – what did ronnie white get on his second attempt?
• 4:54 PM: I don’t know Nelson
• 4:55 PM: WOOOOOOW guys this was sooooo amazing!
• 4:58 PM: I will now walk around and talk to people – shake hands, find out more about the other results.
• 4:59 PM: Tuyên – awesome!!!
• 4:59 PM: Please excuse me for several minutes.
• 5:00 PM: In the meantime please enjoy my newest videos.
• 5:00 PM: They are finished uploaded on vimeo.
• 5:01 PM: www.vimeo.com
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• 5:54 PM: Anonymous – Wang Feng CHINA ?
• 5:54 PM: Quicker – Sir there is no perfect data of real techniques on web. Will you don’t mind shooting ben pridmore in which he will explain the images of a whole deck. Like this we the memory lovers will get to know in more detail- How they associate information and what they think. Because we always think that Is this image is good or not! By hearing techniques from memory champion (Ben) we can also develop our memory.
• 5:54 PM: Von – What is the prize money amount the top three places get?
• 5:54 PM: Anonymous – Did German Jr. Dorethea place in the top 10?
• 5:55 PM: Quicker – Please ask Simon Reinhard also to explain his technique. I will be very thankful to you.
• 5:55 PM: Quicker – Ben technique is amazing and if you can tell him him to explain the codes for every card (deck)he will, and we can gain something. Please..Please shoot him explaining the images for a whole deck..
• 5:55 PM: Quicker – Please Sir.. This is the last day of memory championship.. please shoot the secrets of all..:-(
• 5:55 PM: Quicker – CURRENT CHAMPIONSHIP LEADERS after first attempt of Speed Cards1. Ben Pridmore – 7854 2. Johannes Mallow – 7,320 3. Dr Gunther Karsten – 6,958 4. Simon Reinhard – 6709 5. Su Ruiqiao – 6,327 6. Cornelia Beddies – 6,182
• 5:55 PM: Quicker – Sir please ask Ben how he memorizes and associate three looney tunes characters together to make a story. Please do ask him sir as I am unable to complete my codes because I can’t understand how to associate three human characters.
• 5:55 PM: Quicker – :(
• 5:55 PM: Henry – well done Ben. Thank you Florian for all your reports. This has been a great step forward for the WMC. Thank you.
• 5:55 PM: micha – i need more informations for the dpa.
• 5:58 PM: Quicker – Sir please reply:(
• 5:59 PM: Hi everyone, I just got the actual results of the final disciplines. I will have to sit down and upload them. Also I have to update all the older results. It seems there have been several mistakes.
• 5:59 PM: I’m sorry but I can’t reply to your question until then.
• 6:17 PM: Quicker – Sir do you asked Ben?
• 6:18 PM: I couldn’t ask anybody anything so far. I am sitting here alone in the lobby. Everyone else left to change for the ceremony at 7 pm.
• 6:33 PM: Steffen – Florian, you are great! Thank you so much for your information and your support during the last three days! Bis bald, Steffen!
• 6:33 PM: Weh-wie-Ohr – hey, toller blog…sag der conny bitte n gruss und gratulation vom Weh-wie-ohr, Danke!!
• 6:57 PM: Quicker – After the ceremony will U ask my questions.. Sir Please..
• 6:57 PM: Anonymous – Great commentary, thanks so much Florian. Ben’s blog is updated already after the final event!
• 6:58 PM: I just updated all results. You will find the entire scores now in my results article. But keep in mind that there are still some mistakes in the first 7 disciplines. The council just told me to change them. I will do so later.
• 6:59 PM: Dave Billington says “I love you” to Heather!
• 7:42 PM: We are now starting the prize ceremony
• 7:42 PM: Tony is just calling out the new level 1+2 arbitors.
• 7:44 PM: dorobabba – Thank you, Florian, for your comments and answers. We are glad that Doro is once again junior world champion. Is it possible for you to take a picture of her and her sister? We would use it for PR.
• 7:44 PM: Yes I will do that.
• 7:45 PM: The discipline medals are now handed out to the three winners of each event.
• 7:47 PM: The atmosphere is great. They have cool music in the background.
• 7:47 PM: People are all dressed up and the mood is extremly cool.
• 7:47 PM: They are all laughing and clapping.
• 7:47 PM: I have to say this is really nice.
• 7:49 PM: The Chinese team is celebrating a lot. I like it to see them so happy. They are really cool.
• 7:50 PM: I have to learn Chinese before next years WMCS!
• 7:52 PM: Dorothea is just getting her Gold medal. God she seems very happy.
• 7:54 PM: Yeah, they are playing Star Wars now
• 7:57 PM: Now the final Speed Cards results are announced. Of course you all know them already. If not look them up here: memory-sports.com
• 8:00 PM: Oh great: Wang Feng just got his gold medal for Speed Cards. And he hugged Dominic O’Brien and Tony Buzan. I think this never happened before. But I like it!
• 8:01 PM: Now the junior champions are announced.
• 8:02 PM: Dorothea Seitz is still the Junior World Champion!
• 8:02 PM: And she got huge applause.
• 8:02 PM: And now the kids:
• 8:03 PM: No. 3 – Shi Wenfeng
  No. 2 – Konstantin Skudler
• 8:03 PM: No. 1 and new Kids World Memory Champion: Song Xiatong
• 8:04 PM: And now the new Grandmasters.
• 8:05 PM: Su Riqiao
• 8:06 PM: Ale Kora Risa
• 8:06 PM: Shi Gunheng
• 8:06 PM: Wang Feng
• 8:07 PM: Zhang Shiyu
• 8:08 PM: And finally the overall top ten!
• 8:10 PM: 10 Yuan Wenkui
  9 Guo Chuanwei
  8 Boris Konrad
  7 Cornelia Beddies
  6 Su Ruiqiao
  5 Wang Feng
  4 Dr. Gunther Karsten
  3 Simon Reinhard
  2 Johannes Mallow
  1 Ben Pridmore
• 8:42 PM: And the World Memory Championship 2009 is over. China announced their amazing tournament next year and invented all memory athletes all over the world to the 2010 World Memory Championship in Guangzhou.
• 8:43 PM: Memory fans: 2010 will become a new era in memory sports! Be sure of it.
• 8:51 PM: I will stop now this live report. I thank you all for following. Keep visiting Memory-Sports.com. There will be many more informations about this years championship and the one in Guangzhou next year.

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