Most Public Influence: Dominic O’Brien

Posted on 30. Jan, 2010 by Flauwy in News, Polls

Although the British Gentleman had his peak as a memory athlete in the last decade, the readers of Memory-Sports.com voted him the most important person for the sports public interest. Dominic represents this sport like nobody else. With his flawless look, his notorious fame in Las Vegas casinos and his unique legendary status of winning the World Memory Championships eight times, I am safe to call him: the coolest memorizer in the world!

The readers have voted

The January poll of Memory-Sports.com resulted in a very interesting result. The question was Who had the most public influence on memory sports in the last decade? and 93 readers participated in the vote.

Let’s have a look at it:

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With 35% Dominic O’Brien is leading the field before the founder of memory sports Tony Buzan with 25% of the vote. The reigning World Memory Champion Ben Pridmore is following with 16%. But what does it mean?

Dominic achieved great results

If you look at Dominic’s rakings and scores you can understand why he is still such an important memory athlete. Although his last championship was in 2003 where he only placed 6th in the overall score, he still got a top ranking in the world and in many single disciplines.

Dominic’s World Memory Championship History

Dominic’s Single Top Scores

Dominic in the Media

Dominic wrote several books about memory techniques. Here are two of them:

• How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week
• Quantum Memory Power

The Dominic System

Another of his great achievements is his memory system. The Dominic System is an interesting alternative to the popular Major System. It goes one step further by combining 100 people and 100 actions which each other. It is also the father of the Person-Object and Person-Action-Object systems. I will not go into details about all these systems. You can follow the links and read the articles about them.

Dominic is dedicated to the sport

Dominic O'Brien and Eva Ball at the UK Open 2009

Although Tony Buzan gave birth to this field of mental competition, Dominic helped raising it to a grown-up sport. Did you know that Dominic travelled through whole Great Britain in 2009 to demonstrate mnemonics to British Schools? It resulted in a major event with 1,700 pupils from England, Scotland and Wales battling against each other. As a result 15 years old Eva Ball became the first UK Memory School Champion and competed successfully against the grown-ups at the following UK Memory Open.

In 2010 Dominic will try to push memory sports to a new level. It is a major interest of the World Memory Sports Council to evolve the sport into a more effective and interesting experience by making it digital. This could be a great step for everyone involved and would change the entire face of the sport. But this is also very expansive. The goal is to find the right partner. If you have any ideas or contacts, don’t hesitate to inform us.

That leads us to the February Poll:

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Whatever it will evolve to, Dominic O’Brien will always be a key figure in Memory Sports!

Tags: Dominic O'Brien, Dominic System, Major System, World Memory Sports Council