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2nd UK SCHOOLS QUIZ CHAMPIONSHIPS and
2nd UK SCHOOLS INTELLIGENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
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QUALIFYING COMPETITION RESULTS
All qualifying schools should receive an e-mail or fax from us by the end of the Easter vacation notifying them that they have qualified and providing the information they need for the finals, including details of how to apply for low cost accommodation at UMIST if they need it.
- For the Primary Schools' Intelligence Team Championship a school has qualified if its top four scores combined were at least 30 points.
A qualifying school is permitted to send any four school members to form its team in the finals; they do not necessarily have to be the four top scorers from the qualifying test.
In addition, whether a school qualifies or not, individual participants who have achieved the individual qualifying score are permitted to compete in their own right, without any school affiliation. In this way, a school can send a team of four plus additional participants who have qualified individually, or participants who have qualified individually without a team.
- For the Primary Schools' Individual Intelligence Championship an individual has qualified if his or her score was at least 7 points.
Primary Schools' Individual Intelligence Championship
Alice Scivier (The Avenue School, Surrey) 14
Rachel Burge (St. George's College Junior School, Surrey) 12
Mao Okuno (The Avenue School, Surrey) 12
Matthew Entwisle (Carter Charity (VC) Primary, Lancashire) 11
Robert Cooke (Leicester Grammar Junior School, Leicestershire) 11
James Woodcock (Leicester Grammar Junior School, Leicestershire) 11
Ryan Cross (The Avenue School, Surrey) 11
Emma White (Hindley Green Community, Wigan) 10
Laura Schwarzenberger (Leicester Grammar Junior School, Leicestershire) 10
Tatiana McIntosh (St. George's College Junior School, Surrey) 10
Ian Sipin (St. George's College Junior School, Surrey) 10
Michael Thomson (St. George's College Junior School, Surrey) 10
Elizabeth Randall (The Avenue School, Surrey) 10
Subhash Sinha (The Avenue School, Surrey) 10
Stephanie Curson (Carter Charity (VC) Primary, Lancashire) 9
Jane Lefley (Leicester Grammar Junior School, Leicestershire) 9
Clement Veall (Leicester Grammar Junior School, Leicestershire) 9
Emily Allen (St. George's College Junior School, Surrey) 9
Matthew Davies (Leicester Grammar Junior School, Leicestershire) 8
David Harrison (Leicester Grammar Junior School, Leicestershire) 8
Jessica Lawrence (Leicester Grammar Junior School, Leicestershire) 8
Kate Taylor (Leicester Grammar Junior School, Leicestershire) 8
Holly Collins (St. George's College Junior School, Surrey) 8
Matthew Darroch (St. George's College Junior School, Surrey) 8
Francesca Harding (St. George's College Junior School, Surrey) 8
Clare Parrish (St. George's College Junior School, Surrey) 8
Ruksana Begum (Star Primary School, London) 8
Laura Mather (Carter Charity (VC) Primary, Lancashire) 7
Graham Borrajo (Leicester Grammar Junior School, Leicestershire) 7
Adam Park (Leicester Grammar Junior School, Leicestershire) 7
Sanjiv Raithatha (Leicester Grammar Junior School, Leicestershire) 7
Niraj Samani (Leicester Grammar Junior School, Leicestershire) 7
Paul Stheeman (St. George's College Junior School, Surrey) 7
John James (The Avenue School, Surrey) 7
Alexandra Tattersall (The Avenue School, Surrey) 7
THE FINALS
The finals will take place at UMIST, located 5 minutes walk from Manchester Piccadilly station.
The Quiz Championship finals will be held on Saturday July 10th from 2pm to 4:30pm.
The Intelligence Championship finals will take place on Sunday July 11th from 2pm to 4:30pm.
The finals will each consist of three 30-minute papers, with breaks of 30 minutes between each paper.
PRIZES AND TITLES
All members of the top three school teams in the Quiz and Intelligence championships will receive MSO Gold, Silver or Bronze medals as appropriate. The winning school in each team championship will receive a trophy and the title: UK Schools Team Quiz Champions or UK Schools Team Intelligence Champions. The top three pupils in the individual championships will receive MSO Gold, Silver and Bronze medals as appropriate. The Gold medal pupils will be awarded the title: UK Schools Quiz Champion or UK Schools Intelligence Champion and will each be given a £1,000 scholarship when starting university or an alternative higher education establishment. Additional sponsored prizes will be awarded.
ENTRY FEES
The entry fee in the qualifying competitions for school teams is £50 (up to 25 pupils) for each championship. The entry fee for individual pupils whose schools do not enter the team championship is £10 per pupil. Qualifying schools will pay an additional £40 entry fee for the finals of the team event and £10 per pupil for the individual finals.
Further information about "Mind Sports for Schools" is available.
WHAT IS THE MIND SPORTS OLYMPIAD?
In addition to the schools weekend (July 10th - 11th) pupils are invited to enter the many other championships taking place at the 8th Mind Sports Olympiad, from August 21st - 30th.
The Mind Sports Olympiad offers many opportunities for everyone to have fun and expand their minds. The event is an annual games and mental skills festival where the participants compete for Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, and for other prizes. In every tournament there are medals for the best "juniors" (aged under 19 on August 21st). There are also workshops - the "Brain Power Academy" - to teach learning skills: Mind Mapping, Speed Reading and Memory Skills.
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUPILS
Our philosophy at the Mind Sports Olympiad is that "Anyone Can Enter", and that includes children. (Entry fees for juniors in our other tournaments are half those for adults.) We have had players as young as six. In 1999 a six-year-old boy played in a Bridge partnership with his father, in a tournament that included two World Champions. And in 2000 we brought a six-year-old Go prodigy from China - he travelled with his teacher and was strong enough to win £200 in prize money. But beginners are just as welcome as experts and we have sessions to teach games to those who do not know how to play them.
Another of our events which has massive educational potential is the Mental Calculations Championship at 2pm on Saturday 28th August. We expect this to grow into one of the biggest tournaments in the entire Olympiad. No pre-qualification is necessary.
WHAT OTHER GAMES AND SKILLS ARE THERE?
The competitors at the Mind Sports Olympiad play each other at a variety of well known strategy games, such as Chess, Bridge, Backgammon, Scrabble, Othello and Go. In addition there are tournaments for a number of more recently invented games, which have achieved worldwide popularity, including Abalone, Continuo, Diplomacy, Lines of Action, Mastermind, Othello and Twixt. There are also tournaments for some of the best strategy games from Asia: Chinese Chess, Go and Shogi (Japanese Chess). All of these games require strategic and analytical skills.
We also hold several mental skills championships, including Creative Thinking, which tests the contestants' speed, flexibility and originality of thought. Speed Reading competitors are tested on an unpublished book to determine their average number of words read per minute and their percentage comprehension. The Mental Calculation championship finds the best at mental arithmetic. Memory Skills includes the ability to remember whole packs of playing cards, as many digits as possible of a long number, passages of text, etc.
For more detailed information please visit our web site, www.msoworld.com.
For general enquiries please e-mail entries@msoworld.com or telephone 01707 659080 (9am-9pm) or 07973 516718.
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