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8th Mind Sports Olympiad Results
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We are pleased to announce the results from the 8th Mind Sports Olympiad, which took place in the Manchester Conference Centre at UMIST, between Thursday 19th August 2004 and Monday 30th August 2004.
ABALONE
(Prize fund TBA)
- Olympiad Championship
- Friday 27, 2pm-5:30pm
- Entry fee: £14 (£7)
- Pentamind: 3.5 hours
ACQUIRE
AGE OF STEAM
BOKU
(Prize fund TBA)
- WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
- CHANGED! Thursday 26, 1:30pm-5:30pm
- Entry fee: £14 (£7)
- Pentamind: 4 hours
CARCASSONNE
CONTINUO
(Prize fund TBA)
- WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
- Monday 23, 2pm-5:30pm
- Entry fee: £14 (£7)
- Pentamind: 3.5 hours
DIPLOMACY
(Prize fund TBA)
- Intimate Diplomacy
- Saturday 21, 9:30am-10pm
- Entry fee: £18 (£9)
- Pentamind: 10.5 hours
- Olympiad Championship
- Sunday 22, 9:30am-10pm
- Entry fee: £18 (£9)
- Pentamind: 10.5 hours
ENTROPY
(Prize fund TBA)
- WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
- Monday 23, 9:30am-5:30pm
- Entry fee: £18 (£9)
- Pentamind: 7 hours
HOBBY GAMES FESTIVAL
(Prize fund TBA)
- For MSO8 we are inaugurating this festival within a festival over the bank holiday weekend (to be precise from the evening of Friday August 27 to Monday August 30).
- This will allow us to better cater for enthusiasts of what we now call "Hobby Games".
- There will be an all-in entry fee of £15 (£8) for which participants may play in as many or as few of these "Hobby Games" tournaments as they wish.
ACQUIRE
(Prize fund TBA)
- Olympiad Championship
- Sunday 29, 9:30am-5:30pm
- Entry fee: £18 (£9) but see Hobby Games Festival all-in entry fee
- Pentamind: 7 hours (no more than two Hobby Games Festival events to count per entrant)
AGE OF STEAM
(Prize fund TBA)
- Olympiad Championship
- Friday 27, 2pm-10pm
- Entry fee: £18 (£9) but see Hobby Games Festival all-in entry fee
- Pentamind: 7 hours (no more than two Hobby Games Festival events to count per entrant)
CARCASSONNE
(Prize fund TBA)
- Olympiad Championship
- Sunday 29, 6pm-10pm
- Entry fee: £14 (£7) but see Hobby Games Festival all-in entry fee
- Pentamind: 4 hours (no more than two Hobby Games Festival events to count per entrant)
LOST CITIES
(Prize fund TBA)
- Olympiad Championship
- Friday 27, 9:30am-1pm
- Entry fee: £14 (£7) but see Hobby Games Festival all-in entry fee
- Pentamind: 3.5 hours (no more than two Hobby Games Festival events to count per entrant)
PUERTO RICO
(Prize fund TBA)
- Olympiad Championship
- Monday 30, 9:30am-5:30pm
- Entry fee: £14 (£7) but see Hobby Games Festival all-in entry fee
- Pentamind: 7 hours (no more than two Hobby Games Festival events to count per entrant)
SETTLERS OF CATAN
(Prize fund TBA)
- Beginners' Introduction and Junior Championship
- Saturday 28, 9:30am-1pm
- Free entry
- No medals, no prizes
- No experience necessary - suitable for complete novices
- The top three players in the Junior Championship will be allowed to compete in the Olympiad Championship. This number may be increased if the number of entries for the Junior Championship is large.
- Pentamind: no credit
- Olympiad Championship
- Saturday 28, 2pm-10pm
- Entry fee: £18 (£9) but see Hobby Games Festival all-in entry fee
- Pentamind: 7 hours (no more than two Hobby Games Festival events to count per entrant)
LINES OF ACTION
(Prize fund TBA)
- WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
- CHANGED! Tuesday 24, 9:30am-1:30pm
- Entry fee: £14 (£7)
- Pentamind: 3.5 hours
LOST CITIES
MASTERMIND
(Prize fund TBA)
- Olympiad Championship
- Friday 27, 9:30am-5:30pm
- Entry fee: £18 (£9)
- Pentamind: 7 hours
PACRU
(Prize fund £150)
- WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
- Monday 30, 9:30am-1pm and 2pm-5:30pm
- Entry fee: £18 (£9)
- Pentamind: 7 hours
- Prize fund of £150 for this event
- More information about the game is available at the official Pacru site
PUERTO RICO
SCRABBLE
(Prize fund £350)
- These tournaments will be rated by the ABSP.
- Olympiad Championship
- Sunday 22, 9:30am-5:30pm
- Entry fee: £18 (£9)
- Pentamind: 7 hours
- Prizes: 1st place £125, 2nd place £70, 3rd place £55
- Evening Olympiad Championship
- Monday 23 - Tuesday 24, 6:00pm-10pm
- Entry fee: £18 (£9)
- Pentamind: 8 hours
- Prizes: 1st place £70, 2nd place £30
SETTLERS OF CATAN
SNATCH
(Prize fund £150)
- WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
- Wednesday 25, 9:30am-1pm
- Entry fee: £14 (£7)
- Pentamind: 3.5 hours
- Prize fund of £150 for this event
- More information about Snatch is available at the manufacturer's site
TWIXT
(Prize fund TBA)
- Olympiad Championship
- Thursday 26, 9:30am-1pm
- Entry fee: £14 (£7)
- Pentamind: 3.5 hours
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