• Olympiad Championship
• Friday 27, 2pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours

ACQUIRE

• See "Hobby Games Festival"

AGE OF STEAM

• See "Hobby Games Festival"

• Beginners' Tournament
• Saturday 21, 9:30am-5:30pm

• No results recorded

• Weekend Tournament
• Saturday 21 - Sunday 22, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £26 (£13)
• Six rounds: each round played to 11 points
• More format details available from the British Isles Backgammon Association
• Pentamind: 14 hours

• 1-point Wipeout Olympiad Championship
• Monday 23, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Round-robin format: each round played as a single game
• More format details available from the British Isles Backgammon Association
• Pentamind: 7 hours

• BIBA 1-day Challenge Tournament
• Tuesday 24, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Five rounds: each round played to 5 points
• More format details available from the British Isles Backgammon Association
• Pentamind: 7 hours

• UMIST Challenge Tournament
• Wednesday 25, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Five rounds: each round played to 7 points
• More format details available from the British Isles Backgammon Association
• Pentamind: 7 hours

• Olympiad Championship
• Thursday 26 - Friday 27, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £26 (£13)
• Six rounds: each round played to 11 points
• More format details available from the British Isles Backgammon Association
• Pentamind: 14 hours

• English Open Championship
• Saturday 28 - Sunday 29, 9:30am-4:30pm
• Entry fee: £26 (£13)
• Six rounds: each round played to 11 points
• More format details available from the British Isles Backgammon Association
• Pentamind: 12 hours

• Manchester Blitz Championship
• Monday 30, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Six rounds: each round played to 3 points
• More format details available from the British Isles Backgammon Association
• Pentamind: 7 hours

• Amateur Olympiad Champion
• No extra fee
• The Amateur Olympiad Backgammon Champion will be the player with the best aggregate result over four Backgammon tournaments (excluding the Beginners tournament).
• Aggregate results will be based on the number of Pentamind points scored for each of a player's four best results.
• The winner will be awarded a special trophy.
• Pentamind: 15 hours

• Please note that cash prizes and other prizes are against the law in England for Backgammon and Poker, except in licensed premises. We are not in licensed premises.

• WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
• CHANGED! Thursday 26, 1:30pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 4 hours

• Education Academy
• (for families, children, school parties)
• Friday 27, 10am-5pm
• Entry fee: £20 (£10)
• Mind Mapping, Speed Reading and Memory Skills
• Pentamind: no credit

• No results recorded

BRIDGE (Duplicate) (in partnership with the English Bridge Union)
(Prize fund over £8,500 guaranteed)

• Please note that all entry fees are per player.
• All tournaments give Master Points.
• All sessions will be 24 boards.
• The following prizes have been made possible through the generous sponsorship of Mrs Brigitte Mavromichalis.
• These are the minimum guaranteed prizes. All events have prizes for a minimum of 12% of the entries.
• Note that entry to bridge events is not included in the standard £100 entry fee; entry to the entire bridge congress costs £140, £83 for veterans (over 65), £50 for juniors (under 25). To enter other events at MSO 8 as well as the entire bridge congress costs an additional £40.

• Senior Pairs
• Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25, 2pm-6pm
• Entry fee: £28 (£14)
• Pentamind: no credit
• Pairs must have a combined age of 110, with no member less than 53 years of age.
• Prizes: 1st pair £600, 2nd pair £280, 3rd pair £100, 4th pair £50, 5th pair £50

• Ladies' Pairs
• Tuesday 24, 7:30pm-11pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Prizes: 1st pair £100, 2nd pair £50, 3rd pair £25

• Men's Pairs
• Tuesday 24, 7:30pm-11pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Prizes: 1st pair £100, 2nd pair £50, 3rd pair £25

• Mixed Pairs
• Wednesday 25, 7:30pm-11pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Prizes: 1st pair £100, 2nd pair £50, 3rd pair £25

• Senior Teams of Four
• Thursday 26 and Friday 27, 2pm-6pm
• Entry fee: £28 (£14)
• Pentamind: no credit
• Teams must have a combined age of 220, with no member less than 53 years of age.
• Prizes: 1st team £800, 2nd team £280, 3rd team £120

• Multiple Teams of Four
• Thursday 26, 7:30pm-11pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Prizes: 1st team £120, 2nd team £80, 3rd team £40

• Open Pairs
• Friday 27, 2pm-6pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 4 hours

• Point a Board
• Friday 27, 7:30pm-11pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Prizes: 1st pair £1,000, 2nd pair £500, 3rd pair £240

• Green Point Event: Olympiad Pairs Championship
• Saturday 28, noon-3:30pm and 4pm-7:30pm
• Entry fee: £28 (£14)
• Pentamind: 7 hours
• Prizes: 1st pair £500, 2nd pair £250, 3rd pair £100, 4th to 7th pair £50
• Green Point Event

• Green Point Event: Swiss Teams
• Sunday 29, noon-8pm (includes a short break)
• Entry fee: £28 (£14)
• Pentamind: 7 hours
• Prizes: 1st pair £1,000, 2nd pair £400, 3rd pair £100, 4th to 7th pair £80
• Eight seven-board matches
• Green Point Event

• Green Point Event: Swiss Pairs
• Monday 30, noon-7:30pm (includes a short break)
• Entry fee: £28 (£14)
• Pentamind: 7 hours
• Prizes: 1st pair £500, 2nd pair £250, 3rd pair £100, 4th to 7th pair £50
• Seven seven-board matches
• Green Point Event

• Amateur Olympiad Champion
• No extra fee
• This title and trophy are awarded to the player with the best aggregate results taken over three Bridge tournaments.
• Pentamind: 15 hours

• No results recorded

BRIDGE (Non-Duplicate) (in partnership with the English Bridge Union)
Charity Tournament for Marie Curie Cancer Care

• CHANGED! Sunday 5th September, noon-5pm
• Entry fee: £25. Donations welcome.
• Late entry surcharge of an additional £5 only applies to entries made on the day.
• Pentamind: no credit
• Special venue: the Sugden Sports Centre, which is half a mile away from the rest of the events (see map).

• No results recorded

CARCASSONNE

• See "Hobby Games Festival"

• Please note that all tournaments except for Blitz and Lightning will be BCF graded.

• Open Olympiad Championship
• Friday 20, 6:30pm-10:30pm and
  Saturday 21 - Sunday 22, 9:30am-6pm
• Entry fee: £22 (£11)
• Pentamind: 17.5 hours
• Five rounds in this tournament
• Each player will have two hours per game
• Prize fund of £100 for this event

• Major Olympiad Championship
• Friday 20, 6:30pm-10:30pm and
  Saturday 21 - Sunday 22, 9:30am-6pm
• Entry fee: £22 (£11)
• Pentamind: no credit
• Five rounds in this tournament
• Each player will have two hours per game
• Open to players with BCF gradings under 160 only
• Prize fund of £100 for this event

• Minor Olympiad Championship
• Friday 20, 6:30pm-10:30pm and
  Saturday 21 - Sunday 22, 9:30am-6pm
• Entry fee: £22 (£11)
• Pentamind: no credit
• Five rounds in this tournament
• Each player will have two hours per game
• Open to players with BCF gradings under 115 only
• Prize fund of £100 for this event

• Olympiad Problem Solving Championship
• Saturday 21, 1pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 4.5 hours
• Prize fund of £100 for this event

• Olympiad Championship
• Monday 23 - Friday 27, 9:30am-1pm
• Entry fee: £22 (£11)
• Pentamind: 17.5 hours
• Fifteen rounds in this tournament
• Each player will have 25 minutes per game
• Prize fund of £100 for this event

• Open Evening Championship
• Monday 23 - Wednesday 25, 6:30pm-10:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 12 hours
• Six rounds in this tournament
• Each player will have 40 minutes per game
• Prize fund of £100 for this event

• Novice Olympiad Championship
• Friday 27, 6:30pm-10:30pm and
  Saturday 28 - Sunday 29, 9:30am-6pm
• Entry fee: £22 (£11)
• Pentamind: no credit
• Five rounds in this tournament
• Each player will have two hours per game
• Open to players with BCF gradings under 90 only
• Prize fund of £100 for this event

• Rapidplay Open Championship
• Saturday 28, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours
• Each player will have 30 minutes per game
• Prize fund of £100 for this event

• Time Variable Blitz Championship
• Sunday 29, 9:30am-1:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Six rounds in this tournament
• The time control for the first game will be 15 minutes per player
• The time control will decrease in successive games, until...
• The time control for the sixth game will be 2 minutes per player
• Prize fund of £100 for this event

• Lightning "Fischer Clock" Championship
• Sunday 29, 2pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Each player will have 3 minutes per game with 5 seconds added per move
• Prize fund of £100 for this event

• Blitz Open Championship
• Monday 30, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours
• Each player will have 15 minutes per game
• Prize fund of £100 for this event

• Amateur Olympiad Champion
• No extra fee
• This title and trophy are awarded to the player with the best aggregate results taken over three Chess events, including one slow play, one rapid and one blitz tournament
• Pentamind: 15 hours

• No results recorded

• Olympiad Championship
• Saturday 21, 2pm-4:30pm and
  Sunday 22 - Monday 23, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £22 (£11)
• Pentamind: 14 hours
• Seven rounds in this tournament
• Each player will have 90 minutes per game

• World Quickplay Open Championship
• Tuesday 24 - Wednesday 25, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £22 (£11)
• Pentamind: 14 hours
• Eight rounds in this tournament
• Each player will have 30 minutes per game

• WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
• Monday 23, 2pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours

• WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
• Sunday 29, 2pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours

• Olympiad Singles Championship
• Saturday 21, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours
• Singles championship involves play of six-card cribbage

• Olympiad Pairs Championship
• Sunday 22, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours
• Pairs championship involves play of five-card cribbage

• WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
• EXTENDED! Monday 30, 9:30am-2pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 4.5 hours
• Prize fund of £100 for this event

• 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

• (Caribbean Style) British Open Team Championship
• Saturday 28, 12:00-9pm
• Entry fee: £100 per team
• Pentamind: 8 hours
• Prize fund of £400 for this event

• (Caribbean Style) British Open Pairs Championship
• Sunday 29, 10am-6pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7) per player
• Pentamind: 7 hours
• Prizes: 1st pair £400, 2nd pair £300, 3rd pair £200

• Olympiad 5s and 3s Pairs Championship
• Monday 30, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7) per player
• Pentamind: 7 hours

• Hexdame Olympiad Championship
• Saturday 21, 2pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Each player will have 20 minutes per game

• Frisian Olympiad Championship
• Sunday 22, 9:30am-1pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Each player will have 25 minutes per game

• International (10x10) Olympiad Championship
• Sunday 22, 6pm-9:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Each player will have 25 minutes per game
• Prize fund of €150 for this event provided by FMJD, the World Draughts Federation.

• British Open Championship (3 move restriction)
• Monday 23 - Friday 27, 9:30am-1:30pm and 2:30pm-6:30pm
• Entry fee: £30 (£15)
• Pentamind: 17.5 hours
• 2 games per round at 30 moves per hour
• Prize fund of £500 for this event provided by the English Draughts Association.

• Italian Olympiad Championship
• Saturday 28, 9:30am-1pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Each player will have 30 minutes per game

• Czech Dama Olympiad Championship
• Sunday 29, 9:30am-1pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Each player will have 15 minutes per game

• Losing Checkers Olympiad Championship
• Monday 30, 9:30am-1pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Each player will have 10 minutes per game

• Amateur Olympiad Champion
• No extra fee
• This title and trophy are awarded to the player with the best aggregate results taken over four Draughts tournaments.
• Pentamind: 15 hours

• No results recorded

• The Annual General Meeting of the English Draughts Association will take place on Sunday 22, 2:30pm-4:30pm.

• WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
• Monday 23, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours

• Please note that in all tournaments Komi is 6.5.

• Beginners' Teaching Session and Tournament
• Friday 27, 9:30am-1pm
• Free entry
• No medals, no prizes
• Pentamind: no credit

• No results recorded

• 13x13 Olympiad Championship
• Friday 27, 2pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Each player will have 15 minutes per game with no overtime
• Prizes: 1st place £20, plus a share of up to £200 of prizes in kind supplied by the British Go Association for excellent performances from players of all grades

• 19x19 Lightning Olympiad Championship
• Friday 27, 6:30pm-10:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Each player will have 12 minutes per game with no overtime
• Prizes: 1st place £20, plus a share of up to £200 of prizes in kind supplied by the British Go Association for excellent performances from players of all grades

• Olympiad Championship - the Northern Go Tournament
• Saturday 28 - Sunday 29, 9:30am-1pm and 2pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £26 (£13)
• Pentamind: 14 hours
• Each player will have 60 minutes per game plus 5 minutes for 30 moves overtime
• Prizes: 1st place £40, plus a share of up to £200 of prizes in kind supplied by the British Go Association for excellent performances from players of all grades

• Rapidplay Olympiad Championship
• Monday 30, 9:30am-1pm and 2pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours
• Each player will have 30 minutes per game with no overtime
• Prizes: 1st place £20, plus a share of up to £200 of prizes in kind supplied by the British Go Association for excellent performances from players of all grades

• 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)

ACQUIRE - OLYMPIAD CHAMPIONSHIP
Gold	Jinwoo Song (South Korea)	127.8 VPs
Silver	George Hall (England)	123.2 VPs
Bronze	Tanya C. Fox (England)	121.3 VPs

ACQUIRE - OLYMPIAD CHAMPIONSHIP Junior
Gold	Kenneth Ho (Hong Kong)	121.1 VPs
Silver	Benedict Sharrock (England)	97.2 VPs

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)

AGE OF STEAM - OLYMPIAD CHAMPIONSHIP
Gold	James Hamilton (England)	300/300
Silver	Tanya C. Fox (England)	255/300
Bronze	Markus A. Welbourne (England)	235/300

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)

CARCASSONNE - OLYMPIAD CHAMPIONSHIP
Gold	Stephen Pickles (Australia)	14½ VPs
Silver	Piero Zama (Italy)	14½ VPs
Bronze	Benedict Sharrock (England)	13 VPs

CARCASSONNE - OLYMPIAD CHAMPIONSHIP Junior
Gold	Benedict Sharrock (England)	13 VPs
Silver	Jonathan Miller (England)	11 VPs

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)

LOST CITIES - OLYMPIAD CHAMPIONSHIP
Gold	Bijan Mehdinejad (England)	5/6 (T/B: +0.14)
Silver	Kenneth Ho (Hong Kong)	5/6 (T/B: +0.11)
Bronze	Matthew Cordell (England)	4/6 (T/B: +0.16)

LOST CITIES - OLYMPIAD CHAMPIONSHIP Junior
Gold	Kenneth Ho (Hong Kong)	5/6
Silver	Theo Sharrock (England)	4/6
Bronze	Joey Ho (Hong Kong)	3/6

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)

PUERTO RICO - OLYMPIAD CHAMPIONSHIP
Gold	Markus A. Welbourne (England)	13/15 (T/B: 108.5%)
Silver	Christine Jones (England)	13/15 (T/B: 104.5%)
Bronze	Lyndon Gurr (England)	11/15 (T/B: 105%)

SETTLERS OF CATAN
(Prize fund TBA)

• Beginners' Introduction and Junior Championship
• Saturday 28, 9:30am-1pm
• No medals, no prizes

• No results recorded

• 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)

SETTLERS OF CATAN - OLYMPIAD CHAMPIONSHIP
Gold	Markus A. Welbourne (England)	64 VPs
Silver	Demis Hassabis (England)	55 VPs
Bronze	Alan Farrell (England)	53 VPs

SETTLERS OF CATAN - OLYMPIAD CHAMPIONSHIP Junior
Gold	Benedict Sharrock (England)	45 VPs
Silver	Judith Miller (England)	38 VPs
Bronze	Theo Sharrock (England)	35 VPs

• Olympiad Championship
• Saturday 28, 9:30am-1pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours

SCHOOLS' INTELLIGENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
(Prize fund £1,250)

• UK Primary Schools' Team Championship
• Sunday 11, 2pm-4:30pm
• Entry fee: £40 per team
• Pentamind: no credit
• The procedural details of the tournament are now available
• Qualification will be through a test conducted during the Spring term in all competing schools.
• For further information on the Schools' Intelligence Championships please e-mail: schoolsintelligence@msoworld.com
• The results of the Team Championship will be determined within the Individual Championship - the score for each school team will be the total scores of that school's four top scoring pupils.
• First prize: £250

• UK Primary Schools' Individual Championship
• Sunday 11, 2pm-4:30pm
• Entry fee: £10 per pupil if the school is not attempting to qualify for the team event, otherwise it is free.
• Pentamind: no credit
• The procedural details of the tournament are now available
• Qualification will be through a test conducted during the Spring term in all competing schools.
• For further information on the Schools' Intelligence Championships please e-mail: schoolsintelligence@msoworld.com

• UK Secondary Schools' Team Championship
• Sunday 11, 2pm-4:30pm
• Entry fee: £40 per team
• Pentamind: no credit
• The procedural details of the tournament are now available
• Qualification will be through a test conducted during the Spring term in all competing schools.
• For further information on the Schools' Intelligence Championships please e-mail: schoolsintelligence@msoworld.com
• The results of the Team Championship will be determined within the Individual Championship - the score for each school team will be the total scores of that school's four top scoring pupils.

• UK Secondary Schools' Individual Championship
• Sunday 11, 2pm-4:30pm
• Entry fee: £10 per pupil if the school is not attempting to qualify for the team event, otherwise it is free.
• Pentamind: no credit
• The procedural details of the tournament are now available
• Qualification will be through a test conducted during the Spring term in all competing schools.
• For further information on the Schools' Intelligence Championships please e-mail: schoolsintelligence@msoworld.com
• First prize is a £1,000 scholarship to the university or college of the winner's choice

• WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
• CHANGED! Tuesday 24, 9:30am-1:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours

LOST CITIES

• See "Hobby Games Festival"

• Olympiad Championship
• Friday 27, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours

• WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
• incorporating the UK Open Memory Championships and the English Open Memory Championships
• Saturday 28 - Monday 30, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £30 (£15)
• Pentamind: 17.5 hours
• Prizes: 1st place £1,000, 2nd place £750, 3rd place £500, plus additional prizes of cash and electronic copies of the Encyclopaedia Britannica to winners of the individual disciplines.
• Prizes generously sponsored by SI Group, Carta Mundi and Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Organised in association with the World Memory Sports Council.

• WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
• Saturday 28, 2pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours

• WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
• Sunday 22, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours

• 8x8 European Championship
• CHANGED! Saturday 21, 9:30am-5:30pm and
  Sunday 22 - Monday 23, 9:30am-1:30pm
• Entry fee: £26 (£13)
• Pentamind: 14 hours
• Each player will have 30 minutes per game

• 8x8 Blitz World Championship
• Sunday 22, 2pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours
• Each player will have 5 minutes per game

• 10x10 World Championship
• Monday 23 - Wednesday 25, 2pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £22 (£11)
• Pentamind: 10.5 hours
• Each player will have 50 minutes per game

• 8x8 Olympiad Quickplay Championship
• Thursday 26 - Friday 27, 2pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours
• Each player will have 15 minutes per game

• No results recorded

• 10x10 Quickplay World Championship
• CHANGED! Saturday 28 - Sunday 29, 9:30am-1pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours
• Each player will have 25 minutes per game

• No results recorded

• Olympiad Championship
• Wednesday 25, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours

• 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

• WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
• [A] To compete for the Pentamind medals, participants must enter tournaments for 5 or more different games or mental skills;
• [B] At least two of these tournaments must each have playing times scheduled to last for 10.5 hours or longer.
• [C] All five qualifying tournaments together must have total playing times scheduled to last for 35 hours or longer.
• [D] You will score Pentamind points according to where you finish in each tournament according to the formula: 100(p - n)/(p - 1) where p represents the number of players in the tournament and n represents the participant's position in the tournament.
• [E] Not more than two games will be counted from the six Hobby Games Festival competitions: Acquire, Age of Steam, Carcassonne, Lost Cities, Puerto Rico and Settlers of Catan.
• [F] The participants with the highest total Pentamind scores from their 5 best tournaments for different games or mental skills will win the medals and the overall highest score wins the Pentamind championship.
• [G] You may enter as many tournaments as you wish (excluding any invitational or pre-qualification tournaments) for a maximum entry fee of £100 (£50 for juniors, entrants over 60, unemployed entrants and entrants with disabilities). If you wish to enter for many tournaments this is by far the cheapest way to do it and it qualifies you for extra medal opportunities.
• [H] You may not include any beginners, novice, age-restricted or graded chess tournaments in your "5 best" results. The Rubber Bridge charity tournament for Marie Curie Cancer Care on Sunday 5th September may not be included.
• [I] A Pentamind participant who enters a tournament and then withdraws from it before playing at least half of the games will have that tournament included in his score calculations.
• [J] No player may enter for tournaments which clash in the playing schedule without the permission of the Chief Arbiter, Event Manager or Chief Organiser.

• Pot-Limit Seven Card Stud Championship
• Saturday 21 - Sunday 22, 5:45pm-11pm
• Entry fee: £26 (£13)
• Pentamind: 10.5 hours

• Pot-Limit Pineapple Hold'em Tournament
• Sunday 22, 5:45pm-11pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 5.5 hours
• Entry to the Pineapple Hold'em tournament is at no extra fee to those who enter the Pot-Limit Seven Card Stud Championship and fail to qualify for the second day.

• WORLD AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
• Monday 23 - Saturday 28, 5:45 or 6pm-11pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9) per day
• To qualify for the title you must play in four or more of these six tournaments:

  1) Monday 23: Pot-Limit Five-Card Draw (starts 5:45pm)
  
  

  POKER - POT-LIMIT FIVE CARD DRAW CHAMPIONSHIP
  Gold	Ben Player (England)	Winner
  Silver	Ankush Khandelwal (England)	Last Out
  Bronze	Josef Kollar (England)	Second Last Out

  
  
  

  POKER - POT-LIMIT FIVE CARD DRAW CHAMPIONSHIP Junior
  Gold	Ankush Khandelwal (England)	Last Junior Eliminated
  Silver	David Rudolf (England)	Second Last Junior Out
  Bronze	Joey Ho (Hong Kong)	Third Last Junior Out

  
  
  2) Tuesday 24: Pot-Limit Seven-Card Stud (starts 5:45pm)
  
  

  POKER - POT-LIMIT SEVEN CARD STUD CHAMPIONSHIP
  Gold	Matthew Cordell (England)	Winner
  Silver	Alexander Baron (England)	Last Out
  Bronze	Piero Zama (Italy)	Second Last Out

  
  
  

  POKER - POT-LIMIT SEVEN CARD STUD CHAMPIONSHIP Junior
  Gold	Ankush Khandelwal (England)	Last Junior Eliminated
  Silver	Jonathan Miller (England)	Second Last Junior Out
  Bronze	David Rudolf (England)	Third Last Junior Out

  
  
  3) Wednesday 25: Pot-Limit Canadian Stud (starts 6pm)
  
  

  POKER - POT-LIMIT CANADIAN STUD CHAMPIONSHIP
  Gold	Kevin Stebbing (England)	Winner
  Silver	Kenneth Ho (Hong Kong)	Last Out
  Bronze	Matthew Cordell (England)	Second Last Out

  
  
  

  POKER - POT-LIMIT CANADIAN STUD CHAMPIONSHIP Junior
  Gold	Kenneth Ho (Hong Kong)	Last Junior Eliminated
  Silver	Judith Miller (England)	Second Last Junior Out
  Bronze	Alex Wilkinson (England)	Third Last Junior Out

  
  
  4) Thursday 26: Pot-Limit Texas Hold'em (starts 6pm)
  
  

  POKER - POT-LIMIT TEXAS HOLD'EM CHAMPIONSHIP
  Gold	Joey Ho (Hong Kong)	Winner
  Silver	Paco Garcia de la Banda (Spain)	Last Out
  Bronze	Andrew Higgins (England)	Second Last Out

  
  
  

  POKER - POT-LIMIT TEXAS HOLD'EM CHAMPIONSHIP Junior
  Gold	Joey Ho (Hong Kong)	Last Junior Eliminated
  Silver	Andrew Higgins (England)	Second Last Junior Out
  Bronze	Alex Wilkinson (England)	Third Last Junior Out

  
  
  5) Friday 27: Pot-Limit London Lowball (starts 6pm)
  
  

  POKER - POT-LIMIT LONDON LOWBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
  Gold	Matthew Cordell (England)	Winner
  Silver	Chris Carter (England)	Last Out
  Bronze	Alexander Baron (England)	Second Last Out

  
  
  

  POKER - POT-LIMIT LONDON LOWBALL CHAMPIONSHIP Junior
  Gold	Alex Wilkinson (England)	Last Junior Eliminated
  Silver	Ankush Khandelwal (England)	Second Last Junior Out
  Bronze	Jonathan Miller (England)	Third Last Junior Out

  
  
  6) Saturday 28: Pot-Limit Omaha (high only, starts 6pm)
  
  

  POKER - POT-LIMIT OMAHA CHAMPIONSHIP
  Gold	Martin Hemming (England)	Winner
  Silver	Kevin Stebbing (England)	Last Out
  Bronze	Kenneth Ho (Hong Kong)	Second Last Out

  
  
  

  POKER - POT-LIMIT OMAHA CHAMPIONSHIP Junior
  Gold	Kenneth Ho (Hong Kong)	Last Junior Eliminated
  Silver	David Rudolf (England)	Second Last Junior Out
  Bronze	Ankush Khandelwal (England)	Third Last Junior Out

POKER - WORLD AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
Gold	Matthew J. Cordell (England)	371.05/400
Silver	Kevin Stebbing (England)	346.91/400
Bronze	Ben Player (England)	336.68/400





POKER - WORLD AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP Junior
Gold	Ankush Khandelwal (England)	330.29/400
Silver	Kenneth Ho (Hong Kong)	307.49/400
Bronze	David Rudolf (England)	291.14/400




• Pentamind: overall Amateur Championship, 15 hours
  Pentamind: individual events, 5.5 hours (5:45pm start), 5 hours (6pm start)

• Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold'em Championship
• Sunday 29, 5:45pm-11pm and
• Monday 30, 11am-3pm
• Entry fee: £26 (£13)
• Pentamind: 9.5 hours
• Each match will be between two players, played to a time limit, and the player with the most chips at the end of that time is the winner of the match and advances to the next round.

• Pot-Limit Mexican Stud Tournament
• Monday 30, 11am-3pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 4 hours
• Entry to the Mexican Stud tournament is at no extra fee to those who enter the Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold'em Championship and fail to qualify for the second day.

PUERTO RICO

• See "Hobby Games Festival"

• British Individual Championship - Qualifying Round
• Saturday 28, 9:30am-1pm
• Entry fee: £20
• Pentamind: no credit
• There will be a nationwide pub quiz qualifying competition in June - for details please visit this site from time to time. Anyone failing to pre-qualify for the Individual Championship from the June event may have another attempt to do so on the morning of the final (August 28).

• No results recorded

• British Individual Championship - Final
• Saturday 28, 4pm-5pm
• Open only to pre-qualifiers from the June Pub Quiz event and to those who qualify from the morning round.
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours

UK SCHOOLS' QUIZ CHAMPIONSHIPS
(Prize fund £1,250)

• UK Primary Schools' Team Championship
• Saturday 10, 10am-12:30pm
• Entry fee: £40 per team
• Pentamind: no credit
• The procedural details of the tournament are now available
• Qualification will be through a test conducted during the Spring term in all competing schools.
• For further information on the Schools' Quiz Championships please e-mail: schoolsintelligence@msoworld.com
• The results of the Team Championship will be determined within the Individual Championship - the score for each school team will be the total scores of that school's four top scoring pupils.
• First prize: £250

• UK Primary Schools' Individual Championship
• Saturday 10, 10am-12:30pm
• Entry fee: £10 per pupil if the school is not attempting to qualify for the team event, otherwise it is free.
• Pentamind: no credit
• The procedural details of the tournament are now available
• Qualification will be through a test conducted during the Spring term in all competing schools.
• For further information on the Schools' Quiz Championships please e-mail: schoolsintelligence@msoworld.com

• UK Secondary Schools' Team Championship
• Saturday 10, 2pm-4:30pm
• Entry fee: £40 per team
• Pentamind: no credit
• The procedural details of the tournament are now available
• Qualification will be through a test conducted during the Spring term in all competing schools.
• For further information on the Schools' Quiz Championships please e-mail: schoolsintelligence@msoworld.com
• The results of the Team Championship will be determined within the Individual Championship - the score for each school team will be the total scores of that school's four top scoring pupils.

• UK Secondary Schools' Individual Championship
• Saturday 10, 2pm-4:30pm
• Entry fee: £10 per pupil if the school is not attempting to qualify for the team event, otherwise it is free.
• Pentamind: no credit
• The procedural details of the tournament are now available
• Qualification will be through a test conducted during the Spring term in all competing schools.
• For further information on the Schools' Quiz Championships please e-mail: schoolsintelligence@msoworld.com
• First prize is a £1,000 scholarship to the university or college of the winner's choice

• 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

• See "Hobby Games Festival"

• Olympiad Championship
• Saturday 21 - Sunday 22, 9:30am-5:30pm
  and Monday 23, 9:30am-1pm
• Entry fee: £22 (£11)
• Pentamind: 17.5 hours

• No results recorded

• Olympiad Championship
• Sunday 22, 9:30am-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours

• 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

• WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
• Wednesday 25, 9:30am-1pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours

• A player's Trigames score is the total of his rankings in all three tournaments.
• Each of these four events incorporates three tournaments in one.
• (Ties are counted as the average of the rankings involved in the tie, for example if you tie with one other player for 1st and 2nd places both of you score 1.5 for that tournament.)
• The players with the lowest total ranking scores win the medals.
• All tournaments except Backgammon will be played with clocks - each player is allowed 10 minutes for all their moves.

• Monday 23
• Othello, 9:30am-11:30am
• Boku, 12-2pm
• Backgammon (1-point), 2:30pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours

• Tuesday 24
• Giveaway Draughts, 9:30am-11:30am
• Abalone, 12-2pm
• Scrabble, 2:30pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours

• Wednesday 25
• Chess, 9:30am-11:30am
• Dominoes 5s and 3s, 12-2pm
• Twixt, 2:30pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours

• Thursday 26
• Continuo, 9:30am-11:30am
• Oware, 12-2pm
• Go 9x9, 2:30pm-5:30pm
• Entry fee: £18 (£9)
• Pentamind: 7 hours

• Olympiad Championship
• Thursday 26, 9:30am-1pm
• Entry fee: £14 (£7)
• Pentamind: 3.5 hours