At MSO 4, there is a...
....0% chance
that Creative Thinking contest entrants will display their talents by a creative act of urban terrorism in which they disrupt other tournaments, stand on top of crucial boards and hold the Olympiad to ransom.
....10% chance
that the Computer Olympiad will result in a game being declared solved for the first time ever.
....20% chance
that special guest Go prodigy Liao Xingwen will emulate or outdo David Howell's prodigious achievements from last year.
....30% chance
that a pair will bid and make a redoubled grand slam in no trumps in the charity Worldwide Simultaneous Pairs Championships.
....40% chance
that someone will win a hand in the World Amateur Poker Championships with a royal flush.
....50% chance
that Dominic O'Brien will set a new World Record in the World Memory Skills Championship.
....60% chance
that someone will form a legal ten-letter word on the board at some point in the National Scrabble Championship.
....70% chance
that someone in the MSO European Shogi Festival will try to place a second pawn of theirs in the same file and instantly lose the game through nifu.
....80% chance
that Demis Hassabis will once more enter and win more MSO events than any other single MSO competitor.
....90% chance
that Sue Jones will win the Speed Reading event for the fourth
consecutive Olympiad.
....100% chance
that people will recall and talk about the games and events which take place at the biggest and best Mind Sports Olympiad ever happily in the weeks and months to come.
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