Mental Calculation World Cup 2024
Paderborn, Germany
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The Mental Calculation World Cup 2024
will be held on 13-15 September 2024 in Paderborn, Germany.
The best mental calculators from all over the world are invited to
the 10th Mental Calculation World Cup.
Date: 13-15 September 2024
Venue: Heinz
Nixdorf MuseumsForum, the world's largest computer museum in
Paderborn, Germany
Schedule and rules: Each mental calculator will have to solve
tasks in different categories (addition, multiplication, extracting
roots, calendar from memory and surprise tasks).
Participants: The registration deadline was June 15, 2024. We
can only consider late registrations in exceptional cases, and only
if any of the qualified participants are unable to attend. There
were 69 registrations from 21 countries. The following mental
calculators are qualified for MCWC:
Aaryan Nitin Shukla (India), Abhilakshya Arora (India), Aditya Kumar
(India), Ahmad Chhimi (Lebanon), Aidarbek Kubanychbekov (Kyrgyztan),
Akash Rupela (India), Ali Bayat Movahhed (Iran), Andy Robertshaw
(UK), Anfel Laziri (Algeria), Boris Quach (France), Chintapalli
David Raju (India), Daniel Timms (UK), Deepak Nagar (India),
Domenico Mancuso (Italy), Eric Prem (Austria), Freddis Reyes
Hernández (Cuba), Georgi Georgiev (Bulgaria), Granth Thakkar
(India), Greatness Ebisike (Nigeria), Hakim Belouad (Algeria), Henil
Kansara (India), Hiko Chiba (Japan), Hua Wei Chan (Malaysia), Jean
Jacques Bruyant (France), Jinansh Dedhia (India), Johanna van
Koningsveld (Germany), Jordi Amigó (Spain), Joshua Spring (Germany),
Kaloyan Geshev (Bulgaria), Karen Kiffe (Germany), Kenneth Wilshire
(UK), Kerim Saparov (Turkmenistan), Livanur Berdiyeva
(Turkmenistan), Manar Benmastora (Algeria), Martin Drees (Gemany),
Mishti Dharmesh Shah (India), Ogulmaral Altyyeva (Turkmenistan),
Pascal Kaul (Switzerland), Said Mohammed Seghir (Algeria), Samuel
Engel (USA), Tina Bauer (Germany), Walid Henni (Algeria), Willem
Bouman (Netherlands)
Titles and Prizes: All participants will receive
certificates. Successful record attempts will be registered as
world record.
The participant with the best total score will be awarded the title
"World cup champion - combination". The participant with the best
score in the surprise tasks will be awarded the title "World cup
champion - most versatile calculator".
The winners in the categories "addition", "multiplication",
"extracting roots" and "calendar calculation" will be awarded the
title "World cup champion for (category)".
Memoriad will sponsor the flight tickets and accommodation of MCWC
2024 four category winners (addition, multiplication, square roots,
calendar) to Memoriad in the UAE in
November 2024.
Problems to solve: Examples for problems to be solved in
previous competitions can be found at the bottom of the results list
of the years 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 , 2012, 2014 , 2016, 2018 and 2022.
Organizational stuff: Participants have to book and pay their
hotel rooms. Information about hotel reservations can be found here.
The participants will not have to pay an entry fee and they
will not receive a fee for their participation. However,
accompanying persons will have to pay a fee (about 100 € per person)
for social events, catering, etc.
Please contact us soon enough if you need a formal invitation letter
for visa purposes. Keep in mind that in some countries visa
formalities can take a long time!
Contacts:
If you have any questions on the MCWC, please contact info@recordholders.org.
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