2011年12月第二十届世界脑力锦标赛将在中国举办，敬请期待！

新思维教育集团承办

Welcome to the February edition of the WMSC newsletter, and there is lots to report.

Firstly, we would like to welcome the new Council Members who have recently been invited to sit on the World Memory Sports Council and to represent the interest of the sport in their countries.  They are:

• Jennifer Goddard of the National Memory Sports Council of Australia
• Simon Reinhard GM, of Memory XL in Germany（西蒙放弃比赛改做裁判？呵呵，快速扑克的纪录保持者啊，21秒。去年排名世界第四名。希望他能够成为德国卡森的接班人吧。）
• Klaus Kolb of the National Memory Sports Council of Germany
• Mr Lin Chuxu, Chairman of  New Mind Education in China （新思维教育集团创始人）
• Guo Chuanwei GM  China（两届中国脑力锦标赛总冠军，推动脑力运动的发展，培养更多的世界记忆大师。）

We look forward to their help is growing the sport worldwide in the year ahead.

The months following the World Memory Championships each year are when discussion takes place about rule changes and the Millennium standards. This year is no exception!  The Council is most grateful for all the submissions and ideas it has received, all of which have been thoroughly evaluated. As is the convention,  the Council agrees these changes at the end of January to give competitors the opportunity to incorporate them in their training in good time.

So at the end of the consultation period the following has been agreed.

Competition Entry:

Junior and Kid competitors may elect to compete in an adult competition if they desire. Any competitor that decides to do so cannot take part in a Junior / Kids event for one year after the adult event, thus preventing "competition hopping".（少年组和儿童组的可以看一下这个）

Procedural Changes:

1)         Spoken Numbers – In the World Championships trials will consist of 200, 300 and 400 digits. In National Championships trials will be 100 and 300 digits.

（听记最高为400个）
2)         Names used in the ‘Names and Faces’ discipline will consist of a equal mix of international names drawn from a wide range of different languages to include European, Middle and Far Eastern, Asian and African (following a similar formula as used in the World Memory Championships).

First and Second Names shall be combined entirely at random (eg. a person may have a Chinese first name and a Western surname) and assigned to faces at random.

There must also be a full mix of ethnicity, age and gender of faces used.

No bias towards an individual country will be accepted in a national competition. As a result all current National, International and World records in this discipline will be reset to zero since a comparison with previous events is invalid.

（人名头像改为中外名字夹杂，这样对中国人相对公平一些，相信中国选手在这个项目上会取得更好的成绩）
3)         Speed Cards – The rule will remain that if a competitor recalls less than 52 cards their time will be taken as 300 seconds and they will receive a score of c/52 points where c is the number of cards correctly recalled.（快速扑克仍然是如果有错一张，时间就为5分钟，但是张数是算对的张数，而不是按以前一样，从哪张出错，算前面的张数。）

The New formula of calculation of points for a full deck is as follows:

11180/(time to the power of 0.75)

This gives 1000 points for a deck recalled in 25 seconds.（25秒记完一副就能得1000分。）

Millennium Standards - Revised February 2011

红字部分为世界脑力锦标赛十大比赛项目。

# = Unchanged
* =  Calculation factor for Speed Cards 11180/(time to the power of 0.75)
 
Competition Calendar for 2011

12^thMarch 2011 North German Memory Championships
26^thMarch 2011 Welsh Open Memory Championships
End August 2011 UK Open Memory Championships
First week of October World Memory Championships (China)