Bahrain’s Festival of the Mind has attracted a record number of entries for the World Memory Championship, which will be held as part of the festival. 

More than 50 competitors have registered, making it the largest number ever to enter the event in its 17-year history, said an official.

Last year’s event was hailed as ‘the best ever’ by the founder of the event Tony Buzan.   Buzan, the inventor of Mind Mapping, and acclaimed author and speaker on mind development, will be in Bahrain in October to oversee the 17th World Memory Championship, an event which he founded in London with Ray Keene OBE another memory expert.

Competitors have already signed up from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, USA, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, England, Wales, South Africa, Malaysia, China and Hong Kong highlighting Bahrain in the world’s media. 

“The success of last year’s event and the welcoming hospitality that Bahrain has to offer, has been instrumental in bringing in a record number of competitors this year.  It is, of course, an added bonus to have the competition within a mind games festival making this an edu-taining event for all,” said Fuad Mubarak,  deputy CEO of Intelnacom.

A prize fund of $30,000 is on offer to competitors with a top prize for the ‘World Memory Champion’ of $10,000.

This year the festival includes an Inter-Schools Challenge and an Inter-University Challenge, as well as some opportunities for the visiting public to take part in learning the mind games as well as to interact with some giant games at the event.

The World Memory Championship was founded in London in 1991 to promote memory as a ‘Mind Sport’, creating a set of ten memory disciplines which are now accepted as the worldwide standard for international competition.-TradeArabia News Service