Arabian Memory Championship
Arabian Memory Championship is the first Arabian championship in brain sports in the Arab world. It was first held in Algeria on 23–25 December 2012, and it is organized annually by the training centers that adopt this project in Arab countries.
Its first edition drew 45 competitors from eleven Arab countries, and it reached its tenth edition at the turn of 2022 and 2023, held remotely. The rest of this page describes the championship as it was announced in 2012, so the aims and stages below are that year’s plan rather than a record of what followed. One of them can be checked against the outcome: the 2015 world title the plan aimed at went to Alex Mullen of the United States.
The Arabian Memory Championship was created by Mr Riadh Bensaoucha, a certified expert in memory training, a professional trainer in human development, and a researcher on the strategies of memory.
The Arabian Memory Championship is managed by a team that consists of the general manager of the Arabian Memory Championship, Mr Salah Djileh (President of Dhaka Group), and the managers of the partner centers in different Arab countries.
The vision of the Arabian Memory Championship:
Arabian Championship
The championship involves competitors from all Arab countries, in order to increase the sense of Arab unity.
Powerful tournament in memory
The Arabian Championship aims to develop the memory capacity of the Arab individual, so that these mental skills serve everyday, professional and academic life.
Competition as per worldwide level
The Arabian Memory Championship aimed to create an Arab elite able to compete at the international level in the World Memory Championships, and to see an Arab hold the world memory title in 2015.
Set new standards in the competition
The aim of the Arabian Memory Championship in its first phase (2012–2013) was to develop simple criteria for competing in the field of memory, in order to introduce a culture of memory development to the Arab world. In the second phase (2014–2015) it was to adopt the standards of the “World Memory Championships”, in order to create elite competitors for the world memory title and win Arabs their first world title in 2015.
At the beginning of the year 2016, the Arabian Memory Championship planned to develop new standards in the field of memory competition, in order to reflect the power of human memory, and to make the fullest possible use of the ability to remember.
One of the most important Arab cultural events
The Arabian Championship aims to be one of the most important annual cultural events on the scene, in order to enhance and unleash Arabian brain power and develop the individual in the Arab world.
The mission of the Arabian Memory Championship:
- Spreading the culture of memory development: The culture of mental capacity development will be achieved through training courses and conferences, publications and various media, where a certified group of professional trainers in the discipline of memory will provide all the powerful tools for training, together with the Arabian Memory Champions.
- Uniting the Arab countries: To be a space for the annual meeting of the Arab elite, who are distinguished by very special mental abilities, so that they can compete for the Arab title, strengthen communication between Arabs, and discuss the development of the areas of competition at the Arab conferences held for this purpose.
- Building an elite of international competitors: Building a capable Arab elite, able to compete in the World Memory Championship in 2015 and win the world title to honor all Arabs. This can be achieved through courses and various memory trainings that prepare candidates to compete for the Arab title and the world title thereafter.
- Developing standards for the service of humanity: A continuous improvement in training standards and in the forms of memory test used in the tournament, so that those standards raise the capacity to sharpen the memory in all areas of life.
Values of the Arabian Memory Championship
- Arab Unity: The need for strong Arab world representatives in the tournament.
- Global Pioneering and Leadership: Winning Arabs the world title, then setting new criteria to become the standard in the competition.
- Developing human power: The aim is to create a competition that generates continuous development of training programs in the Arab world, to serve the development of human mental capacity and bring it to new horizons, in order to explore and make use of its potential.
The slogan of Arabian Memory Championship
Your path to the unlimited horizons of memory capacities
Stages of Arabian Memory Championship:
The Arabian Memory Championship was planned in four basic stages:
- Algeria Memory Championship (2012): It was held on the 3rd and 4th of July 2012, and it was the real starting point of the Arab championship of memory. It aimed to gather as many candidates as possible for the Arabian Memory Championship, to announce the next Arabian Memory Championship, which was held from the 23rd to the 25th of December 2012, to provide training and experience on the tests of the memory championship, and to give the administrative and management team the chance to gain experience in running the championship, so as to ensure the success of the first Arabian Memory Championship.
- The first Arabian Memory Championship (2012): It was held from the 23rd to the 25th of December. It was the first Arabian Memory Championship. It is held every year in an Arab country, according to the request of the representative centers of the championship and their abilities to organize this Arab competition.
- World title in memory (2015): During the Arabian Memory Championship in 2013 and 2014, it was to add the areas of competition used in the World Memory Championship, in order to prepare the Arab elite to take part in it. The Arabian Championship was to support and sponsor them in the global memory competitions in 2014 and 2015. The goal was an Arab candidate who would win the world memory championship in 2015.
- The strongest competition in the field of memory (2016): Once the world title had been won by the Arab elite, the goal was for the Arabian Memory Championship to become the first global reference in the competition in mental capacity, through the level and standards of its competition, which would actually reflect the power of human memory.
Conditions for participation in the Arabian Memory Championship:
- The competition is open to all individuals from various Arabian countries and all ages.
- The winner in the qualifications in his country will travel to the global competition at the expense of, and sponsored by, the Arabian Memory Championship.
- If the competitors do not win in the qualifications in their country, they have the right to participate but they take all charges and fees by themselves.
- Participation in the Arabian Championship is without any qualification, except in the case that the number of participants from an Arab country exceeds 10.
- Qualifications will be by choosing the best participants in the Random Numbers test.
- To participate in the Arabian Memory Championship, it is not required to attend any of the training programs.
- Members of the organizing team are not allowed to participate in the Arabian Memory Championship.
- The fee to participate in the Arabian Memory Championship is $50.
Areas of competition in the Arabian Memory Championship 2012:
- Test of remembering 1000 Random Numbers in 30 minutes.
- Test of remembering 1000 Binary Numbers in 30 minutes.
- Test of remembering 100 Spoken Numbers with a speed of 2 seconds for each number.
- Test of remembering 100 Random Words in 15 minutes.
- Test of remembering 100 Random Images in 15 minutes.
- Test of remembering 100 Random Names and Faces in 15 minutes.
- Test of determining the days corresponding to 20 Random Dates between the years 1900 and 2100.
Arabian Memory Championship Awards:
First prize: ten thousand dollars ($10,000) + first-ranked certificate in memory at the Arab level.
Second prize: three thousand dollars ($3,000) + second-ranked certificate in memory at the Arab level.
Third prize: two thousand dollars ($2,000) + third-ranked certificate in memory at the Arab level.
Partners of the Arabian Memory Championship project:
Partners of the Arabian Memory Championship project are training centers in the Arab countries which adopt the project, as well as accredited memory trainers who offer training and courses to prepare candidates for the Arabian Memory Championship.
Centers and trainers that partner with the Arabian Memory Championship project must respect and follow the conditions of the administrative committee of the project. In return, they benefit from many advantages, as the signed conditions book states.
The partnership will be dissolved immediately with any party that does not respect or follow the signed conditions, especially when it comes to intellectual property rights.
References of the article:
- Riadh Bensaoucha, Arabian Memory Championship, Intelligence Center training for Publishing and Distribution, Algiers, 2012, pp. 19–26.
- Arabian Memory Championship
