Mental Athletes Go Head-to-Head at the 18th Annual USA Memory Championship
buzzz worthy. . .
18th Annual USA Memory
Championship will be held at the St. Vartan Conference Center (Between
34th and 35th Streets & Second Avenue) Sunday, March 29, 2015, 8:30
AM - 4:00PM
NEW YORK, March 25, 2015 -- At the 18th Annual USA Memory Championship on Sunday, March 29th
(630 Second Avenue, the St. Vartan Conference Center), three-time
Champion Nelson Dellis will defend his title against two-time champion
Ram Kolli and a field of more than sixty competitors.
A hockey player, a surgeon, a
former auto mechanic, a musician, a software developer, students and
people of all ages and from every walk of life will be competing.
They've come from Florida, Michigan, California and many other states
throughout the USA. They've transformed themselves into "mental athletes" and they will go head-to-head, brain-to-brain, in the always colorful and suspenseful brain-bending event.
Dellis, who climbs mountains
to raise money for Alzheimer's awareness, is determined to do what only
one other American has ever done – win four titles. His nemesis,
two-time champ Ram Kolli, who took the title from Dellis in 2013, is
returning this year to see if he can take one more title and draw even.
How does one become a mental
athlete? "People tend to think that their memory is a static thing,
either good or bad. Not true," states Event President and Co-founder,
Marshall Tarley. "Memory is a skill, and like any other sport, when you
learn the skill and practice, your memory gets stronger, your brain
works better, and you compete for the gold."
"Anyone can do it!'' is the theme of the event, and researcher, Robert Ajemian of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research will
be on hand to speak about how important it is for millennials,
technologists, students, athletes and anyone wanting a powerful and
healthy brain to train their memory. Mental Athletes (competitors), too, will be offering tips to the audience on how to improve their memory.
Hundreds of spectators attend
the event, which is open to the public free of charge. This year, the
intrigue will include the first-ever father-daughter opponents,
48-year-old breast cancer surgeon Dr. John Williams and 14-year-old
Alexa from Warrenton, VA.
The USA Memory Championship
continues to generate tremendous interest in tandem with America's
ever-increasing awareness of both health issues and the need for an
intellectual edge in this ever-competitive world.
Events include the memorization of the following:
- 500-number sequence in 5 minutes
- 100-plus names and faces in 15 minutes
- 50-line unpublished poem (including punctuation)
- two decks of shuffled playing cards
Tony Dottino, who is the event
Chairman, Co-founded the USA Memory Championship 18 years ago to dispel
myths about the human brain such as, "the older you get the poorer your
memory has to be, you are either born with a good memory or you lost
out on the gene pool, younger people have better memories and the older
we get, the harder it is to learn." He added, "I continue to be amazed
at what our mental athletes have been able to achieve, which has greatly
altered people's beliefs about their own memory."
For more information, visit www.usamemorychampionship.com. Please click here for the day's agenda.