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Memory Championship showcases mental Olympians in New York
In a Manhattan office tower, 65 memory athletes from 16 to 50 competed in the 17th USA Memory Championship. Contestants used imagery built into mental maps to memorize decks of cards, names, numbers and a 25-line poem, with Johnny Briones setting a 60 second card-memorization record.
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New York
Brad Zupp
Zupp
Zapp
John
U.S
Manhattan
USA
Sue Jin Yang
San Francisco
Yang
Matt Damon
Sean Penn
Lance Tschirhart
Texas
Tony Dottino
London
Dottino
Tatiana Cooley
Ram Kolli
Los Angeles
Nelson Dellis
White
Johnny Briones
Colorado
School of Mines
Karen Pinson
Luis Angel Echeverria
Irvine
Calif
Echeverria
Briones
Dellis
Tschirhart
Alexander Mullen
Oxford
Miss
Mullen
Daisy
Nelson Deilis
Miami