Thanks! I am thrilled to have some feedback to respond to! I will be the first American to use a 2-card system in competition, yes.
Responding to your comment about the second half first, the second half was actually easier to learn than any list created I’ve created with any other method, including the first half of this list (MajorSystem).
The word-pairs are easy enough to learn simply by reading the list over and over - many of them I learned permanently the moment I made them up. For instance: 769 = 6
9 = Kech (Ketchup), so 6
9 = KEch (Mustard). And that was that - never studied it; never forgot it.
What I may not have mentioned above is that you come up with your 1352 images first, and once you know them, the pronunciations of the shadow images will become automatic after just a few days when the time comes to add those in, since those pronunciations follow stated rules (there are exceptions here and there, but those exceptions can all just be learned together in a flashcard list).
About there being no actions or persons, this is just an object list, but about 40 of my objects are people, and perhaps 100 more are animal or humanoid. Using 52 objects in 52 locations is still a viable way to memorize a deck. It is the preferred method of Boris Konrad, who has broken 20 seconds with it many times. Ben’s list is a mixture of objects and people too. He prefers putting 3 objects per loci, which fits one deck into only 9 loci. It isn’t as easy as PAO, which does the creative work for you, but a PAO system with 2704 PAO’s might be hard to make up, and I would never do it because people are hard for me to visualize distinctly. Now I am spending more and more time learning what single, distinct thing each of the 2704 objects can always do to the one following it, to make a pseudo-PA style system.
So for now, when I do single-deck, I just use 2 images per loci, which fits a deck into 13 loci. It’s should get easier after knowing specifically what the first image can always do to the second - even if it just falls on top of it. 3 objects per loci is more difficult because if you just have the first object “fall onto” the second, something new still needs to happen to make the third memorable, so more novel and creative associations are necessary, which takes more time, especially as a beginner. In theory, one object per loci is ideal for speed since no novel information needs to be created to add into the imagery by associating them together. Indeed, I am hoping that this will eventually become my preferred method, but the truth is, I’m still so callow that I have practically zero experiencing memorizing 26 (Let alone 52!) objects without review. I used to train single-deck with PAO, which uses only 17 loci per deck, so even a mere 26 is something I really have to work my way up to.