# Planning thread: Public Monthly Memory Competition (+May 2014 NYC) **URL:** \ **Category:** Memory Sports\ **Created:** [February 5, 2014, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/planning-thread-public-monthly-memory-competition-may-2014-nyc/29131 "2014-02-05T00:16:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![StevenBhardwaj](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/stevenbhardwaj/32/2913_2.png) [@StevenBhardwaj](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/StevenBhardwaj)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/planning-thread-public-monthly-memory-competition-may-2014-nyc/29131/3 "2014-02-06T15:57:44Z")
> [@LociInTheSky](#): > > > [@StevenBhardwaj](#): > > > > a worldwide same-day event where everyone does matched trials of the more easily prepared WMC-type events. > > Any interest or precedents for either kind of event? > > - A billion. Do it. > > Being an MA in America sucks. One competition a year, and with so few events? Ugh, it’s like being a passionate composer who is stranded on an uncharted island with only a someone else’s moody, sticky pet guinea pig who survived the plane crash to hum to, but he doesn’t offer you his two cents because he only likes listening to rap. > > No, it’s more like being an author, but you have to write your books out by hand with one of those little pencils that are included with a rented golf cart because nobody had the bright idea to invent anything longer. Oh sure, there’s a typewriter at the extreme tip of this huge nation that you can use one day per year, but it’s not very reliable. Never mind trying to get your hands on something better – the computer that the whole world shares was recently shipped to China, not that it even matters anymore; thanks to that avalanche, you’re snowed in this tiny cabin with a broken heater and a nun who keeps whacking your left hand with a ruler. > > Good luck developing into the writer you want to be. > > 😢 Source: > **[2014 USA Memory Championship Registration and Dates](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/2014-usa-memory-championship-registration-and-dates/28607)** > > The registration is open for the 2014 USA Memory Championship: https://www.usamemorychampionship.com/ The tentative date that was posted on Facebook is March 22, 2014. ... After reading the above thoughts posted by Lance on the USA MC thread, I changed the title of the planning thread, from its previous NYC-focused title. I was thinking, at the same instant as the informal competition starts in NYC, we can post-online the same number-lists and card-sequences being memorized by the contestants. Then anyone anywhere can compete at the same time and their results can be automatically posted, as well as shared at the physical event. So while the somewhat-carefully organized in-person NYC event will certainly have its own leaderboard, we can have a parallel public leaderboard accessible to anyone to self-report their scores on the same numbers. I expect this will encourage all concerned! --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/planning-thread-public-monthly-memory-competition-may-2014-nyc/29131)._