Algeria Memory Championship 2021

The Algerian Open Memory Championship, in its ninth edition, was held Online on Saturday, April 10, 2021, so it’s the first Online National Championship in the Arab world be approved and Ranking by the Arabian Memory Championship Foundation and the World Memory Championship Foundation.

The Championship was supervised by Dr. Riadh Bensoucha, founder of the Algerian Memory Championship, founder of the Arabian Memory Championship and the representative of the World Memory Championship in the Arab World and Africa. The championship was also supervised by the Level 3 international Arbiter, Mr. Ahmed Lamine Chalah, who gave the starting signal for the Championship through the website.

This Championship was organized by the “Algerian Memory Championship Foundation”, and the championship was managed from the inside of the Foundation building.

10 Arbiters participated in the arbitration of the championship, including 5 international Arbiters certified from the World Memory Sports Council (Dr Riadh Bensoucha – Level 3 International Arbiter, Ahmed Lamine Chala – Level 3International Arbiter, Oum El-Khir Ben Naoui – Level 2 Arbiter, Asma Benaseur – Level 2 Arbiter, Kamal Lerari – Level 2 Arbiter), All the 10 Arbiter participated in an Online training course on arbitration presented by Mr. Ahmed Lamine Chala on March 26th, in addition to the Arbiters team, there was a team of technicians and administrators who participated in the success of the championship.

In this championship we have 24 competitors: 15 females, 9 males, 23 from Algeria and one from Saudi Arabia, and the composition of the competitors was as follows: 10 Adults competitors, 9 Juniors, 5 Kids, 4 of the participan’s Previously participated in memory championships, the rest are new participants.

Medals merit for participants were as follows:

1- Names and faces Event:

First place: Haroune BELHASNAT (Adults), Abderrahman CHARMAT (Juniors), and Sirine LAZAZI (Kids).

Second place: Fatima Zohra ROUANE (Adults), Abdrrahim SEMSSOUM (Juniors), and Malak LAZAZI (Kids).

Third place: Djamila MAHAZEM (Adults), Ichrak Essabah GHRIB (Juniors), there is No winner, because their results are zero (Kids).

2- Binary Digits Event:

First place: Haroune BELHASNAT (Adults), Abderrahman CHARMAT (Juniors), and Sirine LAZAZI (Kids).

Second place: Fatima Zohra ROUANE (Adults), Abdrrahim SEMSSOUM (Juniors), and Malak LAZAZI (Kids).

Third place: Slimane BEKOUCHE (Adults), Inesse TAHMI (Juniors), there is No winner (Kids).

3- Random Words Event:

First place: Slimane BEKOUCHE (Adults), Nibras Hanadi DJERDI (Juniors), and Sirine LAZAZI (Kids).

Second place: Haroune BELHASNAT (Adults), Abdrrahim SEMSSOUM (Juniors), there is No winner (Kids).

Third place: Fatima Zohra ROUANE (Adults), Abderrahman CHARMAT (Juniors), there is No winner (Kids).

4- Random Numbers Event:

First place: Fatima Zohra ROUANE (Adults), Abderrahman CHARMAT (Juniors), and Sirine LAZAZI (Kids).

Second Place: Haroune BELHASNAT (Adults), Akram Zakaria NACEUR (Juniors), and Meriem Razan NACEUR (Kids).

Third place: Slimane BEKOUCHE (Adults), Ichrak Essabah GHRIB (Juniors), there is No winner (Kids).

5- Speed Numbers Event:

First place: Fatima Zohra ROUANE (Adults), Abderrahman CHARMAT (Juniors), and Meriem Razan NACEUR (Kids).

Second place: Haroune BELHASNAT (Adults), Abdrrahim SEMSSOUM (Juniors), and Malak LAZAZI (Kids).

Third place: Slimane BEKOUCHE (Adults), Akram Zakaria NACEUR (Juniors), there is No winner (Kids).

6- Historic/Future Dates Event:

First place: Haroune BELHASNAT (Adults), Abderrahman CHARMAT (Juniors), and Sirine LAZAZI (Kids).

Second place: Slimane BEKOUCHE (Adults), Akram Zakaria NACEUR (Juniors), and Meriem Razan NACEUR (Kids).

Third place: Fahad BIN MOHAMMAD (Adults), Abdrrahim SEMSSOUM (Juniors), there is No winner (Kids).

7- Random Cards Event:

First place: Fatima Zohra ROUANE (Adults), Abderrahman CHARMAT (Juniors), and Sarra SILEM (Kids).

Second Place: Haroune BELHASNAT (Adults), Akram Zakaria NACEUR (Juniors), there is No winner (Kids).

Third place: Slimane BEKOUCHE (Adults), Nour El Houda SILEM (Juniors), there is No winner (Kids).

8- Abstract Images Event:

First place: Fahad BIN MOHAMMAD (Adults), Abderrahman CHARMAT (Juniors), and Sirine LAZAZI (Kids).

Second place: Djamila MAHAZEM (Adults), Abdrrahim SEMSSOUM (Juniors), and Malak LAZAZI (Kids).

Third place: Slimane BEKOUCHE (Adults), Akram Zakaria NACEUR (Juniors), and Meriem Razan NACEUR (Kids).

9- Spoken Numbers Event:

First place: Fatima Zohra ROUANE (Adults), Akram Zakaria NACEUR (Juniors), and Sirine LAZAZI (Kids).

Second place: Fahad BIN MOHAMMAD (Adults), Inesse TAHMI (Juniors), and Meriem Razan NACEUR (Kids).

Third place: Slimane BEKOUCHE (Adults), Nibras Hanadi DJERDI (Juniors), Insaf TAHMI (Kids).

10- Speed Cards Event:

First place: Fatima Zohra ROUANE (Adults), Abderrahman CHARMAT (Juniors), Insaf TAHMI (Kids).

Second place: Haroune BELHASNAT (Adults), Nour El Houda SILEM (Juniors), and Malak LAZAZI (Kids).

Third place: Slimane BEKOUCHE (Adults), Abdrrahim SEMSSOUM (Juniors), and Meriem Razan NACEUR (Kids).

In this Championship 6 New Arab Records were broken, and this exceeds the number of Arab records in the two previous Algeria Championships, which reflects the strength of competition in this Championship, and the records were as follows:

– Fatima Zohra ROUANE (Adults), New Arab record in Binary Digit event (645 digits / 5min), Random Cards event (271 Cards / 10min), Speed Cards event (52 Cards / 00:33min).

– Haroune BELHASNAT (Adults), New Arab record in Binary Digit event (646 digits / 5min).

– Slimane BEKOUCHE (Adults), New Arab record in Random Words event (89 words / 5min).

– Abderrahman CHARMAT (Juniors), New Arab record in Names and faces event (55 Names / 5 min).

Cups merit for participants were as follows:

1- Adults Category:

Algerian Memory champion 2021 in adult category: Fatima Zohra ROUANE, with a total of 4359 points.

Second place: Haroune BELHASNAT, with a total of 3629 points.

Third place: Slimane BEKOUCHE, with a total of 3421 points.

2- Juniors Category:

Algeria Memory Champion 2021 in Juniors category: Abderrahman CHARMAT, with a total of 2171 points.

Second place: Abdrrahim SEMSSOUM, with a total of 1303 points.

Third place: Akram Zakaria NACEUR, with a total of 950 points.

3- Kids Category:

Algeria Memory Champion 2021 in Kids Category: Sirine LAZAZI, with a total of 811 points.

Second place: Malak LAZAZI, with a total of 172 points.

Third place: Meriem Razan NACEUR, with a total of 142 points.

These Results makes Fatima Zohra ROUANE the Algerian Memory Champion for the year 2021 with a total of 4359 points, which is a total of points that exceeds the total points of the champion in the previous two years, and this is an important indicator of the strength of the Championship’s results and its success.

The results were announced in the evening of April 11, 2021, through 13 videos that were published in succession on all social media pages of the Algerian Memory Championship Foundation, and the titles of the videos were as follows:

1- Distribution of certificates to competitors.

2- Distribute of medals to the winners.

3- Distribution of certificates to Arbiters.

4- A word from the Chief Arbiters.

5- Certificates of new Arab Records.

6- Prizes for new Arab Records.

7- National Memory Master’s certificate.

8- Distribution of cups to the winners in categories.

9- Announcing the champion and distributing the Cup 2021.

10- A Word from Algeria memory champion 2021.

11- Honoring the Algeria Memory Championship team Work.

12- Summary of the Algeria Memory Championship 2021.

13- A Word of the founder of the Algeria Memory Championship.

After publishing the videos, which are considered as an online closing ceremony of the championship, An email was sent to all the participants containing the certificates of participation, certificates of new Arab records, certificates of first ranks in various categories, and a national master’s certificate. Financial prizes were also transferred to the winners and coordination was made with them to send medals And cups.

The general shape of this championship is completely different from all previous championships and this is the result of the global health situation that the Corona epidemic negatively affected, and that’s what forced us to have an onlinechampionship and an online closing ceremony too, but one of the beautiful things in this championship is that now we have an online simulation experience of the memory events, and our website has become able to generate events from a huge database that the site contains, and the correction is in the highest degree of accuracy based on the correction rules adopted by the World Memory Sports Council, and the site has successfully passed all the accuracy tests of correction.

During a full 5 months before the online championship date, a coordination was made continuously with the champions in various Arab countries to go through the online events and provide all observations for development and improvement, and their suggestions were approved until we reached the best user experience on the site based on the opinion of the memory champions in Arab world.

After that, a new stage came, which is the stage of developing the site in order to organize an online memory championship, and the site was developed to support the repeated interruptions in the Internet that may occur in the competitors’ computers even if the period of repeated interruptions reached 5 full minutes each time without affecting in any way the results of the participants in the championship! After this was completed, coordination was made with the candidates to participate in the online Algeria Memory Championship in order to participate in 6 experimental national championships before the date of the real championship, where 3 of them were short championships of 37 minutes duration, and 3 of them were full-day. These experimental championships were considered as training for the participants to be technically prepared in order to adhere to the rules of online competition, which were sent to them through the detailed guide to compete online, and these championships were also considered as a psychological preparation for them for this new experience, in each championship they were presented with new events to assure them that in a real championship there will also a new events.

Also, one of the beautiful things in this championship is that competitors during the championship could see their results achieved in the events and their deserving medals in every break during the championship, and upon the end of the championship, they could see their Recall screens in all events to find out where their mistakes, and the championshipstatistics were also published on the website directly After the championship for the high transparency of this championship.

In conclusion, we are very happy that now we have a website that supports 8 international languages ​​and supports the establishment of any type of online memory championships in a way that simulates real events and with the best user experience, and after the great satisfaction that we have seen from the participants in the championship, we see that this type of championships will have a great future; because it reduces the costs that championship organizers usually bear (competition hall, championship Arbiters, printing papers, logistical costs, …) and also it gives competitors advantages that were not previously present (psychological comfort for competitors by being in their homes, video recording from two angles for all competitors in all the time of the championship, the appearance of results and medals merit on the screens at each break time, the appearance of the Recall screens immediately after the end of the championship, the appearance of the championship statistics on the website immediately after the end of the championship, …).