THE newly created Pinoy Memory Athletes Association, headed by the father of Philippine Memory sport Robert Racasa, is sending new faces to the Singapore Open Memory Championship slated March 14 to 16 at the Singapore Polytechnic Graduates Guild.
Backed up by Hotel Sogo and Marikina Mayor Del Duzman and the City Council, the Philippine memory team will be composed of head delegate Mari Ann Andrade Yambalia, competitors Richard Sarcos, Joel Micus Lolong, Dorothy Elenzano, Philip Benitez and Nico Angelo Esperanza.
Acting as head coach is Racasa, who personally handled the training of the athletes, who are out to show their wares in the Singapore tourney that gathered the best memory athletes in the world.
“This is their chance to show what they have learned from our intensive training. We are thankful to Sogo Hotel’s continued support,” said Racasa, co-founder of the Pinoy Memory Athletes Association.
Hotel Sogo provided the team’s registration fee, plane tickets and hotel accommodation for the competition.
Racasa said this year’s edition will be tougher with the presence of some of the top players in the world, including world no. 2 Simon Reinhard from Germany and Asia’s top memory athletes from Mongolia, China, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore and India.
The annual tournament, which brings out the greatest minds in the world, is sanctioned by the World Memory Sports Council. It covers competition with 10 separate memory disciplines, where competitors will demonstrate their ability to memorize numbers, words, dates, abstract images, cards, spoken numbers and names and faces.