世界脑力锦标赛明日开赛，美国队长Nelson“爆笑”神预测记忆大牛落谁家

世界脑力锦标赛明日开赛，美国队长Nelson“爆笑”神预（tu）测（cao）

以下原文翻译自Nelson发表在Climbformemory的文章
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The 2015 World Memory Championships is less than a week away from happening (Dec. 16-18, in Chengdu, China, to be exact) and I wanted to share my thoughts on what I expect to go down.

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First, a few notable things.
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离2015年世界记忆锦标赛只有不到一个星期（比赛将于12月16号到18号在中国成都举办），对于这次比赛，我想来谈谈我的看法。

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  q! B  U+ z/ v6 _5 |1. No Jonas von Essen, the reigning 2x world champ. I haven’t spoken with him lately, so I’m not sure what his reasons are for not competing, but he has some sense in him (unlike me). Stopping while he’s on top. Why not, right?

两届世锦赛卫冕冠军Jonas von Essen将不会参赛。最近我也没同他聊过，所以我也不确定他为什么不参加，但他有自己的理由（不像我）。都到顶了，为什么不全身而退呢，是吧？

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2. No legendary 3x WMC champ Ben Pridmore. WHAT. THE. HELL! There ain’t no WMC like a WMC party when Ben’s not there. Who’s gonna take his place and wear funny t-shirts that say things like “I am from Space” and “I’m big in Japan”??? Boo to you Ben.
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三届的传奇冠军选手Ben Pridmore本次也不会参赛。什么鬼！ben都不在，还叫世锦赛吗？谁还能代替他，穿搞笑T恤，说些无厘头的“我是外太空来的”“我是日本一哥”这类的鬼话？BEN，你搞什么！

* q' {' u5 U  [7 _3. There are more Americans competing than ever. A whopping FIVE! Me and Brad Zupp (the old guys), Luis Angel (the I-competed-a-few-years-ago-but-I’m-better-now-and-am-gonna-kick-ass guy), and 2 new-comers Alex Mullen and Lance Tschirhart (the I’ve-got-something-to-prove guys…more on them later).

第三呢，参赛的美国人人数史无前例。五个啊！我和Brad Zupp（就是那个老男人），Luis Angel（几年前同他交手过，不过我已经不是当年那个我了，这次一定被我杀个屁滚尿流），还有两个新来的，Alex Mullen和Lance Tschirhart（关于这两个，还有更多爆料我待会再讲···）

Finally, this might end up being the largest competition that’s ever gone down, in terms of attendance.

Mostly thanks to the Chinese. The numbers aren’t entirely clear, but it seems like there will be around 300 competitors total – or at least that’s the cap. I think around 200 of them are Chinese.

Again, the websites announcing those numbers are poorly translated and who knows how accurate they are (more on that later). UPDATE: according to the competitor list, the final number is 285.

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最后要说的是，就参与度来说，这一次可能将是有史以来最大型的一场比赛。

非常感谢中国朋友。参加人数目前还不是很确定，但好像说总共有近300人参赛，至少封顶是300人。我觉得其中差不多有200个是中国选手。

网站上发的声明翻译得太烂了，鬼知道准确人数是多少（待会再吐槽这个）。

最新消息是：据参赛者名单来看，参赛人数为285人。

( F# n$ N- d' g5 E; e3 `* EOh, and I guess an extra interesting fact is that there is big prize money? Again, it’s all coming from Chinese sources so the numbers are a bit hand-wavey. There’s also more prize money going to the “best fan,” whatever the hell that means. I mean, I’m a pretty big fan. So…I win?

* R7 t' p' R% K5 R, F对了，还有个有意思的问题就是，本次比赛会设立大笔奖金吗？

还是那句话，消息都是由中国那边传来的，所以就是有些模糊不清，据说还有个什么“最佳粉丝”大奖？什么鬼？难道…我是比赛的超级大粉丝，所以…我就能拿那个奖？

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We will be SO lucky to be in the presence of some Polish royalty! They were invited by Tony and Ray (the we-created-the-WMC guys) and are coming to watch us 300 competitors stare at sheets for 8 hours a day, for 3 days straight.

Although, I think if you dig far back enough into my ancestry you’ll also find that I am royalty as well. So I guess it’s not really that big of a deal. Plus they were probably just invited so Tony and Ray have fancy dinner guests.

I’ll be eating hot pot Sichuan food on the street, thank you very much (who am I kidding, I’m not royal enough to be invited to their dinners).

OK, ‘NUFF O’ THAT….NOW FOR PREDICTIONS!

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很荣幸我们将会有几名波兰皇室成员出席本次比赛！他们受到Tony和Ray（就是号称创办比赛的两个家伙）的邀请前来观看我们300位参赛者每天盯着纸看8个小时，要整整盯3天！

不过，你们如果去挖我的历史，一直追溯到我的祖先，你会发现其实我也是皇室成员，所以，我认为这也没什么大不了的嘛。况且Tony和Ray可能只是邀请他们来做浮夸的晚宴嘉宾罢了。

那个时候我可能在四川大街上吃了麻辣火锅呢，谢谢。（这怎么能开玩笑，我虽是皇室，还不至于贵族到去参加他们的晚宴）

好了，话不多说，现在开始我们对本次比赛的预测吧！

Of the hundred-some competitors coming, here are the ones who are currently most notable in the rankings:
, W$ W' t+ ~3 p1 C7 T在本次比赛几百位参赛者中，以下这几位是目前排名中最重要的几位参赛者：
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Johannes Mallow
2 x9 K( a6 Z" H4 [. [2 eSimon Reinhard
  K1 r/ c( ]5 z) O5 ~0 QMarwin Wallonius
Sengesamdan Ulziikhutag
Zheng Aiqiang(UPDATED: he won’t be competing)
Christian Schafer (UPDATED: he won’t be competing)
Yanjaa Altansuh
Ola Kare Risa
Boris Konrad
Lance Tschirhart
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Others: Marlo Knight, Johannes Zhou (UPDATE: he won’t be competing) , Alex Mullen, Tsogobadrakh Saikhanbayar, Shi Bin Bin

9 x0 a2 l1 Q. U$ E! W/ P! g其他的还包括：Marlo Knight, Johannes Zhou (最新消息：他不会参赛) , Alex Mullen, Tsogobadrakh Saikhanbayar, Shi Bin Bin

. d5 h+ b2 }. NSo there’s the list.

For sure those 10 are going to be playing up in the top-ten during the 3-day competition, but then there are some others that will be contending in the mix, as well as some surprises we won’t expect. I’d throw Alex Mullen and Tsogo in the hat with almost near certainty. Both beasts with numbers, and Alex creating rumblings of awesomeness throughout all the other disciplines as well. Tsogo has been through this rodeo a few times before, so he’s got experience, but for Alex this will be his first, a virgin.

Having seen Alex under serious pressure at the last XMT, he is beyond-a-doubt, a steady hand. I think if there is anyone who can hit his practice scores consistently in a competition, it’s him.

Then there is Lance. He’s had some seriously impressive scores on Memocamp, but can he translate that down onto paper in a competition. We can only wait and see.

所以，名单就是这样。

当然这10位在3天的比赛中肯定能跻身前十，当然还可能会有其他人加入其中，和一些意想不到的惊喜。

我敢肯定的是Alex Mullen和Tsogo肯定是能带来惊喜的。这两位都非常擅长数字，Alex在其他项目上也极其厉害。Tsogo之前参加过这种竞技，所以说还是有一些经验。但是Alex是第一次，这是他的处女赛。

上次在XMT看到他在高压环境下沉着应战，不慌不忙。我想能在比赛中不断打破他的训练记录的人，也就只有他自己了。

还有就是Lance，他在Memocamp有非常不错的表现，但是他能在比赛中也能这么完美地将其付诸笔头吗？我们拭目以待。

2 C" F" h5 e& j  ]0 Q+ @; lWhat about the classics, Simon and Johannes?

I have no idea how Johannes has been training. All I know is that he took some time off and has probably been itching to compete and training to make an epic come back. Don’t count him out at all. He will be contending for the championship, that’s for sure.

And then Simon, we all know the kind of scores he can get when he is ON. And if he can hit that 20 second mark on speed cards, while maintaining great all round scores in the other events, he’ll be up there too.

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我不知道Johannes是怎么训练的，我只知道他专门请了一段时间的假，可能一直渴望比赛，一直不断训练，希望重新创造历史。不要小看了他，可以肯定的是，他一定会参与冠军的争夺的。

Simon的话，我们都知道他是那种状态来了挡都挡不住的人。如果他在快速扑克牌项目能达到20秒的记录，保持在其他赛事中的拿到的全能高分，那么他也不容小觑。

5 m( p2 V+ K, H9 Y* G, N/ \Then there is Marwin, who recently won the Swedish Championship and broke a few insane records (1800 digits in 30 minutes, 567 abstract images in 15 minutes, and 1071 digits in 15 minutes – WHAT???). He is on a serious ROLE this year.

然后要说说Marwin，他不久前拿下瑞典锦标赛冠军，并打破了一些惊人记录（半小时1800个数字，15分钟567张抽象图片，15分钟1071个数字——天了噜！）今年他也是个重头戏。

If I had to call out a top-5 right now, it would have to be (not in order):

Johannes Mallow, Simon Reinhard, Alex Mullen, Marwin Wallonius, and hmmm, I don’t know that 5th slot. It could be Yanjaa, it could be Boris, it could be Lance, it could be one of the top Mongolians, it could be Zheng (who I don’t know a whole great deal about), it could be me if everyone else dies.

如果让我现在说出前五名，那可能就是（排名不分先后）：

Johannes Mallow, Simon Reinhard, Alex Mullen, Marwin Wallonius，嗯··至于第五位的话，可能是Yanjaa，也可能是Boris，也可能是Lance，也有可能是蒙古顶尖选手之一，可能是Zheng，（虽然我不知道所有这些人的名字），当然，如果大家都死了，也有可能是我啊。

Okay, so if I had to cut that down to top-3, I would go with, in order this time…here it is…

好的，如果一定要把范围缩小到前三名，我认为可能是···这一次按顺序说···

  |- s; T' h% T9 X  E) t: S* jMarwin Wallonius
$ ~: I# |2 B" j5 i8 G* sAlex Mullen
* P# E1 k0 J7 C3 nJohannes MallowThen, just for shits and giggles:
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Simon Reinhard
Shi Bin Bin
Lance Tschirhart
Zheng Aiqiang
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Tsogobadrakh Saikhanbayar
Boris KonradAnd continuing a bit:
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2 A, c. e4 V9 l( U. i/ t) ]Sengesamdan Ulziikhutag
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Nelson Dellis (gotta throw myself in there)Anyways, let’s see what happens.
+ J2 e. [9 l6 I* oChina is far, and jet-lag is real. Competition is a whole other ball game and there is a lot on the line (lots of moneyyyyyy), so who knows how people will perform with that kind of pressure. Updates will come as they happen next week. Stay tuned!
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总之，让我们拭目以待。
中国距离遥远，还会有真正的时差。比赛是全新的，很很很很很很多事情（钱）已经蓄势待发，谁知道大家在巨大的压力之下会表现如何。
敬请期待下周的比赛，祝大家心情愉快！
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