03 October 2013 - A 20-member Philippine team won first place in the First Hong Kong Open Memory Championships which took place at the True Light Girls College in Hong Kong from September 28 to 29. 

The Philippine team garnered a total score of 15,198.

Participating in the event were teams from the Philippines, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Indonesia and India.                                                                                  

The Hong Kong Memory Championships was founded by the Hong Kong Memory Sports Council and is sanctioned by the World Memory Sports Council. 

The First Hong Kong Open Memory Championships included events, such as names and faces, random numbers, speed numbers, playing cards, spoken numbers, binary numbers, abstract images, historic/future dates, random words and speed cards. 

Memory sport is for everyone. It has become popular among Western countries for some time and is rapidly gaining popularity in Southeast Asia where more people are aspiring to become mental athletes. END