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Source: Novosibirsk State University – Novosibirsk State University –
The tournament was held on February 21-23, with 78 teams from 23 cities in 10 regions of Siberia and the Far East taking part. The teams competed in several disciplines: “What? Where? When?”, “Brain Ring”, “Erudite Quartet” and Intellectual All-Around. “Own Game” was also held, in which participation was individual, not team.
In the student competition, participants from NSU showed excellent results:
Nikolay Afanasyev (4th year Physics Department of NSU) and Timofey Nikiforov (3rd year Humanitarian Institute of NSU) played in the team “Chest Gathering No. 4”. They took 2nd place in the tournament “What? Where? When?”, 1st place in “Brain Ring”, 1st place in the competition “Erudite Quartet”. Nikolay Afanasyev took 2nd place in “Own Game”. Timofey Nikiforov took 1st place in the individual all-around. Polina Snytkina and Vera Titova (both girls are first-year master’s students Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, NSU), Ekaterina Salangina (3rd year student Physics Department of NSU) played in the team “Saint Lopatrik” and took 1st place in “What? Where? When?”.
We talked to the participants and found out how they prepared for the competition, what they thought about the Championship and why they are interested in intellectual games.
Nikolay Afanasyev, 1st year master’s student at the Physics Department of NSU:
— On the first day we played the all-around and half of the ChGK questions, on the second — the “brain”, the quartet and our game. On the third day we finished playing the remaining half of the ChGK questions and the finals of some disciplines. This is our first year playing in the current line-up. However, each member of our team has a lot of experience playing in the past.
Preparation, as in any sport, consists of regular training. Unfortunately, the other guys on our team and I live in different cities, so we train mostly online. This is a kind of ersatz, but in the absence of a coat of arms…
The impressions from the Championship are the best. The organization, as always, is at the highest level. Sometimes it is hard to believe that an event for half a thousand participants can be so ideal. It is even more pleasant that such events are an opportunity to see your friends in person and have a great time. The questions were interesting, the prizes were very nice.
Polina Snytkina, first-year master’s student at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at NSU:
— We have been playing for the third year already, sometimes we go to festivals in other cities, in particular, we were at the Russian Student Championship last year (2024) and we hope that we will go and get good results this year.
The team was formed at the university thanks to the NSU Intellectual Games Club, in particular Lina Ivanova and Nikolay Afanasyev had a hand in this. In fact, everything is simple: before the start of the next season, we decided to put together a team of those who often went to training and with whom we communicated well. To be honest, almost all of our team members once studied at NSU. Gradually, we began to play more and more, then more guys joined our team, we started going to festivals, and it turned out that it was really cool, and sometimes we even managed to play well. Well, here we are.
The Siberian Championship is one of the best possible festivals that currently exist. The organizers try very hard, and it pays off. Many student and school teams from all over Siberia, and sometimes even from all over Russia, come to Novosibirsk. For three days we have the opportunity to play in a variety of formats, both team and individual (you can hit a lot of buttons), the questions are cool, written specifically for the tournament, Boris Belozerov, a well-known expert, was invited to read the questions. The merch, photos, and overall atmosphere, those emotions when you and your team work together to solve a difficult question or when you manage to press a button faster than your opponents, everything is top-notch, so I advise everyone to participate sometime, even if you have never played intellectual games before. Come to the KII NSU training sessions, we often do similar things there to train, and just for ourselves, it’s cool here.
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