The 6^th Portuguese Tournament of Mathematical Games

During March 12, 2010, more than 1800 students (aging 7 to 17) from all Portugal joined at Santarém to play six different abstract games.

The Sixth Portuguese Tournament of Mathematical Games started months before in ~400 schools, scattered thru all Portugal, with local tournaments to find what students were the best players.

The games were the same of the previous edition:

• Traffic Lights - the 3x4 variant from Alan Parr's original game
• Konane - The traditional Hawaiian board game
• Wari - a Mancala variant
• Hex - the famous connection game.
• Slimetrail - we used the Bill Taylor's 7x7 square variant for faster plays during the tournament.
• Breakthrough - The Dan Troyka game, winner of the 2001 8x8 Game Design Competition

The games were divided by students' age:

• First cycle (7-10 years) students played Traffic Lights, Konane or Wari
• Second Cycle (10-12 years) students played Konane, Wari or Hex
• Third Cycle (12-15 years) students played Wari, Hex or Slimetrail
• Secondary (15-17 years) students played Hex, Slimetrail or Breakthrough

This meant 12 independent tournaments (a tournament per age per game). The final happened at CNEMA: More information can be found at ludicum.org (in Portuguese) and more photos here.

The event appeared in two national TVs: RTP and SIC

Here are some pictures just before the event started:

The (big) room where all games took place. Each table saw three different group tournaments!

Each group had 12 students in 4 rounds

Each game had several tables

Each group plays a Swiss tournament, so we need computers to solve this task	We had a large room this time!
Seeding even the non-mancala boards	Lots of people need lots of food...

The Final Begins

The finalists

In the morning there were the first phase. Then, around 10-25 players for each game/cycle were selected to participate, after lunch, at the finals. The names of the winners [student (school)] are: 

	1º	Paulo Costa (Agrupamento D. Afonso Henriques)
Semáforo 1º ciclo	2º	Ana Catarina Rocha (EB1 Ribeira Grande, Açores)
	3º	Orlando Almeida (EBI Forjães)
	1º	Gonçalo Bastião (2º Jardim Escola João de Deus)
Konane 1º ciclo	2º	Sofia Rosa (EB1 Infante D. Henrique)
	3º	Diogo Lourenço (Colégio Sagrado Coração de Maria)
	1º	João Carvalho (EBI Raul Lino)
Ouri 1º ciclo	2º	Ricardo Abrantes (EBI S. Mamede)
	3º	Gonçalo Ribeiro (EB2 Gaspar, Açores)
	1º	Maria José Ferreira (Agrupamento Caramulo)
Konane  2º ciclo	2º	Tiago Gaspar (EB23 D. João II)
	3º	Artur Mateus (EB23 Rio Tinto
	1º	Vitor Vieira (Agrupamento Sobreira)
Ouri 2º ciclo	2º	João Amaral (Colégio Teresiano)
	3º	Daniel Marques (EB23 Bocage)
	1º	João Graça (EB23 D. João II)
Hex 2º ciclo	2º	João Manuel da Silva (EB23 Joaquim Inácio Sobral)
	3º	Rui Carvalho (Agrupamento D. Afonso Henriques)
	1º	Maria Francisca Quaresma (EBI23 André de Resende de Évora)
Ouri 3º ciclo	2º	Fábio Cunha (EB23 Vasco Moniz)
	3º	Miguel Pinto (António Sérgio, Gaia)
	1º	Hugo Correia (EB23 D. João II)
Hex 3º ciclo	2º	Ruben Guerra (Colégio de S. Mamede, Leiria)
	3º	André Santana (ES3C D. Manuel I, Beja)
	1º	Tiago Dinis (EB23 Dra Maria Alice Gouveia)
Rastros 3º ciclo	2º	Patrícia Filipe (Agrupamento Barreiro)
	3º	Diogo Carvalho (Agrupamento Diogo Cão)
	1º	Fábio Costa (Escola Cristina Torres)
Hex secundário	2º	Luís Maduro (Escola Infanta Dona Maria)
	3º	Diogo Teixeira (Escola Valbon)
	1º	Tiago Martins (Sec. da Lagoa, Açores)
Rastros secundário	2º	Daniel Figueira (Escola Mem Martins)
	3º	Carlos Ribeiro (Escola Profissional Raúl Dória)
	1º	João Oliveira (ES Infanta Dona Maria)
Avanço secundário	2º	André Duarte (Escola Profissional de Ourém)
	3º	Gonçalo Cunha (Saleseanos de Lisboa)

This year ~40 blind students played together with the other students but using special playing sets.

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