The 15th Portuguese Tournament of Mathematical Games

During March 29, 2019, around 2000 students (aging 7 to 17) from all Portugal joined at Maia near Porto to play six different abstract games. The event was organized locally by school EB23 Pedrouços, namely by Paula Madeira, Cláudia Rodrigues, Rui Miranda, Mário Oliveira, Helena Pinto, Paula Forte e Júlio Guimarães. More information here.

The event occurred at EB23 Pedrouços:

The tournament during the morning!

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

The games were the following:

The games were divided by students' age:

This meant 12 independent tournaments (a tournament per age per game). More information can be found at ludicum.org (in Portuguese).

Some pictures:



























During the tournament

The best student of each tournament was selected to the afternoon's final. This last tournament decided the winners.

The winners

1º Ciclo Semáforo 1  Afonso Araújo, EB Vila Frescaínha S. Pedro
    2  Tiago, Escola Bás. de Pedome
    3  Francisco Rosa, EB1 Foros da Craveiras Norte
1º Ciclo Gatos e Cães 1  Rúben Cordeiro, Centro Esc. de Foros de Salvaterra e Várzea Fresca
    2  Manuel Costa, Escola nº2 de Abrantes
    3  Rafael Venâncio, EB1/JI Sobral Monte Agraço e Santo Quintino
1º Ciclo Rastros 1  João Gonçalves, EB1/PE/C Eng.ª Luís Santos Costa 
    2  Francisco Almeida, Colégio de São João de Brito
    3  Mateus Amâncio, Agrup. de Escolas Dr. Carlos Pinto Ferreira
2º Ciclo Gatos e Cães 1  Nuno Mateus, EB Roque Gameiro
    2  Rodrigo Pinela, Colégio St. Peter´s School
    3  Daniel Barroso, Escola Bás. 2,3 de Távora Santa Maria
2º Ciclo Rastros 1  João Casalta, Colégio do Ave
    2  Francisco Maio, Escola Bás. de Matosinhos
    3  Leonardo Carvalho, EB23 Frei Caetano Brandão
2º Ciclo Produto 1  Inês Braga, Escola Bás. 2,3/S de Arcos de Valdevez
    2  Miguel, Escola Bás. e Sec. D. Filipa de Lencastre
    3  Lucas Macedo, EB António Correia de Oliveira
3º Ciclo Rastros 1  Francisco Sousa, Colégio de São João de Brito
    2  Bruna Godinho, Escola Sec. Dr. Manuel Fernandes - Abrantes
    3  Joaquim Neves, Colégio de Santa Maria
3º Ciclo Produto 1  Simão Ferreira, AE José Estêvão
    2  Lichen Jiang, PaRK IS
    3  Tiago Antunes, Colégio do Vale
3º Ciclo Avanço 1  Simão Moreira, Escola Bás. e Sec. D. Filipa de Lencastre
    2  Márcio Araújo, Escola E.B. 2/3 D. Afonso Henriques
    3  Eduardo Reis, Escola Sec. de São Lourenço - Portalegre
Secundário Produto 1  Miguel Braga, Escola Bás. 2,3/S de Arcos de Valdevez
    2  Liang Chen, Esc. Sec. Ferreira Dias
    3  Diogo Couto, EBS de Penalva do Castelo
Secundário Avanço 1  Xiang Guo, Escola Sec. Dr. Joaquim de Carvalho
    2  Tiago Lopes, Agrup. de escolas Francisco de Holanda
    3  Miguel Primo, Escola Sec. Raul Proença
Secundário Atari-Go 1  Said, Escola Sec. da Amadora
    2  Nuno Silva, Colégio de São João de Brito
    3  Luis Silva, Escola Sec. de Maximinos

Acknowledgments

We wish to thank all the organizations that made this possible and also the wonderful people that work really hard to make this possible. Also, to the usual suspects: Alda Carvalho, Ana Fraga, Carlos Santos, João Pedro Neto, Jorge Nuno Silva, Luís Malheiro, Teresa Santos and all the great professors and assistants that volunteer to help us with this wonderful event. A special thanks to Carlota Brazileiro for her tireless work helping low-vision and blind students playing these great games!


 


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