The 13th Portuguese Tournament of Mathematical Games
During March 24, 2017, around 1500 students (aging 7 to 17) from all Portugal joined at Guimarães to play six different abstract games. The event was organized locally by professors from the Agrupamento de Escolas D.Afonso Henriques, Agrupamento de Escolas Francisco de Holanda, ES de Caldas das Taipas and Universidade do Minho, namely: Carla Bernardete Delgado Josefino, Maria Manuela Ferreira Dias, António José Ribeiro Caldas Domingues, Célia Maria Xavier Sousa Gama Lobo, Fernando Manuel Machado Macedo, Helena Isabel dos Santos Ribeiro Ferreira, Sérgio Silva, António Filipe Jesus Silva, Francisco Assis Leite Silva, Maria de Lurdes Machado da Silva Marques, Arminda Manuela Gonçalves, Cláudia Mendes Araújo, Estelita Vaz, Stéphane Clain. More information here.
The event occurred at Multisusos de Guimarães:
A panoramic view of the tournament
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:
- Traffic Lights - the 3x4 variant from Alan Parr's original game
- Cats & Dogs - A 1970s game from Simon Norton
- Slimetrail - 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
- Product - Nick Bentley's game with some adaptations
- Flume - A scoring/territory game by Mark Steere
The games were divided by students' age:
- First cycle (7-10 years) students played Traffic Lights, Cats & Dogs or Slimetrail
- Second Cycle (10-12 years) students played Cats & Dogs, Slimetrail or Breakthrough
- Third Cycle (12-15 years) students played Slimetrail, Product or Breakthrough
- Secondary (15-17 years) students played Product, Breakthrough or Flume
This meant 12 independent tournaments (a tournament per age per game). More information can be found at ludicum.org (in Portuguese).
Here's a video showing the event during the morning:
Some pictures:
More photos and videos here.
The best student of each tournament was selected to the afternoon's final. This last tournament decided the winners. There were 140 students in this phase.
The winners
| 1º Ciclo | Semáforo | 1 | Escola Básica de Solum - João Salgueiro |
| 2 | Colegio São Franciso Xavier - Bernardo Esteves | ||
| 3 | Escola Básica do Bairro da Câmara - Vasco Pereira | ||
| 1º Ciclo | Gatos e Cães | 1 | Escola Básica do Bairro da Câmara - Ana Alfaiate |
| 2 | Colegio São Franciso Xavier - Francisco Torres | ||
| 3 | Escola Básica de Medados - Touguinha - Sofia Silva | ||
| 1º Ciclo | Rastros | 1 | Colégio São João de Brito - Francisco Silva |
| 2 | 2ºJardim Escola João de Deus - Daniel Faria | ||
| 3 | Escola Básica do Rossio de S. Brás - Carolina Cardinho | ||
| 2º Ciclo | Gatos e Cães | 1 | Colégio de S. José - Tomás Bastião |
| 2 | Escola Básica André de Resende - Gustavo Antunes | ||
| 3 | Colégio Pedro Arrupe - Miguel Sousa | ||
| 2º Ciclo | Rastros | 1 | EB Dr. Carlos Pinto Ferreira - Junqueira - Vila do Conde - Daniela Pereira |
| 2 | Centro Helen Keller - Vasco Dinis | ||
| 3 | Colégio de S. José - Diogo Furtado | ||
| 2º Ciclo | Avanço | 1 | Escola E.B. 2/3 D. Afonso Henriques - João Araújo |
| 2 | Escola Básica de Matosinhos - João Carvalho | ||
| 3 | EB e Secundária Dr. Manuel Fernandes - Abrantes - João Loureiro | ||
| 3º Ciclo | Rastros | 1 | Colégio Nossa Senhora de Lourdes - Tiago Silva |
| 2 | Colégio Pedro Arrupe - Alexandre Caraça | ||
| 3 | Colégio do Castanheiro - Carlota Cynbrom | ||
| 3º Ciclo | Produto | 1 | Escola B. 2,3/S de Arcos de Valdevez - Miguel Braga |
| 2 | Escola Básica e Secundária Dr. Jaime Magalhães Lima - João Ferreira | ||
| 3 | Colégio do Castanheiro - Andre Godinho | ||
| 3º Ciclo | Avanço | 1 | Escola Secundária José Estevão - José Veiga |
| 2 | ES 2,3 D.Filipa de Lencastre - Simão Moreira | ||
| 3 | Escola D. João II de Caldas da Rainha - Miguel Primo | ||
| Secundário | Produto | 1 | Esc. Secundária/3 Camilo Castelo Branco - Eva Melo |
| 2 | Escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira - Manuel Duarte | ||
| 3 | Escola Secundária José Estevão - Luís Gonçalves | ||
| Secundário | Avanço | 1 | Escola Secundária Infanta D. Maria - João Fernandes |
| 2 | Esc. Secundária/3 Camilo Castelo Branco - Guilherme Rodrigues | ||
| 3 | Escola Secundária Ferreira Dias - Aladge Sanha | ||
| Secundário | Flume | 1 | Escola Secundária Ferreira Dias - Lucas Nabais |
| 2 | Escola Secundária José Estevão - Afonso Rufino | ||
| 3 | Escola Básica e Secundária de Salvaterra de Magos - João Batista |
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.
