The 5th Portuguese Tournament of Mathematical Games

During March, 13, 2008, 1204 students (aging 7 to 17) from all Portugal join at Covilhã to play six different abstract games.

The Fifth Portuguese Tournament of Mathematical Games started months before in 279 schools, scattered thru all Portugal, with local tournaments to find what students were the best players.

The games were:

The games were divided by students' age:

This meant 12 independent tournaments (a tournament per age per game). The finals happened at University of Beira Interior:

More information can be found at ludicum.org (in Portuguese). More photos here and here.

Here are some pictures just before the event started:


Each group had 12 students in a
Swiss tournament with 4 rounds


Each game had several groups
playing at the same time

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The Final Begins

Then everybody started pouring into the nice quiet room...


Some of the teachers that brought these students from all over the country.

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: 

Pedro Miguel Pereira - Esc. Básica André Resende (Évora)
Semáforo 1º ciclo João Pedro Pisco - Agrupamento 2 de Évora
Ricardo Miguel Lopes - EB1 de Pero Negro
Pedro Miguel Ferreira - EB23 do Bairro Padre Cruz
Konane 1º ciclo Rafael Filipe Fernandes - Agrupamento de Escolas de Jardins de Stª COmba Dão
Tiago Filipe Ferreira - Agrupamento des Escolas Aradas
Mariana Matos Pinto - EB1 Castro Daire
Ouri 1º ciclo Ana Miguel Santiago - EB1 Aguada de Cima
Ema Sofia Ferreira - Colégio Sagrado Coração de Maria (Lisboa)
Tiago João Sousa Silva - EB23 Gonçalo Nunes
Konane  2º ciclo Eduardo Alexandre Sousa - EB23 de Cávado
Luís Miguel Vieira - EB23 de Matosinhos
João Maria Menezes - Colégio Nª Srª Lurdes
Ouri 2º ciclo Ana Laura Nogueira - EB23 Alpendurada
Ana Cláudia Marques - Cooperativa vale S.Cosme
João Nuno Valente - Agrupamento de Esc.Esgueira - Aires Barbosa
Hex 2º ciclo André Oliveira Pinheiro - EB23 Martim de Freiras (Coimbra)
Ricardo António Lino - Colégio Laura Vicunha (Vendas Novas)
Fábio André Araújo - Esc.Sec./3º ciclo Vabom
Ouri 3º ciclo Alexandre Joel Marinho - Esc.Sec.Felgueiras
Beatriz Norte - EB Stª Catarina
Miguel Christian Schon - EB23 D.João II
Hex 3º ciclo Pedro José Azevedo - Esc.Sec./3º ciclo Oliveira do Douro
Nuno Miguel Burnay - Esc.Sec.Portela
Fábio Carvalho - EB23 A ribeirinha (Porto)
Rastros 3º ciclo Tiago José Henriques - Colégio Dr- Luís Pereira da Costa (Leiria)
Leonardo Oliveira - Agrupamento de Esc.Esgueira - Aires Barbosa
Luís António Maduro - Esc.Sec.Infanta D.Maria (Coimbra)
Hex secundário Bruno Manuel Pires - Insituto Vaz Serra
Fábio André Costa - Esc Sec./3ºciclo Bernardino Machado (Fig.Foz)
Manuel Borges Reis - Escola Sec. Camões
Rastros secundário João Filipe Alexandre - Escola Sec./3º ciclo de Montejunto
Pedro José Palma - Escola Sec. Leal da Câmara
Rui Frias Moreira - Escola Sec. Leal da Câmara
Avanço secundário Yaroslav Minakov - Cooperatica de V.S.Cosme Didáxis
Tiago Alves - Escola Sec. da Amadora

Special tournament

There was also a parallel tournament for blind people, using a special set of Traffic Lights.

And final results were:

Samuel Ramos
Semáforo José Coelho
Alexandra Martins
4ºs Catarina Caio / Leonardo Carregueira / Madalina Torres


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