The Baikal Festival of Intellectual Games was held in Irkutsk

The 11th Baikal Festival of Intellectual Games was held in Irkutsk, bringing together 67 teams from Irkutsk Region, Krasnoyarsk Krai and Buryatia. Teams competed in What Where When, Brain Ring, Erudite Quartet and Own Game, with Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk teams standing out among the winners. Special interest was drawn by guest expert Ilya Ber and one Irkutsk team earning the right to represent the city at the Open Siberian Championship.

67 teams took part in the XI Baikal Festival of Intellectual Games, which was held in Irkutsk on October 6 and 7 at the Panorama Club and Baikal State University of Economics and Law. This was reported by Alexey Petrov, president of the Irkutsk city public organization “Club of Young Scientists ‘Alliance’.” The annual event in Irkutsk is the largest in the region, and it brings together the strongest teams from the Irkutsk Region, Krasnoyarsk Krai, and the Republic of Buryatia.
The festival was organized by the Irkutsk city public organization “Club of Young Scientists ‘Alliance’” with the support of the Ministry of Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the Irkutsk Region, the Department for Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the Irkutsk city administration, and the Alexander Bitarov charitable foundation for the support of civic initiatives.
The festival’s honorary guest was a connoisseur of the elite club “What? Where? When?”, chief editor of the television quiz show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”, vice-champion of Russia and bronze medalist of the world championships in the game “What? Where? When?” Ilya Ber.
The prize fund was contested by teams from Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk. Festival prizes were awarded in four categories.
Among school teams, the Irkutsk School No. 14 team “WWW” won twice, becoming the best in “What? Where? When?” and brain-ring. In “Erudite Quartet,” the team “We Need It, Fedya, We Need It!” (Lyceum No. 2) took first place. In the individual “Own Game” competition, Maxim Ermolaev (“We Need It, Fedya, We Need It!”) won, ahead of Maria Makhayeva (“Freedom of Mind”) and Mikhail Sosnovsky (“Unicum,” Angarsk).
In the student team competitions, students from Krasnoyarsk achieved a “double” victory — the team “Alternative” took first place in ChGK and brain-ring. The best in “Erudite Quartet” was the combined team “A Few Centimeters More” (ISU). The winner of “Own Game” was Irkutsk State University student Alexey Morozov, a player on the team “Powder, Go Away!”
In the most adult category, the Krasnoyarsk team “6 out of 45” became the Baikal Festival winner for the third time. Previously, it had achieved this success in 2009 and 2011. The Krasnoyarsk team outperformed two of the strongest Irkutsk teams — “Thirty-Legged Centipede” and “Antonovka.” However, the combined team of IrGTU student Yevgeny Romanchugov, “Why is it him?”, became the winner in “Erudite Quartet” and brain-ring. In “Own Game,” the best were Alexander Bulavchuk (Krasnoyarsk), Vera Smirnova (“Thirty-Legged Centipede,” Irkutsk), and Yevgeny Elesin (“Because Why Not,” Irkutsk).
The right to represent Irkutsk at the Open Siberian Championship in Intellectual Games, which will be held in February 2013 in Novosibirsk, was awarded to the combined team of the Institute of Mathematics and Economics of ISU, “Second Table on the Right.”
Special prizes for the Festival were provided by the Irkutsk Regional Branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which fielded a youth team to take part in the city’s “What? Where? When?” games this season. The gifts were presented by State Duma deputy and first secretary of the regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Sergey Levchenko.
Based on materials from the press service of the Irkutsk city administration