Magic of the Mind

20 April 2006

Please bear with me on this, I'm trying to write this over 7 weeks after the event and my memory isn't great at the best of times, so if all the facts aren't 100% accurate or complete please don't hold it against me.

As I remember it there were 7 competitors fighting it out for the coveted Magic of the Mind Trophy, two of which were a double act. In no particular order (just basically as it comes into memory), there was Ali Ceurvorst who put together a great routine including a story of an impromptu piece of magic performed on a German TV show. Andy Hart offered a selection of unusual and entertaining items featuring him trying to superglue pennies to his forehead and predictions with poker chips. The next act plucked from my foggy memory is Tall & Small (or Rosman & Guy), their act included several mental effects including an envelope prediction which showed they knew exactly who would win and who wouldn't (they won). Matt Parr sat across from his victim assistant and asked them to draw some simple shapes and Mat managed to divine the correct shape. He ripped a newspaper to bits leaving only a tiny segment left with Paul Leacey with one word which turned out to be a location which Paul had predicted on a large map. Last but not least we moved to Alan Hatcher who started with a very clean fruit prediction, the highlight of his act for me was a lovely celebrity prediction which was delivered by Alan cutting bits from an clean A4 piece of paper, unfolding it and the silhouette of the person was removed from the page, excellent!

The standard of the evening was amazingly high and everyone deserved to win, unfortunately only one could and Alan was crowned this years King of SMC mentalists, well done and many thanks to everyone who took part.

Stu

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