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By Amina Nazarli

The third Black Sea Open Cup Mind Games was held in Batumi, Georgia from August 1 to 3.

The championship brought together over 50 teams from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Armenia, Ukraine, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Moldova.

The competition included games such as What? Where? When?, Brain Ring quiz-type game, Texas Hold'em Team Battle, Khamsa, Jeopardy! as well as mini-football tournament.

The winner of What? Where? When? became "Primati" team (Ukraine). Azerbaijani Balash Kasumov's team shared the second place with Russian teams "Sbornaya Rossii" and "Ksep".

In the game Brain Rings section, Russian team "Afina" (the captain of the team is Maxim Potashev) took the first place. The winner of the silver medal became "Everest" team (the captain of the team is Maxim Tsurkov, "Icherisheher" club). Another Azerbaijan's team "Slon v udave" (the captain of the team is Nigar Ibrahimova) took the third place.

According to the results of Jeopardy! game , Alexandr Korobeynikov (Russia) became the first and Dmitriy Borok (Russia) the second. The bronze medal went to Javid Bedalbeyli (Azerbaijan).

The winner of Khamsa game became Russian team "Ksep", Azerbaijan's team of Faig Huseynov took the second place and Georgian team "Pentium" took the third place.

Head of the Center of intellectual development of young people, Faig Huseynov said that the game Khamsa was presented in Black Sea Open Cup for the second time.

"Last year the tournament was held among the national teams and had a demonstrative nature, but this year, it was a full-fledged sporting event, attended by everyone," Huseynov stressed.

Member of "Baku Pearl" team, Nazrin Gadimova shared her impressions with AzerNews.

"Equal conditions were created for each team. The rivals were very strong and thus the strongest team won," she said.

She also added that such events are very good test for the participant countries as, they become more closer, compete together and make some new friendships.

"This year there were many interesting people at the competition and it was pleasant to communicate with them," Gadimova noted.

It is not for the first time that Azerbaijan takes part at this international competition. Balash Kasumov's and Faig Huseynov's teams often show brilliant results. Recently, some two teams were distinguished which showed good results. They were "Slon v udave" and "Everest".

In 2013, Azerbaijan's team also visited the capital of Georgia at the Second Black Sea Open Cup Intellectual Games tournament.

Azerbaijan also annually holds such international intellectual games including Icherisheher Cup, which is held for the second time in Baku, as well as Caspian Cup international tournament which brings together about 30 teams and Baku Pearl tournament, coordinator of which is Ayan Bashirzada. During these meetings, domestic teams compete with teams from foreign countries.