USA Memory Championship

The USA Memory Championship (USAMC) is an annual memory sport competition founded in 1997 by Tony Dottino and Marshall Tarley, that takes place every autumn at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida. In 2024, the USAMC partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to host an additional competition in honor of the USAMC's 25th anniversary, titled "The Champion of Champions Memory Tournament," in which previous champions and notable competitors were pitted against one other to determine the "Champion of Champions." Prior to 2016, the USAMC previously took place every spring in New York City.

Designed to test the limits and potential of the human brain, and with the purpose of raising public awareness about memory and its critical role as the foundation of one's cognitive faculties, the USAMC seeks the top 12 Memory Athletes (MAs) in the U.S. to go head-to-head in attempting to memorize as much information as possible, across a series of elimination-style events. The competition currently consists of nine total events, five of which are online qualifying events, while the final four events are held live event to determine the champion.

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