Congratulations Albert, Angus, Jacob and Jerry on completing Day 1! It’s a great competition this year with everything finely balanced for Day 2. After a grueling five hours, there is a lot to talk about – the de-brief started almost immediately once out of the competition building, and continued throughout lunch. The team got into
Today started with the IOI Opening Ceremony. The event was kicked off by an introduction from the IOI 2018 animated hosts – IA and Onee. These two sisters have been very busy promoting all things IOI for the past several months. You can see their blog here. You’ll see they appear in several photographs and
SUB-i-a-co or Sub-i-A(h)-co? The correct pronunciation of Perth’s famous north-northwesterly suburb was the subject of a debate that nearly ripped the Australian 2018 IOI team asunder in Sydney. They were going to call it the Battle of Subiaco, but they couldn’t agree on how to pronounce it – so they just got on the plane
Before shipping out, the team met for its traditional final pre-IOI dinner at the local curry joint in Randwick. There, the team had to solve the mysterious case of the missing mango lassi (it was Ishraq’s) and try to figure out how to consume up to eighteen tons of garlic naan. After dinner, the team
Albert, Angus, Jacob, Jerry and Marcus have been hard at pre-IOI training in Sydney since last Thursday. Today’s the last full day of prep before flying out to Japan tomorrow. These pre-competition days are intense. They start with breakfast at 7:30am (Good Fat and a milkshake is a popular brekkie combo with the team) then
The flight from Munich to Cluj-Napoca …
Up at 3.00am this morning for the flight to Cluj and the IMO proper after a week training with the British team. Yesterday, we had the Ashes competition and, after a ten-year drought, Australia finally regained the covered trophy, in a very tight competition, 99 points to 98. As you can see, the team is
Guest blog post by Charles and Wen! “In the great Budapest mountains, before the dawn of the twenty second century, there were at least six great adventurers who climbed a medium-sized hill in Budapest…” — Wen The British team arrived late on Sunday evening, and Wen arrived even later (actually he arrived on Monday afternoon
Saturday night saw the team members congregating in Perth, ready for a long journey to Budapest! Qantas, reliable as always, delivered the Melbournians to Perth on time, and Virgin, our singular Sydney-sider. Unfortunately, Wen’s flight from Brisbane was delayed by 3 hours, with an expected arrival time in Perth… 15 minutes after our international flight’s departure.
Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
