Big Game and where to find it

One of my new favourite Wikipedia pages is List of world championships in mind sports, which lives up to its name. At one point I had a long-term slow-burning plan to start a low-volume blog which detailed the existence of the various mind sports world championships that existed, updating each of perhaps forty or fifty once every year, or two years, or less frequent, as appropriate. This hasn't happened, and the Wikipedia page now gives me a good excuse not to be the one to make it happen.

One thing I haven't yet found online is a survey of festivals at which many different mind sports are played. There used to be a brilliant site with the counterpart for physical sports, but it has closed and Wikipedia's list of multi-sport events is nearly as good.

The International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) attempts to be a co-ordinating board for mind sports' governing bodies, and held an event they called the World Mind Sports Games in 2008. There are suggestions that a second one might happen in August 2012, with at least one source suggesting it might happen in the UK.

(Edit: I have taken so long to write this that the World Bridge Federation now quote the IMSA as announcing - though doing so on their web page would be too easy, obviously - that the venue will be either Cardiff, Wales or Strasbourg, France. Decision to follow around, er, the Thursday before last.)

( More information about multi-mind-sport festivals around the world in the UK, Greece, Czech Republic, US, Germany and France. )