This
year’s “Super Bowl of Sport Stacking” brought
together the world’s fastest stackers and was a huge success.
Nearly
1,000 stackers from five foreign countries and 21 states participated
in the 2005 World Sport Stacking Championships held at the Denver
Coliseum in Colorado. International participants hailed from Canada,
England, Japan, Australia and Germany, and many are flying home
with medals and trophies as proof of their stacking prowess.
Winners
-
Miriam
Christ, an 11-year old from Germany took home top-10
hardware in the 3-3-3, Cycle and the new Doubles competition.
Two
new world records were offically set at this year's tournament. (The
videotapes were
reviewed by the
WSSA). Chase
Demelio, and Andy Retting,
both from Colorado Springs and in the 14 & Under division,
combined their stacking talents and set a record of 9.97 seconds
in the new Doubles Cycle competition. Kit Fox,
13, from Highlands Ranch, Colorado, earned a world record time
in the 3-3-3 stack with a time of 2.43 seconds.
The
fastest Cycle time of the day was achieved by Emily Fox from Highlands
Ranch, Colorado with a time of 7.55 seconds. With television cameras
zoomed in and a representative from Guinness World Records on hand,
she attempted to break her current world record of 7.43 seconds
but fell just short. Fox did not compete in this year’s
tournament due to a conflict with an all-star high school basketball
game, but was given an opportunity to break her record in the opening
ceremonies.
Bringing
home the championship trophy in this year’s Cycle
stack was an elated Nate Florea, a 12-year-old from
Colorado Springs. His time of 7.96 seconds edged out Kit
Fox, who
took second place (8.01 seconds) and his older brother Brennan
Fox,
15, whose time of 8.18 seconds put him in third place.
In
the 3-6-3 stack, John Koza, a nine-year-old who attends the Colorado
Academy, won with a time of 2.93 seconds. Jeoff Harris, 12, from
Colorado Springs took second place with a time of 3.02 seconds,
and Brennan Fox’s time of 3.04 seconds earned him a third-place
finish.
A
close-up on Sport Stacking -
Sport
stacking (formerly called cup stacking) is an emerging individual
and team sport where participants stack and unstack 12 specially
designed cups (Speed Stacks) in pre-determined sequences at lightning
speed. (Some call it a “track meet for your hands!”)
This unique sport promotes hand-eye coordination, ambidexterity,
focus, concentration, team skills and sportsmanship. Competitors
race against the clock for individual times and in relays in head-to-head
competitions. A division for stackers with special needs is also
included.
Physical
Education Coordinator Eddie Pinder, traveled to this year’s
World Sport Stacking Championships from New Brunswick, Canada and
said it was an “awesome experience.”
Pinder's
school district has a sport stacking tournament scheduled for April
30th and could draw up to 500
stackers. “I think it will snowball from there,” he
said. |
