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Rasor Elementary students stacked up to the challenge of getting into the Guinness Book of World Records
From Staff Reports
In participating in the 2009 World Sport Stacking Association “Stack Up!” event on Nov. 12, More than 400 Rasor students joined thousands of other children from every U.S. state and 13 other countries with a common goal: to set a new world record for the most people sport stacking at multiple locations in one day.
As of Wednesday, 246,365 stackers had been confirmed by the WSSA, easily surpassing the 2008 total of 222,560 and quickly approaching the 2009 goal of 250,000.
The final total should be confirmed as a world record later this month.
About 81,000 stackers participated in the first event in 2006 and in the 2008, the event grew to include 222,560 stackers representing 1,343 schools or organizations.
Four stations were set up at Rasor Elementary and the students rotated through all of them. Station No. 1 was a relay race where the students up-stack a set of three cups at four different intervals. Station No. 2 was an individual stacking station, where additional challenges were added by having the Battlestack game set up as well as mini cups and metal cups. Station No. 3 was the competition section where the students competed against each other to find the fastest stacker. Station No. 4 was a partner challenge station, where the students had to link inside arms and just use their outside arms to stack the cups.
Sport Stacking is a fast-paced individual and team sport where participants stack and un-stack 12 specially designed, high-tech cups -- called Speed Stacks -- in predetermined sequences at lightning speed. Competitive stackers race against the clock and each other to stack and un-stack three different arrangements of Speed Stacks. The sport promotes hand-eye coordination, ambidexterity, quickness and concentration and is quickly gaining popularity across the world. Sport Stacking originated in the early 1980s in southern California and has since been transformed into a full-fledged sport governed by the World Sport Stacking Association, formed in 2001 in Colorado. More than 24,000 schools and youth organizations around the world practice Sport Stacking.
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