Burnaby students stack cups for Guinness record
Keith Wu and Edgar De Guzman, who are in Grade 5 at Cascade Heights Elementary School in Burnaby, stack cups frenetically as part of the school’s attempt to get into the Guiness Book of World Records for cup stacking.
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Just about every class at Cascade Heights elementary took a turn stacking plastic cups for a half hour Thursday.
But this wasn’t the putting-away-the-dishes variety of cup stacking most are familiar with.
Dubbed “sport stacking,” the activity is deemed a sport, now so popular around the world amongst the younger set that champions are mobbed and fawned over like Hollywood celebrities.
Participants use 12 cups, with holes punched in the bottoms so they won’t stick together, to stack them in a prescribed series of patterns as quickly as possible. On YouTube, videos of world record holders show hands and cups moving so fast it’s all a blur.
At Cascade Heights, the speed wasn’t quite up to record levels, but on this day students were simply doing their part to set a Guinness record for most people sport stacking on a single day, the clop-clop-clop sound of cups heard well down the hallway. Organizers were hoping to attract 250,000 students or more around the world.
Donna Hull, Grade 7 teacher and organizer of the event at Cascade Heights, said students there have been sport stacking for the past five years.
“It promotes hand-eye coordination and using both sides of the brain because you have to use both hands,” she said.
“It’s something you improve quite quickly at and everyone can be successful at it. You’re competing against yourself.”
Grade 6 student Joanna Zajaczkowski, 11, is a fan. “I like it because it’s fast and everybody can do it. You don’t have to be a [certain] age or anything.”
Classmate Ashley Dew, 11, agreed. “I like it more than anything else I do.”
