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 unoffically set at this year's tournament.  (They will become official once the videotapes have been reviewd 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.

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.

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.