GERMANY: Speaking of Guinness World Records, Speed Stacks Germany is setting its sights on establishing a new sport stacking world record for the Timed 3-6-3 Team Relay on a television show sponsored by Guinness this fall. Go Team Germany!

ENGLAND: The StackMat Competition Timer, was used recently as the official timing device for the World Memory Championships in Oxford, England. (The StackMat has also been designated as the official timer for competitions for the World Cube Association - as in Rubik’s.)

JAPAN: The Speed Stacks Japan web site just recently launched. Visit and brush up on your Japanese. Meanwhile, representatives of Speed Stacks Japan wowed the audience recently at a baseball game in Japan attended by some 30,000 people who viewed them live and on the big screen.

HOLLAND: If you tune into one of the latest Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials in Holland you’ll catch United Kingdom’s fastest stacker Kate Parker doing some very speedy stacking. The premise of the commercial is that Kate does a great job at stacking, KFC does a great job with chicken. Let KFC do what it does best, we’ll stick to stacking!

AUSTRALIA:On June 26th, Australia hosted its first-ever sport stacking tournament at the Scallywaggs Gym in North South Wales.  Some 45 sport stackers competed in the WSSA recognized tournament, and it was a big success! Another Australian tournament is in the planning stages for the end.

DENMARK:
Excitement for sport stacking with Speed Stacks is building in Denmark, and Danish stackers are already setting their sights on participating in the World Sport Stacking Championships in April, 2006.  Sport stacking was integrated into two major summer camps, which generated a lot of interest for schools and future camps.