MOLINE-- Elementary students vying to be the fastest were all business as they competed in the Moline district cup stacking competition. In deep concentration, some bit their lips or held out their ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 30, 2025. Click here for that audio. In the early 2000s, thousands of U.S. schools had their students race the clock to stack cups in gym class.

It's an unusual and popular sport called stacking. Participants beat by seeing how fast they can stack cups and a world record holders get this a Maryland 10 year old. 11. News education reporter Tim ...

The "Wisconsin Winter Stack Up" hosted some of the country's fastest cup stackers. Sport stacking is a competition in which competitors stack specially designed cups up and down in set patterns. Speed ...

St. PAUL -- Away from competition, Luke Myers seems like a typical 14-year-old. But put some stacking cups in front of him and prepare to be astonished. The Eden Prairie teenager is among the world's ...

Most sports are actually absurd. Golf involves hitting a tiny ball into a hole hundreds of yards away. Soccer is based on the idea of what if we didn't use our hands. Speed stacking — if you really ...

MILFORD — A room full of Woodland Elementary School students watched in awe Tuesday afternoon as 17-year-old Seamus Stoker whipped a dozen lavender-colored cups in and out of pyramid-shaped stacks.

MOLINE -- There was no speed limit at the cup-stacking competition Tuesday afternoon at Wharton Field House. The fastest kids turned the brightly colored cups into blurs as they stacked them into ...

From afar, it sounded as if a small army of tap dancers had overtaken an exhibit hall at the George R. Brown Convention Center on Sunday. Rather, it was 100 junior Olympians frantically assembling ...

CAMPBELL COUNTY, Ky. (WKRC) -- A local middle school student is getting national attention for his cup-stacking skills.Nick Stamm, a Campbell County Middle School student, placed 9th overall last ...

Blink and you might just miss it. The blur of crisscrossing hands and zigzagging neon cups is probably the weirdest organized sport you’ve never heard of. Dubbed sport stacking, this rapid-fire ...