Another ‘Sport’ Crying For Recognition

By Yaro Starak 10 Comments November 24, 2006

This is a little off topic but it’s too cool not to post it.

Back when I used to play Magic: The Gathering as a teenager the company behind the game went to all kinds of trouble to legitimize it as a real sport. I’m not sure if they were the first to do it, but they coined the phrase “mind sport” as a marketing technique I presume to convince parents that if little Johnny wants to play cards with dragons and elves instead of say baseball or football, it’s not that big a difference – Magic is a sport after all!

I just came across this great video of another “sport” struggling for recognition. This girl certainly has a gift when it comes to stacking cups…

Thanks to Life Goggles for the find.

About Yaro Starak

Yaro Starak is the founder of Entrepreneurs-Journey, has blogged for more than five years and earned his living from the Internet for more than ten years. You can follow Yaro on Twitter and see him in action at Yaro.TV.

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November 24, 2006 at 6:38 am - Dave Davis said:

I think this is amazing. I first found out about as a direct result of one of the DMOZ categories I was editing and I was amazed. there is actually a HUGE following for stacking online.

When I was in the US this summer, all my friends from Ireland were amazed and had never heard of it before. Every single one of the Yanks knew about it.

It’s pretty cool to watch though!

And I believe that world record has been broken since.

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November 24, 2006 at 9:44 am - StrangeProgress said:

That’s insane! She’ll be able to get the employee of the month at Walmart EASY!

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November 24, 2006 at 12:02 pm - Chris Childs said:

Gah, I see ads for this on TV and I cringe everytime. I don’t see how people can call this a sport!

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December 31, 2007 at 7:46 pm - estetik said:

I do not think this is a sport!

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January 18, 2008 at 7:38 pm - David said:

Well if it is a sport will there be weight /age categories . Could it possibly be a team event ,will we see funding for it and what are the chances of it appearing in the olympics ? Questions questions
http://darlokidsfooty.co.uk

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January 22, 2008 at 11:15 am - estetik said:

That’s insane! She’ll be able to get the employee of the month at Walmart EASY!

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January 22, 2008 at 11:15 am - malta said:

Well if it is a sport will there be weight /age categories

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February 13, 2008 at 2:41 pm - buy beats said:

That should be a sport. its better than kids sittin inside playing video games all day. I tried it a few times, but I must say I really suck at it

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February 20, 2008 at 3:50 am - Yigit T. said:

Well if it is a sport will there be weight /age categories. I first found out about as a direct result of one of the DMOZ categories I was editing and I was amazed. there is actually a HUGE following for stacking online.

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August 2, 2008 at 12:00 am - izmir said:

I have never seen this before… but calling it a sport is too brave I suppose… hence when they call CHESS as a sport, it seems everything can be called as SPORT!!

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