SPORT stacking enthusiasts here are calling on Bruneians to join in the World Sport Stacking Association's (WSSA) bid to break the Guiness World Record for "Most People Sport Stacking at Multiple Locations in One Day" on November 18.
WSSA has succeeded in consecutively breaking the record for the past four years, and the association's Malaysia-Singapore-and-Brunei coordinator is hoping to include the Sultanate in this year's attempt to surpass the 276,053 mark achieved in 2009.
"We still have about one month to go. Our target this year is 300,000 ("stackers") from all over the world" Ng Kock Seong told The Brunei Times yesterday. "We hope that Brunei will join us this year."
About 217,000 people from around the world have already registered to participate in the "2010 WSSA Stack Up!" so far, the association posted on its website on August 10. The WSSA is asking stackers to register and sport stack for at least 30 minutes on November 18, regardless of local times in the countries participating.
Last year, WSSA said that 1,252 schools and organisations from 24 countries took part in breaking the world record. All 50 states in the US, where the sport of stacking specially-modified plastic cups in pre-determined sequences originated, were represented.
Ng said that if the record would be successfully beaten this year, registered participants would receive certificates.
Dionysius Wee, the manager of My Small World said the toy store in Gadong, the only place in Brunei where the public can get Speed Stacks merchandise was preparing for Brunei's involvement in the world record attempt.
Wee said they were still planning how to coordinate the event here, along with the training scheme to prepare Brunei's stackers for the international bid.
The toy shop manager remarked that sport stacking was not new to Brunei, that about a fifth of the population were aware of the sport and that a small group of university students were practitioners.
Wee and Ng were promoting sport stacking to students of Jerudong International School yesterday, bringing along with them the current world record holder for the "Masters Two" division, a category for stackers aged 34 to 44, to perform for the students.
Alan Lim Joon Tatt, 38, achieved a time of 9.31 seconds on the "cycle stack", one of the competitive sequences in sport stacking, during the 2010 WSSA Times Square Sport Stacking Fair in Kuala Lumpur in February.
Lim, who is also director of WSSA Malaysia, claims that he has managed to achieve a "personal best" unofficially at 7.97 seconds.
He said that he has been sport stacking for more than three years and took up the sport after watching videos online. Asked if he had initially set out to be a record-holder in the sport, Lim said, "I wanted what all stackers want: to be the fastest and to break the record."
The sport stacking enthusiast practices everyday for at least an hour.
He also spoke of the 2011 World Sport Stacking Championships to be hosted in London. "If Brunei has a fast stacker, then Brunei should also send a representative," Lim said.
In developing the sport in the Sultanate, the world record holder hoped that Brunei would eventually produce a national team of stackers.
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