Overall, I found this a very interesting history on why cup stacking became a thing in schools in the 2000s. Interesting how it failed with Hasbro due to marketing, but having someone who knew how...
Overall, I found this a very interesting history on why cup stacking became a thing in schools in the 2000s. Interesting how it failed with Hasbro due to marketing, but having someone who knew how to demo it well lead to it exploding in popularity.
So this was never really a thing at my school (small religious school), but in the summers in my teens I'd go on a few youth retreats with my church. It was in the cafeterias of the camps these...
So this was never really a thing at my school (small religious school), but in the summers in my teens I'd go on a few youth retreats with my church. It was in the cafeterias of the camps these retreats were held at that I was exposed to this phenomenon.
In between complaints about having to go to yet another daily worship service and attempts to see how long we could hold a salt-covered ice cubes in our palms, we'd look over in awe as some "rival" church started slamming cups. And of course this usually invoked a response stacking from a different church and then eventually it'd peter out until the next meal when it happened all over again.
Those were good, simple times. Except for the daily worship services, those sucked.
Wasn't sure if I should post this in ~hobbies, ~health, or ~sports. It is cup stacking and although it was done in PE classes in elementary school, felt like maybe putting it in sports or health...
Wasn't sure if I should post this in ~hobbies, ~health, or ~sports. It is cup stacking and although it was done in PE classes in elementary school, felt like maybe putting it in sports or health was not quite fitting
Overall, I found this a very interesting history on why cup stacking became a thing in schools in the 2000s. Interesting how it failed with Hasbro due to marketing, but having someone who knew how to demo it well lead to it exploding in popularity.
So this was never really a thing at my school (small religious school), but in the summers in my teens I'd go on a few youth retreats with my church. It was in the cafeterias of the camps these retreats were held at that I was exposed to this phenomenon.
In between complaints about having to go to yet another daily worship service and attempts to see how long we could hold a salt-covered ice cubes in our palms, we'd look over in awe as some "rival" church started slamming cups. And of course this usually invoked a response stacking from a different church and then eventually it'd peter out until the next meal when it happened all over again.
Those were good, simple times. Except for the daily worship services, those sucked.
What a sweet little story.
Wasn't sure if I should post this in ~hobbies, ~health, or ~sports. It is cup stacking and although it was done in PE classes in elementary school, felt like maybe putting it in sports or health was not quite fitting