FAIRFIELD, Ohio -- To most people, a plastic cup is just a vessel from which to drink, but for Robert Weatherington, plastic cups mean competition. The 17-year-old from Fairfield is part of the U.S.

William Orrell is ranked as the top performer in the world in fast-cup stacking by the World Sport Stacking Association. Now, Orrell recently defeated the speed stacking world record, that was held by ...

Ezekiel McDowell has been obsessed with speed for as long as he can remember. His favorite superhero growing up was The Flash and he says he can solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 30 seconds. But for the ...

SAN ANTONIO — Sport stacking has been around since the 1980’s. The goal is to stack plastic cups into a formation as fast as you can. Some fans play at home for fun. Others race the clock at sport ...

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.

If you know what Cup Stacking is, you're probably a parent or a kid who graduated recently. Speed stacks have been around for more than 18 years, but it's blowing up in a big way. Not only has sport ...

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 ...