![]() Unfortunately, a lot of it is misinformed and some of it even includes accusations of wrongdoing and bad intent, which we at Speed Stacks find hurtful. Recently, there has been discussion within the stacking community about the relationship between the WSSA and Speed Stacks. In exchange for that sponsorship, Speed Stacks asks for clear and prominent exposure of their brand on the equipment used in the sport, and to be the exclusive equipment provider of the WSSA. ![]() Unfortunately, these sponsors came and went and despite ongoing attempts, the WSSA has been unable to find any long-term sponsors and remains fully reliant on Speed Stacks to fund the sport. Over the years, the WSSA looked for corporate sponsorships and found mild success with companies like Wonderful Pistachios and the National Egg Board. It was left to Speed Stacks to grow the sport and provide opportunities for stackers to compete. They only wanted to profit from selling cups - not support a sport. As time went on, other companies began making stacking cups too, but none of them were willing to fund the WSSA. Every year, Speed Stacks gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the WSSA to maintain a staff, develop rules, create and maintain a stacker database and scorekeeping system, review record videos and fund tournaments. So Bob funded it himself through Speed Stacks. Governing bodies for mainstream sports were funded through TV contracts and corporate sponsorships but nobody was willing to sponsor this strange sport where kids stacked cups really fast. Within a few years, Bob had inspired stacking programs in hundreds of schools and realized that a governing body for the sport was needed. Bob had been teaching stacking in his PE classes and saw how much his students loved it and how it helped their coordination and self-esteem. In 1998, elementary school PE teacher Bob Fox and his wife Jill started our company, Speed Stacks in their basement because they believed that what was then called cup stacking could one day be a real sport.
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