Through RecordSetter, Everyone Can Be World Champ
23.02.12
Guest host Mary Louise Kelly that as long as an action is "quantifiable and breakable" and there is media evidence of it, the website will welcome and recognize the feat as a world record. The website and its book, The RecordSetter Book of World Records , showcase thousands of just such triumphs.
The site launched in late 2008 with the help of co-founder Corey Henderson and receives more than 1,000 world record submissions each month.
Creative Beginnings
At the Burning Man festival in 2004, Rollman and his friends created a "world record camp" where people could climb onto a stage and invent their own world records.
One man came to their camp with an accordion and set the world record for the fastest accordion rendition of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." A woman, whom Rollman says had an "extraordinary deep belly button," set the record for the most blueberries in a belly button.
Both records still stand, Rollman says.
"We started to see a lot of competition in categories, and then it just felt like people were having so much fun with the creative side of thinking what they could be a world champion at," he says. "I thought there was an opportunity to take this thing onto the Internet and invite the whole world to play along."
Source: North Country Public Radio