What once was called – go clean out that closet with the patch cables – in now being turned into a new type of sport for geeks. Speedcabling, as they call it, already had its first competitions held in Echo Park, CA.
During the Speedcabling events contestants try to unravel a bundle of wires as quickly as possible. And there are rules what a bundle of cable is and how these should be intertwined within a set.
More information and the video of the first competition held at the Speedcabling.org web site.
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