Yeah, Tyson did amazing things for the Peruvian community, and through that for the whole Latin community.
These are things that few people know but maybe it is a good moment now to give him some credit:
- He funded his trip to Peru for the first competition here. We barely came up with about 25% of the ticket.
- He brought us 6 displays and plenty of timers if I remember correctly. Although we did pay for those, he put up the money initially and we paid back in comfortable installments. But getting the equipment into the country is so hard that just doing that is awesome.
- Along the next 2 years he donated more equipment to the Peruvian community and also helped us acquire more by setting up a way for us to raise funds while at the same time allowing us access to cubes at prices way below the ones at online stores. This helped the Peruvian community grow really fast.
- And personally, Tyson was always there to advise and teach me all sorts of valuable things.
Cubing would be very different in the world and in Peru were it not for Tyson. We will be ever thankful!