Last updated: 29 June 2026
A submission must be global in scope, lawful, measurable, and supported by evidence you are authorised to share. Submission does not guarantee publication.
1. Who may submit
An application may be submitted by the holder, creator, organiser, institution, authorised representative, witness, researcher, journalist, or another person with reliable knowledge of the achievement. The applicant must be legally capable of submitting the material and must accurately state their relationship to the claim.
2. Global-scope requirement
The registry is limited to worldwide records, worldwide firsts, former worldwide records, and sufficiently credible global claims. A city, state, national, event-only, competition-only, or regional achievement is not eligible unless it also satisfies a clearly defined global category. The applicant must explain the worldwide comparison and known predecessors.
3. Minimum evidence
Evidence should be original, complete, and capable of independent review. Depending on the category, the project may require:
- continuous video covering preparation, measurement, and completion;
- calibrated scales, measuring devices, timestamps, and serial numbers;
- independent witness statements and contact details;
- laboratory reports, batch records, invoices, permits, and event documentation;
- raw photographs and video with metadata;
- category rules established before the attempt;
- proof of date, location, holder identity, and lawful control of the object or event;
- evidence of prior benchmarks and later challengers.
Edited highlight videos, social posts, promotional releases, and screenshots may support a claim but normally do not replace original evidence.
4. Future attempts, pre-assessment, and attendance invitations
A planned-attempt request may be submitted before the achievement has occurred and before final evidence exists. The applicant must clearly distinguish a target from an achieved result, provide the expected date and venue, and describe the proposed rules, metric, measurement process, witnesses, and evidence plan. Guidance provided before an attempt is preliminary, may be revised when facts change, and does not reserve a category or guarantee that a later result will be accepted.
An invitation to Waffles World Records is a request to discuss availability, attendance, observation, media participation, measurement support, or another agreed role. No attendance, travel, accreditation, production, adjudication, witness role, or use of Waffles World Records branding is confirmed unless agreed separately in writing. The organiser remains responsible for lawful access, permits, insurance, safety, venue approvals, participant welfare, travel and accommodation arrangements, technical access, schedules, and any costs allocated under the written arrangement.
Presence at an event does not by itself certify a record. The exact role, measurement protocol, evidence custody, independence safeguards, publication rights, fees, expenses, cancellation terms, and deliverables must be agreed in advance where relevant. Waffles World Records may decline or cancel attendance because of availability, legality, safety, conflicts of interest, incomplete information, travel disruption, or unsuitable verification conditions. Payment, sponsorship, hospitality, access, or attendance can never guarantee approval or publication.
5. Ownership, authority, and permissions
The applicant confirms that they own the submitted material or have authority to provide it for review and publication. They must obtain permissions from photographers, videographers, witnesses, participants, venues, and rights holders where required. The applicant must not submit confidential, stolen, unlawfully obtained, defamatory, or privacy-invasive material.
The applicant grants Waffles World Records a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, review, reproduce internally, convert for technical purposes, quote, crop, resize, publish, archive, and display approved material to the extent reasonably necessary to evaluate and document the record. Ownership remains with the rights holder.
6. Lawfulness, safety, and ethical standards
Applicants are responsible for compliance with cannabis law, controlled-substance rules, product law, food safety, employment law, event permits, fire safety, crowd management, accessibility, insurance, transport, waste disposal, and participant welfare. The project may reject an attempt that encourages dangerous consumption, coercion, exploitation, unlawful distribution, harm to animals, environmental damage, or avoidable public risk.
Waffles World Records does not authorise conduct. Acceptance of an application, communication with the project, or publication of guidelines is not a permit, licence, insurance approval, or safety certification.
7. Review and decision process
- Administrative screening for completeness and eligibility.
- Category and worldwide-scope review.
- Evidence authenticity and provenance review.
- Measurement, chronology, source, and witness review.
- Search for predecessors, competing claims, and later challengers.
- Status, evidence grade, caveat, and public wording decision.
- Publication, rejection, request for more evidence, or provisional hold.
The project may contact third parties, commission expert input, request original files, or pause a decision. There is no guaranteed review time or guaranteed approval.
8. Publication and record status
If approved, the public page may include the record title, value, holder, location, date, family, evidence grade, status, current-holder confidence, audit finding, caveat, source links, and selected images. Approval is an official WWR registry decision under the project’s own methodology, not government, regulatory, laboratory, or third-party record-authority recognition. Contact details and confidential evidence are not normally published.
Approval does not guarantee permanent current-holder status. Entries may be corrected, challenged, reclassified, retired, or removed. The holder must not describe an institutional or documented claim as independently certified if the published status says otherwise.
9. Fees, sponsorship, and no guarantee
The current form does not charge an application fee. Future optional services, event support, certificates, production, licensing, travel, or expedited administration may be offered separately under written terms. Payment, sponsorship, or partnership must never guarantee approval.
10. Withdrawal and deletion requests
An applicant may withdraw a pending claim by email. Withdrawal does not necessarily require deletion of material needed for fraud prevention, legal claims, safety investigation, or an already published historical record. Privacy requests are assessed under the Privacy Policy and applicable law.
11. Challenges, appeals, and false submissions
The challenge process resolves the registry’s own factual publication decision and is not legally binding arbitration or consumer dispute resolution. Anyone may submit a substantiated challenge. A holder may respond with evidence. Reconsideration requires new material or identification of a methodological error. Deliberately fabricated evidence, impersonation, forged documents, or abusive submissions may lead to rejection, restriction, preservation of evidence, notification of affected parties, or other lawful action.
12. Contact
Submission questions and evidence enquiries: info@wafflesworldrecords.com.