Saturday 2 February 2013

Adventures In Beer Pong!

Okay. I have an admission to make. I am 33 years old, going on 34, and I have never played Beer Pong, at least, I had never played beer pong, until tonight. I have heard of the game, and I have seen it played for stakes in Las Vegas, but I figured it was something that the younger generation had adopted as their own, and I had little interest in. All that changed tonight at my cousin Kam's 34 Birthday Party. My 16 year old cousin introduced me to the game, and 5 of us played all night. We played doubles, with a swing, and had a riot!
 Some entertaining observations -
#1: A lot of beer was consumed.
#2 The birthday boy and I kicked some serious ass (We won 5/5 games when playing together).
#3. Grown men will dive across a table to recover an errant ping pong ball.
#4 My friends and family are not above putting their junk on the table to disrupt a shot. True story.
#5 Guys can get competitive about damn near anything, up to, and including bouncing ping pong balls into red solo cups filled with beer.

I honestly don't remember the last time I had this much fun,

So, for the uninitiated, I give you the rules of Beer Pong (as played at the Turner Residence, apparently everyone plays differently and has their own variant rules).
#1 Fill 10 (20 total)cups with beer and arrange them in a standard triangle formation at each end of a ping pong table.
# 2 Teams take turns lobbing 2 ping pong balls in an attempt to get them into the other teams beer cups. When playing Doubles, each partner throws one ball.
#3 Balls That are lobbed may not be interfered with.
#4 A lobbed ball that lands in a beer cup results in the defending team needing to drain that beer cup and remove it from the formation. But if the first player on the offending team hits a cup, the ball is removed but the cup stays in position until after the second player throws. If the second player player hits the exact same cup, that cup and two others, chosen by the offending team must be drained and removed from the formation.
#5 A player may choose to attempt to bounce a ball into a cup as opposed to lobbing it, but if a ball bounces first, the defending team may attempt to block it. A bounced ball that lands in a cup is worth 2 cups.
#6 If both offensive players sink their ping pong balls in the same round, they each get a second shot to continue.
#7 If an errant ping pong ball is not collected by the defending team, and the offending team is able to re-acquire it, they get the chance to take a free "trick shot".
#8 Trick shots can not be interfered with, and could be anything as simple as a left handed shot, or as elaborate as the shooter desires.
#9 If at any time the offending team is able to sink a ping pong ball in a drink that the opposing team is consuming, it is game over.

While I don't think I'll ever become a beer pong expert, it was certainly a fun night.

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