Beer Pong

[alto]

Just cleared some space in the shed and threw a peice of plywood on an old table.

Roomates and I were trying to decide our house rules last night at the inagural game. Any suggestions?

[Z]

full contact.

[MacDaddy]

Where is Frizzo?

[Below Zero]

Do not re-group the cups when a cup has been removed. Makes it a little more difficult.

I opt for the bounce rule, but some like to throw. Throwing sometimes makes more of a mess then the cup slides off the table, but I guess if you load them up with beer you don't have to worry about it.

For the first game, go all out! Fill some 64 oz cups from the gas station and really get shit faced!

Losing team drinks remaining winning teams' beers.

[acostiga]

i like the bounce option, but also like being able to play defense. if you bounce the ball, know that i'm going to swat it away from the cups. any shot that hits the table or cups can be defended. you can blow a ball that's bouncing around the top rims of the cups away from the cups. after the ball has hit a cup or the table, and before it is at rest, the defense may act upon it. however, if in the course of defending a cup... the cup is knocked over, then it counts as a penalty against the team (for sloppy defense).

leave the empties until it is time for a regroup. regroup to form full triangles, and then also at two cups into the i formation.

if a shooter hits an empty that's in the formation, they have to drink one of their own cups.

and the game should be called beruit.

[MOHSHSIHd]

and the game should be called beruit.

yes. Beiruit is 10 cups (can be 6 cups at a party when the line is huge)....we usually play with re-racks, if both teamates make their shots during your teams turn you get sink-backs (get the balls back for another throw), bounces equal 2 cups and can be blocked.

variations:
-second player makes a shot in the same cup the first player made it in, sink-backs, but 3 cups are taken away..

-full contact: if you though a shot and say hit the front of the cup and it bounces back towards you so you can grab it, you get another shot...there are no rules in full contact



beer pong is played with paddles, totally different game

[PaSucks]

Bounce rule counts double, can play defense.
Only Bitches blow.
Redemption always.
Don't get me started on that Beirut shit, thats stupid elitism.

[MOHSHSIHd]

you can blow a ball that's bouncing around the top rims of the cups away from the cups.

-another rule: "only bitches blow"


granted, there are no official rules, but these are the rules that were passed down to me by experienced east coast ruit players....i know people from NJ who have not lost a game in 3-4 years....have hit hundreds of cups in a streak, and hustle people for money and make a couple hundred at big parties...

[KarlHungus]

here's our house rules (and pretty much the general rules for all the houses at our school):
-you are allowed to bounce it but if you do the other team can swat at it after the bounce.
-if you make one on a bounce they gotta drink two cups.
-if the same cups is made twice before the end of the turn and it is removed from the table, it counts as three cups.
-if both members of your team make cups during your turn you get the balls back and shoot again.
-beers must be finished before you can shoot, no stockpiling cups till the end of the game.
-the other team can request the cups to be re-racked but only at 6, 4, 3, and 2 cups (pyramid, diamond, triangle, two in a row).
-we play "gentlemen's game", no blowing the ball out of cups and no hands over the table while the other team shoots. However, it's TOTALLY fine if you're playing against chicks and they feel the need to flash you in order to distract you.
-losing team drinks the remaining cups.
-if your team loses by 7 or more you must run one lap around the block naked.

All in all, get shitty.

[Droopy]

Stay classic:

Re-racking:
1 re-rack + auto I

Bouncing = 2 cups

hit 2 cups in a row auto roll backs
(no re-rack after a roll back, as it is still mid trun)

if the same cup is made twice before it is taken off the table - Game over
if someone makes a cup that the other team is holding - game over

if a cup is knocked off the table the cup is gone, if it is the last cup - game over

Skunk rule applys (one team makes all the cups before the other team makes any) - punishment is usualy running around the building naked

Bitches Blow of course

Personaly I like the rule that you have to drink your cup before you can go again

hummm... there is more I cant remember

[MOHSHSIHd]

read this

On language, Princeton style: The history of 'Beirut'

Laura Berner
Princetonian Columnist

The capital of Lebanon is the second thing that comes to mind when the college student hears "Beirut." Images of beer-soaked chins and recollections of that unmistakable ping-pong tang first flood our memories. But why is this great American pastime called Beirut?

After doing lots of research and sifting through tons of websites about the rules of Beirut and beer pong — not the same game, my dear friends, not the same — I finally stumbled upon Anoop Rathod's Sept.15, 2004, "Without a Paddle" article in The Dartmouth Independent. Incidentally, in Hanover, N.H., the kids have even less to do than we do, so thankfully we can all benefit from the time they have taken to investigate beer lore. Much contention still surrounds the details of the founding and naming of Beirut, but there are two main stories that seem the most likely. Apparently, the rich tradition began when most of us were still watching "Fraggle Rock" and "David the Gnome." (Insert Wayne's World dream-sequence "doodoodoo" noises and ghetto wavy screen effect here).

One version of the story begins in October 1983, when a Hezbollah suicide bomber dropped on an American camp in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. Marines. Duane Kotsen, president of Lehigh's Theta Delta Chi frat in 1985, said he thinks the drinking game's name drew an "analogy between the ping-pong balls flying across the table and landing on the opponent's side and an idea that the U.S. should bomb Beirut as a result of the casualties in the area."

The name "reflects respect for the Marine and U.S. losses in the region at that point in history," he added. In Kotsen's version of the story of Beirut's creation, Theta Delta Chi brothers at Lehigh University started playing shortly after this attack, and Brian "Stubby" Poulton was the head honcho of the fledgling Beirut tourney world. Stubby, however, supposedly admitted that he adapted the game in 1983 from a form he observed at Bucknell. So according to B-Stubs — sorry, his name is awesome and I wanted to repeat it — Bucknell University kids were the original creators of Beirut.

The other Beirut creation legend asserts that the game was first played at Lehigh, but it was not until 1986 that the brothers of Sigma Nu, not Theta Delta Chi, first conceived the sport. The frat boys were apparently playing a rowdy game of beer pong and broke all the paddles, but they were so determined to keep playing that they decided to free throw the ping pong balls. Not satisfied with the level of intoxication that resulted from the one-cup-on-each-side setup, they decided to cover each end of the table with beer-filled cups. The game "Libya," named after Reagan's 1986 air attacks on Quaddaffi's Libya, was born. "Libya" didn't quite roll off the tongue, especially the soused tongue, the way they'd hoped, so following a terrorist truck-bomb attack on a Marine barracks in Lebanon's capital in 1986, "Libya" became "Beirut."

Perhaps we will never know the true story of Beirut's roots. We do know, though, that it was the brainchild of foreign-affairs-conscious frat brothers who felt the need to link current events with a sport of drunken debauchery. As they put it, whether you win or lose, you get bombed.

[bcrider]

The unOfficial Tahoe Beer Pong site

http://tahoepad.com/pong/

[MOHSHSIHd]

The unOfficial Tahoe Beer Pong site

http://tahoepad.com/pong/

nice!!!!


all the basketball players i knew in HS were essentially unbeatable....perfect 3-point throws every single time...

[homerjay]

I've played with the 'death cup' which is to fill the first cup in front of the triangle completely full. Spices things up a little.

[lynniefish]

check todays NY Times-- an article about PONG is in the paper.

i went to a school where we play with paddles. cut the handle off and hold the paddle with your hands.

we play kind of likc ping pong... there is volleying, there is serving, but the game requires lobbing. no slamming unless you are hitting the ball off the floor (otherwise the player who hit the ball on the floor loses the serve)

we play three main types -- tree (12 cups ) shrub (8 cups) or 2-cup. the first two are pretty much the same game:
oppoent hits the cup you take 1/4
opponent hits the ball into the cup full cup

two cup is more of a round robin for a party and such.

im sure there are a lot of former or current dartmouth psi u bothers on this site who can give you more detail -- but there is always a lot of fun to be had with pong.

[Yeti]

None of the above would pass muster at my alma mater.

Ground rule #1: all cups must be completely full (or full to within 1cm of the top).
Ground rule #2: if you knock a cup over, you drink a full cup as punishment, then reset the cup to its previous level.
Ground rule #3: lobbing is gentlemanly. A hit can be discounted as "low", but you might lose respect for calling low excessively. There is no such thing as a low hit on a save.


From wikipedia's Beer Pong page:

Dartmouth Pong is played with paddles that have the handles removed. The table is 5'x9'. Each team has a predetermined amount of cups completely filled with beer and arranged in a predetermined shape (shrub, tree, ship, line, etc.) The game is played by serving the ball as in normal beer pong, but the ball is not allowed to hit an opponents cup. If a serve strikes an opponents cup, the serving team must drink half a beer. If a serve lands into an opponent's cup, the serving team must drink a full beer. If a serve does not land on the opponents side and does not strike a cup, it is considered "out" and the server receives a second serve. If the second serve is out (some frats allow three serves), the serving team must drink and then keep serving until a valid serve is made.

Once a serve is valid, teammates rotate turns hitting the ball. Each player tries to hit the ball into the opponents cup (this would force the opposing team to drink the entire contents of that cup). If the ball only hit, but does not land in, a cup the team whose cup was hit must drink half of the cup, unless a save (ball is hit back to the other side on one or no bounces) is made. The game is over once all the beer on one side has been consumed.

That's the basic idea. Key games include ship, tree, and shrub (little tree). In the tree/shrub games, you arrange the full cups in a triangle formation (plus a stump) centered horizontally and half a paddle in from the rear edge. Tree is 11 cups, while shrub is 7 cups. Any hit is a half-cup (unless you save by hitting the ball back to the other side of the table on the fly); any sink is a full cup. A cup is not replaced once empty.

In ship, you use 15 cups per side. Cups are arrayed into "ships" -- a 2-boat and a 3-boat in one near corner (spaced one cup-diameter apart, with a single mine cup offset), a 4-boat in the other near corner, and a 5-boat along the "net" line. (No nets at all.) Hits are half-cups and sinks are full cups, but if a boat has half (or less) of its original beer volume when a sink is scored, the entire boat is sunk and must be drunk. If you hit your opponent's mine, even on a save, you drink half your mine; sink the mine and drink your full mine. Mines are the only refillable cups.

These are both played by one- or two-player teams. A three-man-per-side game can be made by adding a nine-cup mothership in the middle of each side, with players rotating through two at a time.

im sure there are a lot of former or current dartmouth psi u bothers on this site who can give you more detail -- but there is always a lot of fun to be had with pong.

Not Psi U, but close enough.

[XtrPickels]

The unOfficial Tahoe Beer Pong site

http://tahoepad.com/pong/

See the guy in the back...in the pink... with the yellow sweater...
We were at a bar at Cornell, I came across a guy dressed as such, Loudly proclaimed him King Of The Douche Bags and bought him a drink for being such an idiot.
It was one of my finer moments.

here's our house rules (and pretty much the general rules for all the houses at our school):
-you are allowed to bounce it but if you do the other team can swat at it after the bounce.
-if you make one on a bounce they gotta drink two cups.
-if the same cups is made twice before the end of the turn and it is removed from the table, it counts as three cups.
-if both members of your team make cups during your turn you get the balls back and shoot again.
-beers must be finished before you can shoot, no stockpiling cups till the end of the game.
-the other team can request the cups to be re-racked but only at 6, 4, 3, and 2 cups (pyramid, diamond, triangle, two in a row).
-we play "gentlemen's game", no blowing the ball out of cups and no hands over the table while the other team shoots. However, it's TOTALLY fine if you're playing against chicks and they feel the need to flash you in order to distract you.
-losing team drinks the remaining cups.

This is basically how we play PLUS:
-Bitches Blow..of course
-If you catch the other teams airball, they drink a cup
-To determine First tosses... Opposing Players match up staring eye to eye and toss until a cup is made. This cup does not count, but the first team to hit it gets first toss.

Our table is a black light responsive bowling lane, its badass playing with a glowing table, balls and cup.

[SkiJunky05]

See the guy in the back...in the pink... with the yellow sweater...

Since the person in foreground appears to be in costume, I assumed the guy in back was dressed jokingly as a frat/yuppie boy.

I like having an automatic win if you hit one of the cups the opponents are currently drinking from. For example, if they're not paying attention or picking the cup up from the table.

[squirrelmurphy]

yeti, lynniefish beat me to it

beirut sucks, play pong... as described above (minor variations apply)
for a real party scene, modify yeti's "ship" to "pearl harbor." four teams of two people each, two tables side by side (= 10x9 or so), each team has boats, like ship, only add a six boat and a mine. hit the mine, and drink half of yours, sink the mine and drink yours and refill it. it'll getcha drunk!!

which house yeti? axa '07 here

[Shepherd Wong]

You weirdos play it all weird. We just put full cups a paddle length from the back, and a from the side. Just do that gentlemanly lob thing, if you hit a cup, take a drink. If you get it in your opponents cup they pound it. If you hit your own cup you take 2 drinks. If you hit it in your own cup or tip your own cup over, you chug a lug whatever is left on the table.

[Raps]

Stay classic:

Re-racking:
1 re-rack + auto I

Bouncing = 2 cups

hit 2 cups in a row auto roll backs
(no re-rack after a roll back, as it is still mid trun)

if the same cup is made twice before it is taken off the table - Game over
if someone makes a cup that the other team is holding - game over

if a cup is knocked off the table the cup is gone, if it is the last cup - game over

Skunk rule applys (one team makes all the cups before the other team makes any) - punishment is usualy running around the building naked

Bitches Blow of course

Personaly I like the rule that you have to drink your cup before you can go again

hummm... there is more I cant remember

This is closest to how we play....plus the death cup that skijunky mentioned

If you are in a warm climate, try playing outside with no turns, just who ends up with the ball after the shot....it gets interesting

Also another variation that is fun is battleship rules where you increase the number of cups and fill a few random ones with hard booze...

Plus NO leaning! Elbow at the edge of the table, a nice high arc and follow through.....done deal

[slippy]

I don't get it. So you're taking the fun out of beer pong by getting rid of the paddles, adding a huge amount of rules, then calling it beruit?

[Egon]

Why dilly dally with Beer pong?

You need a beer bong...

[13]

"Beirut" is east coast elitism, for sure.

My circle of friends usually played 3-game sets, no bounce, only defense allowed was blowing, re-rack after all 4 have taken their shot, and occasionally death cup.

Every now and then we played with full cups, just depended on the time/day.

Flip cup/tip cup/boat race was my forte, not beer pong.

[acostiga]

of course the 'bitches blow' rule... but does that mean that if you're playing mixed doubles the girl can't blow? i've always played it so that the girls could blow, without the threat of nasty name-calling. more often than not, whomever tries to blow the ball out of the cup shoots a stream of beer all over their shirt. most of the time, that ain't not bad and should be encouraged.

has ANYBODY ever seen a ball come to rest on the rim of three cups? i've heard stories but can't imagine it actually happening...