Beer Pong

[PaSucks]

"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.

13 knows how it's done.

Flip cup is where my talent truely lies. I don't like complicated drinking games. Being drunk is about debauchery, not thinking hard about complex rules. Some people just like to make everything into a fucking science project.

[shugs]

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So I just graduated from the University of Colorado at Bouder and had the privilege to play on the University Hill Beirut League. These are the rules we used and I think they work great.

Before the Game
Each team needs to bring $5 each week for beer expenses.
If a player has to miss a week, they must get a substitute.
A substitute player should be from outside the UCBL, but a player from the UCBL can be used if another player cannot be found (except for the tourney).
To determine who goes first, a player from each team shoots at the same
time looking eye to eye. Whoever makes it first starts with the ball.
The cup made on the eye to eye shot does not count.

General Game Rules
No Blows.
If a cup tips over it's gone.
Bounces count as two cups.
A bounce has to be deliberate to count for two cups.
Re-racks are done at 6, 4, 3, 2, and 1.
Cups should be re-racked or removed after each players shot.
If a cup is not removed after a player makes it and his/her partner makes it into the same cup, it counts for three cups and a rollback.
If a team drops a ball into their own cup, that cup is gone.
If each player from a team makes it, they get the balls back.
Don't lean excessively (if you're called on it, take a step back).
If a cup is knocked off, it’s gone, unless no beer spills and the ball falls out of the cup.
If a ball stalls between three cups, all three cups are gone.
If a player from a team blocks a shot accidentally (by catching or
by hitting), the player who’s shot was blocked gets another shot. If a shot is blocked again in the match, it is a one cup penalty.

End of Game Rules
If a team is shut out, they must streak.
Rebuttals are shoot 'till you miss for each player.
If the first player to shoot makes the last cup in a rebuttal, the second player gets to shoot to determine who starts with the ball in overtime.
Overtimes are three cups/ one beer, and do include a rebuttal.
If the first player to shoot makes the last cup, the second player
always gets a shot at the last cup.
If both players make it on the last shot, there is no rebuttal,
and the team gets a rollback.
Sinking the last cup at the end of the game, rebuttal and overtime counts as a last cup made.

Tournament Rules
Tourney games are best 2 out of 3.
The top sixteen elidgable teams make it to the tourney.
To be elidgable for the tourney, a team will have to play a set
amount of games (number of games to be determined).


The game initially took its name from the game it was adapted from, and beer pong was born. While there are differing stories on how the name of beirut came to be synonymous with beer pong, but they all tend to suggest that terrorist bombings on U.S. forces in the eighties led to a desire for a U.S. bombing of Beirut. Since the bombing of Beirut is similar to dropping bombs in a game of beer pong, the game took on the name of Beirut.

Originally, beer pong was played with ping-pong paddles on a ping-pong table. Teams of two players took turns attempting to hit their opponents cups, which were set up on each corner of the table. At some point, though, someone decided that thowing the balls at the cups was a lot more fun than hitting them with paddles. This led to an evolution of the game, and people began setting their cups up in triangles. This development spread quickly from campus to campus, much in the same way the trucker hat epidemic of last year did.

[Egon]

Flip cup is where my talent truely lies. I don't like complicated drinking games. Being drunk is about debauchery, not thinking hard about complex rules. Some people just like to make everything into a fucking science project.

this brings up an important point.

only a few people can play beer pong at once, so it's important to have games such as flip cup, jenga or asshole going on as well.
Quarters only if you are playing at someone elses house with someone elses cups.

[gorms]

Beer pong--ping pong balls and paddles
Beruit--quaters

[KarlHungus]

playing with paddles seems weird, never tried it. We just toss 'em and we still call it beer pong. Funny to read all the different ways people choose to play it. At least everyone's drinkin.

[Yeti]

which house yeti? axa '07 here

Zeta Psi '99, and proud of it.

A few more tips: Line (the game, not the skis) is lame. Two-cup is generally lame (specify a number of points, like 50; count down from there, subtracting one point for a hit and five points for a sink; every five points that are lost requires the consumption of one beer) but long games (e.g. one-on-one, down from 100, starting at 6am before finals) can be epic in that lame sort of way.

[Steven S. Dallas]

We play with one re-rack, you get to ask for it when you want.

Seems to work fine.

Ditto on the defending the bounce shot. No extra drinks for converting one, though.

[13]

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...

No, but I have personally witnessed a quarter balance on the edge of a double-stacked shot glass during a game of quarters.

We didn't know what the rule was for that, so after 15 minutes of debating and a near-fist fight between 2 twin brothers, we voted that the shooter got to make a rule up. Heh.

[nhtele]

Not Psi U, but close enough.

I know we have a ton of BG's, at least one Sig Ep, a Theta Delt, an AXA, and maybe others?

Damn, tons of Dartmouth guys on here.

[chill winston]

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

The guy in the pink never wears a costume -- those are UNIFORMS. And for the record, Chill Winston is not a Lakers Fan but enjoys the Shaq-Fu steeze.











Unis are optional but encouraged. Offical pong rules: http://tahoepad.com/events/beerpong2000/pongrules.htm