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Beer Pong

The national sport of drinkers everywhere!

Beer Pong is like the Texas Hold-em of drinking games. It is among the most ubiquitous, and widely varied games there is.

The game is known by many names, Beer Pong and Beirut being the most common. (Some places apply the name beer pong to what we call paddle pong.) The Rules for the game differ as much as the name, but the basic premise remains the same.

Pong is played on a large table, usually around 4 foot by 8 foot. Teams of two are at each end, and in front of them is a triangle of standard 16-ounce plastic cups, each containing approximately a quarter of beer.

Teams alternate tossing a ping pong into the opponents cups, with a successful shot resulting in the cup being removed from the table and consumed by the defending team.

The most common set of rules are as follows:

A single six cup triangle, centered, on either side.

Defending team cannot interfere with a shot until the ball has made contact with any surface.

A “bounced” shot is worth two cups, but can be blocked by the defending team. The defending team may choose which additional cup to remove if the bounce is successful.

Each team may have one re-rack. They must declare it at the beginning of a turn (not between shots.) Common re-racks include a 3–cup triangle, or a 3 or 4 cup straight line.

When a team has sank the final cup of the opposing team, the defending team’s players each get one shot for a “rebuttal.” If either player makes their shot, the last cup is negated, and play continues as if the shot were missed.

The loosing team forfeits their position on the table, and the winning team gets the first turn against the new challenging opponents.

Some of the most common optional rule variations are as follows:

Racks:

-Start with ten cups on a side instead of six, and each team may have two re-racks at their choosing.

-Start with ten cups on a side instead of six, and re-racks occur automatically (even during a turn,) at six cups and three cups, each one being a triangle.

-Start with twelve cups on a side, arranged in two separate six cup triangles, each one corresponding to a single player on a team. Each player drinks his or her own cups, and the triangles are merged to a single triangle once there are only six cups remaining between the two.

-Start with fifteen cups on a side, with automatic re-racks at ten, six, and three.

Rebuttal rules:

-If the offending team makes both of their shots against the last cup, they may continue to shoot until they miss. The total number of made shots is the number of cups the defending team must make in order to earn a rebuttal.

-If the offending team makes both of their final shots, rebuttal is not possible, and the defending team looses outright.

-Instead of making a single cup, each defender shoots until they miss. They must make all remaining cups between them, and if successful, the game moves to a three cup per side overtime.
_{*Note, The staff at DGU prefer this rebuttal method, as if one team makes every cup, why shouldn’t the other team have to make them all to keep playing?}

Bounce Rules:

-Bounces are not blockable, but are only worth a single cup.

-Bounces off any surface other than the table such as a wall or the ceiling are worth three cups.

-Same as above, but only on rebuttal.

Random Optional Rules:

-An “airball,” that is a shot which misses the cups and table entirely results in a one cup penalty for the offending team,

-A team gets one free swat per game, which they may use whenever they damn well please.

-A ball which lands atop three cups counts as making all three.

-If a team makes both balls in the same cup, the defending team automatically looses. The rule is know as the “kill cup.”

-If a team makes a cup that should have been drank already, it is game over, but if both players make the same cup before the defending team has had a chance to drink / remove the cup, it simply counts as a second cup. This is known as the “gentlemen’s rule.”

What are you local variations on the game of beer pong?
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