Pub-Crawls ?

[nickerjones]

Anyone been to one or even put one on? We are doing one next Saturday as an event for our hockey team. Never been to one myself and just curious on other's experiences and if there are things we can do to make it more fun

[REDVAN]

If you need suggestions on how to make it more fun... it begins and ends with alcohol.

[J pold]

I've been on some fantastic ones and some dreadful ones.

All I know is that every time I go that damn beer monkey shows up, takes all money I have, ruffles my hair, and sh*ts in my mouth while I'm asleep.

[nickerjones]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

If you need suggestions on how to make it more fun... it begins and ends with alcohol.

Its a pub-crawl ( we call em bars tho so bar crawl) its in establishments that solely exist to get us drunk. Its a fundraising event so we figured what fits better with hockey than alcohol? .... pubcrawl fit pretty well I suppose. I just want to know what makes it a good crawl? Im sure we will all be drunk but ... anything else?

Incorporate a treasure hunt of some kind?

[Ark2]

Originally Posted by nickerjones

Its a pub-crawl ( we call em bars tho so bar crawl) its in established that solely exist to get us drunk. Its a fundraising event so we figured what fits better with hockey than alcohol? .... pubcrawl fit pretty well I suppose. I just want to know what makes it a good crawl? Im sure we will all be drunk but ... anything else?

Good weather, a good crowd, and a good female to male ratio is what makes these things good. You may not be able to control the weather, but one thing you can do is, invite a lot of chicks.

[The Goon]

Originally Posted by Ark2

but one thing you can do is, invite a lot of chicks.

I don't think this can be stressed enough.

[Bane]

My brother created a t-shirt that said "Show me your boobs, win a sheep" and then pinned 20 small stuffed sheep to the shirt. Needless to say, by the end of the crawl he was out of sheep and had seen plenty of boobs. He is now a legend and a hero of Stampede Pub Crawls past.

[Sainters7]

Agreed that there's some awesome ones and some really lame ones. Hands down the best ones I've ever been on are the Calgary Hallowe'en ones, sooo many stories. It was a tradition for a few years but now closing in on 30 we just don't have the energy for it anymore, I miss those.

[TopChed]

If you're controlling which bars you go to along the way, make sure you end at the best bar. Otherwise you'll lose people along the way or people will say "man I wish we stayed at the last place"

[Travis Munroe]

My favorite "pub crawl" is simply taking a bus to banff, partying at aurora and then having the bus bring you back. 80% of the fun is on the bus!!
Not a fan of the stampede or halloween ones where you lose your friends after the first bar and end up on a bus with randoms and at different clubs.

[nickerjones]

Chicks... I have invited a ton! Good thing is there is nO bus. 7 bars all in a row so we are just walking to 3-5 of them

[shermanator]

I've attended about 15, and planned 4 pub crawls back in the day. I consider the amount of fun on the pub crawl to be proportionate to who attends the crawl. If people you have fun with go on the crawl with you, you'll have fun. Can definitely agree with lots of girls, they make everything more fun although they also can start a lot of bullsh*t drama when drunk so be wary.

The biggest advice I can give is to start at a bar with cheap alcohol. I used to start at the Back Alley for $1 shots, throw down a $20, give shots away, and get to know the people on the crawl. Then you'll get those drinks back (hopefully) later in the night. Might be a lttle harder now with minimum drink prices.

As well, if you're planning you will always have many people give you the ticket money at the last second, leaving you with hundreds of dollars in your wallet to go drinking. That's a little dangerous considering you'll probably be out a few hundred bucks by the time you pay the bus in full.

[getbak]

If it's a fund-raiser, a 50/50 draw is always a good way to raise some cash.

Come up with some creative ways to sell the tickets. Get a couple of the good-looking players to target the women on the crawl, and get the best-looking players' girlfriends/wives to target the men. Use the selling techniques that stroke the egos and create competition...So, something like "get as many tickets as fit around your bicep for $5", and watch the men try to out-do each other to impress the girls. Have the guys sell to the women with "as many tickets as I can wrap around your chest for $10" or something. Or, there's always the safer "Length of arm for $5", "Wingspan for $10", if you don't want to be too naughty. Give your sellers carte-blanche to do whatever they have to do to bring in more money.


When I was in College, we had a party that did a "Nuts and Bolts" contest. Someone went to a hardware store and raided their bulk nuts and bolts bins, buying a bunch of different diameter nuts and bolts. As you entered the party, the men were given a bolt, and the women a nut. Then, you had to go around the party trying to find the person whose nut/bolt was a match for yours. When you found your match, you went to the event organizer and got a prize -- the quicker you found your match, the better your prize. It was a good ice-breaker to start the night.


If you're willing to go a little raunchy (or a lot raunchy, depending on how far you go), I went on a crawl in Australia where the guy who was running it did a bunch of "adult" games at each bar. He did it in such a way that you never knew what the game would involve before you volunteered.

Some of the games they had:

He asked for 5 women to volunteer, then 5 men, and paired them up. Then he handed each woman a ping pong ball and had them insert the ball up one leg of the man's pants, and they had to move it up one leg, then out the other.

At the next bar, he asked for a bunch of men/women teams and ran sort of a Simon Says type game. He started out giving out instructions for about 4 or 5 different poses. I don't remember what their names were, but let's say he'd say "Santa" and the man would get down on one knee and the woman would sit on his lap; then, he'd say "horsey" and the man would have to piggy-back the woman...and so on. He'd do these in rapid succession and if a team fell behind (unable to do the next pose, or unable to remember it), he'd eliminate them. Then, after about 5-10 rounds of the "normal" poses, he'd start throwing out random sexual positions that the teams would have to assume (everyone was fully clothed, so just acting out the position), like "missionary, man on top" or "reverse cowgirl". As it went on, and teams dropped out, he'd escalate things until it got to "guys shirts off", which they did, then "girls shirts off", which only one was willing to do (and it's never the one you want).

The next place had a really big dance floor, so he had teams of 4 or 6 (half male, half female) and had them make a "clothing chain", so they all started at the edge of the stage, and had to lay their clothing on the ground in a chain. The team whose chain stretched the longest won (they were all down to their underwear by the end).

I think the final place was a "sexy" dance competition on the top of the bar -- which, of course, led to people removing articles of clothing.


Now, none of these things are "crawl" specific, but they help create an event feeling for it. It also depends on how much of the bar your group is going to take over while you're there, and how receptive the regular clientele will be to those types of games (the one I did was on a Wednesday night, so the bars were happy to have the additional business). If the games are good enough, you might have people who want to join your crawl partway through.



Since it's hockey related in a place where people don't know a lot about hockey, you could also come up with some hockey-type contests to get some laughs. Stuff like hockey trivia; guess the piece of equipment; or get a few teams, give them a hockey bag full of equipment (hopefully aired out) and have them race to dress somebody up in full pads -- just make sure the teams aren't made up of players on your hockey team.


Then, there's also the drink specials you arrange with the bars that are only valid for the people in your group, for as long as you're in the place, to ensure people continue to follow you for the full night.

If you do the 50/50, sell the tickets at the first bar, and draw the winner at the last, so you make sure people hang around too.

[nickerjones]

Originally Posted by getbak

If it's a fund-raiser, a 50/50 draw is always a good way to raise some cash.

Come up with some creative ways to sell the tickets. Get a couple of the good-looking players to target the women on the crawl, and get the best-looking players' girlfriends/wives to target the men. Use the selling techniques that stroke the egos and create competition...So, something like "get as many tickets as fit around your bicep for $5", and watch the men try to out-do each other to impress the girls. Have the guys sell to the women with "as many tickets as I can wrap around your chest for $10" or something. Or, there's always the safer "Length of arm for $5", "Wingspan for $10", if you don't want to be too naughty. Give your sellers carte-blanche to do whatever they have to do to bring in more money.


When I was in College, we had a party that did a "Nuts and Bolts" contest. Someone went to a hardware store and raided their bulk nuts and bolts bins, buying a bunch of different diameter nuts and bolts. As you entered the party, the men were given a bolt, and the women a nut. Then, you had to go around the party trying to find the person whose nut/bolt was a match for yours. When you found your match, you went to the event organizer and got a prize -- the quicker you found your match, the better your prize. It was a good ice-breaker to start the night.


If you're willing to go a little raunchy (or a lot raunchy, depending on how far you go), I went on a crawl in Australia where the guy who was running it did a bunch of "adult" games at each bar. He did it in such a way that you never knew what the game would involve before you volunteered.

Some of the games they had:

He asked for 5 women to volunteer, then 5 men, and paired them up. Then he handed each woman a ping pong ball and had them insert the ball up one leg of the man's pants, and they had to move it up one leg, then out the other.

At the next bar, he asked for a bunch of men/women teams and ran sort of a Simon Says type game. He started out giving out instructions for about 4 or 5 different poses. I don't remember what their names were, but let's say he'd say "Santa" and the man would get down on one knee and the woman would sit on his lap; then, he'd say "horsey" and the man would have to piggy-back the woman...and so on. He'd do these in rapid succession and if a team fell behind (unable to do the next pose, or unable to remember it), he'd eliminate them. Then, after about 5-10 rounds of the "normal" poses, he'd start throwing out random sexual positions that the teams would have to assume (everyone was fully clothed, so just acting out the position), like "missionary, man on top" or "reverse cowgirl". As it went on, and teams dropped out, he'd escalate things until it got to "guys shirts off", which they did, then "girls shirts off", which only one was willing to do (and it's never the one you want).

The next place had a really big dance floor, so he had teams of 4 or 6 (half male, half female) and had them make a "clothing chain", so they all started at the edge of the stage, and had to lay their clothing on the ground in a chain. The team whose chain stretched the longest won (they were all down to their underwear by the end).

I think the final place was a "sexy" dance competition on the top of the bar -- which, of course, led to people removing articles of clothing.


Now, none of these things are "crawl" specific, but they help create an event feeling for it. It also depends on how much of the bar your group is going to take over while you're there, and how receptive the regular clientele will be to those types of games (the one I did was on a Wednesday night, so the bars were happy to have the additional business). If the games are good enough, you might have people who want to join your crawl partway through.



Since it's hockey related in a place where people don't know a lot about hockey, you could also come up with some hockey-type contests to get some laughs. Stuff like hockey trivia; guess the piece of equipment; or get a few teams, give them a hockey bag full of equipment (hopefully aired out) and have them race to dress somebody up in full pads -- just make sure the teams aren't made up of players on your hockey team.


Then, there's also the drink specials you arrange with the bars that are only valid for the people in your group, for as long as you're in the place, to ensure people continue to follow you for the full night.

If you do the 50/50, sell the tickets at the first bar, and draw the winner at the last, so you make sure people hang around too.

Well all these sound great thanks... unfortunately there will be no advertised drink specials. We are in the Bible belt and the rules about alcohol in bars are weird here. If they advertise a special it has to a be a special every day. The bars said they would take care of us and our people but didnt say how.

50/50 might work well for sure... I was thinking of doing a raffle of some sorts ... Thanks for your help guys!

[Maritime Q-Scout]

I've lost count how many I've been on, and I've planned them as well.

Best advice:

Start at the smallest bar, and gradually go to larger ones. What it will do is establish a form of identity to the crawl. You're forced to meet everyone, and the best thing is you all already have something in common... you're on a pubcrawl for the same cause, and you plan on getting hammered


Secondly, make sure people have lots of sharpie markers. Sign the shirts, keep track of your drinks (usually a tally along the collar). The next morning you get to see all the signatures, and sayings written on your shirt. You get to try and figure out what people wrote the drunker they got. Additionally, you get to sign girls boobs, which is always a good thing.


I love the sheep example above. Props. Back in my undergrad days there was something called "Jonny Paws" where every girl on the pubcrawl would have hand prints or "paws" on their boobs, got to the point where they'd line up to have the guy sign them. I think they called them "Jonny Paws" because his name was Jonny or something.

Hope that helps, and have fun

~ Jon

[nickerjones]

Ok I have a lot more ideas now , I am def gonna use the 50/50 one for sure... I will also get with the team to talk about games we can play. We are planning on 70-100 people now.. hopefully! I made this , hope it helps get more peoples! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204400142913363

[nickerjones]

Thanks guys! The pubcrawl went awesome ... 50 -ish people there maybe more with the people coming and going! It was a blast! I used the 50/50 idea and the winner of the 50/50 gave the money back to the team . ( since it was a players wife that won it).