Beer Pong

[Raekwon]

For a lazy guy like me where can I find a "official" beer pong table in Calgary? I'd like to try and buy one before having to build one.

Thanks

[4X4]

Man oh man. One night in Rome, me and a friend won about seven rounds of beer pong in some americano bar in Campo. After seven jugs, the bar decided to retire us and we walked away champions. It was an awesome feeling. Until I sat down and thought about all the places that ball bounced before landing in the beer I drank.
I now consider myself a retired champion.

[Jayems]

There's official tables for beer pong?

[Raekwon]

Originally Posted by Jayems

There's official tables for beer pong?

Yeah who knew? There is also a world series of beer pong in Vegas. I'm not talking about anything like that I just want the table on www.bpong.com that folds into a nice portable i guess "official" table

[Berger_4_]

You don't buy beer pong tables, you build and customize your own!

If you choose to buy one though, I'd recommend going to a garage sale, or household auction and buying an old ping pong table. Won't cost you a ton of money, so if it gets beat up (which it will) oh well, just go get another one. Then there's the added bonus of being able to play ping pong on said table as well.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Berger_4_

You don't buy beer pong tables, you build and customize your own!

If you choose to buy one though, I'd recommend going to a garage sale, or household auction and buying an old ping pong table. Won't cost you a ton of money, so if it gets beat up (which it will) oh well, just go get another one. Then there's the added bonus of being able to play ping pong on said table as well.

Don't forget flip-cup!

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Raekwon

Yeah who knew? There is also a world series of beer pong in Vegas. I'm not talking about anything like that I just want the table on www.bpong.com that folds into a nice portable i guess "official" table

I was in Vegas in teh spring, and went to a...colourful... bar where the bartender mentioned the guys playing beerpong had been there since the day before, still playing.

[Frequitude]

Originally Posted by Raekwon

Yeah who knew? There is also a world series of beer pong in Vegas. I'm not talking about anything like that I just want the table on www.bpong.com that folds into a nice portable i guess "official" table

I'm really disappointed to learn that the official beer pong rules involve throwing balls into cups. That is extremely gay. Beer pong should be just that, a game of ping pong with cans of beer on the table. You hit the can, the other guy shotguns it...

[Locke]

Oh man, so many (hazy) memories of Beer Pong....the worst was out in Ontario, I had just got off the plane and went to my friend's place by the University and I had to phone him in advance to buy me a 24 of Keith's for the long weekend.

It was gone before 11:00 due to a Beer Pong World Cup and we had to spend most of the next day trying to buy beer from restaurants.

I hate Ontario.

But I love Beer Pong.

[troutman]

Cyclone, Aeneas and I played this all the time in my basement. We even wrote up rules. The ball was fair game any time it hit the floor, so whoever could wrestle it away got to serve. We had obstacles too - my Dad had lots of taxidermy in the basement, so there were many injuries.

The basic game involved placing a full mug, one paddle length from the end of the table. If your mug was hit, you had to drink. If the ball went right in the mug, you had to down the whole thing immediately. Goaltending was strictly prohibited.

Played it a few years ago in Tulum, Mexico, and was real hung-over the next day.

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Originally Posted by Locke

It was gone before 11:00 due to a Beer Pong World Cup and we had to spend most of the next day trying to buy beer from restaurants.

Why would you have to buy beer from restaurants? There are stores you can buy from unless it was on the statutory holiday.

I hate Ontario.

Don't hate it because you think buying beer from restaurants is a good idea.

[Bobblehead]

Anyone else play pyramid caps?

Requires a bunch of empties(20) and a bunch of caps.

Sit on the floor, each puts a bottle in front of you with a cap sitting on the top upside down, and the other person throws a cap and tries to knock it off, and vice versa. Take a drink every cap that is knocked off. That's standard caps. In the pyramid version, when your cap is knocked off, you put a second bottle in. And when those are knocked off, add a third. With 10 bottles with caps, 4 or 5 are knocked off with the first throw. After all 10 are knocked off, remove a bottle. And so on. The winner is the one who takes his opponent back down to zero.

I couldn't do this game anymore.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp

Why would you have to buy beer from restaurants? There are stores you can buy from unless it was on the statutory holiday.

Don't hate it because you think buying beer from restaurants is a good idea.

It was a long weekend and the Beer Stores were closed. I came in on the Sunday and had my friend buy me beer that I thought would last 2 days, and the Beer Stores were closed on the monday.

Ontario and their fascist beer purchasing policies can burn in hell.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Locke

It was a long weekend and the Beer Stores were closed. I came in on the Sunday and had my friend buy me beer that I thought would last 2 days, and the Beer Stores were closed on the monday.

Ontario and their fascist beer purchasing policies can burn in hell.

Yeah, LCBO is the worst of monopolies.

[4X4]

The rules I played were that both teams bought a pitcher of beer and then placed six cups, in the shape of a pyramid, at their end of the table and then divvied out their beer into the cups. The goal was to get the ball into the opponents cups by bouncing the ball once and it landing in the cup. Each cup that the ball bounced in to had to be slammed. Getting it in a cup meant that you got to go again. After one team's cups were all empty, they had to go to the bar and buy the winners a jug.
Balls bounced around on the dirty floor and were handled by people of questionable hygiene, yet we still drank the beer once that rancid little ball of germs splashed down in the cup.

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Originally Posted by Locke

It was a long weekend and the Beer Stores were closed. I came in on the Sunday and had my friend buy me beer that I thought would last 2 days, and the Beer Stores were closed on the monday.

Ontario and their fascist beer purchasing policies can burn in hell.

So you can buy beer in Alberta on statutory holidays? Will the malls be open this upcoming Monday in Alberta?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by 4X4

The rules I played were that both teams bought a pitcher of beer and then placed six cups, in the shape of a pyramid, at their end of the table and then divvied out their beer into the cups. The goal was to get the ball into the opponents cups by bouncing the ball once and it landing in the cup. Each cup that the ball bounced in to had to be slammed. Getting it in a cup meant that you got to go again. After one team's cups were all empty, they had to go to the bar and buy the winners a jug.
Balls bounced around on the dirty floor and were handled by people of questionable hygiene, yet we still drank the beer once that rancid little ball of germs splashed down in the cup.

These are pretty much the same rules we played by.

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

Yeah, LCBO is the worst of monopolies.

I think the LCBO is one of the better monopolies around.

[Berger_4_]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Don't forget flip-cup!

Ah silly me...who can forget flip-cup! While I may be reigning beer pong champion, I'm yet to master the game of flip cup, along with ride the bus and ###### the dealer. All of these games I hate with a passion.

Those official beer pong rules suck though. Here's how the game should be played:

Bounces allowed, and worth two if they go in, but can be swatted away.
No water...it's for pansies.
If you drop your ball into a cup, you have to drink it (precedent set in the case of Pederson v. Szott in the Beer Pong Olympics of 2008...a game was lost over this rule, and much arguing occurred)
After the shot, the ball is live, so whoever gets to it first gets to shoot it.
Spinners can be blown out.
Only one rearrange per game, at discretion of other team.
If all your cups are gone, you have one shot to redeem yourself. If you hit the opposing team's cups, they have to finish they're drinks.

[Knut]

Sounds the same as when i played it.

However...we would continually bring in two bowls on the side... one with 1/10 diluted Soap and the other a rinsing bowl.... Occasionally running the ball through that gave some peice of mind.

Originally Posted by 4X4

The rules I played were that both teams bought a pitcher of beer and then placed six cups, in the shape of a pyramid, at their end of the table and then divvied out their beer into the cups. The goal was to get the ball into the opponents cups by bouncing the ball once and it landing in the cup. Each cup that the ball bounced in to had to be slammed. Getting it in a cup meant that you got to go again. After one team's cups were all empty, they had to go to the bar and buy the winners a jug.
Balls bounced around on the dirty floor and were handled by people of questionable hygiene, yet we still drank the beer once that rancid little ball of germs splashed down in the cup.