Beerlympics Post, Part I

Many young men and women have set out to prove their dominance in the playing fields of dorm rooms and garages alike, facing off against one another in what is best known as "Beer Sports". These events include typically the following:

1) Beer Pong--it's ping pong, but with one or two cups of beer on the table as obstacles. The object is to win at a traditional game of pong, but each time you hit the ball against an opponent's cup the opponent must take a sip, and if you get the ball into the cup itself they have to drink the whole thing. If you knock over your own cup then you're an idiot.

2) Beirut. This involves the triangle of beer-filled cups, and teams of two trying to toss ping pong balls into the opponents' cups at which point they must drink the beer in the cup and the object is to finish all the opponents' cups before they finish yours.

3) Flip cup. This involves each team having to relay, one at a time drinking their cup then setting it on the edge of the table, and tapping the bottom of the cup in such a way as to cause it to flip over and land on its lip. The first team to each finish (not starting until the player next to you has done) wins.

4) Quarters. Bounce a quarter into the glass.

5) Drunken horseshoes. Try not to kill someone with the horseshoes.

6) Drive to store and back with more ice. This is highly dangerous.

7) Polish Horseshoes. Two stakes twenty feet apart, each with a beer bottle balanced on it. Each team has to knock the bottle off with a frisbee.

Of course, these rules can always be modified and new games can be invented, but in every Beerlympics it's a good idea to have some prizes and a general understanding of the rules so that douchebags don't get into a screaming match with each other over such misunderstandings. Also a good idea is to have "surrogate beers"--not drink out of the cups used in the competition (as these cups will have fingers and ping pong balls in them) but drink out of beers set to the side.