What is "Beer Pong"?

Beer Pong, also known as "Beirut" is a favorite game around college campuses and pretty much anywhere you can find people who are of legal drinking age looking for a good time. All you need is a beer pong table or several beer pong tables.  Though the rules of the game are fairly simple, Beer Pong requires a bit of skill, coordination, and luck.   Are you up for the challenge?  The way we see it is you really cant lose.  Worse case scenario.....  You have to drink beer!

Where did it all begin?

Everyone seems to have their own version of where it all began; some claim that someone had an older brother who went to school with some guy who had been there for a decade, and came up with the game when he was at one of the hundreds of keg parties he was at. Or another guy claims to have come back to his small town and get all his buddies to believe that he came up with this new game. The problem is people believe all these fairy tales, so where did it all start?

The legend started sometime in the 1950s at Dartmouth, where some Ivy League frat boys were playing a game of ping pong. When one of the pledges had set his cup on the end of the table during a game and bingo! One of the brothers had sunk the cup and made this future banker drink the cup, and by doing so started one of the biggest college drinking games ever. By a simple mistake they struck a cord with everyone around – it would play for generations.

This game has become a phenomenon, spawning cash tournaments like the World Series of Beer Pong that puts up a $50,000 prize for winning. Not a bad way to make a couple of bucks, except the beer belly you may develop from training. Bars use the game as a way to draw people to them, people play at concerts, sporting events, basically anywhere there is beer and a competitive nature.  If you are a fan and player of the game, keep playing, and if you haven’t played… what are you waiting for?

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