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Issue date: 4/1/04 Section: Sports

No game of Beerpong is complete without the most important piece of equipment...BEER! The Stagnant staff recommends Sam Adams Brewing´s fine line of products. They taste great and will get you drunk to the bejeezus.

Students around the nation are competing in the newest form of college drinking fun: it is called beerpong. Unlike most sports that are limited to one or two styles of playing, the game of beerpong gives each student an opportunity to find and perfect his or her own style of play as the night goes on.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with what you need to play and the rules of the game, let this be a sort of "beerpong for dummies" reference for you. Beerpong consists of a 4x8 piece of plywood decorated with your own logo or drawing artistically painted all over it, 20 solo cups and two Ping-Pong balls. It is that simple.
The game can be played several different ways depending on the size of the crowd and the seriousness of your players. The game can be played as 2 vs. 2 or with a team. The easiest and most basic way to play is the 2 on 2 method. This consists of two teams of two players standing on opposite sides the 4x8 table. Each team has ten cups set up on the table's edge, as pins in a bowling alley would be. The idea of the game is to try to throw or bounce Ping-Pong balls into the other team's cups.
An avid beerpong enthusiast commented, "My personal preference is definitely the team game. It gets everyone at the party involved and gets everyone to let loose for the night. The team game really relies on everyone fully doing their job and communicating. The team game is not just about you; it is about everyone else. It makes winning worth it and after a long hard night of beerpong games you can be satisfied with your results."
There are several in-game rules to follow while playing the 2 vs. 2 game. The game starts with a sort of throw-off, to see which team shoots first. Players from both teams shoot back and forth one by one, and as one team makes it, the other has to follow with a make or the other team starts with the first shot.
Once this is determined, the game is simple: both players from each team shoot at the other team's cups until one team runs out of cups. Whatever cups are left on the winning team's side of the table are to be drunk by the losing opponents. The lone rule about bouncing the ball is that the team who was bounced on will have to remove two cups if they are scored on. If the ball is bounced, you may swat it away from the cups in the air to prevent the two-cup penalty; good advice says to be aware at all times.

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