Beer Pong Strategies and Lingo
Beer Pong is huge. There is no denying it. From a game that college students once only played at Dartmouth to a pastime that has swept the nation, there is no knowing how far this game can reach.
Clubs and pubs in nearly every city host beer pong tournaments. If a beer pong table isn’t set up at most parties, a make shift beer pong surface is used. Coming up with crazier and crazier shots and making videos of them is a phenomenon that is all across the internet.
So to get you up to speed on beer pong, let’s take a look at some beer pong strategies and lingo. The only way to get into something is to merge yourself and become a part of it. You don’t have to become a beer pong master overnight, but it helps to get good and know what people are talking about when they are around you.
The first strategy that is often debated is the arc that you should put on the ball. The arc on the ball keeps the ball in the cup. If you drop the ball straight into the cup as most people practice doing, the ball easily bounces back out and that’s not what you want. So, practice the arc. If you watch people who are good at beer pong, you can see the arc I’m talking about and then practice, practice, practice.
Practice in your home with plastic cups and water. Make sure you put water in the cups because it pads the bottom of it and creates more realistic playing conditions. You can use beer if you want, but that’s not good at all for practice. You might have fun. But, you won’t get any better at the game because you won’t be able to catch your mistakes and correct them.
A final strategy for you to consider is trash talk. When you are playing, have all the fun you can have. Make sure you get some good trash talk lingo together and make sure you use it. Don’t hesitate to start talking trash. Your opponents will be talking trash to you.
“Blow” actually has an additional word to the phrase and when you hear it, you will know what it is. I’m not including the word for obvious profanity reasons. But when the ball is rolling around a cup and it hasn’t dropped in yet, only females can blow the ball out of the cup and help your team. But, the girls have to blow before the ball hits any liquid. Likewise, “Fingering” is when the males can try to pop the ball out with a finger. But, you can only finger before the ball hits any liquid. These rules have to be in play and they won’t be for every game.
“Spoils of War” are the cups of liquid that a team has to consume. Once the game is over, you have beaten your opponents and they have to drink the spoils of war. The “Zamboni” is when you have to clean the table.
The “Rebuttal” is an interesting part of the game. You can rebut the other team’s win by taking shots that equal how many shots your opponents took to win the game. If they only used one shot to win the game, you only get one shot to rebut. So, obviously a good time to rebut is when the other team wasn’t really on their game and pulled in a win somehow. If they took several shots to win, then rebut and you’ll have that many shots for your rebuttal.
Even the beer pong fanatics have actually tried to stay away from making the rules of the game too complex and adding too much lingo. So, there really isn’t much to learn. The game is about practice and technique. Get your game down and start throwing at parties. Anyone who can’t get into beer pong has a tough time finding anything fun interesting.
Stan Schubridge is a beer enthusiast who loves tasting new beers and attending beer events. Staying up to date on new innovations in beer and beer products keeps Stan on top of the beer world. You can read a great deal about beer and what Stan has found by visiting the Learning Center and other pages at Beertaps.com.
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