Saturday, 27 June 2009

• Rules of engagement

  Beer pong is the sport of kings. I don't care if that's accurate or not, because I'll believe it forever. The only problem with it is that everyone plays the game differently, and everytime you go to someone else's house you have to play by their rules... sucks.

  I know that our group plays by a very different set of rules as far as rebuttle is concerned, but we need to have a certain standard of rules anyway. It's too difficult to memorize 20985320985 different sets of rules for the same game.

  Here is the set of rules I like to play by because it's simple, fair for skill, and efficient.

  If both players make the same cup they will get balls back. if both players make the same cup the opponents will drink three cups and the shooting team gets balls back. A lot of people hate this rule, but it takes skill to do this.

  A bounce shot is worth two cups, but it may be blocked. Blocking a normal shot is a penalty of one cup. These rules stack with the first. For example, if you bounce it into the same cup the first player made it is four cups and balls back. If you somehow manage to bounce both into the same cup and the other team doesn't stop it from happening somehow it would be a five cup move. I've never seen this before, but damn.

  If you make three shots in a row in consecutive turns or balls back shots you are considered on fire. You may now shoot until you miss.

  Reracks are given after six cups remain. we usually do three per game. The first one can't be called until six cups. Since we give the option to use them at any cup value after six we end up with some classic racks such as "the cock and balls", or "stoplight". This rule I would say should be changed to more standard rules, but I like it.

  Rebuttle. Here is where I'm certain we differ from everyone else who's ever played the game. We keep it directly number oriented to make it easier to determine. When all of your cups count as hit you get a rebuttle turn. If you had one cup remaining and one opponent hits it, you are now at zero cups. One member of your team must make it to put you back at one cup. Now let's get tricky. Let's say you have two cups remaining and the other team makes same cup. You are now at negative one cup. You and your partner must both make a cup to bring your total up to plus one. If succesful you drink one cup. If your team made same cup you would be at plus two so you can keep your cups. Your total may never exceed the cups you have remaining, this means if you get to a plus two and have only one cup remaining the other team must drink one.

  This is your turn. the opponents now get their next turn and play continues as normal. The only difference is that you only get one rebuttle per game. If you hit zero cups again you lose. I know a lot of people don't agree with all of this, but in the event one game leans too quickly it balances it out letting the better team show more consistantly.

  Damn. I just realized that I'm just as bad as every douche-nozzle that forced me to lose a game due to weird fucking rules.

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