Beer Pong Rules Question
 

After playing a lot over spring break I was lucky enough to get a little round robin action going in our dorm. Configuration was first bracket 6 cup 4 beer (I know, i thought it was a bit much too), second bracket 10 cup 6 beer, and finals 10 cup 8 beers. Obviously the amount of beer we used was not normal, but thats not the issue. Some of the kids I was playing with insisted that

1) bounces were never allowed
2)one throw per turn, that is only one person from each team can go before switching turns, as opposed to both throwing per turn.
3)blowing out the ball was not allowed

Now my father raised me to think that you can always bounced, both players (in a team game) throw before turns end, and blowing, or even picking, was allowed. This isn't just a "house rules" thing, because it was my dorm and my roomate was one of the people insisting on these weird rules. Whats the norm where you play?

Also, we couldn't agree on a rule about being skunked. And no, beer pong is not a gay-bee frat thing only.

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Bouncing is allowed, but they can be swatted. If a bounce shot goes in, it is worth two cups.

Both players on a team shoot per turn. If they both make it, they get both balls back to shoot again.

Bitches blow.

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grrr this is Beirut dammit !!

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I always played this that you had to bounce once between the two sets of cups before going in. One bounce. No more, no less.

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most know it as beer pong, i call it beirut as well, but how many here will know what im talkin about? and yes, blowing is for bitches, but this was a co-ed game, so bitches blew. and one bounce is what i meant i guess. no one dribbles it in, its too easy to swat.

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Bouncing is allowed, but they can be swatted. If a bounce shot goes in, it is worth two cups.

Both players on a team shoot per turn. If they both make it, they get both balls back to shoot again.

Bitches blow.

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also if you get it into a cup that your opponent is holding (if he's pouring beers into a personal cup for instance), you autowin. and if both players on a team bounce into the same cup, you autowin and the opposing team has to drink your cups.

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I always played this that you had to bounce once between the two sets of cups before going in. One bounce. No more, no less.

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That's how I always played it.
Also, swatting was never allowed (unless the ball bounced more that once and was heading for the cups). And each player on the team got 1 "toss" per round.

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My rules were:

If you bounce it, it can be swatted unless it's a chick then she can bounce.
Both go per turn, you both make it, bring em back.
Bitches blow
Make it in the same cup as your partner, it's auto win, whether the cup is still on the table or is in the opponents hand and not finished

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My rules were:

If you bounce it, it can be swatted unless it's a chick then she can bounce.
Both go per turn, you both make it, bring em back.
Bitches blow
Make it in the same cup as your partner, it's auto win, whether the cup is still on the table or is in the opponents hand and not finished

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I play with these rules too, except you can swat a chicks bounce too.

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There are no standard rules for this game. House rules always take precedence. Just go with what the majority wants.

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House rules always take precedence.

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Agreed.

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Just go with what the majority wants.

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Now the house rules are subject to democracy?

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Exactly, house rules. Some houses suck, though. I think we have a fun set of rules.

We usually don't allow bounces, but if we don't say anything about it before the game and somebody does go for a bounce we'll play the rest of the time with bounces. You can swat a bounce, even if it's a girl throwing.

Both players on a team go. If they sink both balls, they get them back. If they get it in the same one, it's that cup + 2 of their choice + a send back. We play pull cup, though, so you can pull the cup once it goes in. If it hits your hand though, it's a cup of their choice + they get that one ball back for another shot (not both balls).

If you play vs. me, I'll let bitches blow and guys finger, but if it's me and my good friend who usually partners with me, he says no.

Nudies on. If we sink all of your cups before you sink one of ours, you do a lap around the house/dorm/whatever naked.

We don't make people drink whatever we sink before they can shoot. However, this lets us put on the rule that if you're holding a cup in your hand and a ball goes into, it's game over.

Finally, we've added a fun rule called the Ben Wallace. Once per game, a team is allowed to Ben Wallace. You Ben Wallace by shouting Ben Wallace and swatting the ball out of the air (you know, rejection). Only one Ben Wallace per team, not per player. The best time to use it is as early in the rack when one player has already made it in and you want to prevent a sendback. Other people like to wait until there aren't many cups left, so they can use it when it's down to 1 or 2 to prevent game over.

Finally, the end game. When there are 2 cups left...if my partner sinks one cup and you pull it, and I sink the other, we win no redemption. With one cup left, if he sinks one, you leave it, but pull the ball. If I sink it too, game over, no redemption. If, however, we sink the last cup but don't get two in on the same turn, opponents are allowed a chance at redemption, no matter how many cups left on our side. Our redemption works that one player gets to shoot the ball until they miss a cup. As you get them in, we pull them. Once one person misses, if you're girls, we let you re-rack if it's at a re-rack number, if you're guys, no dice. The other person goes until they miss. If they manage to get every cup, we go to a 3 cup overtime which plays like normal. The team that didn't have to redeem themselves goes first.

Damn, that's long.

EDIT: Oh yeah, you get to rerack as many times as you want as long as it's on a re-rack number. 10, 6, 4, 3, and 2. No reracking between partners.

Also, we don't play with airballs anymore, but some people play that if you miss the table and cups completely, it's a cup off your side. Others play two airballs in a row, and it's a cup. This is a bit of a silly rule, but you might want to try it out.

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I always played that bouncing and blowing were allowed, provided that with bouncing, once the ball hits the ground, the other team can grab it, and with blowing, you can't attempt to blow it out until it hits a cup.

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So 58% of you don't have a double back rule? Disgusting.

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The rules we use in our house:

-no bounces
-to start the game, players on both sides look eachother in the eyes and shoot at cups and it alternates between partners until one side hits
-if the first person to shoot hits, he keeps shooting. If first person misses second shot, it switches to the other side. If first person hits second shot, he/she keeps shooting and when they miss, their partner still gets one shot. If first person misses first shot, and the partner hits his shot, they don't get to shoot again, switches to other side
-for defense you can block the view of the cups, and swat away rebounds, but can't touch the ball before it hits the cups or it counts as a hit cup. Also no blatant throwing at the defender. Blowing the ball out is allowed, but can't use your hand to try to grab it out of the cup.

That's about it, these are the only rules I've ever played with and they seem to work pretty well.

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-to start the game, players on both sides look eachother in the eyes and shoot at cups and it alternates between partners until one side hits


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Yes. We do this too. Eye to eye is a good way to decide who gets to go first, but after that, if the winner of the previous game has stayed on the table, they go first.

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My rules were:

If you bounce it, it can be swatted unless it's a chick then she can bounce.
Both go per turn, you both make it, bring em back.
Bitches blow
Make it in the same cup as your partner, it's auto win, whether the cup is still on the table or is in the opponents hand and not finished

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I play with these rules too, except you can swat a chicks bounce too.

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Sigh. Ok guys. Here are the rules for you. If you're ever come to our house, they're posted on the wall.

511 BEER PONG RULES ver. 1.01

• 6 Cups in a 3-2-1 triangle, with 2 beers used.

• Only one consolidation per game. Must be done before the start of a turn.

• If this is a 10 cup game, use 4 beers in a 4-3-2-1 triangle, and you get 2 consolidations to use at your discretion. All other rules are the same.

• In order for a shot to be valid, the shooter’s elbow must be behind the white line at all times. An invalid shot is treated as a miss regardless of result, and there is no redo.

• If bounced, a ball can be deflected. If the ball goes in, that cup and another one of the defenders’ choice is taken. If the ball bounces off a defender, it counts as a 2-cup shot.

• If a team makes both shots, they receive another turn. At this time, a consolidation may take place.

• If a ball is hit by a defending team in the air, a cup is taken of the defenders’ choice. The ball does not go back to the thrower.

• If a cup is knocked over, the cup is out of play. This is technically not a made shot.

• Once the ball is in the cup, it stays. There is NO blowing, fingering, etc. unless there is a unanimous decision by all players that this pussy action will be tolerated.

• A made cup is kept on the table until the end of a turn.

• By tradition, if someone Bozo’s before the first shot of a game, it’s customary, but not required, to put a dollar in the last cup. If that team wins, the keep the dollar.

• ABSOLUTELY NO REBUTTLES

• Loser gets the beer for the next game.

• No excuses. Play like a champion.

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Bouncing is allowed, but they can be swatted. If a bounce shot goes in, it is worth two cups.

Both players on a team shoot per turn. If they both make it, they get both balls back to shoot again.


Bitches blow.

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Our rules exactly.

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• No excuses. Play like a champion.

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This is the best rule.

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Bouncing is allowed, but they can be swatted. If a bounce shot goes in, it is worth two cups.

Both players on a team shoot per turn. If they both make it, they get both balls back to shoot again.

Bitches blow.

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Oh god... This reminded me of the constant rebuttal argument. We played like this:

I make your second to last cup. My teammate makes the last cup. Game over.
We start our turn with you having one cup. One of us makes it, one of us misses, you get 2 rebuttals. You just have to make one shot and the game continues. One of us makes it, the other chooses not to shoot, you get one rebuttal. You make it we keep playing. We both make the final cup, game over.

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A nice change of pace game, for the superior player at Providence College, was to play battleship Beruit.
Our normal cups per side was 10 in the normal game, but instead of arranging them in the typical triangle, you aranged them in straight lines 2, 3, and 5 cups long. I'm sure others have done this, but it came out of my beer-addled brain one evening.

Another killer was Survivor flip-cup, where the losing side has to vote one player off, but maintain the same number of cups throughout the game regardless of the actual number of players.

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Bouncing is allowed, but they can be swatted. If a bounce shot goes in, it is worth two cups.

Both players on a team shoot per turn. If they both make it, they get both balls back to shoot again.

Bitches blow.

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Our rules exactly as well. Also, no penalties for overthrows, no auto-win crap at any time, and re-racks occur with six cups remaining (if you start with ten) and again with three cups remaining.

Regarding rebuttals: If you have two cups left and I make one then my teammate makes the other it is a fatality and the game is over. If this doesn't happen each player on the other teams gets to shoot until they miss. If the first player hits all of the remaining cups, the second player shoots to decide which team gets first shot in overtime (this is only an occasional rule and in other cases possession automatically goes to the first team to finish in regulation).

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Bouncing is allowed, but they can be swatted. If a bounce shot goes in, it is worth two cups.

Both players on a team shoot per turn. If they both make it, they get both balls back to shoot again.

Bitches blow.

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End of thread.

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My rules were:

If you bounce it, it can be swatted unless it's a chick then she can bounce.
Both go per turn, you both make it, bring em back.
Bitches blow
Make it in the same cup as your partner, it's auto win, whether the cup is still on the table or is in the opponents hand and not finished

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Looks like Mason has it figured out. Just remember that against an opponent who has seen my "Defensive Drills" video, you'll have a hard time landing a bounce shot. Just ask Fred McGriff.

-Back to back to back AAU National Champion coach

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Looks like Mason has it figured out. Just remember that against an opponent who has seen my "Defensive Drills" video, you'll have a hard time landing a bounce shot. Just ask Fred McGriff.

-Back to back to back AAU National Champion coach

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Lol, wtf I love those commercials

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My rules were:

If you bounce it, it can be swatted unless it's a chick then she can bounce.
Both go per turn, you both make it, bring em back.
Bitches blow
Make it in the same cup as your partner, it's auto win, whether the cup is still on the table or is in the opponents hand and not finished

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Looks like Mason has it figured out. Just remember that against an opponent who has seen my "Defensive Drills" video, you'll have a hard time landing a bounce shot. Just ask Fred McGriff.

-Back to back to back AAU National Champion coach

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OMG I'm still LOLing at I write this. [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

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In a dorm setting. I thought that's what the OP was talking about. in other settings, the rules are made by he who pays the rent/mortgage.

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I didn't read through all the responses, but one undeniable fact is that only chicks are allowed to blow.

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So 58% of you don't have a double back rule? Disgusting.

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I know. Kids these days....*shakes head*

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Bouncing is allowed, but they can be swatted. If a bounce shot goes in, it is worth two cups.

Both players on a team shoot per turn. If they both make it, they get both balls back to shoot again.

Bitches blow.

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End of thread.

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2 Back isnt a good rule, shoot till you miss is a better,

http://www.bpong.com/index.php

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No, beer pong doesn't rule.