World Series of Beer Pong
You read that right. That fun game you played in high school and college; The one you jokingly said should be an Olympic Event… yea, that game… is not yet an Olympic event, but it is a full fledged competitive sport with teams, rankings and serious prize money. The 2010 World Series of Beer Pong started today at the Flamingo Resort in Las Vegas.
The world Series started in Mesquite, NV in 2006, and is now hosted in the town made for the sport, Las Vegas. We saw thousands of people from almost all walks of life and several countries enter for four days of intense competition. With the winning team walking away with $50,000. They are THAT serious about it.
The interesting thing is the people. Almost like the other “world series of..” these people come from almost all walks of life and all income brackets. The one thing that they have in common is the passion for the game and the new found friendships forged from playing it in a structured format. You have men, women, couples, friends and co-workers and probably a couple of enemies making up the teams.
We interviewed Billy Gaines, one of the three founders of BPong.com, the website behind the competition and will edit it and have it up shortly. His take is that it is competitive, it is serious, but most players also understand its a friendly rivalry. Everyone here is here to have fun, meet some new friends and hopefully walk away a winner.
Unlike other sports, Beer Pong does not follow the general attitude of other sports. That is, they are not politically correct. “Boats n Hoes” “Two Hot Cabooses” (two lady’s) “Deep Groat” were just some of the more colorful team names. Than my favorite for the parents: “Quiet While The Teachers R Pong’ing” ! Yes, the creativeness of most was amazing. 
The first two days are just preliminaries. Every team plays several rounds to determine their averages and scores. The real competition happens on the final two days. That’s when they get ranked and matched against similar ranked teams. Start to compete for real. We will be there to bring you some of the highlights and meet some of the players. See what team walks away with the check and the trophy.
