Single Greatest Bar Gimmick. Ever.

[CruelCircus]

Ok, so I was out tonight at "The Big Easy" on 2nd @ 92nd. It's loosely tied into New Orleans and Mardi Gras (meaning, they serve Blackened Voodoo and have beads hanging on the walls...)
But that part isn't the exciting gimmick.

No, what sets The Big Easy apart is something I'd never seen before in a bar. While many bars will have sections devoted to karaoke, pool, darts, or even ping pong, in the back The BIg Easy has 3 custom designed and built tables dedicated to games of Beirut!!
They even have one of those big "House Rules" boards hanging on the walls, and one of the bouncers was "officiating" the action.
There were a ton of people just watching, and they even sponsor tournaments. Definitely a new one on me.

(ll we need to find now is a bar with Beer Pong tables, and a Wiffle Beer tournament in Central Park!)

Has anyone seen this anyplace else?

Jim


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[Death Metal Moe]

Beirut? Is that where you bomb a once beautiful city into ruins?

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[CruelCircus]

No, no. That's "Dresden."



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[Death Metal Moe]

OK, so how do you play this bar game. I've never even heard of it.

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[CruelCircus]

Ok, quick version:
Each side has ten cups of beer, laid out pyramid-style (4-3-2-1). Basic idea is to throw a ping-pong ball into your opponents cup. If you do, they must chug that cup. First side to lose all its beers loses. (and usually, must finish what's left of the winning side's beers.)

Jim


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[ozzie]

BeerPong.info (http://www.beerpong.info/link1.htm)

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[Fallon]

Beirut rules, me and my friends play six cups a side. I'm pretty good.

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[stickyfingers]

i know bragging = lying in the world of the internet but i assure you this is true...I dedicated a good portion of the past 4 years to playing this game and it has earned me the nickname 'The Surgeon' b/c my friends say i have the hands of a surgeon when it comes to beer pong....I would say that I played over 1000 games a year while at school and out of those 1000 i may have lost 7 or 8 times and I can remember those instances. OH well, nothing matters untill you prove it so all I can say is....let's play dammit

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[The Chairman]

I'm 36 and have a custom Beirut table in my basement.

As far as the bar....I would be worried about this in terms of the liability of perceived "forced drinking" (in the context of a tournament...someone drinks too much, kills someone and then some ambulance chaser lawyer sues the bar owners)...but hey...someone assumes the risk.

My favorite bar gimmick of all is a bar in Texas where if you agree to be BRANDED with a picture of the owner (real brand, the size of a penny) then you drink free.

Those Texans.....

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[stickyfingers]

i don't like the idea of playing in a bar situation b/c most of the times you are playing with disgusting people and exchanging germs with disease breeders, also the floors of those places get disgusting and the ball probably gets pretty raunchy, and those 'water cups' might as well be called mud cups after one or two games...playing with people you know and in a cleaner area is much more appealing to me

Grant would you care to take me on at some point?

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[Snoogans]

beer pong is usually reserved for parties. it just seemed more fun with friends. if im at a bar, i wanna play pool or something i cant do in my house.

Silent Bob you one rude motherfucker, she like to go down on you, suck you. line up 2 other guys and make like a circus seal

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