For the two pyramids to be brought together into one triangle, a player must hit the center cup. But instead of drinking it immediately, it's set aside until the other team makes their center cup. When this occurs, the two opponents toast their brimming Dixie cups and chug.
"I don't know of anyone else who plays that way," Giangioreano said. "Most people do the standard 10-cup game (at PSU)."
No matter how you play, the game is over when all cups are gone and all beer has been consumed, or when the other team can no longer stand up. And most players agree that girls can follow their own rules.
Table Type: take what you can get
GW Junior Cat Feldtmose said she plays beer pong, but not as much as she did her freshman year.
"It was easier to play then because the doors were easier to take off," she said.
Living in overcrowded dorms and efficiency apartments, the average college student doesn't usually have much room to store a ping pong table. It forces students to be creative when choosing a surface to play on, and most students learn during their first week in Thurston that closet doors make a sufficient playing surface with just the right dimensions.
Sophomore Dan Gerszewski of the Sigma Nu fraternity said Thurston closet doors did the trick but were not ideal.
"You've got to be wary of the crack down the middle," Gerszewski warned.
He explained that his brothers play with a "no throw" rule. The ball must be bounced into the opponent's cups in true beer pong fashion until one cup remains. Then, to win the game, the team must throw the ball into the final cup, which is more of a Beirut technique. But the closet doors all have crevices down the middle, which may interfere with a player's bounce.
Now that Feldtmose has graduated from freshman-style living, she is concerned about the mess a beer pong game could leave in her apartment. She said the beer splashes on the floor, leaving a sticky mess on tile floors and the potent reek of stale beer that never comes out of a carpet. So Feldtmose said she tries to lay Twister mats under her table when she plays.
"I don't know of anyone else who plays that way," Giangioreano said. "Most people do the standard 10-cup game (at PSU)."
No matter how you play, the game is over when all cups are gone and all beer has been consumed, or when the other team can no longer stand up. And most players agree that girls can follow their own rules.
Table Type: take what you can get
GW Junior Cat Feldtmose said she plays beer pong, but not as much as she did her freshman year.
"It was easier to play then because the doors were easier to take off," she said.
Living in overcrowded dorms and efficiency apartments, the average college student doesn't usually have much room to store a ping pong table. It forces students to be creative when choosing a surface to play on, and most students learn during their first week in Thurston that closet doors make a sufficient playing surface with just the right dimensions.
Sophomore Dan Gerszewski of the Sigma Nu fraternity said Thurston closet doors did the trick but were not ideal.
"You've got to be wary of the crack down the middle," Gerszewski warned.
He explained that his brothers play with a "no throw" rule. The ball must be bounced into the opponent's cups in true beer pong fashion until one cup remains. Then, to win the game, the team must throw the ball into the final cup, which is more of a Beirut technique. But the closet doors all have crevices down the middle, which may interfere with a player's bounce.
Now that Feldtmose has graduated from freshman-style living, she is concerned about the mess a beer pong game could leave in her apartment. She said the beer splashes on the floor, leaving a sticky mess on tile floors and the potent reek of stale beer that never comes out of a carpet. So Feldtmose said she tries to lay Twister mats under her table when she plays.
