World Series of Beer Pong III in Las Vegas
If you’ve never heard of it before, get ready to find a new world series to become obsessed or entertained with. Once a tournament makes it’s move to Las Vegas and offers a $50,000 winning prize, you can almost bet you’ll someday find it on some obscure HD channel, enter Beer Pong.
Beer Pong is a game that is fairly easy to understand. A simple explanation directly from the World Series of Beer Pong rulebook can be found below:
RULES and DIRECTIONS:
Beer pong itself is simple. Two teams stand at opposite ends of an 8-foot long table, where ten 16-ounce cups, filled with roughly 2 ounces of beer or another liquid, are placed in a bowling-pin formation. Each team takes turns tossing ping-pong balls at their opponent’s cup formation. If a ball goes into a cup, the cup is removed from the game. The first team to eliminate all of its opponent’s cups wins. 
At the WSOBP four of the ten cups in the formation are filled with water.
The WSOBP is the largest organized beer pong tournament in the nation, created by BPONG.COM. The WSOBP III is hosted by BPONG.COM in association with Tight Rack, and sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon. BPONG.COM is the premier source of beer pong and Beirut information on the Internet, providing a center for collaboration and discussion about the game of beer pong. Tight Rack is a Las Vegas beer pong-themed bar.
While the $50,000 grand prize today may sound like this event has been kicking along for a long while, Beer Pong is in it’s infancy. This year is the 3rd year of the tournament which had humble beginnings in Mesquite, Nevada with $10,000 grand prize 2 years ago.
It is estimated there are over 600 national and international competitors, mainly college students, competing this year in Las 
Vegas in the World Series of Beer Pong III. If you’re hanging out in Las Vegas and want to catch a glimpse of this tournament you can hop on down to the South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa.
If you have been thinking an event like this couldn’t possibly grow, attendance is expected bring in even more international interest from Canada and cover almost all states in the US. Participation is projected to be 100 more than last year!
Big time mentions of this new sport and the event have been mentioned in publications such as The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, Stuff Magazine, and Playboy.com. If you’re interested in participating next year or catching video, pictures and the excitement from this years tournament head on over to www.bpong.com.
Look at that guy in the bottom photo…”elbow!” right??
They seem to be a little lax on honor-system etiquette at this event. That guy in the lowest photo is set to release that ball from about three feet over the table.
Let’s keep those elbows back, kids.
Nortpointe Apt kids would dominate this tourney
Leaning is allowed as long as feet don’t leave the floor and legs don’t cross the plane of the table.
http://www.bpong.com/wsobp/iii/rules/wsobp3-full_rules.pdf
The WSOB rules state that you can lean while shooting and have your elbow over the table, however your feet can’t leave the ground and you can’t use anything/anybody to support…
Just an FYI =)
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SERIOUSLY SON, elbow behind the table, PLEASE
“…however your feet can’t leave the ground…”
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At least if you win you can hire some in-call.
is this on the Ocho?
I have a lot of problems with this tournament.
1. it says the cups are filled with water
2. if theres no elbow rule then a 7 foot guy with long enough arms can just lean over and drop the ball into the cup.
3. what about bouncing? a ball bounced into a cup counts as two cups?
4. do they even use fake-outs? doesnt look like it
5. they dont have re-racks. which is pivitol in beer pong.
6. What about redemption shots to force sudden death overtime!
Thats how we roll in da Bay Area
Err…
“cups are filled with water”
WSOWP
This is about a dumb as the Big 10 still calling itself the Big 10, when there are 11 fucking teams!
Two “points/objectives/goals” to the game a beer pong.
1. Get Drunk
2. Make your friends Drunker…
Amazingly enough there is a grate social commentary story here… Some guys wanted to hold a WSOBP event and a bunch a pussy lawyers said NO, you have to use water! God Damn when did become a bunch of pansies?
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From my games of friends and parties, people play different. so the elbow thing might not be part of the rule. although i see two grey lines on each side, maybe your hand cant pass that zone??….just a thought. i have a feeling this “sport” will do very well across the nation.
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for all of you who haven’t played in this and are talking crap about it…go play. it’s the most fun 4 days of the year for anyone who plays. the rules are designed to make the games as fair as possible. if you want to read the rules, go to www.wsobp.com or www.bpong.com and read about it. water is in 4 of the 10 cups for liability reasons…you can drink/chug as many beers as you would like but for actaully playing the game…it’s all liabilty…bounce is allowed, distractions are allowed but have to be behind the table, no frat boy rules of covering the cups. playing for $50,000…the rules are designed to make it as fair as possible. just check out the sites and ask anyone who has played…it’s an awesome time!
for fuck’s sake it’s “beirut” not beer pong.
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We Crippled Ninjas made the final bracket on the third day but we lost in the first round. Finished up 92nd. There were some good teams out there. To clarify everything…. to make these games easier to officiate, they made the rules straight forward. You can lean as far over the 8 foot table as you want, can rerack at 6 and 3 cups, and can fill 4 of the cups with water. I thought the water rule was dumb, but they proabably did it to save money more than anything.
Overall, awsome time. My team made the news, check the link. We’re the ones dressed as ninjas. The guys did a great job putting this event together.
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actually its a table made for elbow over, if you notice the lign in front he cant cross the cups
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this is bull… what is a beer pong tourney without beer… getting drunk as you play adds difficulty to the game and drinking water while playing cannot be fun.
o ya… elbows please dumbass
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look here all you dumb ass mother fuckers get this if you are getting paid a grand prize of fifty thousaand dollars to drink fucking beer quit bitching about the fucking rules i meen it ok to just simply drink a god damn beer and enjoy it quit being babys about the rules if you win you win and you continue and if you lose you still win cause you get to drink beer. SO SHUT THE FUCK UP
who cares if you lean . only the peolple that arent good at beerpong or have small guy complex bitch and moan… just play the game lean far as you want ,you still got to beable to throw the ball in the cup. the world series of beerpong is a great event …stop bitching itche…
beer beer beer what else can i say we would woop everyones ass but we arent 21 yet someone hook us up and get us in
keep playin ur 16yo girlfriends some day ull see how the big boys play