• As you know, The Chateau Motel is the home of "The Best Deal on the Beach" during Spring Break, in addition to those great prices, they host a series of events and parties through out Spring Break, including official Beer Pong Tournaments amongst seas of individual games spread across the beaches.

  • Colleges across the nation divide into two categories, Beer Pong Pro's and Yet-To-Play's, for those falling in the Not-Yet column and are looking to experience the adventure, here's some basic background information to keep you from becoming a total pong bomb:

Who's Responsible-ish:
The game evolved from the original beer pong played with paddles which is generally regarded to have had its origins within the fraternities of Dartmouth College in the 1950s and 1960s, where it has since become part of the social culture of the campus.

The original version resembled an actual ping pong game with a net and one or more cups of beer on each side of the table. Eventually, a version without paddles was created, and later the names Beer Pong and Beirut were adopted in some areas of the USA sometime in the 1980s.

Game Basics:
Beer pong is normally played in pairs of two on a rectangular table with one team standing at the opposite of the other.

This game can be played with Six or ten cups forming a pyramid at either end of the table, with the base of the pyramid centered at the edge of the table. The main purpose of this game is for the players  to toss or bounce ping pong balls into the cups, each of the cup is filled with 1/3 of a beer or what ever one may desire.

When a player makes a shot into a cup of the opposing team, a player from the opposing team drinks  the cup and removes it from the table. The game continues in this way, with both players from one team taking a shot, followed by both players from the other team.

The team that is able to clear all of the opposing team’s cups first is the winner, with the losing team splitting the contents of the winning team’s remaining cups

  • Once you've decided to step into red cup frenzy, be sure to take in these tips by Dr. Manhattan and shared from this Beer Pong Blog, aptly called ilovebeerpong.net

Helpful Tips

  1. 1. The Beer –     What are you drinking? Make sure that it’s cheap, but not too cheap, and that you don’t accidentally grab a nearby cup filled with whiskey (a pleasant surprise) or a cigarette (even better). 
  3. 2. The Cups – Make sure they’re filled high enough, for those of you who don’t know, two is standard, three is better, four is too much. If you wuss out and only do a little in each, a line drive shot will send the cup straight to your shoes.
  6. 3. The Table – You can pretty much play beer pong on anything, a fold-out, a surfboard, two chairs and a stolen road sign, whatever. But know your table, especially if you’re playing with the bounce rule. You want to know how much bounce you’ve got before you attempt a trick shot and you look like a tool.
  9. 4. The Water Cup – People don’t often understand that water cups have to be changed. This is especially true if you’re playing either A) outside or B) in your friend’s dirty ass apartment. After about the third game, the water cup will be so full of dirt, leaves and hair, it’d be more sanitary if you gave it a spit shine yourself
  12. 5. The Environment – It may sound stupid to take stuff like wind into account, but it’s a ping pong ball, not a golf ball, the wind will affect it significantly more. Also, never play on a balcony, the ball rolls off and you have to run three flights down for the game to be able to start again.
  15. 6. Your Partner – There are two strategies to selecting a winning partner. The first is obvious, you’re best bud who totally kicks ass at pong and when the two of you team up you destroy everyone in your path. But if he’s not available, the strategy is simple, find a hot chick. Any male competitors will be distracted. Foolproof.
  18. 7. Your Form – Pick a style and stick with it. Don’t flop around between “all-knees,” all-arm,” “all-wrist,” “loft-shot” and “line drive.” Just pick one, and eventually you’ll find your groove in that style. And then stay with it the rest of your life.
  21. 8. Your Attitude – It’s only acceptable to trash talk the opposing team if they’re your friends. If it’s two random kids who just wandered into your house from off the street, then play nice, you can win without being a jerk about it. However, the exception to this rule is if they’re from your rival school. In that case, tear their every move apart until they run home crying.

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