YAHOO - You know the game: Two teams arrange 6-10 plastic red Solo cups into a triangle shape at opposite ends of a table, fill each cup with cheap beer, then take turns skillfully (or not) arcing a ping pong ball into them. Hook a ball into your opponent’s cup, and he or she has to down the beer inside.
It’s simple. It’s fun. There’s lots of drinking. And nothing much has changed for, well, ever. That is, until beer pong aficionados (and mechanical engineers!) William Heimsoth & Aaron Attebery unveiled Hexcup on Kickstarter.
Hexcup is the classic red plastic Solo party cup reimagined. Instead of a round, smooth rim, it features a hexagonal shape and a reinforced base. It is, as its makers say, “the best beer pong cup in the world” and “an improved way to play.”
Why? Per Heimsoth and Attebery’s research, the Hexcup solves game problems like:
First of all anybody who says they're too old for beer pong can fuck off. If you're at a backyard bbq and there's a pong table set up and you don't get that itch then I don't want to know you. I went to a graduation party this summer and fucking ran the table against a bunch of 21-year-olds. Felt like Tim Riggins when coach let him suit up in practice after he graduated.
Anyway these cups SUCK. What's improved about it? It's easier to play? It's easier to rack? It's supposed to be challenging. I'd be sinking shots like Chauncy Billips with this equipment. My cups shouldn't be shaped like a fucking hexagon, perfectly racked alongside one another with some sort of reinforced lead base. Pong is about smooth cylinders vaguely positioned together as they slip all over the table. It's about 45 minute games where nobody can hit a cup and only end when someone stops paying attention and wanders off. It's what separates the men from the boys.
PS - I was playing one-on-one beer pong with my gf in college and she was beating me so bad I puked all over her dorm room floor. Things were never the same after that.
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