Those silly little GW kids

[chinatownfanclub]

Basically some sportswriter interviewed some GW students who conducted a study regarding the germs that accumulate on a ping pong ball during a game of beer pong (properly referred to as beirut). www.sportsline.com/spin/story/9981066/1

Here is the exchange regarding the level of talent of beirut players between GW and Gtown.


ClayNation: Why do you think GW students are such better beer pong players than Georgetown students?

Morrissey: I mostly attribute this to the fact that we are normal people. It's true, maybe half of our school was rejected by Georgetown ... but the reasons for their rejection stem from the fact that they had lives in high school and that they weren't from some family legacy that has resulted in a guy being named Ashley or a girl named Torrence.

Here at George Washington, we are every bit as intelligent (well ... most of us) as our counterparts at Georgetown. While our goals are every bit as lofty and we will be every bit as successful, we've also been taught to enjoy the finer things in life, like a game of beer pong ... so that's the answer. Also, I think another part of why we are so much better has to due with them apparently, "sucking."

Heffner: First of all, I'm glad that this is common knowledge. But I think the reason is that Georgetown just doesn't recruit as heavily as GW does when it comes to drinking sports. I heard their women's varsity flip cup team just got beaten by American 38-2, and their quarters squad had to forfeit the rest of the season due to injuries and a lack of players. GW students just know what's up when it comes to competitive drinking. And everything else for that matter.

More comments regarding the topic are here:
blog.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2007/02/gw_better_at_beer_pong_than_ge.html#comments

[tgo]

these guys are nuts.

where are their championships? how many head to head battles have the won against GU in drinking competitions?

I was on the 1996 anchor man national championship squad at GU and if not for the now infamous cracked cup incident of 1994 GU would have taken home the NCAA flip cup championship that year. While we didnt contend nationally for keg race titles, we have always been the class of the mid-atlantic states in that regard.

[Just Cos]

But I think the reason is that Georgetown just doesn't recruit as heavily as GW does when it comes to drinking sports. I heard their women's varsity flip cup team just got beaten by American 38-2, and their quarters squad had to forfeit the rest of the season due to injuries and a lack of players.

This is pretty funny

[bubbrubbhoya]

chinatownfanclub said:

Here at George Washington, we are every bit as intelligent (well ... most of us) as our counterparts at Georgetown. While our goals are every bit as lofty and we will be every bit as successful, we've also been taught to enjoy the finer things in life, like a game of beer pong ... so that's the answer. Also, I think another part of why we are so much better has to due with them apparently, "sucking."

Since the Grammar Games have officially begun between me and hifi, I'd better get to this before our Gator Friend does. This WG guy missed using a possessive in front of a gerund. He wrote, "Also, I think another part of why we are so much better has to due (sp?) with them apparently, "sucking."
What he meant to write: "Also, I think that another part of why we are so much better has to do with their apparently, "sucking."
I'm still split as to the correctness of the comma use at the end of that sentence.

But seriously, I think that this would be a great thing for the schools to head-to-head on. Events: Boat-racing (full cups), flip-cup, beirut, and quarters. Once we crush their spirit in the world of drinking, what will they then have to prop up their pathetic little existences?

[Coast2CoastHoya]

Agreed. Why not have an alumni division and an undergrad division? I humbly offer my services as a master boat racer and flip-cupper.

Even if and when we do crush their spirits, they'll always have the one thing self-loathing doormats everywhere have: their inferiority complex and perceived "oppression" from the Hilltop.

"A rationale is what you have before an action. Rationalization is what you have after."

[hoyatables]

To be fair, drinking games are sometimes all GW students have left in mid-March when their supposed "best team in DC" bows out of the tournament early. This means the poor GW undergrads must resort to playing drinking games in sports bars while fans of successful DC college teams get to keep watching their teams play.

[Coast2CoastHoya]

I seem to remember something kind of like that last year ... a group of GU alumni effectively killing a GW beirut party at a local establishment so we could watch the NCAAs and using our "assets" to distract them?

BTW: congrats on getting to Silver, 'tables, and thanks for the use of the Forman-style quesadilla griller.

[JimmyHoya]

My name is Jimmy, destroyer of worlds with J-J Flip-Cup.

[Cambridge]

What a rube. First off, he calls the hallowed game "Beer Pong." That alone belies his status as a rogue and a ruffian. As any respectable gentleman would know, Beer Pong is an entirely different game than the venerated sport of Beirut.

Beirut involves the launching of ping pong balls (or beer bottle caps should balls be unavailable) at a triangular formations of plastic cups at opposite ends of a table.

Beer Pong is a game that Dartmouth kids are obsessed with and it involves actual ping pong paddles and a ping pong table. Each participant attempts to sink the ping pong ball into beer cups by striking the ball with the paddle.

While, many college kids in America's rust belt (ie PA, OH, MI, etc) insist on calling our beloved game Beer Pong, they are incorrect. But do not hate them because they are ignorant. It is our public education system that has failed them.

[Cambridge]

BTW I actually did anchor the Gtown flip cup tournament champions of 2001-2002. I actually still have the commemorative t-shirt and trophy to prove it.

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cambridgehoya said:

BTW I actually did anchor the Gtown flip cup tournament champions of 2001-2002. I actually still have the commemorative t-shirt and trophy to prove it.

That title is CLEARLY suspect...

... you never faced the 3718 R Street Fightin' (Lieutenant) Kilgore's.

[hoya9797]

cambridgehoya said:

What a rube. First off, he calls the hallowed game "Beer Pong." That alone belies his status as a rogue and a ruffian. As any respectable gentleman would know, Beer Pong is an entirely different game than the venerated sport of Beirut.

Beirut involves the launching of ping pong balls (or beer bottle caps should balls be unavailable) at a triangular formations of plastic cups at opposite ends of a table.

Beer Pong is a game that Dartmouth kids are obsessed with and it involves actual ping pong paddles and a ping pong table. Each participant attempts to sink the ping pong ball into beer cups by striking the ball with the paddle.

While, many college kids in America's rust belt (ie PA, OH, MI, etc) insist on calling our beloved game Beer Pong, they are incorrect. But do not hate them because they are ignorant. It is our public education system that has failed them.

We played lots of Beer Pong from '93 to '97. I'd never heard of Beirut until I met my wife, a grad of a Midwestern university.

[LizziebethHoya]

This is utterly hilarious.

Why do they even bother?

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hoya9797 said:

cambridgehoya said:

What a rube. First off, he calls the hallowed game "Beer Pong." That alone belies his status as a rogue and a ruffian. As any respectable gentleman would know, Beer Pong is an entirely different game than the venerated sport of Beirut.

Beirut involves the launching of ping pong balls (or beer bottle caps should balls be unavailable) at a triangular formations of plastic cups at opposite ends of a table.

Beer Pong is a game that Dartmouth kids are obsessed with and it involves actual ping pong paddles and a ping pong table. Each participant attempts to sink the ping pong ball into beer cups by striking the ball with the paddle.

While, many college kids in America's rust belt (ie PA, OH, MI, etc) insist on calling our beloved game Beer Pong, they are incorrect. But do not hate them because they are ignorant. It is our public education system that has failed them.

We played lots of Beer Pong from '93 to '97. I'd never heard of Beirut until I met my wife, a grad of a Midwestern university.

My Main Man 'bridge is absolutely correct. "Beer pong" is a game played with paddles. If you're throwing the ping pong ball into a pyramid of cups, that's Beirut. To mix the two up is akin to calling the game of handball "baseball"... entirely different events, and you're missing the main ingredient altogether.

[TBird41]

buffalohoya said:

cambridgehoya said:

BTW I actually did anchor the Gtown flip cup tournament champions of 2001-2002. I actually still have the commemorative t-shirt and trophy to prove it.

That title is CLEARLY suspect...

... you never faced the 3718 R Street Fightin' (Lieutenant) Kilgore's.

So is this the part where we all brag about our drinking game prowess?

Because I once won a game of survivor flip cup with a cast on my broken left wrist (I flip left handed).

;D

[Filo]

What's up with this wussy stuff with cups and balls. I won a chugging contest (yards of beer) on Spring Break in the Bahamas against guys from 'Cuse and other crap schools. ;D

Man, that was a long time ago...

[tgo]

are there any places left in dc where students can go to get yards of beer? good ole Tiber Creek was the best and only place i knew of where you could knock back a yard of beer and anyone who didnt at some point go there and have a first down race really missed out. Tiber closed some time around 98, sad day.

[TBird41]

tgo said:

are there any places left in dc where students can go to get yards of beer? good ole Tiber Creek was the best and only place i knew of where you could knock back a yard of beer and anyone who didnt at some point go there and have a first down race really missed out. Tiber closed some time around 98, sad day.

I don't know what a yard of beer is. But I have some ideas, all of them amazing.

Care to elaborate

[JimmyHoya]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_of_ale

Noice.

[TBird41]

jimmyhoya said:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_of_ale

Noice.

;D