Extreme Beer Pong Now

The spring season is here and the annual migration of beer pong tables has started! The annual migration of beer pong tables from their winter homes on beer-soaked kitchen floors and fraternity basements to their warm-weather habitats of porches, decks, driveways, roofs and lawns is underway. The campus area is loud with games being played at all hours with all walks of life. Seldom do the games’ participants question the origin of their beloved activity.

The story of how the game had started is full of confessions  and wild guesses!

“There’s certainly people that claim to know the origins,” said Billy Gaines, co-founder of  the World Series of Beer Pong in Las Vegas. He’s talked to countless alumni of dozens of schools who claim their alma mater started playing the now-ubiquitous drinking game.

Today, beer pong enjoys a popularity unlike any other kind of drinking game. “Nearly every college in the country has beer pong,” claimed Gaines. Everyone knows how to play it, and most people enjoy it. No game even comes close in terms of ubiquity and appeal. But can beer pong go where no other binge drinking game has gone before? According to Gaines, “In some ways, it already has.”

Popular culture certainly recognizes it. Jimmy Fallon has played beer pong with Anna Kournikova and Betty White. There even are videos of their games.The entire plot of “Road Trip 2″ revolved around beer pong (“I heard it was pretty sh-tty,” Gaines said.). He even hints that a “huge movie with real big names” will feature beer pong prominently. There was even an (awful) beer pong Wii game.

Gaines credits beer pong’s popularity with it being competitive but easy to pick up. He tells of family reunions turning into beer pong tournaments. “More and more adults are starting to learn about the game.”