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...Kottabos, which involved flinging the residue from the bottom of their cups of wine at a target. Kottabos was probably the first drinking game to get really, really big--supposedly even Socrates played. Today young philosophers still like to mix booze and projectiles. Only now they call it beer pong...
...Beer pong is not just the drinking game of choice for this century's twentysomething thinkers; it's a cottage industry and quasi sport with mass-market 8-ft. aluminum beer-pong tables for sale, a national tournament offering a $50,000 grand prize and a forthcoming documentary called Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong. Top players have been known to rake in tens of thousands of dollars a year from competitions. Who says America's college grads lack marketable skills...
...boisterous game, in which players try to toss Ping-Pong balls across a table into cups of beer and drink if theirs are hit, is becoming so popular that it is in the midst of a backlash. Some cities and campuses troubled by the binge-drinking culture that accompanies beer pong are banning the pastime and its paraphernalia. "Beer pong is severely misunderstood," says Billy Gaines, co-founder of Bpong.com host of the World Series of Beer Pong (WSOBP). "It's a sport. It just happens to involve alcohol. People are not playing the game to get drunk but because...
...pong also has its fair share of enthusiasts - many of them will congregate in Las Vegas in January for the fourth annual World Series of Beer Pong, hosted by the site bpong.com. So despite an increasing number of colleges and towns prohibiting the game, it likely won't fade without a fight...
...original version of this article incorrectly stated that the video game Pong Toss has a kid-friendly rating of T for Teen, when in fact it has a rating of E for Everyone...