Chord On Blues will be hosting our
Annual Bar Olympics on
St. Patrick’s Day
March 17th, 2012

REGISTER NOW!

This years Games will consist of Flippy Cup, Quarters, and Beer Pong. Each team consists of 4 members. Each member needs to register through the website. Make sure in the registration you write the team name down. You can only sign up for one team no switching between teams.
Only 32 teams may register so HURRY and sign up QUICKLY!!

SO HERE ARE THE RULES…

Quarters

• A quarter toss will decide who goes FIRST.
• A mindless game that actually requires a certain amount of coordination. Supplies: people and beer (as usual), a quarter (hence the name), and a shallow juice-type glass.
• All players sit around a table, or similarly hard surface, and, in turn, try to bounce the quarter off the table into the juice glass. If successful, the player tells the next player to go If the player fails, play passes to the next in the circle until all four team members make it in the glass. Simultaneously one team will be competing against another.
• If the player bounces and hits the rim of the glass, without the quarter going in, s/he receives another free attempt.
• If the player misses, and feels confident enough, s/he may “chance” for another attempt. If the player makes the chance attempt, things proceed as if it were a normal turn. However, if the chance attempt fails, that player automatically forfeit the next players turn.

Beer Pong

• Traditionally, the game of beer pong has been played by countless variations of rule sets. In recent years, organizations such as The World Series of Beer Pong have put forth “official” rules. Typically all house rules must be either posted or verbally stated and understood by both teams before the game starts. If neither happens previous to the game, the game in progress should be ruled by official beer pong rules.
• In some house rules, some rule sets allow for “re-racking” (also known as “reforming”, “rearranging”, “consolidation”, and other names), which is a rearrangement of a team’s remaining cups after some have been removed. The formations, number of cups, when to rearrange and so on depend on the rule set. For example, a team with three remaining cups may ask the other team to “re-rack” their multiple targets into a single triangle formation.
• Some other house rules allow swatting the ball away if it bounces. Others allow players to flick or blow the ball out of the cup if the ball spins around the inner rim, but blowing is often restricted to female players. We do NOTallow any of these! Other rules state that if a team makes both shots in a round, each player may shoot again, sometimes called a “rollback”. In World Series of Beer Pong rules only one repo/rollback is allowed and is a single ball, resulting in a 3 cup maximum that can be made per turn.
• Before shooting, teams may dunk the ping pong balls into cups of water in order to wash off the balls.

Beer Pong House rules are as follows.

• A quarter toss will decide who goes FIRST.
• 6 cups on each side of the table.
• The player must bounce the ball one time behind the line on the table and make it into a cup with no interference from opposing team.
• If they make it into a cup the cup is removed and the next player on that same team is up until all cups are removed.
• If they miss, however, the following shot goes to the opposing team then rule number 2 applies till all cups are gone.
• First team to have all cups removed wins!

Flippy Cup

• Two teams of an equal number of players stand on opposite sides of a table, facing one another. The players directly facing are opponents. In front of each teammate is a disposable plastic cup filled with a set amount of water. Generally, the first line inside a disposable cup is used as a marker.
• At the start each team drinks the entirety of their beverage. When finished, the cup is placed open side up at the edge of the table, and the player who drank it attempts to flip the cup, by flicking or lifting the bottom until it flips and lands face down on the table, sitting on its mouth. The player may not use two hands, or blow on the cup to “guide” the cup to flip over. If player is unsuccessful on the first try, the cup is reset and re-flipped. Only after the first teammate is done flipping successfully can the next person proceed. Additionally, subsequent players may not touch or manipulate their cup until the previous player has successfully flipped their cup. Whichever team finishes drinking and flipping all its cups first wins.