Flip Cup
I was recently recruited to be on a flip cup team at work. I'm not sure how this happened, because I had never even heard of flip cup, much less ever played it. Last Friday night was the big company-wide Flip Cup Tournament, featuring our team, the "Fourth Floor Horsemen of the Apocalypse."
For those of you who are not in the know, flip cup is a massive group drinking game. Each team consists of however many people (10 in our case) and each player has a common-sized Dixie cup. 10 players from one team line up on one side of the table, and go head to head with another team of 10 who are lined up on the opposite side of the table.
You fill your Dixie cup to the first line with beer, so that's approximately 1/4 of a beer. Then the first person at the end of your table chugs, then sets the bottom of their just-emptied cup on the edge of the table, and pops/taps it to try to make it land on its lid, then repeats until successful. Then the next person chugs and flips until successful, and so forth. Once the anchor at the end of the table chugs and successfully flips, they sprint to the leader position and the whole thing starts all over again until the anchor is back in their original spot. First team whose anchor finishes wins, and that completes one round.
So yes, that means 10 chugs of 1/4 a beer. So that's roughly 2.5 beers per round. (And about half that was pure foam.) We played somewhere from 3-4 rounds. I honestly don't remember, because I was also sipping beers between rounds. I would estimate I had about 10-12 beers? Not counting the beer that I "gave back"? Author's note: I can usually only handle 5-6 beers.
It's always amusing to piece together the evidence the following morning:
For those of you who are not in the know, flip cup is a massive group drinking game. Each team consists of however many people (10 in our case) and each player has a common-sized Dixie cup. 10 players from one team line up on one side of the table, and go head to head with another team of 10 who are lined up on the opposite side of the table.
You fill your Dixie cup to the first line with beer, so that's approximately 1/4 of a beer. Then the first person at the end of your table chugs, then sets the bottom of their just-emptied cup on the edge of the table, and pops/taps it to try to make it land on its lid, then repeats until successful. Then the next person chugs and flips until successful, and so forth. Once the anchor at the end of the table chugs and successfully flips, they sprint to the leader position and the whole thing starts all over again until the anchor is back in their original spot. First team whose anchor finishes wins, and that completes one round.
So yes, that means 10 chugs of 1/4 a beer. So that's roughly 2.5 beers per round. (And about half that was pure foam.) We played somewhere from 3-4 rounds. I honestly don't remember, because I was also sipping beers between rounds. I would estimate I had about 10-12 beers? Not counting the beer that I "gave back"? Author's note: I can usually only handle 5-6 beers.
It's always amusing to piece together the evidence the following morning:
- My jeans and boots were abandoned right at the front door, along with several sticky notes.
- There was trail of Lucky Charms from the kitchen to a corner of the living room where I must have sat to eat them.
- My laptop was in bed with me, open to a streaming episode of "Rob & Big" on mtv.com.
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