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Beer Pong is a traditional college game that many of us remember fondly. It was the college game of our youth and is as important now as it ever has. Unless you live in Huntington Beach, California that is.
The Huntington Beach City Council is considering a ban on alcoholic games and contests for bars and restaurants in its downtown area. What this means is no more beer pong in the “Surf City” that was the 2008 satellite home of the World Beer Pong Championships that year.
In beer pong, cups of beer are configured into a triangle on a ping-pong table. Participants bounce ping-pong balls onto the opposing team's cups from across the table and an opposing team member has to drink the cup of beer that the ball falls into. The goal is to eliminate the other teams' cups.
The city’s economic development director was quoted as saying, "If you are getting together for social drinking, terrific. If you are coming there to play (drinking) games, that is not the type of environment we want to encourage."
"Personally I love beer pong. It is fun to play at parties," said Russell Strong, a manager at Sharkeez, a downtown Huntington Beach establishment. "I can understand why they don't like it. The rules are the rules and we try to stick by them."
A city council in Belmar, New Jersey outlawed outdoor beer pong in 2005. They did that by passing an ordinance saying the alcoholic game exposed neighbors to "foul language, rowdy and disorderly behavior and to examples of the consumption of alcohol under circumstances that are detrimental."
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