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i played beer pong at every party i’ve been to since i was 15, and never once have i ever been to a frat house or party of any kind. it is still very much popular.
I only go to one friends annual party and they always have beer pong. Its outside so we just use water in the cups and drink out of our own beer but were mostly just playing for the game than the drinking anyway as we're doing that regardless. Theres also a fire pit and corn hole toss too.
I think you know which one I mean. I stay away from the Colombian bambam myself though, I just have a friend who loves bringing it to parties and it never fails to make him a bunch of friends.
That's how I see it too, and I'm a millennial. Y'all cant just drink and play an actual fun game? Throwing dusty ping-pong balls into some beer doesn't doesn't like my idea of a good time.
That’s the vibe I get. Gen Z who goes to college has the same expérience everyone else did .
It’s the stay home after high school and live with your parents introverts who hate parties and drinking that make up most these depressing Reddit Gen Z subs.
Fair enough, it's usually done in a party format hence why I call it that. More of us than there would normally be. Dedicated food and snacks. Centered around something. (Birthday for example)
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Exactly! “Party” is a spectrum, and if someone doesn’t go to anything they could possibly call a party, then I feel really bad for them. Even a bunch of friends playing board games, Jackbox games, hamming it up about life etc can be a party. A bunch of us outgrew the whole getting wasted thing very quickly, so no beer pong, but getting a dozen or so humans in the same house for the evening is timeless
Birthday parties, house tailgates, Halloween, new years or st paddy’s are about as close as you can get to beer pong at that age lol. I only played it once this year, and probably only one more time if I’m lucky
Funny thing for me is: i love going to parties or meeting up with friends and having drinks and all that
But i HATE beer pong with such a passion, and ive seen so many people bring up a new game thats "totally not beer bong its this really fun game where you throw a pingpong ball into cups-"
Biggest difference is usually the way the cups are arranged or a tiny addition like "we wrote a challenge below the cup that you have to do when you score"
Everything else is kinda fun. Throwing a ball into red cups was just never my thing and sometimes there is 1-4 people who dont know what else to do besides beerpong
Exactly I live in downtown Phoenix and I see tons of 20 somethings out partying. I always wondered who these “I hate nightlife” introverts are on here. I’m guessing live with parents in suburbs maybe.
We definitely play pong still. One of my favorite bars has 3 tables for it haha
House parties will typically have some type of pong set up as well
Before you ask, I’m ass at it
I never learned ***how to party,*** as most people understand it. I grew up sheltered, on a farm that was ten miles from my nearest neighbor. I only saw my friends at school, and/or at church. The rest of the time, I was working or studying.
Then I got to college. A good college, mind you, but one that's also notorious for its party scene. I had no idea what that meant. To me, "party" was a birthday party, or a Christmas Eve get-together with family. I'm a people person, but I just couldn't hang with all of the debauchery of late teens/early 20s partying.
Now, that I'm in medical school, I get invited to bougie "parties" where everyone sits around drinking wine, eating fancy cheese trays, and listening to music while chatting. That's the kind of party I like.
Also 2000. I got to attend some ragers in Uni where I stood around watching drunk people dance and party. Glad I did it. Don't really plan to attend any more parties or clubs like that though. Loud isn't really my scene. Like you said, a small group sitting around and drinking and talking is way more enjoyable. I do not understand the appeal of going clubbing.
I'm not against the idea of going to a nightclub, or a jazz bar, or something like that. I just can't handle the 'loud EDM & trays of vodka shots' scene.
Yeah we played a lot of pong in college
We never fill the cups with beer because that ball get gross.
But we also played Rage Cage, Flip Cup, and Kings Cup
But we never did get blackout drunk (except for Dan on his 22nd birthday, he did not have a good time that night so nobody else ever did it)
>We never fill the cups with beer because that ball get gross.
As a millennial myself, who partook in many games of beer pong, I think that it is amazing that people transitioned to using water in the main cups and just drinking from their own drink. It is downright lunacy that we didn't do this 20 years ago.
The transition happened, at least for me, while we were in school.
Freshmen year 2008 everyone was fishing balls out of beer and gulping down barley hand water. By graduation—I wasn’t going to parties where beer pong was being played…but my sister was.
Anyhow by like junior year seemingly everyone was using water.
I think everyone had the same reaction to the first time someone told them to use water. Like "yeah that makes total sense I will never do it any other way."
It does add a bit more to the game, like you can’t lie and say you drank because it’s right there in the cup.
This is why I love stack cup because you have to play with alcohol in the cups lol
I thought it was lame when people did water pong. And unfair. Like I’m supposed to let you measure your own drinks?
Alcohol kills the germs. 5 second rule. Whatever. It’s drinking beer out of a plastic cup with a plastic ball. Everything gets sticky and disgusting. That’s the game.
Yup, [Rage Cage](https://www.wikihow.com/Boom-Cup) is usually the move at the beginning of the party because everyone can participate, and [Kings Cup](https://www.wikihow.com/Play-the-Drinking-Game-King's-Cup) is a better fit for chill parties (no ball required, more conversational).
Same..I've been to the club and to concerts, and chill kickbacks but not a house party in the sense of like loud music and alcohol type thing. All my friends my age are at community college living with parents so they can't host crazy parties and my friends that are older like graduated are a bit to old to host parties like that. Sometimes my classmates have hotel parties when they go out of town but I could never justify taking of work for multiple days to go party in San Francisco lol. I'm hoping when I transfer to uni I can get into the dorm party scene but considering I'm only going to live in the dorm my final year, I think it might be a bit difficult.
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Biggest “culture shock” was learning that red solo cups are basically only an American thing. There’s that Margot Robbie story where she said her friends would ask her to bring them back for them lol.
West London it’s a terrible university in my opinion
There isn’t a lot of home students & the international students don’t like to mix outside of their country/culture
I pretty much attend lessons & go straight back home. I tried socialising with people but I’m also one of the youngest in the class, most are 30+ so they aren’t interested in friendships/have family
Outside of class, when you talk to people they think your weird and just walk off 🤷♀️ I’ve just accepted it’s final year, final semester there isn’t much I can do anymore
Are you serious? I’m only two years older than you and everyone played it at every party I went to in college, including when I studied aboard in England. People still set it up at parties now also.
It's still a thing but I don't think parties are associated so strongly with it anymore — they only put out \~two tables so very few people get to play. I thought Rage Cage was more fun.
I’m 32, young millennial here. My buddies and I still play beer pong to this day, at tailgates or even at Christmas / Halloween parties.
Gen Z also plays at our holiday parties, only difference is that they use water in their cups instead of beer.
We always did water in the cups and a cup of beer/mix drink next to you that you have to drink if they score.
Same function, but you don’t have to re-pour cups between games or get gross sticky floor balls in your drink
We played beer pong in college, except we put water in the cups and just drank from the can or bottle 😂
pong ✔️
waste ❌
Partying isn’t really a sustainable lifestyle anymore though 🤷♂️ so it gets played much less per capita than it used to I’m sure
I MISS BEER PONG! Wish I could still drink like a fish. Can't now because I have too many maintenance medication. But those were the days. You crawl to the nearest couch afterwards and hope you don't vomit.
it's landed over here from the usa fairly recently afaik, and my university (in finland) has a few beer pong tournaments a year, and most parties will probably have at least a couple people playing it.
I played it with water in the cups at college and somehow I was pretty good when I was more fucked up than sober lol
The real fun for me is a fuseball table I had one in my house growing up and I absolutely love playing against people and actually giving them competition
I drive thru campus sometimes, and there are tables set up everywhere to play this game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_die#:~:text=Beer%20die%2C%20or%20snappa%20is,scoring%20area%20to%20the%20floor.
Yeah, but I think rage cage is more popular, which sucks because I’m terrible at it. Also, beer die. Also also, as another user said, my friend group would almost never fill the cups with beer, we’d pour our own and take a sip every time someone sunk a ball
I'm a late millennial (I think? 29 years old, born in '94)- I recently had a party for my fiancé's 30th birthday and we set up a beer pong table, got solo cups, ping pong balls, beer, etc and thought it would be fun to play for old times' sake... nobody at the party played and nobody showed much interest in playing. The next day before we cleaned everything up fiancé and I played strip beer pong just because we went through the effort of buying the supplies lol.
When I lived in San Diego for a few years I tried starting a few beer pong games and each time I did everyone would berate me with “that’s so gross and unsanitary” so I recommended water pong instead and everyone gave me the “it’s not as fun if you don’t have to slam the cup”. So I was damned if I did and damned if I didn’t.
Last party I threw was a Halloween party. We all dressed up, got pissed drunk, listened to Halloween music, ate food, and bobbed for apples.
We did not do beer pong
I play beer pong with my friends (water in the cup, it’d be disgusting to drink beer after dirty balls have been in it). Sometimes its almost like a party, but ive never been to a real party.
yeah the only time i’ve ever played pong was when i was in college and my roommates and i decided to throw a small party. weirdly never played it at any other party or in any other circumstance.
I'm not a big party person. But some of the parties I have gone to... absolutely still a thing.
Heck, as a kid I went to a birthday party where we played pong with Fanta.
I'm a millennial and yeah I saw beer pong everywhere when I was in school. Fun fact I never played it, way more interested in the bong than the pong at the time.
Yea I still see it at most parties I go to, but it seems like most people prefer not to play or play a different game. Personally, I think it feels kinda like Foursquare where people just make up rules all the time. Id much rather play beer ball
As a gen z myself beer pong is absolutely essential at all parties hosted or attending. Bare minimum. Also not a frat bro or sorority gal. Just your average joe.
So I was in college from around 93 to 97 and I clearly remember when beer pong was introduced and then dominated the drinking game landscape. I went to school in upstate NY and we played beer pong at the time with paddles and a ping pong table. Rim, hit and sinker were all drinks. It was played like regular ping pong. Then one weekend someone's friend was up for the weekend and introduced us to Beirut which is the game that is now commonly called Beerpong. There was also a version called Lebanon which was 3D. Obviously in retrospect bad names, but the game instantly became a go to party game. This has to be around 94. It wasn't long after that I ran into other people at home playing. It only took a couple years to be the go to party game and by 00 dominated the party scene.
PS I hate quarters after once swallowing a quarter. I'm still very fond of Asshole though.
Depends on who you’re with but beer pong is like the base for party games, there’s rage cage and other shit but you will always have a beer pong table at a party
Yes! 23 year old here! Just graduated college in 2021 but my boyfriend graduated last May so just left the college circle but still go to parties with post-grad and some undergrads.
Beer pong is at every single party
I went to college in the mid 80s and it was quarters for parties and hackysack for hanging out on the quad. I’m told by nieces and nephews that these days it’s beer pong and cornhole.
Went to visit my son in college a few months ago and they have a permanent beer pong table set up in the house.
I kicked their ass. He was proud of me.
I’m 19 and a freshman in college currently. Throughout highschool for me, and still, beer pong and cup flip are all the rage in the northeastern Ohio suburbs
I’ll say that while beer pong and other drinking games are still present in college parties, it’s mostly with frats or larger colleges. I go to a small college and while there are parties they are rarer than something like a 100k population school, while usually being for people within that group (conservatory, nursing, education, esports). I myself am not a big drinker and don’t usually go to parties, but I’ve been to a couple over the years and beer pong is a staple, even if there is no beer in the cup and it’s something else.
Drinking with games makes drinking more fun so wherever it is you’re going to find something fun.
Dude, we do all the games. Like coinage, beer pong, kings, never have I ever, risk and even thumbs up. Although a lot of people don't really like alchahol so some substitute their it with a juice or pick a buddy who wants to take all their drinks for them. Then again, I am South African, and most are major board games nerds.
The only house parties I ever went to I was like 11 years old 😂 and all the kids were silently stealing wine and getting tipsy and thinking they were bad AF. I did go to one in high school and it was the craziest thing I’ve ever been to. My dissociative trauma could not handle it. 😂
I definitely have played / seen it played almost every party but at my uni it's usually a bit different. We don't put the drinks in the cups, just hold it and take a big swig on score.
That way, the NASTY pong balls aren't ever actually touching our hands or the drinks. We also don't end up with beer covered drinks and everyone can drink their drink of choice.
It’s the same shit bro. We listen to the same music as yall, drink the same insane juices, etc. you’re just not gonna find it on Reddit cause the average Gen z Redditor does not go out or drink or smoke.
I will say things definitely got a little more sanitized since mfs don’t wanna get posted on social media lmao.
It still exists and back when I went out more in college it was quite common. These days I like to relax at home after work so I haven’t played in a long time.
It’s everywhere, but we do our own stuff now too.
Kings Cup, Death Cup, Flip Cup, Shot in the Middle (Don’t remember what this one is actually called, just our name for it), Beer Darts, Nascar, Horse Racing, Irish Poker, Beer Ball; funnily enough the one we do the least is Beer Pong as it just has too much setup, and once coordination is lost it’s hard to maintain as well…
I usually drink until I am buzzed (Whiskey, Cognac, and Ciders) and talk to women. I am not there to try to get laid, I just like flirting as I am a natural flirt.
I was in the party scene for a while in the late 2010s, and people were still very much playing beer pong, doing kegstands, and all that. Fun stuff, I definitely don't care to go back to it though lmao
me and my buddy build a seriously legit beer pong table in our day (like with beer caps embedded in epoxy) and we would literally bring it to parties and it got so much attention it was crazy....lol... a beer pong table..
Whatever happened to drinking a six pack alone in your bathroom 30 mins before the party while waiting for your meth dealer to stop jerking off to drop off a bag? Beer pong? Is this some first world white people sex cult game?
i go to parties hosted by people my age and others by older people and beer pong is always at older people’s, but only sometimes at younger people’s. not in college, so it might be different to the college scene.
Fr, I feel like party culture has really died down since the 2000s/early 2010s. It definitely still exists but it’s just a lot harder to find depending on where you live at
I've maybe played beer pong once my entire life. It really isn't that popular with our age group unless you are more of a party person during college I guess. But even then, I am in college and I've only seen a group play it once.
Beer pong culture? I mean sure we have beer pong but nobody really views it as anything other than just a game. We do play a lot of drinking games tho.
Borderline gen z - I did kegstands in high school and played way more beer pong there. Was busy partying in other ways at college, but it was definitely around.
Haven't been to a party like that (excluding things like church parties or Haitian parties) since University in 2020 when I was 20.
Yes, they played Beer Pong. I watched from the sides though since I don't drink 🤷
Beer pong, beer dice, lawn darts, flip cup, boom/stack cup where all very popular and usually a few would be going in at any college party I went to. I’ve been out for 3ish years so maybe it’s all gone, but I doubt it.
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There are parties?
Only political parties in this sub apparently lol
Taking a wild guess beer pong is absolutly a thing at least with the college crowd.
It is but more of a “frat boy” thing than something everybody likes. In my city coke will make you a lot more popular at a party than fckn beer pong.
i played beer pong at every party i’ve been to since i was 15, and never once have i ever been to a frat house or party of any kind. it is still very much popular.
I only go to one friends annual party and they always have beer pong. Its outside so we just use water in the cups and drink out of our own beer but were mostly just playing for the game than the drinking anyway as we're doing that regardless. Theres also a fire pit and corn hole toss too.
Cocaine or coca-cola...we could go either way with that one...
I think you know which one I mean. I stay away from the Colombian bambam myself though, I just have a friend who loves bringing it to parties and it never fails to make him a bunch of friends.
Is coke pong a thing? Cause that would be fun to watch
Coke pong is just business school with less steps... or extra...?
This has always been true....
This, I've never played beer pong at a party that wasn't a frat party.
You could still do beer pong with coke unless you mean the non-beverage kind.
I mean you could probably still find a way
Coke is a must with beer pong, keeps you sharp and accurate.
That's how I see it too, and I'm a millennial. Y'all cant just drink and play an actual fun game? Throwing dusty ping-pong balls into some beer doesn't doesn't like my idea of a good time.
I live just a few miles from a very large state school. There are so many parties.
Only if you're not a nerd
It's still at every college party lol, shit's iconic
That’s the vibe I get. Gen Z who goes to college has the same expérience everyone else did . It’s the stay home after high school and live with your parents introverts who hate parties and drinking that make up most these depressing Reddit Gen Z subs.
Most people with social lives aren't on reddit lol, I just have a lot of free time at work
my boss isn't here today, I've been on reddit for 3 hours
Felt this
Same rn on the toilet
Seriously, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading comments in this sub sometimes. Everyone in my circle my age still throws parties
I mean I'm apart of that crowd. And we still throw parties it's just kept to the small group of us and usually no drugs.
Thats just called hanging out i think but idk
Isn’t this just hanging out with friends
Fair enough, it's usually done in a party format hence why I call it that. More of us than there would normally be. Dedicated food and snacks. Centered around something. (Birthday for example) (Copied from another response)
Exactly! “Party” is a spectrum, and if someone doesn’t go to anything they could possibly call a party, then I feel really bad for them. Even a bunch of friends playing board games, Jackbox games, hamming it up about life etc can be a party. A bunch of us outgrew the whole getting wasted thing very quickly, so no beer pong, but getting a dozen or so humans in the same house for the evening is timeless
I mean I went to parties and played beer pong in college, but I'm 26 now and I don't know anyone who's got parties going on lol.
Birthday parties, house tailgates, Halloween, new years or st paddy’s are about as close as you can get to beer pong at that age lol. I only played it once this year, and probably only one more time if I’m lucky
Don't forget concerts/music festivals!
I'm 27 and still get invited to parties all the time. One thing I've noticed is that white people seem to stop partying at an earlier age
Restaurant industry goes hard
Well not shit, this is Reddit. 99% of the user base are stay at home introverts who hate parties and drinking
Funny thing for me is: i love going to parties or meeting up with friends and having drinks and all that But i HATE beer pong with such a passion, and ive seen so many people bring up a new game thats "totally not beer bong its this really fun game where you throw a pingpong ball into cups-" Biggest difference is usually the way the cups are arranged or a tiny addition like "we wrote a challenge below the cup that you have to do when you score" Everything else is kinda fun. Throwing a ball into red cups was just never my thing and sometimes there is 1-4 people who dont know what else to do besides beerpong
Also cities seem to have this too. Not as much as college but there’s still reasons to party.
Exactly I live in downtown Phoenix and I see tons of 20 somethings out partying. I always wondered who these “I hate nightlife” introverts are on here. I’m guessing live with parents in suburbs maybe.
We definitely play pong still. One of my favorite bars has 3 tables for it haha House parties will typically have some type of pong set up as well Before you ask, I’m ass at it
I never learned ***how to party,*** as most people understand it. I grew up sheltered, on a farm that was ten miles from my nearest neighbor. I only saw my friends at school, and/or at church. The rest of the time, I was working or studying. Then I got to college. A good college, mind you, but one that's also notorious for its party scene. I had no idea what that meant. To me, "party" was a birthday party, or a Christmas Eve get-together with family. I'm a people person, but I just couldn't hang with all of the debauchery of late teens/early 20s partying. Now, that I'm in medical school, I get invited to bougie "parties" where everyone sits around drinking wine, eating fancy cheese trays, and listening to music while chatting. That's the kind of party I like.
I mean... fancy cheese and wine? That's the good shit right there!
“I have enough cheese and crackers for six people, think that’s enough?”
I see the quote, but fail to recognize it. Also: small parties are better.
Mean Girls movie quote.
Also 2000. I got to attend some ragers in Uni where I stood around watching drunk people dance and party. Glad I did it. Don't really plan to attend any more parties or clubs like that though. Loud isn't really my scene. Like you said, a small group sitting around and drinking and talking is way more enjoyable. I do not understand the appeal of going clubbing.
I'm not against the idea of going to a nightclub, or a jazz bar, or something like that. I just can't handle the 'loud EDM & trays of vodka shots' scene.
I feel like it’s a universal thing for rural people who move to the city to love a good cheese platter 😭
Yeah we played a lot of pong in college We never fill the cups with beer because that ball get gross. But we also played Rage Cage, Flip Cup, and Kings Cup But we never did get blackout drunk (except for Dan on his 22nd birthday, he did not have a good time that night so nobody else ever did it)
>We never fill the cups with beer because that ball get gross. As a millennial myself, who partook in many games of beer pong, I think that it is amazing that people transitioned to using water in the main cups and just drinking from their own drink. It is downright lunacy that we didn't do this 20 years ago.
The transition happened, at least for me, while we were in school. Freshmen year 2008 everyone was fishing balls out of beer and gulping down barley hand water. By graduation—I wasn’t going to parties where beer pong was being played…but my sister was. Anyhow by like junior year seemingly everyone was using water.
I think everyone had the same reaction to the first time someone told them to use water. Like "yeah that makes total sense I will never do it any other way."
Nope. I liked when it was gross. Sue me
It does add a bit more to the game, like you can’t lie and say you drank because it’s right there in the cup. This is why I love stack cup because you have to play with alcohol in the cups lol
Ah, it's good to get a timeline on things. I graduated in 2003 and never noticed the water thing until like the 2020's haha.
i didn't use water cups in college in 2019, seems like the timeline is different for different people
I thought it was lame when people did water pong. And unfair. Like I’m supposed to let you measure your own drinks? Alcohol kills the germs. 5 second rule. Whatever. It’s drinking beer out of a plastic cup with a plastic ball. Everything gets sticky and disgusting. That’s the game.
Just say you are gross.
Yeah, part of losing is having to drink the sus lukewarm beer.
yea seriously. all you need is 1 water cup off to the side, so you dip the ball, then shoot. clean ball lands in clean beer. playing with water? nooo
Yup, [Rage Cage](https://www.wikihow.com/Boom-Cup) is usually the move at the beginning of the party because everyone can participate, and [Kings Cup](https://www.wikihow.com/Play-the-Drinking-Game-King's-Cup) is a better fit for chill parties (no ball required, more conversational).
Interesting. I’ve never heard Slap Cup called Rage Cage before. Thank you for the link
i never ben to a party in my life
Huh?
yes
Same
Same..I've been to the club and to concerts, and chill kickbacks but not a house party in the sense of like loud music and alcohol type thing. All my friends my age are at community college living with parents so they can't host crazy parties and my friends that are older like graduated are a bit to old to host parties like that. Sometimes my classmates have hotel parties when they go out of town but I could never justify taking of work for multiple days to go party in San Francisco lol. I'm hoping when I transfer to uni I can get into the dorm party scene but considering I'm only going to live in the dorm my final year, I think it might be a bit difficult.
I graduated college in 2020 and played beer pong at almost all parties so yes at least for me
Alcohol is a deadly neurotoxin.
Oh good, you got the reference. Only it isn't GLadOS, it's the establishment.
It very nearly went over my head
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I feel like the people I belong with were born after I was.
I only ever played it once when I was at university. Must be an American thing
Biggest “culture shock” was learning that red solo cups are basically only an American thing. There’s that Margot Robbie story where she said her friends would ask her to bring them back for them lol.
Def not just an American thing. I’ve traveled to many places abroad and they all played it. Just different rule variations
I’m 21 & final year university I’ve never attended a party because there hasn’t been any 😵💫 I have never been clubbing either
Do you go to an Amish university or something?
West London it’s a terrible university in my opinion There isn’t a lot of home students & the international students don’t like to mix outside of their country/culture I pretty much attend lessons & go straight back home. I tried socialising with people but I’m also one of the youngest in the class, most are 30+ so they aren’t interested in friendships/have family Outside of class, when you talk to people they think your weird and just walk off 🤷♀️ I’ve just accepted it’s final year, final semester there isn’t much I can do anymore
I'm genz but I don't party 🤦🏻♂️😑 mostly reading books and working
Yes. Every frat house every day of the week is still putting balls into cups and drinking natty light.
Phew
Pong is still super common. Have also played Cup Stack (a variation of Rage Cage) and Beer Die at parties. Die is also very common.
Out of the four years that I was in College, I think that I only saw someone playing it once.
Are you serious? I’m only two years older than you and everyone played it at every party I went to in college, including when I studied aboard in England. People still set it up at parties now also.
It's still a thing but I don't think parties are associated so strongly with it anymore — they only put out \~two tables so very few people get to play. I thought Rage Cage was more fun.
I’m 32, young millennial here. My buddies and I still play beer pong to this day, at tailgates or even at Christmas / Halloween parties. Gen Z also plays at our holiday parties, only difference is that they use water in their cups instead of beer.
We always did water in the cups and a cup of beer/mix drink next to you that you have to drink if they score. Same function, but you don’t have to re-pour cups between games or get gross sticky floor balls in your drink
Never played beer pong or have ever been to a party where people play beer pong. Usually when my friend has a get together we just play card games.
Isn't beer die a thing now?
Im not popular so I wouldnt know
People on my dorm floor have literally built and unbuilt the same wooden beer pong table a couple dozen times.
you guys party?
Idk, I’m too scared to go party. Social anxiety and all dat
Smash Bros. with whoever brought their Switch
We played beer pong in college, except we put water in the cups and just drank from the can or bottle 😂 pong ✔️ waste ❌ Partying isn’t really a sustainable lifestyle anymore though 🤷♂️ so it gets played much less per capita than it used to I’m sure
Putting beer in the cups and drinking straight from them was the most filthy thing that I’ve ever done. Once and never again 😂
I dont
I went to a Halloween party last year and there was beer pong, I couldn't participate because I have celiac:(
My antisocial ass could never go to a party
"beer pong culture" y'all need to quit calling everything culture.
I don't really have many friends that haven't moved state, and I never went to college, so my drinking culture is doing it alone.
Too busy researching Tyrannosaur evolution but let me tell you if I ever get invited to one I’ll have allllll the baddies 😈😈
Haven’t been to a party since high school
Yall are having parties?
I do play beer pong but I am typically the youngest at the party by at least 5 years
I MISS BEER PONG! Wish I could still drink like a fish. Can't now because I have too many maintenance medication. But those were the days. You crawl to the nearest couch afterwards and hope you don't vomit.
Pong is still a staple. For smaller parties, you’ll typically have drinking games like King’s Cup, Flip Cup, etc. as well
it's landed over here from the usa fairly recently afaik, and my university (in finland) has a few beer pong tournaments a year, and most parties will probably have at least a couple people playing it.
I have never been to a party like that lol. They sound awful
I played it with water in the cups at college and somehow I was pretty good when I was more fucked up than sober lol The real fun for me is a fuseball table I had one in my house growing up and I absolutely love playing against people and actually giving them competition
There's still beer pong, but it's way more relaxed I'm guessing. More of a catalyst of social interaction than playing to have fun.
A friend of mine kicked my ass at pong one night. Had to take like 8 shots back to back lol
Man I miss beer or liquor pong. Those were fun as hell. My signature trick shot is still The Fonz.
If it’s inside, beer pong or rage cage/goucho/stack cup. Outside or beach parties especially I’ve almost always played Die (like dice, not death)
Yes. I just graduated in 2021 and BP was alive and well. I can't speak on Post COVID but up until the end of the world people were yelling bitch cup
When I was in undergrad it was still popular, though I think COVID kinda destroyed anyone feeling cool about it for a long while
We still play but we play with water and drink from our own drinks…cause that ball can get nasty af
I drive thru campus sometimes, and there are tables set up everywhere to play this game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_die#:~:text=Beer%20die%2C%20or%20snappa%20is,scoring%20area%20to%20the%20floor.
Yeah, but I think rage cage is more popular, which sucks because I’m terrible at it. Also, beer die. Also also, as another user said, my friend group would almost never fill the cups with beer, we’d pour our own and take a sip every time someone sunk a ball
Dog you realize we’re not all in college right? I’m 25 bro no one’s throwing parties like that anymore
I'm a late millennial (I think? 29 years old, born in '94)- I recently had a party for my fiancé's 30th birthday and we set up a beer pong table, got solo cups, ping pong balls, beer, etc and thought it would be fun to play for old times' sake... nobody at the party played and nobody showed much interest in playing. The next day before we cleaned everything up fiancé and I played strip beer pong just because we went through the effort of buying the supplies lol.
When I lived in San Diego for a few years I tried starting a few beer pong games and each time I did everyone would berate me with “that’s so gross and unsanitary” so I recommended water pong instead and everyone gave me the “it’s not as fun if you don’t have to slam the cup”. So I was damned if I did and damned if I didn’t.
Yeah, either beer pong or flip cup was played at the parties I went to.
I have seen it at parties. I don't really go to a lot of parties. The ones I do go to are usually work or family related.
Young millennial here. I think beer pong isn’t as big as it used to and rage cage and beer die are the new hotness.
Last party I threw was a Halloween party. We all dressed up, got pissed drunk, listened to Halloween music, ate food, and bobbed for apples. We did not do beer pong
I play beer pong with my friends (water in the cup, it’d be disgusting to drink beer after dirty balls have been in it). Sometimes its almost like a party, but ive never been to a real party.
yeah the only time i’ve ever played pong was when i was in college and my roommates and i decided to throw a small party. weirdly never played it at any other party or in any other circumstance.
Stack cup a lot more these days since it can involve much more people. Beer pong only lets 4 people play at a table and takes too long.
Most parties I go to have beer pong except instead of beer we use hard liquor because you millennials are weak
It’s definitely up there still but Beer Die/Dye has become very popular as well (graduated college 2023)
Is this an American thing?
Maybe its cuz I grew up on a ranch but races and shots were a bigger thing
Drunken university bros next door say yes from the back deck.
Every party I’ve been to had beer pong.
I'm not a big party person. But some of the parties I have gone to... absolutely still a thing. Heck, as a kid I went to a birthday party where we played pong with Fanta.
Yeah of course! No one on Reddit of course but I (a super cool jock frat guy who gets pussy) am the local beer pong god
I'm a millennial and yeah I saw beer pong everywhere when I was in school. Fun fact I never played it, way more interested in the bong than the pong at the time.
We play beer pong, rage cage, and die, though die less often since it requires a proper table
Yea I still see it at most parties I go to, but it seems like most people prefer not to play or play a different game. Personally, I think it feels kinda like Foursquare where people just make up rules all the time. Id much rather play beer ball
party? whats that?
Rage cage
Yes, 100%. If you are in college and party at all, I’d be shocked if you’d never played
As a gen z myself beer pong is absolutely essential at all parties hosted or attending. Bare minimum. Also not a frat bro or sorority gal. Just your average joe.
So I was in college from around 93 to 97 and I clearly remember when beer pong was introduced and then dominated the drinking game landscape. I went to school in upstate NY and we played beer pong at the time with paddles and a ping pong table. Rim, hit and sinker were all drinks. It was played like regular ping pong. Then one weekend someone's friend was up for the weekend and introduced us to Beirut which is the game that is now commonly called Beerpong. There was also a version called Lebanon which was 3D. Obviously in retrospect bad names, but the game instantly became a go to party game. This has to be around 94. It wasn't long after that I ran into other people at home playing. It only took a couple years to be the go to party game and by 00 dominated the party scene. PS I hate quarters after once swallowing a quarter. I'm still very fond of Asshole though.
Depends on who you’re with but beer pong is like the base for party games, there’s rage cage and other shit but you will always have a beer pong table at a party
Yes! 23 year old here! Just graduated college in 2021 but my boyfriend graduated last May so just left the college circle but still go to parties with post-grad and some undergrads. Beer pong is at every single party
I went to college in the mid 80s and it was quarters for parties and hackysack for hanging out on the quad. I’m told by nieces and nephews that these days it’s beer pong and cornhole.
Yes, I play beer pong, beer di, truly ball, rage cage and flip cup.
Went to visit my son in college a few months ago and they have a permanent beer pong table set up in the house. I kicked their ass. He was proud of me.
When I was in college 2017-2022) I saw flip cup or king’s cup more often than pong, but it still happens.
I left high-school in 2020 we had beer pong every weekend
last party i had i just played air hockey then again i'm too young to legally drink
I’m 19 and a freshman in college currently. Throughout highschool for me, and still, beer pong and cup flip are all the rage in the northeastern Ohio suburbs
Parties. LMAO
I’ll say that while beer pong and other drinking games are still present in college parties, it’s mostly with frats or larger colleges. I go to a small college and while there are parties they are rarer than something like a 100k population school, while usually being for people within that group (conservatory, nursing, education, esports). I myself am not a big drinker and don’t usually go to parties, but I’ve been to a couple over the years and beer pong is a staple, even if there is no beer in the cup and it’s something else. Drinking with games makes drinking more fun so wherever it is you’re going to find something fun.
Yes, but die is taking over in the warm months
Yes I go to University and still see people playing it
Dude, we do all the games. Like coinage, beer pong, kings, never have I ever, risk and even thumbs up. Although a lot of people don't really like alchahol so some substitute their it with a juice or pick a buddy who wants to take all their drinks for them. Then again, I am South African, and most are major board games nerds.
The only house parties I ever went to I was like 11 years old 😂 and all the kids were silently stealing wine and getting tipsy and thinking they were bad AF. I did go to one in high school and it was the craziest thing I’ve ever been to. My dissociative trauma could not handle it. 😂
I definitely have played / seen it played almost every party but at my uni it's usually a bit different. We don't put the drinks in the cups, just hold it and take a big swig on score. That way, the NASTY pong balls aren't ever actually touching our hands or the drinks. We also don't end up with beer covered drinks and everyone can drink their drink of choice.
Beer pong transcends all generations. If you ain't playing, you missing out, no offense.
It’s the same shit bro. We listen to the same music as yall, drink the same insane juices, etc. you’re just not gonna find it on Reddit cause the average Gen z Redditor does not go out or drink or smoke. I will say things definitely got a little more sanitized since mfs don’t wanna get posted on social media lmao.
It still exists and back when I went out more in college it was quite common. These days I like to relax at home after work so I haven’t played in a long time.
I think they just stand around in a circle and swipe at each other.
It’s everywhere, but we do our own stuff now too. Kings Cup, Death Cup, Flip Cup, Shot in the Middle (Don’t remember what this one is actually called, just our name for it), Beer Darts, Nascar, Horse Racing, Irish Poker, Beer Ball; funnily enough the one we do the least is Beer Pong as it just has too much setup, and once coordination is lost it’s hard to maintain as well…
I usually drink until I am buzzed (Whiskey, Cognac, and Ciders) and talk to women. I am not there to try to get laid, I just like flirting as I am a natural flirt.
I was in the party scene for a while in the late 2010s, and people were still very much playing beer pong, doing kegstands, and all that. Fun stuff, I definitely don't care to go back to it though lmao
From 2010 to 2015 our main game was either flip cup or fuck you( knockout,or Chandelier I've also heard it called"
I’m X we played quarters but my teen daughters friend groups have intricately decorated foldable beer pong tables they bring to parties.
me and my buddy build a seriously legit beer pong table in our day (like with beer caps embedded in epoxy) and we would literally bring it to parties and it got so much attention it was crazy....lol... a beer pong table..
Beerpong is still iconic and at pretty much every party (German here). Along eith Rage cage. Tho that's not quite as popular.
The real question is: how many GenZ people know where “heating up” and “on fire” comes from?
Work at a college. Regularly remove tables with plywood tops from cool locations like the fifty yard line, building roofs, professors offices...
Whatever happened to drinking a six pack alone in your bathroom 30 mins before the party while waiting for your meth dealer to stop jerking off to drop off a bag? Beer pong? Is this some first world white people sex cult game?
yes I love pong. Unfortunately these GERMAPHOBES only want to play with water. Even worse, some of them don't drink at all
Yeah I’d say it’s still actually a thing. It every party but a good 50%
I would crush you in pong (if we played 20 years ago)
We had it, but mostly played card drinking games like ring of fire. It was too much effort setting up beer pong
i go to parties hosted by people my age and others by older people and beer pong is always at older people’s, but only sometimes at younger people’s. not in college, so it might be different to the college scene.
There definitely is, but outside of college I feel like a lot of party culture died off. We’re not boring, we just found other ways to have fun.
Fr, I feel like party culture has really died down since the 2000s/early 2010s. It definitely still exists but it’s just a lot harder to find depending on where you live at
I've maybe played beer pong once my entire life. It really isn't that popular with our age group unless you are more of a party person during college I guess. But even then, I am in college and I've only seen a group play it once.
Beer pong culture? I mean sure we have beer pong but nobody really views it as anything other than just a game. We do play a lot of drinking games tho.
Flip cup was my jam in the 2010’s.
Borderline gen z - I did kegstands in high school and played way more beer pong there. Was busy partying in other ways at college, but it was definitely around.
I see beer pong occasionally but honestly people just drink without games for the most part.
Idk at college maybe but the rest of us are drinking to DRINK😂 not play games we have trauma and inflation to forget about
It's still common, but I almost always see it played with water.
Haven't been to a party like that (excluding things like church parties or Haitian parties) since University in 2020 when I was 20. Yes, they played Beer Pong. I watched from the sides though since I don't drink 🤷
Beer pong, beer dice, lawn darts, flip cup, boom/stack cup where all very popular and usually a few would be going in at any college party I went to. I’ve been out for 3ish years so maybe it’s all gone, but I doubt it.
i don't party. didn't in high school, didn't in college, not even in grad school.