So, last Saturday marked the first Beer Olympics on Chatham Row. It was an amazing night that will live on in the memories of some and the blurred recollections of others. For those of you who do not know, Beer Olympics is a series of games played by teams who represent specific countries.
The games that occurred at this Beer Olympics were flip cup, quarters, pong, chugging, and of course a relay. The countries which were represented included the United States(Mike, Arti, Lindsey, and Alex), Greece/Fiji (Caitlin, Lexi, Garrett and Kyle who was his own island), Mexico (Doug, Morgan, Alex, and Kara), and Iceland (Katie, Shannon, Ryan, and Greg). This was an event which had been rearranged several times. It was originally supposed to happen on Friday which was almost moved ahead to Wednesday but then was pushed back to Saturday. Saturday night, the three main players sat down to plan out the night's events.What was scheduled to start at 8:30, obviously did not begin then. I believe it started some time after 9:30pm. No problem, things always run a little late on Chatham, it's Ireland, it's what we do. Now I wasn't really keeping track of the games until I wandered out in my kitchen to loud noises around 10:30ish. Apparently the second floor had been taken over for the game of quarters. I grabbed a beer and wandered from floor to floor viewing the games that were happening and taking note of the wins and losses. Team Mexico seemed to be the favorite, given the amazing combined talent of Doug and Morgan. I watched the chugging contests which of course are always entertaining. Mexico and Greece/Fiji won this event. Doug chugging more than his share of beverage for this event, including I am recently informed an entire extra beer. Kyle also chugged wayyy more than his allotted amount. They are clearly both champs.
I decided that I would play the part of Switzerland for the night. I pulled on a white tee and continued to wander around. I went upstairs to watch some pong being played between Iceland and Mexico.
There was a fight that broke out over the last cup that Mexico was shooting for. Iceland claimed that the cup was pegged and tipped over and hence had to be reset. Mexico thought it was a clean shot, the cup fell and hence it was a dead cup, moving the game into rebuttle. Not able to calm everyone done and not being nearly as big a pong proficient as some others, I was quickly commissioned to grab another player from downstairs to help sort out the issue. Kyle came up to assist me. In the end, it was decided after much arguing that the cup would just reset and that Mexico would have to reshoot. Which they did, sinking both balls into the iso cup which meant game over, no rebuttle, Mexico for the win. As this was the last game, it was now time for the main event, of course, the relay. This is how it worked: There is a team member on each floor of the apartment and one on the street. The member on the street would have to chug half a beer run two streets up and back against a member from another team. Once making it back inside, the runner would tag the table on the first floor allowing the next team member to begin a round of flip cup. That person would chug half a beer and then have to flip over three cups in a row. Then they would dash up to the second floor, tag that table enabling the team member there to begin. The member on the second floor would drink and then have to shoot three quarters into a shot glass. Once this happened, they would run to the third floor, tag that table and then the final team member could begin. The challenge on the third floor was an iso pong shot, meaning one ball into one cup on the other side. Team member could assist in getting the ball back to their teammate as long as they did not interfere with the other team's ball.
I was Switzerland and in the first round was assigned to be the marker at which the runners would turn around at. First round was Iceland versus America. Mike and Greg did the run, reaching me and then heading back. Greg took a bad spill on the way back but got right back up and both made it inside to tag the table. I didn't make it in time to see anything but the last event, the iso cup.
I made it upstairs and it was Arti versus Ryan shooting. There was a minor issue where they couldn't find the ball...which I had specifically placed in a cup next to each iso...but apparently someone had moved them. But we gave Ryan a free shot and then the game continued. Ryan made it securing Iceland's place for the Bronze. The second round was Mexico versus Greece. Garrett and Morgan did the run this time and here I did the countdown at the beginning while Ryan held the marker at the end of the street. Garrett made it back first and dashed upstairs to tag the table. Morgan wasn't far behind and by the time I made it in, I was just able to see the quarters event. Doug for team Mexico quickly netted his three and ran up the stairs to hand it off to Kara. I ran up just in time to see Kara sink the winning shot, securing Mexico's Gold victory and putting Greece with the Silver.
It was an overall successful night. Doug won Olympic Team MVP for the night. Two of the runners were really feeling the all out sprint and one didn't make it out. But for everyone else, after the Olympics, it was time to relax and go out the enjoy the night together. Thus ended, for me at least, the second night of a very entertaining and fun weekend.
(Picture credits go to Katie Todd)
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