beer pong

Beer Pong (also known as Beirut) is a drinking game in which players throw a ping-pong ball across a table with the intent of landing the ball in a cup of beer on the other end. The game typically consists of two two-player teams and multiple cups set up on each side set up in triangle formation. There are no official rules, many groups of people have there own sets of rules. though usually there are six or ten plastic cups arranged in a triangle on each side.
The goal of the game is to eliminate the other teams' cups before one's own cups are eliminated. When a ball lands in a cup, which are generally 1/4 to 1/3 full, that cup is eliminated and the defending team must consume all of the beer inside that cup.

Today, beer pong is played at parties, North american colleges and universities and elsewhere, such as tailgating or other sporting events. The game is also played by high school students, despite the fact that supplying alcohol to persons in these ages is sometimes and in some places illegal. But hey what can you do about it !

"Beirut" evolved from the original beer pong played with paddles which is generally regarded to have had its origins within the drinking culture of the Dartmouth College fraternities in the 1950s and '60s and where it has become part of the social culture of the campus. The original version resembled an actual ping pong game with one or more cups of beer on each side of the table. Eventually, a version without paddles was created, and later the name "Beer Pong" was adopted in some areas of the USA sometime in the 1980s.

The meaning of the terms Beirut and Beer Pong may vary depending on where the game is played. According to a CollegeHumor.com survey, beer pong is a more common term than Beirut for the paddle-less game.The origin of the name "Beirut" is disputed.