Beer Pong Minus Beer: Still Beer Pong
Joe Eastman's hand almost disappears into a blur in executing the toss of a ping pong ball towards a cup. Eastman and his teammate Dane Ellis won the tournament.
“If a ball bounces off a dead cup into a live one, does that count?” was the question to Drew Harrison from a competitor in Saturday night’s double-elimination beer pong tournament held at Rick’s American Cafe on Church Street.
Harrison is operations manager of Clutch Pong, a company that’s trying “to bring this game out of people’s backyards, basements, and porches and turn it into a mainstream sport giving everyone a chance to play.” Contestants paid $20 apiece ($40 per team) for a shot at the first place prize, which was tickets and a hotel stay in Atlantic City from June 11-13. [Full Story]