Daniels At The World Series of Beer Pong V

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Missed the first four installments? Make sure to check out Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part 4.

1/4/06 – 9:34 pm WSOBP V

My partner and I have made the final day tournament. All the four loss teams managed to make the tournament. The other team I came with, The Ironwizard Coalition also made the cut at 5 losses. They had a 14 cup tiebreak, which was about 11 cups in front of the next closest. They hit the cutoff at 30 seed. The 31st seed was randomly drawn out of the other five loss teams with a 5-cup differential. The 32nd seed was randomly drawn out of all the other remaining teams.

The tournament is double elimination style. 32-teams start in the first round. The winners of those games continue through in the winners bracket, the losers bump down into the losers bracket to play for survival. Eventually the finals become the undefeated team in the winners bracket vs the winners of the losers bracket. This means the losers bracket team has to beat the winners bracket team twice in the finals, while the winners bracket team only has to defeat the losers bracket team once.

My partner and I made it in as the 24th seed, which puts us up against one the top ten seeded teams for the first two days. After seeing all the competition over the last couple of days, I think both my team and the team I came with have a fair to decent chance of winning the whole thing. Most of the shooters at this point are about the same, they seem to be 50 – 75% accurate. Even the one undefeated team on the day doesn’t run people right over. There’s been very few games over in 4 rounds. Some teams get hot for some of their games, but they don’t play like that every round. If they did, they’d be spot on favorites.

Tomorrow’s going to be about a whole lot of teams who have to get up at 10:00 in the morning to play Beer Pong for the third day in a row. There’s going to be some teams that aren’t up for the challenge. There’s also going to be some teams who vomit at the smell of beer. Hopefully, I’m going to be able to shake all that stuff off and get myself amped up first thing in the morning. The guys on the other team are ready to get lathered up with vodka gimlets at 9:30, so maybe that’s one option. Settle the nerves and get yourself warmed up for the beer. Tomorrow is going to be just like the football playoffs. The winners are going to be based on who gets hot when. In a six cup game, you’re really at the mercy of the other team.

Next update will be the results of the tournament. Stay tuned.

Quote of the Day:
Croupier at the craps table to a n00b: One hand on the dice guy… just like in the shower.

Runner-up:
An entire conversation between a budding love connection… centering around their respective assault charges, time served, and kids. No particular quote stands out, but the entire conversation was comedy gold. God bless Nevada.