We kicked off the weekend with a tiny braai and I got to sleep early since I knew I had a big day on Saturday. We have been planning beer olympics for about a month or two now and it was finally time for the games to begin. There were twelve teams, each with five players. The games in the order we played them were: Team chug, speed quarters (or 5 rand), flip cup, dizzy bat and beer pong. Teams consisted of people from either Annie’s or the Bantry and had to contain at least one team mate that was international. No puking was allowed or you lost points for your team and basically everyone just got drunk. I couldn’t believe that the games actually happened because when we started out it was very hard to get organized. Once the vuvuzela sounded the games had begun and in a line each person chugged their beer as fast as they could and once you were down the person in front of you went until you reached the start of the line and everyone was done. I believe we got second and this determined our seeds for the rest of the day. I felt confident in our team (Maria, Patrick, Neil and Shawn- who wasn’t there yet) after this since we got second place. Our team name was the paralytics and we had matching team shirts that we had all bought for St. Patrick’s Day. One of the paralytics was 8 beers deep at the start of the games and was basically hammered by 3pm. Luckily some of the paralytics were either good at the games or were considered a professional “chugger”. We made it to the second round of speed quarters, but unfortunately lost to some Germans who barely chugged a beer since they had brought their own plastic cups that held about half a beer. Next up was flip cup and I thought that this was going to be our bread and butter, I was wrong. One paralytic had some problems flipping the cup seeing as I’m assuming he was already blacked out. At this point Shawn showed up so we were full caliber, but immediately following flip cup we lost two of our comrades due to unforeseen activities. We waited sometime before dizzy bat could be arranged where two teams would run the stretch of Annie’s courtyard (for lack of a better term) spin quickly with their head on a bat and run back to their team. It was a relay so the whole team was required to play, which was a huge problem for the paralytics. Two were MIA and we needed five to compete which meant that we had to recruit two more players to run with us. In the end, one of the the newly recruited paralytics took out the volleyball in a complete wipe-out. Lastly, it was time for beer pong. One more paralytic was lost after we started so the revamped team consisted of myself, two Norwegians, a Swede and another America (who was sober). The games were intense and we were 4-0 at the end of the night (which was only 10:30). Annie’s Cove was a complete mess in the morning with beer cans and bottle scattered all over the yard and even in the pool. Paralytics ended up coming in 2nd place overall and it was a very successful evening. If only I were drinking Yuengling, then the night would have been 100% perfect!
Sunday I woke up at 5am and made some pasta for breakfast and dozed in and out the rest of the morning. Thank God I wasn’t hungover, but I didn’t do much at all the rest of the day except work on a zoology presentation due on Tuesday. All in all it was a great weekend and I felt like the American’s did the United States proud showing the other internationals who can drink!
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