"footofgod"

I'm going to be perfectly honest, I don't like competitive beer pong. I think it is a joke, it's not a sport, you guys are not athletes, and not a game meant to be taken this seriously: it is meaningless male competition at its finest and that's the whole point. Take out the "meaningless," and you take out the true meaning. Also, the rules in place make it really fucking boring, and the fact that you don't have to drink your beer and get shitfaced makes it little more than the World Series of Bozo the Clown.
 
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*Before I continue, don't waste your time telling me to come win $50,000, telling me I can't   * *shoot, etc. Shove it up your ass if you can't put your dissent into a solid rebuttal. The above *
*is just my opinion, and I've said why.                                                                                                  *
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So, my not-so-new strategy is to bounce every shot, at least until you get to a rack of 3 cups, using maximum leaning. Doing this myself, I get to 3 cups in a maximum of 5 turns, and an average of a little more than 4 (usually its 3 cups a turn, sometimes 2, rarely 1). The key is to HOW you bounce the ball. If you are leaning almost all the way over the table, you can very, very lightly heft the ball up, making it very slowly and efforlessly bounce to above the rack. It's practically like taking a ten inch shot, but with a little (not much, I make the cup I aim for usually) less accuracy. Also, if you do mess up, which is hard, your chances of getting an accidental cup are monumental. I can say that, like this, with these rules, I shoot on a WSOBP level, and probably even better at a rack of 6 or more (we're talking 9 out of 10 shots).
 
Here are a short list of other advantages to this system: (1) with a little bit of practice, your shot and your teammate's shot will be almost indistiguishable because it is such an easy method (2) you practically can't get distracted (3) anybody, bad OR good, can do it (4) takes FULL advantage of leaning, your arm is practically completely outstretched and it doesn't cramp the shot (4) WHEN you lose, there's no way it will be by much unless you're an absolute failure
 
The common criticisms are, and are likely going to be again: (1) no true player with self-respect would do this and (2) this is a crutch for people who can't shoot, and you're a total queer if you do this. Here is my response to that:
 
(1) Funny, I say the same thing about leaning and, really, about playing in the WSOBP in the first place. The common response is "if you're competing for $50,000, you're going to do whatever gives you the advantage." Well, there you have it. Is anyone gonna tell me that, if they could just "make" more cups, they wouldn't? It's the same thing as leaning if you're tall- exploiting the rules to create an advantage for yourself and, unless you shoot 100%, you WILL make more cups, and therefore have better odds of winning. And if you can master a normal shot, you can master a really, REALLY easy aimed bounce.
 
(2) No. What if you can shoot. What if the champs used this, and when they got down to 3 cups just 1-2-3'd it and shot about 6 perfect games a match? And,look like a total queer? You're at the WSOBP. To me you already look like a total queer, and 7 foot people leaning makes them look like Freddy fucking Mercury, so let's just agree to disagree here. Once again, the argument is "whatever works," and that's what I'm saying.
 
So, I'd love to see some average team make a good run using this strategy. I'm sure they won't because beer pong is SO SERIOUS to everyone here, even if it totally worked and you could shoot near-perfect games every time, people would still want to prove that their competitors. But that's my whole point, the way the WSOBP is set up, it's not a competition already, and the rules are already exploited, so you might as well look like a fag and make more cups, JUST like leaning to gain an advantage and JUST like not getting hammered to keep an advantage. There is no difference.

"gshunt"

I realize that in your post you requested that if one was going to dissent with your post to put a solid arguement  forth for why...
 
-Grady