a Normandy Beer Pong competition, 3 questions about “the biggest tournament in France”
This Wednesday, May 18 will be held in Rouen “the biggest Beer Pong tournament in France”, according to its organizers. Between rules of the game and regulation of such a “drinking game”, we answer three questions about this event.
A white ball, red cups, a blond beer and organizers who announce the color: it would be the biggest Beer Pong tournament in France. It will take place at the La Suite club, in Rouen (Seine-Maritime), this Wednesday, May 18. A challenging event.
Beer Pong is a cocktail: a mixture of beer and ping-pong. It comes to us from the United States. According to the website BeerPongFrancewhat was ” a simple college drinking game » has developed strongly, “to become a very serious sport with the annual World Series of Beer Pong in Las Vegas “.
The concept is rather simple: 2 teams of 2 players oppose each other at the end of a table. In front of each team, 10 glasses arranged in a pyramid. “The goal is to throw ping-pong balls into the opposing team’s glasses, details BeerPongFrance. When a player scores in a drink, the opposing team must remove it and drink it. To win, it is enough for a player to score in the last drink of the opposing team »
” Really assures Victor Delarue, organizer of the tournament with his company Nightfall. “ We organize this tournament in 9 cities, with 64 teams per city ”. Quick calculation: that makes more than 1000 participants.
This is the 4th edition of the BPN (Beer Pong Nightfall). This year, Rouen is the second stage (There are still some places). The first was held in Angers on May 3, 2022. In each city, the competition is organized in the same way: a group stage first, then round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final. For football fans, it looks like the Champions League.
At the end of the nine stages, the champions of each city clash. Inter-city champions win a trip, “ in Rio or in Ibiza, we don’t know yet “explains Victor.
The question may arise: can we officially and publicly organize a game consisting of making our opponent drink alcohol? ” seems legal to me answers us Louis Le Foyer de Costil, lawyer. ” It is a drinking establishment which, as a base, has the license to offer alcohol. The establishment is authorized to sell beer. The same rules as usual apply: if a customer is intoxicated, the manager must stop selling, so I imagine that there the customer must stop playing “.
For the lawyer, there could be ambiguity if a person was forced to drink. But ” we don’t have to consume explains Victor Delarue. If Beer Pong is, originally, a drinking game practiced in the evening by students to get drunk, the official tournaments have nothing to do, according to the organizer.
” The glasses are not filled. There are 7 cl of beer in a cup. It is a very light beer, around 4 degrees. The players therefore drink a maximum of 33 cl per match.. For Victor Delarue, the participants are ” in sports competition mode “.
” They preserve themselves to be good, some don’t drink and put the cup aside to stay lucid. There is a real issue “. In Beer Pong, there is pressure, but you don’t have to drink.