Maybe it's because I'm British but what is Beer Pong?

Now if they'd only engineer some pants that automatically wash my balls ...

i love the university i attended!

Go Mountaineers!

it's also known as beirut

I can't see the video right now (at work), but I assume it's a ping pong table? I wish geeks would play something other than that. I might be lame enough to buy a Beer Billiards table.

I dunno, mine descends from the ceiling on a powered wench controlled by remote, has a full lighting fixture on the bottom for stealth and a beautiful etched/lighted paint job. Though they've got me on the leds.

The nerds definition:

Beer Pong is played with paddles, Beirut is shot with the hand.

This is about to start a Beer Pong vs. Beirut battle and that's 10x worse than any Mac vs. PC discussion.

Gizmodo likes to instigate fights.

thats 400 hours and $1000 they could have spent on beer and playing pong. valiant attempt, but failure in my book

Haha...that is actually pretty awesome...

And to shamoononon - It is a beer pong table, significantly different than a ping pong table. Well, at least for us college students.

Hook 'em.

"skip to 2:30 unless you think still photos of electrical engineering majors and circuit boards are suddenly cool when set to Linkin Park."

If anything, that makes them LESS cool. By a lot.

@Yeebles:

[www.collegehumor.com]

@Yeebles: Maybe it's because I'm Swedish but why play Beer Pong when you can play CAPS!?!?

@Yeebles: Go to the questionable fountain of answers in this link: [en.wikipedia.org]

@Darrone: "mine descends from the ceiling on a powered wench"

Cool. How do you keep her powered? I used to have all my wenches running on batteries. However, without a power cord to keep them tethered to the wall, they'd take any opportunity to escape.

Honestly if a table wants to wash my balls (whoa, never thought that would come from me!) I am all for it...Listen when you've been drinking all night and you're playing with a bunch of men who are probably alcoholics one tends to lose a lot, thus getting drunk a lot THUS ( i dig the word) accidently losing balance and knocking over everything...now thats never happened to me but when a guy can't even dips his balls to get em wet (LMAO I CRACK MYSELF UP) because he's so hammered, somethings gotta give in the tech world.

@discounteggroll: Agreed.

They dazzled us with a table filled with lights and a ball washer, all for what? The magic of sobriety? Good engineering, a job well done, but no thanks.

@eFrisk:

"Four players split into two teams, and each sit about 10 feet apart, facing each other, with a cup filled with a full beer directly in front of each couple. Both teams take turns throwing caps into the other team's cup. Each time a team makes the cap, the other team gets a chance to "rebuttal" or "cancel", or try to make a shot. If they make that, the team who originally made the shot must make a rebuttal as well. This can go on as long or short as it takes, depending on skill of the players. When a rebuttal shot is missed, that team drinks their full cup of beer, and the other team gets a point. From there, the game goes on regularly, with both teams taking turns shooting."

It's pretty much the same thing with some nuances, there are variations og beer pong (or beirut, whatever) that are identical to this except a ping pong ball is used, sometimes theres no rebuttals, and sometimes the ball must bounce once before landing in the cup to count.

@carmen89:
ha, i didn't notice that was you at first, but i read the comment and thought, "that sounds like carmen", and sure enough...

@nutbastard: Ahhh... thanks. Still think they should do it with Billiards... somehow. Work sucks today, so I'm thinking inside the box or case of beer.

@LJN: beer dice FTW

and another thing - what brand costs $110 for 6 cases? Schlitz?

@Zlevee:

Sounds like fun. May try and do this over here sometime. And this table now looks like too much time to me. ALthough it'd be pretty sweet for general use at a rave.

@DeepFriar: Papts Blue Ribbon?

It looks like they just took the floor from a strip club and added a ball washer (who knows, there might have already been a ball washer in the strip club floor). It sounds like they took the strip club's DJ too.

Too bad nobody plays beer pong in the dark.

Pity.

@DeepFriar: In PA, ~15 bucks can get you a lot of different varieties. A lot of light beers, but some local brews are that cheap.

Automatically washes my balls? Doesn't that happen anyway when you drag one of the bitches back to your bed - you know the one that's passing out in her own puddle of vomit because her team sucked.

The entire video elapses without a single beer being consumed. These kids are smart as hell, but they couldnt play more than one game on that thing without throwing up all over it and passing out.

@Darrone: a powered wench?? really? or did you mean a winch? i'm really hoping you did mean wench. :)

@DeepFriar: no, schlitz costs $10 for 6 cases.

@The Duke of Windsor Knot:

I think they are brilliant, if they are underage they could potentially get in big trouble if caught drinking.

On a lighter note, this makes me want to go back to college again!

@TonyRockyHorror: The true mountianeer name goes to APPSTATE, my former school! Go BETTER Mountianeers! :-)

Just for some of you that don't know.. one of the songs we sing are.. "we're mountianeers we have no fears, we bathe in brookes and ditches. We wipe our ass with broken glass, We're rugged sons of bitches."

@DeepFriar: let me do some quick math here
case of Natural Lite (writes on scrap paper, carry the 1, include bottle deposit)
yep, its Natty

@DeepFriar: I thought it was spelled naddy?

just another case of someone copying my design. this is the video i posted about a year ago and that was a few years after our initial ball washing system.

[www.break.com]

just another case of someone copying my table. this is the video i posted online last year.
[www.break.com]

and that was a few years after the initial design.

Holy awesome!

@vipermj9: considering you had to change your table due to "copyrite infringement" i dont think you have room to talk on originality.

also why dont you guys just show people actually using your table. we dont need the 3 minute guided tour. its a table with lights; lets see how it handles.

@carmen89: Are you playing beer pong right now? Because I detect some slurring in that comment.

400 hours huh? Maybe the engineering kids in West Virginia were taking it easy, but I'd really hate for them to see what ten seniors in a good engineering school could do in a forty hour work week.

@TonyRockyHorror: I guess you guys got tired of burning couches and decided to do something productive for once.

GO HOKIES!!!!

Although props to those guys for the work.

@firesign: Jeez, i really wish i could say "wench" and my remote was some sort of porn-store leather whip, but im just not that cool.

I've seen these all before, and the only thing I'm interested in is the mechanics of the ball washing. I imagine it's some sort of pool pump, or do you have it connected to running water? How does it work?

I've seen Viper's video before, the problem with that is the ball washers stick out. Those would last 30 seconds in our full-contact pong matches. I do like the pedestal design over the 4-legs design though. Man, I just need to buy some supplies and figure it out I guess...

I love this school.

Later,
Chrome...

Montani Semper Liberi

@Yeebles:

this better be up on thinkgeek.com by the end of the year.. otherwise someone in marketing was totally sleeping at their desk.

@DeepFriar:

Natty Light. Surely if they spend 400 hours building a table instead of drinking they would drink watered down water to get them "drunk".

I'll stick to my table that took a few hours to build and that gave us much more time to drink and have fun.

Bone--get me in touch with these people IMMEDIATELY.