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Left Field Sports, Inc. wants to ensure that if you can't attain glory on the field, you have the opportunity to obtain glory at the bar! That's right, following all games, the real competition begins when we get to our sponsor bar and commence our weekly Flip Cup.

Flip Cup is the official beer game of Left Field Sports, Inc. Every week, following games teams will face off in an NCAA style tournament to determine each week's Flip Cup Champion, all the while gaining points towards being crowned the season's Flip Cup Champion and gaining the honor to hoist the coveted Flip Cup Championship Trophy.

Survivor Flip Cup is the younger sibling of Flip Cup. Every week following the team flip cup tournament two sets of tables will be set up to allow for as many flip cuppers as possible to achieve individual glory while still scoring points for their team. Survivor Flip Cup works much like team flip cup however everyone is facing off against everyone else. Each round will commence with everyone getting in position, cups raised, once the word comes all players will drink and flip simultaneously with the two people finishing last being eliminated. Double elimination will continue until the final 10 is reached at which point it is switched to single elimination. Once down to the final two players, the Mueller Board of Champions is brought out where the final two will face off trying to flip onto a 2X4, first player to convert their flip is that week's sole Survivor and is rewarded by signing the back side of the Board. At season's end one sole Survivor will be crowned as the Champ and be given the coveted Survivor Flip Cup Championship Trophy.

Left Field Sports, Inc. has also developed many in home games that get played weekly dependant on the season. Below you will find the games and rules so that you can give them all a shot either at the bar or on your own before challenging a fellow kickballer.

Flong, (crafted by Aryan, Budweiser Mike and Adam Balog) is a game that combines the best of Flip Cup and the best of Beer Pong. Because you most likely have not heard of Flong, here are the rules so you can be prepared to play it the next time you are at Left Field Sports, Inc. sponsored event!

The Equipment Needed:
As many cups as players are lined up in Flip Cup Fashion on each side of the long side of the table (5 - 6 dependent on team size). Cups filled to the lower line as in any Flip Cup game.
5 cups set up in the typical triangle at each end of the table. The cups are filled to the lower line of the cup.
2 Pong Balls.
2 teams of ready and willing drinkers.
 
The Rules:
Each player stands along the long side of the table in their normal flip cup stance.
The game begins much like a normal flip cup game with the two beginning flippers facing off and heading down in the normal order as one would in a normal game of flip cup. The team that wins then assigns an individual from the losing team to attempt the "redemption shot."
The player attempting the “redemption shot” will have to drink a cup from the pyramid as "punishment" for hurting their team, but like all good games, they will be given a chance to save face through the "Redemption Shot".
The Redemption Shot occurs when the losing player then takes their team's pong ball and attempts to sink their ball on the first try at the opposing team's pong pyramid.
If they are successful they can choose a person from the opposite team to drink said cup. If they miss, no harm done.
The game continues in this fashion until one team has had all their beer pong cups drank by their opposing team.
With the cups that are remaining on the table they are then handed out on an even basis to all of the losing players.
 
The Beer relay, a Beer OH Lympics Staple and combines all the skills one would need if they were to have a beer gaming interview. It includes Flip Cup, You Got Served, Pong and Chugging a Pitcher and to top it off, the Beer Bong of Doom. All skills a well rounded drinker needs. This is a timed event and will truly test a beer gamer's mettle.

Drink Flip Run requires four tables, and a cup for each person running around said tables at each table. You and three (or 7 if you're playing team Drink, Flip, Run) start off at different table, once the bell rings you drink your cup, flip it and then head over to the next table and do this 4 times until a winner finishes first. The first version had four total cups around the inside of each table. This was then changed to 8 as the outside of the tables were included. Finally, it was taken up another level with the inclusion of a relay race where teammates drank a cup, and tagged a waiting partner at each table, this included 4

Danger Zone, a fun game if you have about 2 hours of free time. But like most good games it had to be tweaked, so now instead of just tossing pong balls across a table you had to take a drink from your cup every third throw (or every throw) to speed the game up. This worked famously and the game has been a hit ever since!

Our latest game was brought to us from the brain of Seamus, Survivor Quarters is just what it sounds like. It combines quarters (or You Got Served) with Survivor Flip Cup. Basically 4 players are standing around one shot glass and have to knock their three quarters into the glass before anyone else. The person who comes in last is eliminated. That person’s quarters are then redistributed to the remaining 3 players, while the losing player puts down a pint of beer. The game then continues thusly until there is one grand Survivor who has not been served! This is a great, glorious and addictive game! Other games can go on on surrounding tables, known as the "Jabroni table." The winner of the Jabroni table will take their place at the main table, while the first loser will head to the Jabroni table. If at any point any player gets skunked (not hitting any quarters before the other players finish) they will be required to purchase car bombs for the table.