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CITY OF LOCKPORT: Taboo hosts beer pong tournament
Taboo was filled to the brim Wednesday night with young men and women eager to try their luck at the bar’s first-ever beer pong tournament.
The World Beer Pong Tour stopped at the Main Street night club, bringing regulation beer pong tables and offering a top prize of $1,000.
More than 70 teams of two signed up, with each team receiving a T-shirt and cups with the registration fee.
For World Beer Pong Tour Regional Director Neil Kapoor, a Lockport native, bringing the tour to Lockport was a dream come true.
“I used to host tournaments in the garage at my house,” Kapoor said. “I’m ecstatic.”
Beer pong, played in teams of two, involves tossing a ping pong ball from one end of a table into the opposing team’s 10 cups of beer, which are arranged like bowling pins at the other end of the table.
If the ping pong ball lands in a cup, a player on the other team must drink from that cup, and a team wins when the opposing team’s cups are all gone.
For the purposes of the tournament, however, drinking is not a requirement. Some players fill their cups with water or energy drinks, while others do not drink at all.
“People think beer pong is binge drinking, but we don’t make people drink at all,” Kapoor said. “We don’t condone excessive drinking, whatsoever. The key to winning in beer pong is pacing yourself. You can’t be drunk and win a finals game.”
Kapoor has played in tournaments across the state. In May, he won a tournament in Buffalo and he’ll be traveling to Las Vegas in January to compete in the World Series of Beer Pong.
Kapoor, who has a business marketing degree from Niagara University, said the goal of the World Beer Pong Tour is to get the game played on ESPN.
“It’s competition, just like anything else,” he said.
For teammates Henry Schmidt, 22, and William Kenyon, 23, of Lockport, the competition is the main draw.
“I’m just very competitive,” Kenyon said. “It’s like a sport to me. It’s not all about drinking beer.”
Schmidt said he used to play beer pong in garages and basements, and he’s glad to see it come out into the mainstream.
“It’s a great atmosphere,” he said.
Contact reporter April Amadon at 439-9222, ext. 6251.
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