Editing Beer pong (section)

==Setup==
[[File:Beerpong.png|thumb|A standard set up for a game of beer pong]]

===Teams===
Beer pong is usually played with two teams of two to four players each. Each team begins the game by standing at either end of the table behind their rack of cups.<ref name="Shott" />

===Playing field===
Although the game is typically played on either a ping pong table or a folding banquet table, enthusiasts may create a personalized table for use by friends and visitors. In general, this will be a [[plywood]] board cut to proper size, sometimes painted with sports, school, or fraternity symbols and given a liquid-proof coating.<ref>{{cite web |title=Advice on building Beirut Tables |work=Terrapin Tables |url=http://www.terrapintables.com/tables.html |year=2005 |access-date=2007-07-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928022037/http://www.terrapintables.com/tables.html |archive-date=2007-09-28 }}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080430061301/http://www.da.wvu.edu/show_article.php?&story_id=34385 "Table of dreams"], April 18, 2008, ''The Daily Athenaeum''</ref><ref>[http://www.maxim.com/sports/nfl/46277/ultimate-beer-pong-table.html "The ultimate beer pong table"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201010251/http://www.maxim.com/sports/nfl/46277/ultimate-beer-pong-table.html |date=2010-02-01 }}, ''Maxim'' magazine</ref> Some companies sell tables, including portable and inflatable tables.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSHxBUrzJqQ "America's Nightly Scoreboard"], [[Fox Business Network]]</ref> However, the game can be played on any flat surface.{{cn|date=October 2024}}

===Equipment===
[[File:Beer pong cups.jpg|thumb|upright|Red plastic cups are used in beer pong and other drinking games]]

The most common cups used are {{convert|18|USfloz|ml|adj=on }} [[disposable]] [[plastic cup]]s (such as red [[Solo Cup|Solo cups]]) with ridge-lines which can be used precisely to measure the amount of beer to be poured into the cup. On each side of the table, teams assemble equilateral triangles with a convergence point focusing on the other team.<ref name="Shott" /> Games typically use ten cups.<ref name="Shott" /> Each team usually also has a separate cup of water used to rinse off the ball.{{cn|date=October 2024}}

===Alcohol===
An inexpensive [[pale lager]] or [[light beer]] of 3.2–5% [[alcohol by volume|ABV]] is sometimes preferred because of the large quantities consumed during the course of several games.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite news |last=Van Westen |first=Brandon |title=College Connoiseur Talks About Beer |work=The Collegian |location=[[South Dakota State University]] |year=2007 |url=http://www.sdsucollegian.com/2007/12/13/college-connoisseur-talks-about-beer-2/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202201232/http://www.sdsucollegian.com/2007/12/13/college-connoisseur-talks-about-beer-2/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-02-02 |access-date=2012-08-20 }}</ref> Sometimes under house rules, there might be cups of other liquors used during the game. For non-drinkers, the game may be played without beer, as is done at [[Utah State University]], where alcohol is not allowed on campus; [[root beer]] is used instead.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kutv.com/content/news/topnews/story.aspx?content_id=d7521600-7f40-4602-91b2-c1bcac65c86f|title=Students At Utah State Play 'Drinking Game' With Root Beer Instead|publisher=KUTV-TV|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113215146/http://www.kutv.com/content/news/topnews/story/Students-At-Utah-State-Play-Drinking-Game-With/ABZS10B_AkaRssG8rGXIbw.cspx|archive-date=2009-01-13}}</ref> For sanitary reasons, the game may also be played with cups of water that players do not drink from, instead drinking from a separate cup of beer or alcohol.{{cn|date=October 2024}}