This is another review for the people at ReviewMe who provide enough for a good 24 or more of craft ale in return for me turning my mind to the products of their clients. Past reviews have been about websites for the most part but this one is different - it is a website selling portable beer pong tables called Pong A Long.
I have to admit I know nothing about this game. When I was in undergrad all those years ago we played caps - butt on the floor facing your opponent each legs stretched out in front, toes touching. You stood your beer bottle in front of you and placed an inverted cap upside-down on top. Each player takes turns throwing their cap trying to knock off the other cap. If you knock it off, they drink and you throw again. Simple. All you need are people and bottles of beer. Basketball players assumed they would rule at the game but tennis players consistently beat everyone.
With beer pong, however, the whole flicking the cap by snapping the fingers aiming with your elbow thing is avoided. You play by tossing the ping pong ball and the table keeps it standardized at an eight or seven foot length. This is a good idea. One reason basketball players lost at caps is their leg length. Farther to flick. There are loads of handy photos showing how this standardization works as well as how folding up the table works. There is a set of rules, too, like these:
"Neil" - Re rack cups to Diamond form (tribute to Neil Diamond)Hmmm...this is more complex than caps. A lot of different games. Which is good and bad. Good that it mixes it up but bad because me and my undergrad pal would argue about the rule and end up tossing each other on the table as we fought over who was right. Besides that, there are beer pong t-shirts to be bought, regularly updated news to read and a bunch of other stuff to read and do on a pretty nicely designed .php site that is easy to get around.
Power I - Re rack to straight line of three cups
"Babe Ruth Pong" - When you call a specific cup then you get your ball back. Repeat until you miss. If you call one cup and make another, it counts as a miss.
Being totally Dad these days, this is not something that is going to get my bucks. But if you are a frat boy the good news is one of these table costs less than 100 bucks - spend your money here if that is your desire.
Comments
Travis - February 16, 2007 11:13 AM
Up north we played Beirut which is a lot like Beer Pong only with quarters. I have to say I have lost my touch with both of the games. On New Years some of my college frieds were over and it was a sad sad game to watch.
Ralph - April 18, 2007 10:37 AM
I bought a pong a long this year. i'm from Michigan and they have a dude that promotes Pong A Long tables here. He gave me a promotional code to use on their web-site to save me $5 on any table purchase. I used it and it did save me $5. It kinda helped with the shipping charge. I got the 8fter and use it all the time.
I love my table and i would recommend pong a long to anyone who either loves beer pong or doesn't even know what it is b/c its pretty cheap, durable and sooo portable! I love taking my pong a long to the beachs of lake michigan!
Oh and if you want to use the code that I used to save $5 its:
MI-PONG use it when prompted druring online checkout.
- Ralph
Rich - April 19, 2007 4:42 PM
[Ed.: <p>please contact us about paying for an ad.</i>]
Jason - September 10, 2007 12:14 PM
Pong A Long not only has a superior table to Bing-Bong, they're cheaper and have great customer service. I had to have my Bing-Bong order cancelled through my bank after they were out of stock and took over 2 weeks to reply to any phone or email communication.
Love my Pong A Long table, used it many times and they even gave me a code to save $5 at checkout:
SOC-PONG
enjoy!
Bill - December 3, 2007 2:18 PM
the SOC-PONG code worked great. just make sure it's in CAPS. it instantly gave me $5 off bitches.
Billy
todd - December 17, 2007 11:46 PM
I tried those codes and they check out! I just got mine today with the MI-PONG code. It worked like a charm and my table is effin' swwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttttt!
DJ Add - February 10, 2008 3:53 AM
The pongalong table sucks because it stains if you use dark beer...i like the original bing bong tables much better. these are knockoffs
Poohba - August 24, 2010 3:14 PM
I've seen Pong Along's Site and I have to say that it is an awesome site. We to have these 8Ft tables also with along a wide selection of extreme table designed tops. We also carry the Ladies of the LFL with there NFL football teams.
Jack - September 10, 2010 12:47 AM
The pong a long tables are pretty nice tables and are made with quality.