At their all-night parties, the ancient Greeks played a game called Kottabos, which involved flinging the residue from the bottom of their cups of wine at a target. Kottabos was probably the first drinking game to get really, really big-supposedly even Socrates played. Today young philosophers still like to mix booze and projectiles. Only now they call it beer pong. Beer pong is not just the drinking game of choice for this century's twentysome-thing thinkers; it's a cottage industry and quasi sport with mass-market 8-ft. aluminum beer-pong tables for sale, a national tournament offering a $ 50,000 grand prize and a forthcoming documentary called Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong. Top players have been known to rake in tens of thousands of dollars a year from competitions. Who says America's college grads lack marketable skills?
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