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Flip Cup, also known as Boat Racing, is a team based drinking game. It is very similar to a drinking relay race. The two teams stand on both sides of a table, facing one other. In front of each teammate is a cup filled with an arbitrary amount of any kind of liquid (often beer). At the start of the race, the first member of each team drinks his or her beverage. When finished, the cup is placed right side up at the edge of the table, and the person who drank it tries to flip it upside down onto the table. If he or she is not successful on the first try, the cup must be reset and reflipped. Only after the first teammate is done flipping the cup successfully, can the next person proceed. Whichever team finishes drinking and flipping all its cups first is the winner. In the case of a tie, the last person on each team will partake in a tie breaker. The tiebreaker consists of the two final players having their own round with one cup each. the first to successfully flip their cup wins the round for the team.
Variations can also include the substitution or removal of one or more players from the losing team. If the player is substituted, he/she is replaced with someone who was not playing in the previous round. If a player is removed, his/her cup remains on the table, and it is up to the remaining players to consume the beverage, and flip the cup. The remaining player chosen to flip the extra cup is typically chosen by his/her teammates. This person will most likely be someone who is the least intoxicated, and is more skilled at flipping the cup successfully. The game is over when one team either loses all of its players, or decides that they cannot continue.
A variation of the game is known as Survivor Flip Cup. In this version of the game every player participating in the game goes at the same time. Whoever is the last player to flip their cup is eliminated. Play then continues with the remaining players. This continues until there is only one person left, who is the winner.
Rules
Below are the rules as quoted from www.MajorLeagueFlipCup.com:
STANDARD GAME RULES
A standard match consists of anywhere from 4 to 8 players per team. Once you have been placed on a team you cannot switch until after the match is completed. Each team picks a side of the table they want to be on and then each player will fill their cup with a small amount of beer. There is no official amount of beer, but a good rule of thumb is to go up to the first line of your plastic cup if there is any debate. At Middlebury College, where Flip Cup originated in the 1970s, standard matches required full pint glasses of Guinness.
Designate one end of the table as the starting end, and the other as the achor end. The first player at the starting side will be assigned cup #1 and so on down the line. The game starts when both player #1s tap each other's cup and then tap the table. (also known as "The Gentleman's Start"). From there each player #1 will drink the amount of beer in the cup. Then they will place the cup FACE UP on the edge of the table and proceed to flip the cup until it lands FACE DOWN. Then player #2 can drink their beer and proceed to flip, and so on down the line until all team members have fliped. The first team to flip all of their cups wins that game.
If 2 cups on opposing sides land at the same time, you go to a tie breaker known as JUNGLE RULES (see below). Remember, if 2 cups hit the table at the same time, it is the cup that settles first that wins.
The winner of the match is the first team to reach the designated amount of game victories. If there are 4 players on each team, the first team to 4 games wins the match. If there are 5 players on each team, the first team to 5 games wins the match, and so on. This method will give every player the chance to start a round. And as always, you must win by 2 games.
JUNGLE RULES
Jungle Rules is when everyone at the table participates at the same time. The entire table will Gentleman's Start, then everyone will flip. The first team to have every team member flip their cup will win.
SURVIVOR FLIP CUP RULES
Survivor follows the same general rules as a standard match, except after each game the losing team votes off a player. The rest of the team will have to make up for the loss by 1 player drinking 2 cups. So if there were 5 players initially playing and then they vote 1 off, the 4 remaining players would have to still account for 5 cups and so on until 1 player would have 5 cups. You keep playing until one team is out of players.
With all of the moving around that goes on with Survivor there needs to be a consistent method for starting. To do this you always stay in cup order. Whoever has cup #1 starts, then after a player is voted off, whoever has cup #2 starts. It is possible that the same person could start all pf the games depending on what cups they are accountable for.
KING OF THE TABLE RULES (KOT) (also known as Elimination Flip Cup)
This can be described as a combination of Survivor and Jungle rules. You can have as many players as your table will hold. The whole table will Gentleman's Start and the last player to flip their cup is voted off. This will continue until 1 player is left, and they are the King of the Table.
A very important rule of KOT is that once the game starts you cannot leave the table until you either lose, or the game is over. With so many people playing it is important to keep the game moving.
POWER FLIP HOUR RULES
Perhaps the most lethal of all the Flip Cup games. With this game you do a Power Hour (drink one shot of beer every minute for an entire hour) but instead of just drinking the beer, all participants must flip after drinking, much like KOT. The last player to flip must drink an additional shot of beer.