Survivor (drinking game)

Survivor is a team based drinking game. It is very similar to Flip Cup. There are two teams of four, each lined up on either side of a table (usually the same table used for Beer Pong. This game is a relay race with a twist. The first two people must bounce two ping pong balls into their own cup, once both balls are in, they must drink the beer in the cup, place the balls on the towel in the center of the table (usually done by just dumping them out of your cup) and then by placing the cup on the edge of the table (right-side up), slightly overlapping, flip the cup so that it is upside-down. Once the cup has landed upside down, the next person on your team can go. The winning team is the first to have all four (or less depending on the round) complete all of their team’s cups.

Beer In Cups

The beer in the cups must be no lower then one quarter inch below the indented line on the Survivor cups. However, you will most likely be ridiculed if you attempt to go for the lowest. The judges have final say as to the cups being filled.

Balls

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED to bat balls away from the other team. If a ball comes to your side of the table, it is yours, and your teammates responsibility to keep the balls on the table (this helps with both sides). There will be a judge at every table, and if they witness you batting the balls away, or purposefully keeping it from the other team, you will be forced to refill your cup/start over the current cup you are on. If you have not started that cup, you must revert back to the previous person’s cup. This rule is harsh in order to deter people from doing this. Now, if a ball happens to roll onto the floor, spectators, and teammates from both teams (not playing) need to help keep the balls on the table.

Also, there will be one extra ping-pong ball per team available on the towel, but you may only have two ping-pong balls in your hands at any given time. If in the event you only wind up with one ping-pong ball, you may bounce one in, then take it out, and bounce it in again to achieve that two ping pong bounces.

Game Breaks

Once you start a game of Survivor, you may not take a bathroom break, phone break, smoke break, etc. There will be a short break at the end of every round, (especially in the later rounds as people will be drunker and hence more full)

Starting the Game

At the start of each round of survivor, the two “starting” people must yell “SURVIVOR!” and touch balls (like a toasting of the balls). The round MAY NOT START until the balls have touched. You may move the ball around to avoid contact and throw your opponent off, but if you knock balls to hard where a ball is knocked out of the hand of either player, then it is a redo of ball knocking (yelling “survivor” is not required in a redo)

Voting

After each completed round, the LOSING team must vote one of their OWN players off their team, but must continue to do the original amount of cups you started with (in tournament play this is 4 cups). This continues until one person has to do four cups. Once that person is eliminated, and no one is left, the other team wins the game.

Rounds

There are a minimum of four rounds in a complete game and a maximum of seven rounds (unless there are ties, which will be discussed later). A round is completed when one team completes the relay and their last cup is flipped upside down before the last cup of the opponents is flipped.

Flip-Ties

Frequently, it is an extremely close race when you get down to the last cup and there is always a dispute about who wins when the cups seem to land at the same time. When both cups are flipped, and when they hit the table, if both are spinning (land without a clean flip) then, regardless of which cup stops spinning first, it is a tie with a complete round do-over.

When one cup lands solidly and the other is still twirling (the solidly landed cup cannot have been spinning at all, it needs to be a clean flip) the clean landing cup wins the round.