World Series of Beer Pong

The following game would be the most intense and drama filled game that I would ever bare witness to. This match took place in the 2nd round of the losers bracket, meaning that the losing team would be eliminated from the playoffs and go home with nothing. With $10,000 on the line, no one (including Brodey and Balkman) wanted to lose on a bullshit call, but that is what happened.

This picture was included with an article written for the Las Vegas Review Journal. The caption to this photo said, "Matthew Callies, left, and Dave Balkman of Milwaukee try to distract their opponents in the beer pong competition." It's great, except that Balkman's name isn't Dave; it's Michael. How they got that one wrong is beyond me.

This game ended up going into multiple overtimes when both teams kept hitting their rebuttal shots. It went so long that all of the other games were finished and all attention turned on to this game. By this point in the event, you were either with Milwaukee or against us, so many people there were chanting against Brodey and Balkman.

Balkman did his best to get in Team BOHICA's heads. Unfortunately, both of these guys had just returned from Iraq and had most likely seen some crazy stuff over there. Balkman is a little wild at times, but I don't think that he can compare with the harrows of war.

This was possibly my greatest achievement while we were out there. During this match, I was drunk and hanging over the rope and I just started to berate the guys from BOHICA. I got into their heads so much that they stopped paying attention to the game and started paying attention to me. I was the ultimate distraction but it proved to be moot because Brodey and Balkman lost on a flawed rule.

After the game was over, Balkman immediately marched on stage to begin a heated debate with Billy and Duncan over their rebuttal rule. Their ruling on rebuttals is that once a game has entered sudden death, only one person gets to shoot a rebuttal shot. BOHICA missed its first and hot the second, but they should never had the chance to shoot a 2nd shot because the game should have been over.

Casey and Lorge played against Team France (the eventual winners of the $10,000) in round 3 and lost. I hate to be one of those could've/would've/should've people, but if we would have beaten Lorge and Casey we might have beaten Team France and could have been the team playing for the $10,000 prize.

This guy in the green shirt called himself Tone, but we called him the Ninja Turtle because he resembled Raphael - he had a mean temper and had no hair, plus he wore green. He was asking for it. Oh yeah, and he was a complete d-bag that was full of himself and cried when he lost. He threatened to beat up Casey Riley because Casey was razzing him during his shot. Since Tone's team was undefeated, everyone wanted to see him lose. When he confronted me about "watchin' out for my boy" I offered to give him some money out of my wallet if he would refrain from beating me up. He didn't like it, and I think some day he will try to kill me.

I "stole" this picture from the playboy.com article without permission mostly because it rocks and I couldn't have taken this picture on my own. It definitely shows how committed we are to supporting our team mates. We also all are in mid-yell, and I do believe that we won a few games simply because our fans were able to throw people off.

Fresno and I were "congratulated" by Salmon when we lost our second game and were finished playing beer pong. I think he liked it because now someone was in the same position that he was. At the same time I think he was sad because he wanted to see Fresno and I win the $10,000 if he couldn't.