World Series of Beer Pong

This brick tried to kill me. I know what you are saying - it's just a brick, how could it try to kill me? It tripped me and I was standing mere inches from death himself. But I survived, and I was able to get this picture to send along to the FBI so that they could post it on the 10 most dangerous criminals in the United States.

The final games were underway and most of the people stuck around to see how the tournament was progressing. They were down to the last few teams, and each one was struggling to remain in the game. Since I was no longer fighting for $10,000, I really didn't care but I was drunk so I did what everyone else did.

One of the things that really surprised me is that they wasn't any drunken rioting going on. There was a minimal security presence, but all of the kids were very well behaved. That is one of the reasons why we are allowed to come back to the Oasis next year for another shot at thousands of dollars for playing a drinking game.

I took this picture so that I could edit it in post production and put our team name in the pay to the order line as seen in this picture. I felt that we deserved the $10,000 as much as any other team out there, but we were denied the chance to prove it. That is one of the many reasons that I will be going back next year...

A single table was set up in the middle for the final couple of games so that the drunken crowd could easily focus on one game, even if they were seeing double. Team France (left) played their game first, and advanced to the next round. CHBPL played in the 5th place game that would ultimately determine their final ranking in the 2005 World Series of Beer Pong.

The crowd stood in silence as Jason and Nicholas (Team France) from Ann Arbor, Michigan won the tournament and claimed the $10,000 prize. It's not that they were silenced by the mighty play of the winning team, it's because no one really cared. This was the most uninteresting championship games that I have ever seen in my life. After the game was over, I just stuck around because everyone else did. But then I found another reason to hang out, and it is featured prominently in the picture directly below these pictures...

Balkman could only bite his fist in agony as his friends/roommates/beer pong league members were eliminated and claimed the 6th place trophy. Actually, for placing 6th out of 82 teams, they were awarded absolutely nothing at all. That's kind of rough, considering all of the work that they have put into getting here from Milwaukee. They also finished with the best record of the Milwaukee teams; and stood as the representative for the city and the CHBPL league that all of us play in. OK, I've bullshitted enough for one paragraph now...

I was unable to sum up the courage to have my picture taken with Cara Zavaleta, Playboy Magazine's Miss November 2004. I was a little intimidated because I had seen her naked before I had the chance to meet her in person. I had seen her in the most revealing way, so it was tough for me to go up to her and ask her for a picture. Luckily, Matt Salmon is more man than I am and he approached her and asked if his buddy could have a picture with her. Once again, I think that she was contractually obliged to appear for photo opportunities with guys who didn't deserve to be in the same room with someone as beautiful as she was. Luckily I caught her at a moment when she couldn't say no, and this picture is now here so that I have proof that I spent a moment in the company of a Playboy Playmate.