Why isn’t this in the Olympics yet? (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)

We don’t know how the professionals do it, but when we play beer pong, after about the third round, the game devolves into a drunken fight where you’re whipping ping pong balls at the other team’s heads.

We imagine the 800 or so participants in the World Series of Beer Pong this weekend at the Flamingo treated the sport with the proper grace and reverence that it deserves. After all, this is a sport that has hallowed rules like, “Distractions should not violate any local, state, or federal laws.” and “The Dipshit Not Paying Attention Rule: 1. If TEAM1 knocks over one of its own cups, that dipshit’s team (TEAM1) loses that cup(s). However, if the other team (TEAM2) also contains dipshits not paying attention that do not catch the first team of dipshits (TEAM1) knocking over their cup, then TEAM1 may keep that cup.”

The WSOBP drew Bruce Buffer to handle announcing duties and ended with 25-year-old partners Ron Hamilton of Brentwood, N.Y and Michael Popielarski of Massapequa, N.Y., ripping down the $50,000 grand prize.

By Jason Scavone