Wood Tennis: Basic Drinking Rules

Now the basic rules are out of the way, it's time to get down to the very essence of the game; it's prime reason for existence - the drinking rules. It's a very complex set of rules, whose complexity is only exceeded by the resultant inebriation, which in turn is only exceeded by its complexity.

The basic drinking rules are:

1. Drink every time reaches a score that is a multiple of three. This initially started as a multiple of two, but got adjusted after one game of this rule because Adrian and I were so smashed it would be impossible to play two straight games ;)


2. If you double-fault, you have to drink.


3. If you hit the ball and it lands in the cardboard box previously set up next to the table, you have to drink.


4. If you hit either woodstock can on your side of the net, you have to drink, and you lose the point.


5. If you hit the woodstock can furthest from the net on your opponent's side, your opponent has TWO drinks and you get TWO points.


6. If you hit the woodstock can closest the net on your opponents side, your opponent has THREE drinks and you get TWO points.


7. The number of drinks you have can accumulate but only within one point. e.g. If a player is on a score of 1 and hits the woodstock can furthest from the net on his opponent's side, his score moves to 3. Therefore the opponent has THREE drinks because of the two drinks for hitting the can, plus one for the score being a multiple of 3.

posted by Jacob @ 4:10:00 am