8:30 am – woke up and bummed around. I remember watching Saved By the Bell, I only mention it because it will have relevance later on today. You’ll see. I know that Chris and I started drinking pretty much after we got out of bed. We gotta be prepared for today’s events. At 9 am, I was watching Dawson’s Creek, which just gave Chris another reason to make fun of me.
10:00 am – Went to the convention room to play beer pong. We were supposed to meet and hear some opening comments, get placed into division, go over rules, etc. You know, get all of that official stuff out of the way early. It seems like some of the teams didn’t feel like showing up, so they delayed this meeting until 11. Salmon and I went to the Casino to play penny slots. While there, the waitress brought me a beer, and seeing as I didn’t eat any breakfast, I was feeling pretty good by the time 11:00 came around.
11:00 am – Met at the conference center to play some beer pong. We were devided into 6 division, each comprised of 13-14 teams each. The Team You’re Gonna Beat (Fresno Chris and myself) were in division 2, the Professors of Pong (Aaron and Salmon) were in #3, CHBPL (Casey V. and Lorge) were in #4, the Greatest Show on Plywood (Brodey and Balkman) were in #5 and Milwaukee’s Best (Casey R. and Ryan “Phany”) were in #6. It was nice that we didn’t have to play anyone else from our group, because then we could play some teams we’ve never seen before. A little bit later, round 1 began.
12:00ish am – Chris and I beat the Sloshballers from Pacifia, CA in 9 shots. Out of the 14 tables playing simultaneously, we were the 1st team to win in the 1st World Series of Beer Pong. I was als o the 1st person to hit a kill shot. Those are two firsts that I’ll always be proud of, and no matter what happens in this tournament, they can’t take it away from me. The rest of Milwaukee’s finest were cheering me on, shouting “Iceman, Iceman!” every time I had a ball in my hand. We won by 3 cups, and amazed everyone by hitting the last 4 in a row. We turned some heads with our playing style and our support group.
12:30 pm – a writer from the Canadian magazine Toro interviewed me. They asked me some standard questions, and they also took some photographs of me while I played. Casey/Lorge and Salmon/Aaron had 1st round byes. Brodey/Balkman won by 1 cup, and Casey/Phaney won as well, giving Milwaukee a 3-0 record so far. A writer for Playboy.com interviewed Brodey and asked him questions about our group.
1:40 pm – After our second win, where we won by 4 cups and I hit my second kill shot, there was a lot of hype surrounding this guy named Iceman. The writer from Playboy.com interviewed me, and we sat down and talked for 10 minutes. I told him a lot of interesting things, about our group, our league, why I draw a line with my middle finger before shooting, why they call me Iceman, and things of that nature. If any of my information gets posted in his article, I’ll be sure to include it in this blog in a future posting. Throughout the rest of the day, he also took some pictures of us, which hopefully will be viewed by someone and we can all win free beer or something. The people from Toro magazine had me and Fresno Chris sign a release waiver so that they could use our pictures. The line that I signed said model name, so that now means that I’m a male model because I’m really really really ridiculously good looking. I’m working on my “ice glare” as we speak. We’ve been talking with other teams from around the country, and everyone that’s here is really cool. We’ve been hanging out with a lot of the other teams, and joke and goof around like we’re old friends.
2:00ish pm – Finished our 3rd game of the day, and won that one as well. We then went outside on the tennis courts for some burgers and hot dogs. The food was cold, but we ate with these two guys who have been playing next to us. We’ve been talking and laughing and enjoying some good beer pong moments. They think that we’re hyped, and I hope that I can live up to that.
We then had a 45 minute break “halftime” as they called it, and we had a bye during the first game back, giving us close to 2 hours to wait to play some more beer pong. During this time, I went to Starbucks to upload yesterday’s blog entry, then waited until my next match. Tom Petty said that the waiting is the hardest part, but I’m sure that he wasn’t talking about beer pong, even though it applies here as well. When we finally did get to play again, I was tired, and really didn’t feel like playing or drinking.
5:00ish pm – We lost both of our games in the afternoon, not because they were better than us, but because we failed to make shots. We both were off and not into the grove. I felt bad because I had built up so much hype that photographers were waiting to take a picture of me when I nailed the kill shot and I let them down. All of our teams had a disappointing 2nd half, and Brodey had a stern talk with us about improving tomorrow and not looking like a bunch of flunkies (my interpretation of the Godfather’s wisdom.) Tomorrow is another day, but today these are how the teams stand:
Casey/Lorge: 4-1 with a bye.
Iceman/Fresno: 3-2 with a bye.
Brodey/Balkman: 3-2 with a bye.
Casey/Phany: - 3-2 with a bye.
Aaron/Salmon: 2-3 with a bye. Overall: Milwaukee is 15-10, which is above .500 but we know we’re better than this.
I don't remember much from the rest of the evening, because I was dissapointed by my performance in the 2nd half of today's events. Here are some highlights from the rest of the evening...
- We found a table (those brown folding ones like the ones we had in the St. Catherine’s cafeteria when I was in grade school) and carried it to Aaron and Brodey’s room. We put it in the doorway between rooms 5119 and 5118 and played some beer pong. The guys in 5118 are from New York and rock at beer pong. They won at least 7 games in a row before Aaron and Brodey took over and dominated the table until I left. Playing beer pong in a hotel room kicks ass.
- I went to the casino again, playing penny slots. I lost money again. I then decided to do a little experiment. I took 300 nickels ($15) and played the maximum (3) on a slot machine to see 1. how long I could last, 2. whether or not the machine would go “cold” or get “hot”, 3. see if I could actually win any money. I started at 12:10 am, and finished at 12:36 am with no money left over. $15 only lasted 26 minutes, and the most I ever won was approximately 130 nickels, which only put me back at the 300 mark at that time. I have concluded that I suck at gambling and cannot win no matter what I play.
- I walked around trying to get a picture of the Oasis casino sign that said Welcome to the World Series of Beer Pong. I also noticed that the neighboring casino, the Casablanca, had a similar sign. I finally made it close enough to get a decent picture, and decided that since I had made the walk over here, I might as well go inside and check it out. The Casablanca was designed better than the Oasis, and there were fountains and palm trees inside and stuff. I played the Price is Right nickel slot machine after perusing the casino, and immediatly won $5.15. It's too bad that I put it right back in the machine plus some. I think I've pretty much given up on gambling.
- I walked back from the Casino and stopped at the Shell gas station to buy some Monster energy drink, a rice krispie bar, a snickers bar, and some Ruffles potato chips. When I got back, it was around 1:30 am, and I had to be up at 8:00 am for another day of drinking. Life is rough.www.pookon.com
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