Volume 3: My days in a college fraternity Chapter 87 Rookie Competition
The Fraternity Rookie Competition is an old tradition of competition between fraternities. After all, they have recruited a group of new brothers, so they always have to show their opponents how good they are. By the way, they can also see what kind of people the other side has recruited. The two sides can exchange skills and deepen their understanding.
As for the competition events, they are fixed and have been maintained for many years.
Unprotected touch rugby is a six-person team event used to showcase rookies' teamwork, tactical ability and courage. Although it is an amateur touch game and body collisions are eliminated, there are several takedowns during actual matches and the referee will not stop the game. Basically, it is normal to have minor injuries such as local bruises and epidermal abrasions during a rugby game.
The human bowling competition is a two-person cooperative event. The players need to wear special rugby uniforms, lie on a large skateboard, and be pushed by another teammate to run for ten meters to start, then rush towards ten five-liter beer barrels that serve as vertical bottles thirty yards away. If they don't knock down all of them, the two people need to drink up the beer in the remaining standing barrels before they can proceed to the next round.
Ping Pong Vodka, ten cans are placed in different positions at both ends of a ping-pong table, each can has a number from 1 to 10 written on it, 1 is the easiest angle to knock down, 10 is the most difficult, a player serves and knocks down the cans marked with numbers on the opposite side, then the player on the opposite side has to drink the same number of vodka according to the number, until one player gets drunk and can no longer serve or all the cans are knocked down, and is declared the loser.
Tommy Hawke is no stranger to table tennis. Back when he was playing table tennis in the Asian fraternity at Boston University, Tommy and his Chinese classmates made Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean and other foreign students drunk. Why can they only have fun in the fraternity instead of participating in the rookie competition? Because in the world of 2022, the fraternities at Boston University took the initiative to cancel the event and replaced it with other events after the number of Chinese students increased in the 1990s. Those white people who can't afford to lose can't accept the cruel reality that if they lose the first move, they have to drink ten glasses of vodka and get themselves drunk like idiots.
"Tommy! Welcome to VSA ! Are you ready to be drunk by me and become an idiot?" Stephen said provocatively to Tommy who was wearing the SSD team uniform with a malicious smile.
The backyard of the Phoenix Society is already hung with colorful lights. As the champions of last year's rookie competition, they have the right to play at home. The bowling track and ping-pong table are already ready. As for the rugby game, due to the length of the game, it will be scheduled for Sunday during the day. Tonight's events will mainly be related to alcohol and embarrassment.
Tommy high-fived Stephen and said in a threatening tone, "Good evening, Stephen. You'd better pray that you don't run into me, or I promise to have you lying under the table in three minutes."
Only Stanford's six largest social fraternities participated in the competition. Other professional fraternities generally did not have the courage to play this kind of game with social fraternities. As the host, the president of the Phoenix Society gave a pre-match speech to the members of the six social fraternities who came to participate in the competition, saying that friendship came first and competition came second. But looking at his expression, you could feel that he was ashamed of saying such a false statement.
After the players drew lots and arranged the order of the game, the new manager Ted reminded Tommy, who drew lot number 1 and was the first to play, "Don't be distracted by the high-score jar. Make sure you hit the ball every time you hit it. Every time your opponent drinks, you win. Otherwise, you will always want to play the most difficult ten-point ball. If you miss three times in a row, even if you finally win this game by luck and hit the high-score jar, you will not be able to enter the finals, because even if the opponent only hits one, two, or three points, it will add up to six glasses of vodka, which will affect your performance in the second round."
"Okay," Tommy said to Ted, "I'll be more cautious."
Tommy's draw was number one, and his opponent was a rookie from DTS. In the coin toss for the first move, DTS won. He gave Tommy a cruel smile and said, "Phoenix boy, how about three cups to cheer you up?"
After saying that, he served the ball towards can number three! The ball successfully hit the can, but it only rubbed the can body, causing it to shake, but it did not successfully knock it down!
Seeing that the can was not knocked down, the opponent cursed in frustration, and various voices of regret were heard from the sidelines of the DTS members.
Even so, Tommy could see that this guy's table tennis level was not low. This kind of player could not fight an offensive and defensive battle with the opponent as Ted said. He had to fight quickly and decisively, otherwise Tommy might be forced to drink by the opponent at any time.
"Tommy! Stay calm! Don't be greedy!" Ted, Eric and others watched Tommy nervously as he prepared to hit the ball, and kept reminding him loudly, "Score two points and teach him a lesson!"
Before the other cans were knocked down, Can No. 10 was too difficult. Tommy observed for a moment, and finally stared at the position of Can No. 6, and hit a forehand right-side topspin ball!
The ping-pong ball hit can number six at an extremely fast speed, causing the entire can to fly up and roll down!
After succeeding, Tommy excitedly clenched his fist and looked at Ted and the others: "I decided to give him three times the color!"
The first ball hit the difficult No. 6 can! Everyone watching the game stared with wide eyes. It was not until the referee announced that the hit was valid that Eric, Ted and others rushed up and strangled Tommy's neck to express their inner joy!
Hearing the cheers of the SSD brothers, Charles and others who were watching the bowling match also ran over. When they learned that Tommy scored six points with the first ball, they all praised him for a good job.
Seeing the six glasses of vodka being served, the rookie from DTS took a deep breath, then reluctantly drank the six glasses of vodka within the time limit set by the referee, trying to complete the second serve before the alcohol eroded him, looking for a chance to win back. He finally chose can number two and knocked it down successfully.
Tommy took the two glasses of vodka and drank them all, then looked at his opponent: "Didn't you ask me to have three glasses to liven up the atmosphere? I still need one more, Lamb Club boy, it's my turn!"
The next second, Tommy knocked down the No. 5 can on the opponent's table!
Tommy looked at his opponent whose face had turned red: "Drink slowly, there's plenty of vodka."
When the opponent drank the ninth glass, he couldn't hold it in any longer and leaned over to spit out the wine. Seeing this, the referee had someone help the opponent down and announced that Tommy won.
After drinking two cups in the first round and only one cup in the second round, Tommy successfully made it to the finals with almost no impact. Unfortunately, Stephen, who also practiced table tennis, failed to meet him in the finals. In the second round, his opponent was extremely lucky and hit the nine-point can, which made Stephen drink so much that he became a fool who couldn't even hold the racket.
"You are the one who took care of my friend? I had an agreement with him that I would teach him a lesson." Tommy bounced the ping-pong ball in his hand and said to his opponent who was wearing a BG uniform and competing with him for the final victory.
The opponent stared at Tommy, his tone full of provocation: "I can send you to accompany him to wake up now..."
"Get ready to spit out your gall, idiot!" Tommy shouted before he could finish, and swung the ball forehand, hitting the opponent's No. 10 can, which was the most hidden in the corner of the table, directly into the air. Tommy, who succeeded in hitting the ball, threw away the racket, pointed at his opponent, who was served ten glasses of vodka by the referee, and shouted loudly amid the cheers :
"Remember to stay away from SSD next time you see it! Otherwise, I can make you experience this alcohol nightmare again at any time!"
The opponent had already drunk five cups in the first two rounds. It would be a miracle if he could hold the racket steadily after drinking ten more cups!
Amid the cheers, Tommy took over the Ping Pong Vodka Championship Trophy that DTS had kept last year, and held it high to show it to the brothers from SSD. The cheers just stopped when Charles and others shouted excitedly over the bowling alley. Soon, Charles, who usually looked mature and steady, ran over like a child and shouted happily to a few people:
"We won the bowling championship! Recruiting guys like Jason and Tommy was the best decision we made! We have already won two of the three events! No matter what the result of the football game is, we are already number one!"
"In the last round of competition, didn't you say that their skills were a little behind those of other clubs? How come they won the championship?" Eric asked in surprise when he heard Charles' words.
Charles spoke of Jason with admiration in his tone. "Yes, his skills are terrible, but he and his partner named Derek have a great alcohol tolerance. They made it to the finals by constantly drinking, vomiting, drinking again, and vomiting again. I just learned that in order to compete in bowling, these two rookies, in addition to practicing how to control the direction and strength, secretly went to learn from strippers how to drink quickly and induce vomiting quickly when they learned that vomiting during the game was not a foul. In the previous game, Jason was moving forward on the scooter while spraying beer out of his mouth to empty his stomach. The scene was as spectacular as a sprinkler truck, which scared their opponents. They thought Jason was going to die and didn't want to get into trouble, so they gave up the game. In fact, that was exactly what Jason wanted."
"Where's the trophy? Take it back to the Hall of Fame!" Eric reminded Charles after listening.
Charles hesitated, "That trophy...it might be better if we take it back after the Order has rinsed it, because the Order's idiot Henry enjoyed Jason and Derek's sprinkler service along with the trophy."
Then, he shouted to the SSD members: "Brothers, lift up our rookie brothers who brought honor to SSD! Take them home!"
Regardless of whether they will be on stage tonight or not, the nine rookies were lifted high by the veterans of SSD and marched triumphantly . Tommy rode on the shoulders of a veteran and saw that Jason next to him didn't seem to be abnormal. He asked curiously, "Dude, did you and Derek really drink seven barrels of beer, which is a total of 35 liters? Do you need to see a doctor?"
"Don't worry, brother, I spit it all out. It's a trick the strippers taught us. Drink some salt water right after drinking or press your tonsils with your hands." Jason said to Tommy while demonstrating the action of pressing the tonsils. Then Tommy saw that Jason gave Eric, Ted and other old birds under him a shower, which made a few old birds curse Jason and the others laughed with glee. But even so, Ted and others did not put Jason down.
Tommy started laughing, but suddenly changed his expression and said to Jason, "Shit, have you finished your homework? You have to hand it in to the professor in the first class tomorrow. The professor seems to be immune to this kind of championship honor."
