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We are loving the Olympics! I've been watching all the day coverage and then staying up late watching all the nightime coverage. I'm doing my best not to read all the news so I won't know what happens until I watch. Easier said than done with social media but that's ok! Wednesday, Mallory and I headed to our friend Brettni's house for a playdate with the mommas and kiddos from our Sunday School class. Brettni outdid herself with the Olympic decorations. Lyndsey made the popcorn torches and these oreo/fruit by the foot medals. I loved all the food and decorations! Brettni also had doughnuts and Mallory had a donut hole for the first time. She stuck the whole thing in her mouth. I think she liked it :) Brettni also had paper and paint for the kids to paint on. So after stripping Mallory of all her clothes, we headed outside to paint. Just a little blue paint in the artist's hair - ha! A masterpiece in the making Love all the kiddos in their diapers painting. The best attempt at getting all 12 kids in one picture. We had a great time! I love getting together with all the moms in our class and having that time to talk and letting our kids play together. I'm so blessed to have these mommy friends in my life! And the night before, as we watched the USA gymnasts win the gold medal, Mallory began her practicing for her gymnastics career. 2028 Olympics here she comes!
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We held our 7th Annual Studer's Invitational Beer Olympics at our home this past weekend. We were lucky to have beautiful weather and a great turn out of participants, refs, and observers. I've said it before, and I'll say it again and again - we could not do this event without the generosity, good nature, and kindness of the people that participate. Beer Olympics is like a holiday around here. We spend a few weeks prior to the day planning, organizing, taking inventory, and preparing. There are shirts to be ordered, waivers and rules to be updated and printed, rsvps to collect, and a winner plaque to be engraved and added to our Champion trophy stand. This year because we had several long time veteran players unable to participate (we missed you!), we tried out a new strategy and had Every Man for Himself scoring and play for the day. We were still able to play the same team events, but we switched up the teams before every event and scored by individual player versus by team. As in years past, we limited our participants to 32 people so that we have no more than 8 teams of four. As part of Beer Olympics prep, I created thirty-two slips of paper with a team color listed on it (four papers per each color) and put them in a container. Before each game, participants pulled their new team color, applied appropriate face paint, and met their new teammates. Our first event is always a Beer Pong tournament played with House rules. After the first round of standard play (20 cup per each side of the table), we finish out the tournament by winners and losers brackets in two rounds of Hungry Hungry HipPong. Points were given to each person based on their teams' overall performance. (ie. each person on Red team personally earned first place points as overall winners for the event). Personal scores were added to the scoreboard and players received new team assignments and re-painted their faces as necessary. Our second event is our Dingbat Relay (similar to Dizzy Bat) and is generally hilarious and pure mayhem. All refs eyes were on the game, so we don't have any camera footage of the event, however there is some incredible GoPro footage. My Mom, acting as a ref, who was seated in the chair that players had to round had an unfortunate run in with two of the participants as they tried to push past each other at the turn around. All three of them and the chair and the GoPro went crashing to the ground in a hilarious heap of cursing and laughing. The GoPro footage is amazing. Thanks Momma for taking one for the day! We followed Dingbat Relay with a challenge opportunity: Keg Stands. Challenges are optional and are geared toward participants who are seeking opportunities to earn a couple extra points. Keg Stands were worth four points, limited to only one, and set to a certain time limit (10 seconds for males, 7 for females) and position (upside down and right side up) Teams were changed up again, and then it was on to Ice Cube Tray Canoe Races. The views on this game are widely diverse across the players, some love it, some just accept it, other's despise it. We play this game as only winners move on to the next round (One Loss and Done), and the first round is a full tray, subsequent rounds are only a half tray. Personal scores calculated again and it was on to Slippy Cup. We added vegetable oil this year to the Slip 'n Slide (an old pool cover) and it was hugely successful for speed and hilarity. Slippy Cup is completed in four heats (eight participants at a time). Player's chug, flip, run, slide, run, chug, flip, sit as fast as they can. Slippy Cup is a player favorite. Our last event before the intermission is always Anchorman because, well quite honestly, everyone needs a break after Anchorman. Each team is given a pitcher of 2 Liters of Beer and at the whistle each team begins drinking. Once the pitcher is passed to the next player, it cannot be passed back. The final player (the Anchorman) has to finish whatever is left in the pitcher. The key here is not speed, but rather distribution of beer among the whole team. Regardless of how much players 'think' they drank from the pitcher - it seems the Anchorman is always left with a daunting amount of beer to finish. Intermission gives everyone a chance to grab some delicious food from the garage (everyone brings something to share potluck style) and hydrate appropriately with water and Gatorade. Our intermission generally lasts between 45 minutes to an hour depending on how people appear to be recovering. Following intermission, new teams were assigned again and we eased back into the events with Flip Cup tournament style with winning and losing brackets. Flip Cup is a great equalizing game that doesn't need particular brawn or strength to complete it - so we play three variations of it throughout the day! Bong Races are a staple from our very first Beer Olympics. We play Bong Races like Ice Cube Tray Canoe Races where only the winning teams move on to the next round. Our newest challenge this year was Blow Ball which turned out to be absolutely hilarious and will definitely be returning as a challenge in the future. (thank you BarMeister) . Players could challenge one another for an extra +2 points to the winner. With their chin on the table, the players tried to blow a ping pong ball off the opposite side of the table using only their breath. If the ball fell off your side of the table, you lost. Loser received no points and had to drink. Survivor Flip Cup is one of my personal favorites because it's high action, is a great equalizer for all players, and as one of our players mentioned on Saturday, "Why do you get punished for winning in this game!?" Eight players to a table and at the whistle everyone chugs and flips until they succeed, last one to flip gets 'kicked off the table.' Winners move on again and again until there is only one survivor. Points are given by order of being kicked off the table (thanks again for the inspiration Canfield Beer Olympics!) With three empty kegs, two challenges and eight events completed, things understandably tend to fall off the deep end at this point in the day. Players have one last chance to a challenge event, Chug Offs, in which they can challenge another player to a chugging contest (their choice to amount of beer). First person to chug and flip their empty cup upside down on their head earns +3 points. Our final event this year was called Last Man Standing and had nothing to do with drinking beer (not that anyone really needed it anyway at this point). We filled up two cups per person with water and had everyone hold their arms up and out for as long as they could (or felt like it). As players dropped out (from boredom or need, we'll never know), the list of players were weaned down to only ten left and I announced how many points each person would receive for each drop out from 6 points to 24 points to the Last Man Standing! This game took longer than I expected, close to 15 minutes, and there was a lot of moaning, groaning, and meditation happening as everyone's arms and shoulders ached. It literally came down to the Last (wo)Man standing! A short intermission follows all the events as the totals were calculated for each player and nominations for our awards were completed. The awards ceremony is always hilarious and received with enough cheering you'd think it was actually more than a simple sash that players were earning for their performance. Finally, we announced our highest scoring participants who make up our champion team for 2015: The Survivors. Celebrations all around as the four took the first drinks from our Studer Torpedo while Queen's We are the Champions blasted from the stereo system. Hosting our Beer Olympic event takes a lot of work from planning, organizing, and to preparing our home and yard for the day but we do it because we love it and are so very grateful that we have so many wonderfully kind and generous friends in our life to share the day with us. We've been laughing the past two days about how so many different branches of our life are represented at the day. In what universe is Brandon's high school football teammate challenging my sister's friend's boyfriend to a game of blow ball? In what universe are my sister's sister in law, my other sister's friend's fiance, the cousin of the kid I used to babysit, and my college teammate's boyfriend all on the same beer pong team? Only in Beer Olympics Universe, people. Seriously, the day shines a spotlight on all the best and brightest spots of our life, most of the times in no other way connected to each other and we are so grateful to all of you. thank you, thank you, thank you. Besides our Beer Olympics being an amazingly fun day with friends new and old, it is also for a good cause. After costs, all proceeds are donated to a cause of our selection for the year and we are proud to say that we raised $205 to support baby Redden in his fight against cancer. You can read more about Redden and his journey at his website here. You can see all of our past Beer Olympic events here. And to cover our own behinds: - Team Studer (www.studerteam.blogspot.com or Tabitha and Brandon Studer) is not responsible for anyone's actions after following or using our Beer Olympic rules & guidelines. Each person is responsible for his/her own body and personal decisions. If you decide to use our Beer Olympics rules & guidelines, you are agreeing to take full responsibility for any actions, accidents, or injuries that may be caused due to using them. Don't be stupid- but if you are, it's on you, man. --- Logistics for Every Man for Himself Scoring: Depending on how a player's team for that specific event performed, they each earned that allotment of points for themselves. Our scoreboard including all the games and challenges as columns and each participant's name as rows. Before the start of the event, I scribbled down each team member by team color and then used that list to determine points at the end of the game based on the overall team performance. (It was actually a lot easier than I was anticipating). During Anchorman, each person earned the team's points for their place in finishing, but the actual Anchorman for each team automatically earned an extra +3 pointstowards their score because their job sucks. hahh Some events like Slippy Cup and Survivor Flip Cup wasn't a team event, but I still had players assigned to a color team because it made it easier for them to figure out which heat or table they should participate in during the game. Even though it was an individual event, it was easier to say - one person from each 'team' needs to be at each table - or needs to participate in each heat of Slippy Cup. Overall, the Every Man for Himself process worked really well for the day. Participants seemed to enjoy the pressure of earning their own points and it gave a really great foundation for everyone meeting more people than just their own teams. Jury's out on whether or not this will be the new standard moving forward, but we had a great time switching it up this year!
Game changer.
The 5th Annual Beer Olympics were in full force this past weekend in Charleston, South Carolina, and it was quite a spectacle... mainly because our host Catherine doesn't do anything half-ass. We are talking about the girl who had a baby eight months ago and just ran the Chicago Marathon last week. On Saturday she organized events and port-a-potties, chips and Chick-fil-A (and okra??), and plenty and plenty of beer. By mid afternoon last Saturday, she had forty Olympians competing for the ultimate prize: bragging rights and the ability to display this beauty proudly on the formal living room mantle. However, Here's how the (pending) National Holiday played out: Once all the Olympians and spectators arrived, partners were drawn. It's the most serious and anxious part of the day. If you're competitive, then you really don't want to be paired with someone who can't catch a frisbee. If all you care about is drinking, then you really don't want to be paired with someone who's going to be mad at you for not catching a frisbee. Seriously people, this is stressful. **BATTLESHIP** Jumbo-sized battleship. Sink a coordinate? It's a shot of beer with those cups your mom keeps in the bathroom in the cup dispenser. You know the size I'm talking about. It's bigger than a shot glass. It was my first event of the day and it wasn't a great event to start with... I was hoping more to ease into things instead of flying right out of the gate. **CORNHOLE** You know, cornhole. If you don't know, we can't be friends. And we couldn't have played on a better set of boards. **JENGA** Last year this game was a buzz kill. Teams were so concerned with winning that matches were lasting upwards of thirty minutes and people stopped drinking to concentrate. Unacceptable Beer Olympics behavior. The solution? This year the Jenga blocks were placed on a wobbly table on uneven grass. And the kicker? While you were trying to be Steady Steven, your partner had to Waterfall until your move was over. Jenga was hard this year. **ICE CUBE TRAY** Completely fill an ice cube tray with beer. Using a straw, it's a relay race to see which team can empty their trays the fastest. You also had to decide whether to use a fat straw or skinny straw (hardest decision of the day). **CAN JAM** Some frisbee game. I can't throw or catch a frisbee. Thank God I had an amazing partner. It's a trash-can-looking-thing with a little slit. You get the frisbee in that slit and game over. But that never happens, so you get points with your partner by hitting the can with the frisbee or knocking the frisbee inside the can or some other circus-like maneuvers. All the while holding a beer in one hand. **BEERSBEE** Another frisbee game. I still can't throw or catch a frisbee. Thank God for Noelle. This one involves a beer bottle on top of a pole. Knock the beer bottle off the pole and you get points. But you get more points if you catch the bottle before it hits the ground. All the while holding a beer in one hand. **BASEBALL QUARTERS** This was our last event and I don't even know if we played by the right rules at this point in the day. But everyone knows how to play baseball. And everyone knows how to play quarters. Use your imagination and put the two together. At least that's how we played. **BEER PONG** **CONNECT FOUR** You can win vertical, horizontal... and yes, Lonnie, you can also win diagonal. **BALLOON POP** I saved the best event for last. You are never too old or professional to attach a balloon to your butt, hopscotch down a flat ladder, chug your beer, then get humped by your partner to pop your balloon. You are also never too old or professional to watch it in slow motion and not think it's hilarious. WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS Once all twenty teams competed in all ten events, the four teams with the best records duked it out in the Final Four. I have no idea if it was a closey or not because I was too busy playing flip cup, but congrats to Frank and Jay. You are the champions of this years' Beer Olympics. Miscellaneous Awards And then this happened... It all started as a simple game of flip cup. But the five year old in us couldn't let go of the balloon pop game. And the next thing we knew we were playing the ultimate relay flip cup game. Can't top this. Once again, I can't wait until next year as it is one of my favorite holidays. And look out... I'm coming in hot next year with some frisbee skills. Keep training, y'all!
Have you ever had so much fun in one day that you didn’t think you would wake up the next morning because of fun overload? No?... then you need to get some new friends. I, fortunately, experienced that euphoric feeling last weekend at the 3rd Annual Backyard Beer Olympics in Charleston, South Carolina. The home-made day of drinking and obstacle games came to fruition two years ago to celebrate my dear friend’s birthday and it has now become an annual tradition. This year I made the pilgrimage to Charleston to experience the excitement first hand for the first time. I flew in that scorching Saturday morning and joined 40+ other hooligans at the house of the birthday girl, Catherine. The recycling bin was empty, the music was mellow, the temperature was hotter than hell, and there was a calm atmosphere amongst the crowd. Oh, how a few hours of Beer Olympics can change everything. Step one of Beer Olympics was drawing teams. Everyone’s name went into a bowl and twenty teams of two were drawn. Watching Catherine draw name by name caused more excitement than watching the ping pong balls drop for the NBA Lottery. With the teams drawn and the Olympic flame lit, it was game time. There were ten events and ten rounds. Marcus the Mastermind created an event spread sheet (that took more brain power than a Harvard law degree) so that each team knew where to be during each round. The start of each round was indicated by the blow of a duck whistle, which I know had to be heard at least 30 miles away... and caused me to jump ten feet in the air each time. Here is a run-down of the 10 Backyard Beer Olympic games: **The ice tray game (we need to come up with more creative names for these games next year). Each person gets an ice tray full of beer and a straw. The first team to finish sucking all the beer out of their ice tray wins. Side note: the non-beer-drinker who chose to use vodka & water instead of beer (my opponent) was at an unfair advantage because that goes down much smoother than thick, foamy beer... however, I’m sure she was the one at a disadvantage about thirty minutes later. **Three-legged race. This was just like elementary school field day, except with strategy fueled by beer. Shoes or no shoes... inside or outside leg first (note to my partner Frankie, “left leg first” DOES NOT WORK)... turn around inside or outside of the cone... to dive or not dive at the finish line. So many tactics to consider... but sometimes no matter how hard you train and prepare, you still end up like this while the team wearing butterfly wings celebrates: **Dizzy bat. Next year, we may have to have people sign a waiver for this game. It is dangerous. Yet, hilarious. While wearing a helmet, the batter chugs a beer, spins around five times with their head on a bat, then takes off running fifty feet and back, only to then hand off the helmet and bat to their teammate. This game got a little competitive at times... and why weren’t Joel and Adam wearing helmets... SAFETY FIRST GUYS! Dizzy bat did cause a few minor injuries this year... exhibit A shown below documents the injuries that occurred when the defendant ran into the wooden fence ten feet away. Didn't we have a personal injury lawyer present? But the following video is pure gold and is reason #1 why dizzy bat will forever be a sport in the Beer Olympics. *Beersbee. This game was not fun because I can’t catch a frisbee. Let me set the stage... there were two white polls in the ground set about fifty feet apart, with a beer bottle on top of each pole. The goal was to hit the pole with a frisbee and knock the bottle off the pole. You got one point if the other team didn’t catch the frisbee. You got two points if your frisbee hit the other team's pole and knocked off their beer bottle. You got three points if the other team knocked off your beer bottle and you were able to catch the bottle before it hit the ground. First team to 21 points wins. This game required coordination and fast reflexes, which I have neither, thus I did not like this game. Moving on. *Egg toss. Please tell me I don’t have to explain this one. Simple game, but the only caveat was that you had to hold your drink the entire time while playing this game. I may be the best egg-toss player ever who can drop the egg on every catch, yet drop it so gracefully and with such a gentle touch that the egg doesn't break. Skills. *Plunger beer walk. There were no rules to this game because every team made up their own rules, but the overall gist was to balance a cup of beer (we ended up using water because we didn’t want to waste the beer!) inside of a toilet plunger while racing back and forth. I didn’t ask this at the time, but I really hope those plungers were bought new that day and didn’t come from the master bathroom. *Can-jam. Once again, another game I didn’t like because it used a frisbee. And once again, you got varying amounts of points by doing various circus acts to get the frisbee inside of this can-looking-thing. Not a fan. *Corn hole. *Red-neck golf. Another tailgating favorite. A foot-long piece of string with a golf ball on each end is thrown at rows of bars with different heights. Wrapping the string around a bar gets you points, and the higher the bar, the more points you get. Once again, first to 21 wins. Now, problems arose when the throw was too high and the string attached to golf balls landed in the tree limbs. Smart option number one would be to get a ladder. Smart option number two would be to use a long stick. Smart option number three, well, I don’t have another option but I’m sure I can come up with something safer than the following. I am still in awe that two strong, manly boys could drop tiny little Erica while lifting her up into the tree. I’m even more in awe that there were two other boys standing nearby and neither of them were spotting her (cheerleading 101, people!). *Beer pong. I don’t need to explain the rules. But my partner, Frankie, and I faced team Shake-n-Bake during this round. And I was beyond a horrible partner for this game. I didn’t hit one cup, and thus we lost. (Side note: picture below is of Annmarie and not team Shake-n-Bake. I chose to use the picture of Annmarie because she is easier on the eyes.) *Championship round. The top ten teams with the best overall record moved on to the championship round. The other ten teams went home. Ok, they didn’t go home... they just started drinking more. Frankie and I made the championship round with our 7-3 record (losing only in ice tray, three-legged race, and beer pong). We had a two-round bye, and our first game was a rematch in beer pong with Shake-n-Bake. I rubbed down my throwing arm and did a few stretches to get loose... I couldn’t embarrass myself again. This time I hit a few cups, catching Shake-n-Bake by surprise. Frankie and I won in a close match, upsetting the tournament favorites and sending team Shake-n-Bake home to cry in their beer. They were overly confident prior to our match... maybe they should have been more focused instead of taking pictures and signing autographs for fans. As the championship round continued, the rain started. The two final teams battled it out in a game of corn-hole... this game was for all the marbles. At one point it was monsooning so hard with flash flood warnings, yet I have never seen so much concentration in trying to throw a bag of corn onto a board. Meanwhile, the losing teams were huddled under a tent playing flip cup and staying dry. It was Team Kentucky versus Team Everyone Else. Team Kentucky dominated flip cup just like we do a basketball court. After the most intense hour long game of corn-hole I’ve ever seen, Catherine, the host and birthday girl, and her teammie Josh won in dramatic fashion. It was Catherine’s first championship win in the Beer Olympics and I’m sure she’s looking to repeat again next year. *At some point during the day, the boys thought they weren’t drinking enough beer and decided to shot-gun. *Hours after the games, no one was ready to go home. With the Jambox blaring someone’s playlist on shuffle, the full version of the Harlem Shake song was a surprise. And then the wheels started turning in Emily’s head: we are going to do our own version of the Harlem Shake. It's our party, we can do what we want. We are so turnt up here... getting turnt up here... and here is the final product of a day of Beer Olympics. (I spy a man sitting on the corn hole board with his pants down, a girl busting ass on the corn hole board, a girl wake boarding in the back, a UK flag, a weed eater, a vacuum, two plungers, and a bicycle.) *We started the day with an empty 95 gallon recycling trash can. At one point during the day the recycling bin became so full that someone had to stand in the bin to smoosh down all the cans and bottles to make room for more. Here is the recycling bin the day after. *The 3rd Annual Backyard Beer Olympics was nothing shy of amazing. It has now been added to my yearly holidays, alongside Christmas, Easter, and my birthday. I will start my training for next year’s Olympics this fall during football season because "it takes lots of beers to play the way I do." Can't wait to see y'all again next year :)
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