Kaps is sort of like a mix between Quarters, Beer Pong, and King's Cup. First, everyone in your group of up to six people chooses a drink that they want to play with. (Over here it's usually either beer or cider, but you could play with straight liquor or mixed drinks if you so choose I suppose.) Next, you put your name on a cup and fill the cup with your chosen drink. Another cup without a name is then filled with equal parts of everyone's drink. All of the cups are arranged in a circle on the floor with the unnamed cup in the center. Everyone then forms a circle by sitting a leg's length away from their cup. And now the real fun begins!
After the cups are arranged, you take turns "challenging each other" by trying to toss a bottle cap into another person's cup. If you make it into one belonging to someone other than yourself, that person must try to retaliate by throwing a bottle cap into your cup as well. If they are successful in making it, you must toss a cap into their cup again, and so on until one of the two misses. The person to miss must finish what's in their cup, dump out the bottle cap, refill, and take their turn challenging someone. If a person accidentally lands a cap in their own cup, they are required to drink up and try again.
Now... I'm sure you're curious to know about the middle unnamed cup filled with miscellaneous beers and ciders. (Yum!) If someone happens to land a bottle cap into that cup instead of one with a name on it, they are required to drink the full miscellaneous cup and their own cup while everyone else has a "social" and drinks at the same time. All of the cups are then refilled and replaced. The game continues.
Doesn't that sound horrible and against some sort of health code? There are all these different dirty hands and mouths that touch these bottle caps that have been on the unswept floor?! And then you're just supposed to let it land in your drink, finish off the drink, and dig the thing out to keep playing with it? I don't think so! The 5% of alcohol that's in beer does NOT kill all the bacteria you're ingesting, I don't care what anyone says. I guess it's just the Swede's way of getting the most out of their free healthcare. Needless to say, Ryan and I did not participate.
The tournament was pretty interesting to watch, though. After two hours of practicing everyone was pretty happy and buzzed up by the time the competition started. Although they were awful loud. It took place in the basement of one of the buildings on campus in a room with a bar. Go figure?
In the end, a girl from our home classroom ended up winning the first round of the tournament when we combined. Which I think is double cool because she's a girl and she's from our group. I guess she went on to another room for the final round to decide who was the ultimate winner amongst the orientation students. We didn't stick around to watch that or find out, but I hope she won.
And if not, I hope at the very least that she doesn't get too sick from all that dirt and toe-jam she drank along with her beer.
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