World Records On Drinking Games

By Author: Joseph Cosmano
Total Articles: 6
Comment this article

Drinking alcohol has been a trend for many years such that it has led to competitions based on drinking. People compete in drinking games at colleges, pubs, parties and other events. The competition has been growing worldwide such that it has led to making world records. For instance, Guinness World Records has been featuring records make from drinking beer. There are different sets of rules for different drinking games with some competing for largest amounts others for speed and other methods of disqualification.Since 1960's Guinness Book of Records has featured the fastest beer drinkers. Since then, yard drinking was used most to compete in speeds. For instance, back in 1964, a guy by the name Lawrence Hill earned himself a record in the Guinness Book for consuming two and a half pints of ale in yard drinking. At that time, he was only 22 years old and finished the amount in six and a half seconds. His record was published in Guinness Records in 1969.Back then, the records were only based on yard drinking. However, this rule was later discarded to allow drinking from any form of drinking container. This allowed more drinking ...
... games to feature in records. Winners who would break already set records would thus have chances to be listed. In mid 1971, Jack Boyle set a record of consuming 3 pint yards in ten point fifteen seconds. Jack was 52 years old back then. However, the records of Jack and Lawrence were later broken in t1977 according to the publisher of the records.Lawrence's record was broken in Oxfordshire from six to just five seconds of the same amount. Jack's record was broken in Corby Town by five 5.5seconds. Many more records were featured while others were being broken. However, many law suits were filed against the Guinness Records and this led to a decision to stop featuring such records.Records have not only been made in Guinness but as well as drinking games featuring pub crawl. Pub crawl refers to drinking involving many people and many pubs whereby participants consume beer from one pub to another over the entire night. This means that the record in such competition would be set but the highest number of people who would drink from the highest number of pubs in the same night.One rule about this type of competition is that all the pubs have to be licensed. All participants should move from one pub to another. Number of drinks consumed may vary depending on the record being focused on. However, most drinks from most pubs would definitely earn the best record on drinking games. Not only do people compete for records, they as well have a chance to mix with more people thus socializing. Participants also have the chance of consuming beer from multiple pubs which is lots of fun.Not only do pub crawls involve setting records, they also involve raising funds for certain organizations or any other undertakings that require donations. Many charities such as cancer-based charities have benefited a lot from pub crawls. Pub crawls are most common within towns.