Fourth in the Drink Off series and hot on the heels of loosening lockdown restrictions, it was our chance to escape! But from what? From covid (fat chance!) from the city (dream on!) or from consciousness (now you’re talking!). Only time would tell…
Whatever our destination, we needed some drinking tourney ground rules… a bunch of in-game forfeits and missions that were easy to understand even when half-cut…
Forfeits apply if a player gets carded, scores a duff goal, or concedes a penalty. A mission might be to commit a foul without incurring a penalty/freekick or score in-off the woodwork or a kick-off lob. If a player fails their mission they take a hit or if both players achieve their mission, then the watching player takes the hit. There was no escape but the great escape!
Gone in 60 Seconds
Beer in one hand, joystick in the other, we contrived a warm up challenge whereby each player went head to head with the keeper in a rapid fire 60 seconds. Who would score the most?
First up Gaz made a strong 4-goal start, Ste next struggled with just the single goal before he notched up a respectable hat-trick. This was only the first of three rounds but we all knew more was possible. Feeling confident Gaz was flying high with 5 goals when, as the final seconds ticked down, he launched a last-gasp kick off lob…. it couldn’t could it, it bloody well did… one hundred and eighty! SIX was surely unbeatable, or was it? Despite valiant efforts by Ste and Si, Gaz took this title but knew it was downhill from here haha, while Ste took the first shot of the mystery wizard’s spirit with a mesmerising swirling concoction of god knows what!
Gaz 4, 6, 3
Ste 1, 4, 3
Si 3, 5, 3
Game on, Drink on!
The opener Si vs Ste sure set the tone! 10 goals, 7 forfeits, even spectactor Gaz took a hit . And with the player’s mission to take down their opponent without the ref seeing, the risk of a card forfeit was high. And so it was for Si and maybe the beginning of a trend for the host with most (forfeits haha). Not to be outdone, Si v Gaz provided a 9 -goal , 5-forfeit thriller, despite the even tougher challenge of getting away with a foul in the box. Yet Si somehow managed it! Things slowed with Ste v Gaz, partly due to the Lock-out meister reverting to type but only for tactical reasons… honest! Not that it worked, and both players failed the challenge of leading the keeper of the pitch via a narrow angle goal…
And so the night continued in a blur of incident, forfeit and god damn tasty pizza with a deadly selection of shorts, liquers and beers. Reality as we knew it gradually transformed and and life was good. And even for the inevitable sore heads the morning after, there was a plan – the mighty mixed grill breakfast fit for a competitive eater haha, and man, that was challenge we were more than ready for.
What the Forfeit!?
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