Culture - A shot of beer / cider every minute for 100 minutes: any good? (Centurion)

[Mammon]

A friend of mine came back from Canada and said they do this: 100 shots, one a minute, and said we should give it a go. I assume a shot is 25ml and the beer is 5%.

Questions:

1.) Have you done it?

2.) Is it any good? I.e. is it a nice way to get drunk?

3.) How drunk does it get you?

To be honest I'm doubtful if this is a worthwhile way to drink, but I'd like to hear about peoples' experiences.

[Bajeda]

This is the extended version of the "Power Hour", where you generally would have a mix made of one minute excerpts of songs and drink a shot glass full of beer each time the song changes.

Power Hours are ok, but sometimes you get funny feelings in your stomach and possibly have trouble with excessive belching or hiccups from taking so many consecutive shots. Regular drinking (or even chugging) is easier and feels better so far as your body is concerned.

If you do a 100 minute round you will probably be feeling fairly nice by the end of it, maybe somewhat drunk depending on your tolerance.

One shot = 44.36ml

One avg. can of beer = 12 fluid ounces = 354.84ml

100 * 44.36ml = 4436ml / 354.84ml = 12.5 cans of beer (approximately)


So this could get you a bit tipsy or it could get you fairly rambunctious, depending on weight, tolerance, how much you ate that night, etc.

Also, you should keep in mind that I used the North American measurement for beer cans, and where you are the can sizes may vary and you may have a different understanding of how drunk so many cans of beer would get you (plus you'd have to change the calculations a bit).

I guess Power Hours are worth trying (though without the music its pretty boring / annoying to keep checking the time), but they aren't especially great. My kitty never was especially enamoured of them, and would rather play other drinking games if he is going to drink in an atypical manner.

[chiggyman]

From experience this normally leads to quite drunken times, although it depends on how big a "shot" is (it changes whether in the UK or America.)

Generally we just agree to take a mouthfull, then you can slightly adjust it depending on your body size or alcohol tolerance.

It does get a bit boring though constantly clock watching, tbh i'd think of better drinking games, or just enjoy yourself and have more of a party, not just a sit down and drink.

This basically just re itterates what was said above.

[Bajeda]

Originally Posted by chiggyman

It does get a bit boring though constantly clock watching, tbh i'd think of better drinking games, or just enjoy yourself and have more of a party, not just a sit down and drink.

I can't imagine trying to do this without a specially prepared music mix or something else to help you tell the time. I would easily get bored to shit and just start chugging after not too long of trying to look at the clock every minute or so to know when to drink. Way too tedious.

[Rattle]

In the UK we call it a Centurion.
Quite popular with us students, not everyone can handle it

[Mammon]

One shot = 44.36ml

That's quite a shot in U.K. terms where a shot is 25ml. I see what you mean about the mix tape. Otherwise I guess you just sit there with a stop watch, drinking on the minute beat. That sounds shit.

Now I think of it, I'm not really much of a fan of drinking games at all these days. Is there actually a good one?

[Rattle]

Nah it's something you do as a group so the fun is in waiting and then all taking a shot together.
Eventually those that can't handle it drop out and you're left with the remaining survivors.

Try it out next time you have shit all to do

[Potter]

Nobody's rather confused on this "strategy" talk, why not just drink what you want, when you want, until your good? This doesn't even have some sort of game aspect to it. Maybe nobody is getting old...

[marek_gen]

in Holland they made a sport out of it "coma zuipen"

its a drinking competition were people drink as much alcohol as possible in a short amount of time, mostly till someone goes knockout

[Bajeda]

Originally Posted by marek_gen

in Holland they made a sport out of it "coma zuipen"

its a drinking competition were people drink as much alcohol as possible in a short amount of time, mostly till someone goes knockout

That sounds completely different from what this thread is talking about.

[Mammon]

people drink as much alcohol as possible in a short amount of time, mostly till someone goes knockout

Sounds like my local.

[Nature Boy]

Originally Posted by Jamal

Questions:

1.) Have you done it?

2.) Is it any good? I.e. is it a nice way to get drunk?

3.) How drunk does it get you?

1) Yes.

2) It's a bit of fun if you're willing.

3) To a seasoned drinker, it isn't unbearable. The bloated feeling is a lot tougher to deal with than the actual intoxication.

[cra$h]

since shots are usually 1oz, then that would be 60oz of beer in an hour, which is 5 beers. would probably get you goin' pretty good considering how fast you're drinkin, but swim's never timed how fast he's drank, and just chilled with his drink, no matter the type. but to make a game out of it you could go every minute with a couple friends, and the person who lasts the longest wins.

[davestate]

Originally Posted by Rattle

In the UK we call it a Centurion.
Quite popular with us students, not everyone can handle it

That's exactly it! Good times

Originally Posted by Jamal

That's quite a shot in U.K. terms where a shot is 25ml. I see what you mean about the mix tape. Otherwise I guess you just sit there with a stop watch, drinking on the minute beat. That sounds shit.

Now I think of it, I'm not really much of a fan of drinking games at all these days. Is there actually a good one?

A shot in Northern Ireland is 35mL and costs the same as mainland GB

We would use wine, peach or coconut shnapps or strong cider, and not do a shot, but a mouthful, basically a tall glass had to be gone in 4mins, ie 4gulps.

[Wierd Logic]

Centurion. I am one, but it was a very very bad idea indeed.

[.-Surly-.]

I did this once.. Only with Micky Finns and various other spirits after that had ran out. I'm not sure what it would be like with beer, but the version we played was horrible. I'm very competative, and had to win, mind you.
Got up to 45 shots. It was unpleasent, I was comatose by 9pm, waking up now and again to vomit heartily. Not good.
So yeah, just a warning. I wouldn't reccomend doing it with spirits and stuff. Just beer. But then I couldn't see it being more pleasurable than having just a sit down drink... Unless there was some sort of prize for the winner =D

[doublezero]

swims friends used to play 'heres some cheers son' sit in a circle, make a couple of joints, for every 3 people use a can of beer/cider whatever. take a sip and pass it to the left and say heres some, the next person says cheers son, pass the joint round, keep opening new beers to refresh the empty ones and get pissed (pissed in english means drunk)

[Lettish]

Swim thinks it is quite a fun game, though there are many rules. The correct way to do it is ban players from urinating or vomiting, or they lose. Though when Swim did it, it is much more enjoyable if you let people urinate at least, then they have to play catch up when they return.

Swiy will swallow a lot of air so expect to feel bloated and burping a lot. Swim managed 196 shots, just 4 away from the double centurian (in the UK it's The Centurian Challenge), before throwing up into and filling a 4-pint pitcher. Swim's sibling managed over 200.

[AlbonSmythe]

Hi, SWIM proposed doing a "centurian" this evening to his friends - i.e. 100 shots of beer in 100 minutes. They'll probably use Stella or something strong-ish, which I worked out at about 13-14 units of alcohol in 1 hr 40 mins.

swim's friend looked up 'centurian' on wikipedia and mentioned loads of regional variation, such doing a shot of vodka for every "nth" shot, or doing a shot of beer a minute until an entire 24-pack is consumed, or doing all the shots wine or vodka etc etc you get the point. what are other people's experiences with centurian?

[Jatelka]

I have to say, I find the slew of "Competitive Drinking" threads recently rather tiresome

And I can't say "UTFSE" because you spelled it wrongly, and so wouldn't have found the existing thread!

Merged

[motorhead]

In my parts they call this game 'The Century Club'. Yes it can be boring at first, but once people start getting intoxicated the minutes pass very quickly! Insert hardcore rules of taking 2 shots if you don't drink exactly on the minute, and a mandatory beer chug for bathroom breaks, and people can get sloshed very quickly indeed.

In reference to Jatelka's post I agree that on a forum that stresses safety and information sharing alot of discussion about a subject that may seem 'juvenile', or have no real informative value, can get repetitive fast. However all work and no play make swimmers very boring indeed, and although such activities are usually done by the younger College year masses, It can be fun for older members to reminice and share stories of their 'wilder' days.

After all story telling and alcohol consumption go hand in hand. And the history and culture of drinking games-and lets face it they are all pretty much competetive in nature-date back to many years before Christ, in both eastern and western societies.

Cheers!

[podge]

Power hour can be great fun, its not competetive at all, at worst if someone cant hack the full 60 minutes they will get heckled a bit for fun, its more about battling through the minutes with friends instead of trying to out do anyone. Usually better to have a beer or two before playing to get the stomach prepared , i agree the bloated feeling is worse than the actual intoxication. About 2 litres an hour can can be rough on the stomach if a swimmer is used of drinking slowly/slower.

[ziek]

Always seemed to take to long. Usually SWIM and friends end up switching to a hard spirtit at 60-70.

[pwfb28]

Swim and his friends do this all the time up in VT. We call it the century club. It's a step up from the power hour (shot a minute for an hour). It gets you drunker than you'd think. Swim did a two hour power hour and was pretty fucked up. It worked out to be like 11 1/2 beers and two hours.

There's an app from iTunes that changes the song every minute, swim just uses that and watchs the Celtics game for example and just drinks as it goes on.

It doesn't come off to swim as a good drinking game, but as a very good was to get trashed with minimum effort.

[0utrider]

SWIM loves doing power hours as a pre-party starer, but usally stops at the half time max.. he does the "normal" one hour max. never more than that.
the problem for him is the amount of fluid that gets into his belly, he usually prefers to drink "hard stuff" in 40/60 mixes, but.. this one IS nice. better & more timesaving than most drinking-games that take ages for people to get drunk or they get wasted immediately. this is a good balance.