The finals are coming to a close today and tomorrow at the World Series of Beer Pong.

We’re serious.

There’s a website, prize money ($50,000), and everything.

Through Jan. 5, the third annual WSOBP event is taking place at South Point. Last year’s brought in over 500 players for a $20,000 grand prize, and this year looks to be even larger.

Attracting mostly college students, beer pong is looking to get legit with teams expertly tossing ping pong balls.

Each team stands in front of a pyramid of cups. A player then throws a ping pong ball into an opponent’s cup. That ball is removed from the cup, the opponent must drink the beer, and the cup is removed.

The team to eliminate all of their opponents’ cups wins.

Did we mention the grand prize is $50,000?

Could the Cal Club, Main Street Station, and Fremont be far behind?

A shuttle bus offers free rides daily between these casinos as well as Sam’s Town about 20 minutes to the east.

All are Boyd Gaming properties, and now a letter we received from Boyd mentions the Sam’s Town players’ club “will be joining Gold Coast, The Orleans, and Suncoast.”

It just doesn’t say exactly how the clubs will combine.

Those casinos are under the Club Coast players’ club, still named after Coast Casinos, which Boyd purchased four years ago (another — South Coast — was changed to South Point and now operates under its own unique club).

Sam’s Town’s club is Prime Rewards, and it appears as if it will change over to Club Coast, presumably because it’s cheaper to convert just one casino’s club.

But what of the other downtown casinos that Boyd also owns? The California, Main Street, and Fremont are all under Players Gold after combining a few years back from individual clubs.

Confused yet?

Don’t worry. All our longwinded explanation means is you’ll soon be able to use your Sam’s Town comps and points at the Coast properties and vice versa.

And the players clubs of the downtown Boyd casinos will remain the same.

For now.

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