Why Drinking is for pleasure and not competition!

As we are all very aware, drinking alcohol has been a popular trend for many years.

For some people this has also driven a competitive desire, which is most definitely not to be recommended!

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 made 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 (no relation) 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 1971, Jack Boyle set a record of consuming 3 pint yards in 10.15seconds. Jack was 52 years old back then. However, the records of Jack and Lawrence were later broken in 1977 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 also broken in Corby Town.

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.