Baby Duck Challenge

Chug two liters of ice-cold Baby Duck as fast as possible. Burping allowed, but discouraged.

Mike: One evening, James was drinking a bottle of Baby Duck (perhaps among other wares) while we sat around playing Halo 3. I (Mike) had no drinks, and he kindly offered to share the Duck with me. Before he handed it over, he took a nice long pull of it straight from the bottle. I did the same, and handed it back. He took another. I took another. We kept going and finished the entire 1.5 litre bottle in a matter of minutes.

That was a fun night, as we discovered how it feels to slowly get more and more drunk without even doing anything, as the cheap champagne slowly soaks into your system after drinking so much so quickly. It was the night of the oft-referenced "I Fought the Turrets" song that spontaneously broke out during Halo.

A week or so later, I arrived at the place and was shown the fridge, which was full of bottles of Baby Duck. A new activity had been decided: to determine who could drink a bottle of Duck, unaided at 1.5 litres, the fastest. A timer was used and all contestants would begin at the same moment, but there were no rules beyond those.

Puking was common. Cheap champagne has carbonation for days, and when you drink it that fast you're doing strange and wonderful things to the body. Burping was unprecedented. They were the sorts of burps that made you sound like the Balrog Gandalf killed, as he was smote. If the "slowly gets you drunk" effect was in full display when James and I shared a bottle, it was throttled to 11 those nights. Graham was the all-time record holder. I don't know the time he hit, but surely it will never be broken by man nor beast. It was compared to the time it would take to simply pour the drink into a garbage can. **Further research has confirmed that Grimbadule eventually finished a bottle of Baby Duck in 2:14. The next closest time in recorded history was 19.5 minutes, by Alex on the infamous night of the move into the Dickhouse. He puked his guts up that night.

The Gauntlet typically followed a Duck race, and was grueling in and of itself.

Chris: This also spawned the phrase: "0mph to drunk in less than a minute" and "I can feel myself getting drunk". Since you were likely finished your champagne bottle very quickly you would sit there and go through all the stages between sober and hammered drunk very quickly. One could process these feelings back-to-back and really make sense of it all.

See also: Gauntlet