So your with your friends in your rent apartments Washington DC and you’re wanting to go out for some drinks, but don’t really want to just sit around a bar. Well you’re in luck, because for the last part of our series on sport & social leagues we’ll be shifting our focusing from sports with social aspects (after game drinks) to social gatherings with “sport” aspects. Now we’re calling these “sports” mostly because they don’t really require a whole lot of athleticism, not that that’s a bad thing.
While there are a lot of social clubs in Washington DC, almost too many to list, we’ll be looking at United Social Sports (USS) because they offer great league play games centered, mostly, around the bar.
Like many social sport groups the main purpose of USS is to bring people together to have fun doing various activities that anyone can do. Apart from fun events that are always coming up, USS has several sports offered in the DC League:
Taking the classic Skee-Ball arcade game and turning it into a tournament style social league, this is the largest social sport offered, with 6 Chapters meeting on different days and at various bars across the city.
This ancient game is finally beginning to take hold in the US as evident in its inclusion by USS. Only one chapter is set up for Bocce and it’s played over in Walter Pierce Park every Thursday.
A bar favorite, which reached the height of its popularity in the 1950’s where tournaments of several hundred teams weren’t unheard of. Currently there is one chapter playing at Iron Horse Tap Room on Tuesday nights.
Played both indoors and outdoors, cornhole has a mysterious past, but has grown into a favorite drinking game in the past two decades. An indoor chapter and outdoor chapter have been set up, so you can either pick your favorite or try both.
All Chapters start the next season of play in the last week of July which will go until September.
To register for a chapter or if you’re interested in finding upcoming events, such as the scavenger hunt coming up on the 31st, check out the DC League website.
