The rules are simple. The game is widely known. A revolution of the 2010 summer has begun. Just watch your back, or you might get iced.
Icing is the new game widely reported to have been started earlier this summer by members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at the College of Charleston.
TIME Magazine, The New York Times, LA Times Daily, The Washington Post, The Boston Herald and The New York Post are a few of the larger media outlets which have already written stories about the phenomenon that is sweeping the country like an ice storm.
Brosicingbros.com is a website which gives the rules of the game, pictures of the best ices and celebrity ices, and important advice on subjects such as “bro attire” and “how to deal with bitching bros.”
The game goes like this- one must present to their “bro” a Smirnoff Ice (remember, those are the overly-sugary vodka drinks with which most of us tested out the waters of drinking).
The Ice can be presented in any fashion: through hiding it, disguising it or simply handing it off, though clever and creative deliveries seem to be the most funpart of the game. Once the receiver as the Ice, they must mmediately get down on one knee and chug the ottle.
According to brosicingbros.com there are only two simple rules: you cannot refuse an Ice and you can Ice block if you have one on you to give back to the presenter.
Don’t let the overuse of the term “bro” fool you. Females have proven be amazing ice-ers too.
Adrian Lesperance, Auburn senior, committed her first icing this past week.
“I iced my friends neighbors. We put six around their house with messages on them,” said Lesperance. “I am planning to have one on me when the neighbors return this afternoon so I can block my icing,” Lesperance said.
Brandon Sapp, bartender at 17/16, just heard about the game.
”It sounds like fun! I’d like to start carrying it (at 17/16) just to do that,” said Sapp.
Haley Zoeller, Auburn senior is also currently involved in an icing war.
“I believe it’s a boys vs. girls icing in our situation,” Zoeller said. “My boyfriend found one in our cabinet but didn’t chug it, so he’s been shunned,” said Zoeller.
Caroline Trotter, Clemson senior, was lucky enough to have met the originator when visiting College of Charleston.
“I even have friends who have been iced at work,” Trotter said
Ryan Romano, senior at West Virginia plans on starting the craze at his school.
“I’ve got about seven friends who are gonna fall in love with it and then it’s not gonna be good for me,” Romano said.
Brent Jenkins, Auburn senior, has devised his own idea targeting the female population.
“I think bros icing bros is kind of sexist,” Jenkins said. “We should have something for girls that they don’t like to drink, like Diesel (original Budweiser, also called Bud Heavy),” Jenkins said.
Jenkins thought up the name chicks dieseling chicks for his idea of the female counterpart game. Who knows, maybe the next revolution will come from right here at Auburn.