Kiwis are ground-breakers. We were first up Everest, we split the atom, and now we may just beat the world in the peculiar sport of ''beer pong''.

Beer pong is the sport, born out of a drinking game, of throwing a ping pong ball into a paper cup from increasingly-harder distances. But a couple of Wellingtonians have taken it to extreme ends.

This ''ambitious beer pong trick shot compilation'' starts with Harry Wright and Jonny Fletcher in a flat, bouncing the ball off surfaces including the microwave, and ends with an incredible shot from the top of a parking building into a cup seven storeys below.

The parking building shot was the hardest yet and was the first time they thought they wouldn't get the shot, Wright said.

After six hours of trying, with fading light and dying camera batteries, Fletcher ''nailed'' the shot.

''We are pretty happy with the end result and I promise you - no trick photography is used at all (we aren't that good with cameras) what you see is all legit,'' Wright said.

''When I say ambitious, I mean we literally would have spent hundreds of hours in the flat or scaling buildings around Wellington throwing table tennis balls into cups - pointless to a large degree we know.''

The project started about a year ago but was not finished when, a couple of weeks ago, they saw an advertisement for the ESPN's Trick Shot Your Way to NBA.

''When we saw it we just decided to commit, get it done and hopefully win a sweet trip to New York for our troubles.''

Wright said the game started when he was recovering from a shoulder injury and had nothing to do.



Since Stuff posted the video today they have been approached with offers to promote it to worldwide networks. But they weren't sure competition rules would allow that.



Fletcher said they would have each spent more than 100 hours shooting the video and finding premium spots.

"We would find a spot and thought it would be a good idea. Once you found a shot you couldn't shake it.



"You had to get that shot."



One shot behind San Francisco Bath House on Cuba St took seven sessions, each one stopped when the camera batteries ran out.



When they finally got it, Fletcher's laptop with the footage was stolen so they had to go back and reshoot.

The video has not been independently verified but the competition stipulates all shots have to be genuine.

The winner of the competition wins two tickets to New York, seats at an NBA game in New York and the chance to meet NBA player Jalen Rose.

Online voting ends on November 29. The top five videos then go before a judging panel.