Get ready for the Radio Hauraki World Series of Kiwipong

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The Alternative Cricket Commentary will warm up for summer by leading the call on the Radio Hauraki World Series of Kiwipong this weekend.

This year's event, held at the Auckland Town Hall, will host 600 competitors to make it the largest of its kind in Australasia. Winners will also take home $10,000, the prize one of the largest in amateur sport in New Zealand.

Entries to the event opened in August and were filled within two weeks with over 120 teams on the back list. There are plans to double the size of the competition next year to accommodate more competitors.

Teams will compete in pool play. The winners from each pool advance to the top 64 knock out rounds where they also face last year's winners - 'Let's Get Topical' - together with winners from Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch events.

Unlike traditional Beerpong, cups are filled with water. The focus is all about the sport and while teams may enjoy a quiet wakachangi between rounds that is it in terms of drinking.

Such is the seriousness of the competition and the prize on offer, teams prepare months out from the event.

This year event organisers have allowed room for more spectators, with action starting from Saturday, 12pm.

There is an opportunity for all attendees to win $1,000 in the Golden Cup promotion. Attendees will all be given a ping pong ball and have a chance to throw the ball from the stands into the golden cup situated in the middle of the Town Hall.

In previous years, winners of the event have then gone on to represent New Zealand at the World Series on Las Vegas, where international teams compete for a prize pool of up to US $100,000.

The event will be livestreamed on Facebook with commentary from the ACC.