Champions Bars At Nc State - Raleigh

Great place to take a drink after work and relax with fun people. The staff is amazing and makes most of the good parts of the atmosphere. Karaoke Night is a great place to bring friends, and they create a lot of fun to have older and/or obscure music out there. Great people, fun, bring friends!

Love this place and the staff is incredible they're fast efficient and definitely know how to give great service. By far my favorite bartender is Kristy she is always full of energy and has a real passion for this place. I definitely will recommend this place to everyone and I myself will be back

I’ve been going to Champs for years! I really love this bar. Danny and Ryan have been very consistent with their service with me, even though Ryan is relatively new. However, I have had recurring problems with Kris. Kris has been working at Champs for about a year now, give or take. She has consistently messed up my drink orders or delayed service by passing me over for customers she knows better. On the most recent occasion, I ordered a Jägerbomb, which was on the specials menu. This should be a very consistent and simple drink to make. You can’t really go wrong with a half glass of red bull and a shot of Jäger on the side. Kris served me a rocks glass with a one ounce measure of Jäger and topped the glass up with Redbull out of the soda gun. I looked at her and told her that that was not what I ordered, and I would have ordered Jäger mixed with RedBull instead. She told me they didn’t have shot glasses so this was the way she could make it. Then served me another rocks glass full of red bull. I went in two days later and ordered a Jägerbomb from Ryan and lo and behold he brought me a half glass of RedBull with a brown shot glass of Jägermeister on the side. This might not seem like much, even though it is my freshest memory of my experience with her. But combined with putting other people’s drinks on my tab, being ignored at the bar for 15+ minutes while holding an empty beer glass and Kris talking to a regular next to me, overcharging my group of friends for pool games, and generally just being inconsistent with service to a large group of people, it adds up. I still go to Champions and take my business there because of the other excellent bartenders. However, I now try my best to avoid being served by Kris so there will be no further issues on my tabs.

Absolute rip off, we ordered $21 worth of drinks but somehow my bank account was charged for $34. There were signs that said if you took the merchant copy receipt your card would be charged 20% gratuity, well I never got a copy of any of the receipts. The bartender would take the card and immediately hand it back with no receipt. Besides that 20% would have been like $25, not $34. Beyond this illegal, cash grabbing scheme, you can be charged for everything in this place. FIVE DOLLARS A PERSON PER HOUR FOR POOL, I mean that is outrageous. It would explain why when walked in only one other person was in the bar. This place is full of dirty tables and broken/torn furniture. AVOID at all costs... or pay cash.

Rude bartenders last night, except for the guy he is always solid. They served me a bad beer and told me it was the law to charge me for it. Its not the law to charge me for a bad beer that I couldn't drink. This was the first time I've never tipped, which was very hard for me to do, because I'm a bartender. Skunked beer happens, don't charge people for it though. Owner needs help with this place, those bartenders are not it.