Five Point Five Brewing Co.

El Segundo

Thursday: 7PM

Latest Game: 5/7/26

Recap for Five Point Five Brewining Company

Well. That escalated quickly.

Tonight wasn’t trivia so much as an arms race. Three teams cracked 90, somebody dropped a casual 98, and the scoreboard spent the entire second half looking like it had been inflated by crypto investors.

And standing at the top of the mountain was Like A Deck of Cards (052), who absolutely detonated the field with a ridiculous 98-point performance.

They came out hot immediately with 16 in the opening rounds, stayed consistent all night, then hit the nitro boost late with a 20-point Round 6, a 12 in Round 7, and a full-send 20-point wager. High score of the week...so far!

Sex Panther (041) somehow put up 96 and still lost by two. That’s brutal. They matched the late-game dominance almost point for point with 20s in both Round 6 and the wager, plus another 12 in Round 7. On almost any other night, that score wins comfortably. Tonight it gets the silver medal and emotional damage.

Tipsy Dick (012) also cleared 90 because apparently everyone at the top table collectively lost their minds. Their game was absurdly steady: 21 after Round 3, 49 after Round 5, 69 after Round 6, then 81 before the final wager. The only thing stopping them from winning was the fact that two other teams decided to become trivia cyborgs at the exact same time.

Casual Encounters (032) finished with 77 and somehow looked normal by comparison, which tells you everything you need to know about this scoreboard. Their 20-point wager gave them a strong finish, but tonight the podium required “small lottery jackpot” levels of scoring.

DaNile (069) deserves serious respect for recovering from a miserable 4-point start. They clawed all the way back with a huge Round 3, solid middle rounds, and a 20-point wager to land at 71. That’s one of the better comeback stories of the night.

Burnsides may have had the strangest trajectory on the board. They started with what looked like a typo, slowly climbed into relevance, then suddenly exploded for 18 in Round 5 and a 20-point wager to finish at 69. (Nice!) That’s the trivia equivalent of showing up 45 minutes late and still making the group photo.

Beach Cats (085) quietly put together another solid performance with 68. No disasters, no panic, just steady scoring across every round and a smart 15-point wager to close strong.

D&M feat. Julian took the “why be careful?” approach and slammed in a full 20-point wager to jump from 46 to 66. Aggressive? Yes. Reckless? Also yes. Effective? Yes again!

Quiz Khalifa hung around all night before a strong final push landed them at 65, while Del Boca Vista Phase 2 (023) used a gigantic wager to rescue themselves from the mid-30s and finish with 56.

Then there was Grilled Cheese Off The Radiator, who may have invented an entirely new statistical category tonight. They started with 16 after two rounds, then immediately forgot how trivia works for the next two rounds, recovered just enough to survive, and finally hurled a 15-point wager at the board like a folding chair at a wrestling match.

And finally, Yo-yo lived up to the name by bouncing around the scoreboard all night before settling at 35. No wager, no chaos, just vibes.

In the end, Like A Deck of Cards didn’t just win. They survived one of the most absurd top-table shootouts Five Point Five has seen in a while and walked away one bucket short of triple digits. That’s not a trivia win. That’s a heat check!

Great game all!

1st Place: Like a Deck of Cards

2nd Place: Sex Panther

3rd Place: Tipsy Dick