So, if you were out last week you might have thought we were all going to Vegas, but we’re still here! You missed a really fun night, where the staff won free beer, the psychologist and the massage therapist (not even a joke) took some much needed pity money, and those who tried to leave before the game even started actually won the night.

First off, let’s get out bad answers out of the way: Globo-Thermocom didn’t invent the microchip, Benjamin Moore (and all his fabulous colors) didn’t sign the Declaration of Independence, and Foreigner doesn’t actually have a “four” in their name (and I’m not too sure they’re in the Hall of Fame).

So my boy Tom on team Below Me scored 4 points over 3 rounds (that might be the lowest score for playing the whole game I’ve ever seen) but he still got some free beer out of me.  Team Wasted Talent showed up for the third round and might have been a force to reckon with if they had gotten there earlier.  The Two Chicks Behind Me (see above reference) picked up the 2nd place cert.  How good s it to be on staff? The bar team of Two Girls, 1 Cup (or Team Suck It, or Buckle Shufflers) won the first round, and lost the third in a tie breaker.  That means the Packers (of all kinds that I promised Katie I wouldn’t mention here) won the 2nd round, 3rd in the tie breaker and the night.

The PBR’s almost fall from the sky at Brix (and we’ve even got Key Lime vodka if you dare). Next week kids!

If that’s not cryptic I don’t know what is, but we said goodbye to Eric as he left for Vegas on Sunday night and with Dr. Richard Kimbal in attendance the night was only bound to be crazy. No fewer than 9 teams battled for evening supremacy, PBR’s, and cold hard bar tabs, in what turned out to be a pretty lively game.

So, no one knew anything about the Cubs, and really, who cares (no offense to our writers!)  In one of the best twists of the night, Erics team: Ramrod was bettered in the first round by Anabell and Taylor (the two girls whose combined age couldn’t have been more than 17).

Team US sputtered to a halt after their almost too surprising tie-breaker answer for Venice, and team Megan never really got off the ground.

That leaves us with 5 other teams fighting for beer, that’s right beer!  Props to Hoof Hearted for the best team of the night (always enjoy that name being shouted over the mic). I thought Team Cesspoolwas going to pull out the third round, but a major team brain fart left them just a point out of the suds.

The fugitive old man at the bar, team Jool Z by Dick missed the money by a point, but won the third all to his own. Team Festivus took second (without any round wins). But, the night belonged to our resident staff team of Metro Cool Waves with 2 round wins and the nightly.

The bar is packed, the food is hot, the PBR flows freely (almost). Print it up and your first one is one me kids.  You can’t kick off your week any better than this.

Wow!  We had an incredible showing at Brix–nine teams played at least part of the game, and seven finished.

A remarkably tight contest ensued, in which five teams all finished within five points of first place, and two teams tied with the high score for the evening.

Starz and Kate/Dan had to take off after the first round, but they were sorely missed.

Kiss were a bit inebriated, and I blame their rough finish on that.  I may have mis-scored It’s Business Time, since they gave me a different team name for every answer in the first round, but they’ll know the next time.

You’ve Got Mail, sitting at the bar with me, were on their first date, but managed to keep their minds on the trivia until well into the third round, a feat I’m not sure I could have accomplished.

Corkscrews and The Greatest Team in the World … Tribute arrived together as a single large team, but split up into a twin-engine trivia powerhouse–both finished just out of the running for the prizes, and Greatest won the second round.

Team Hope won the first round but fell off a bit in the second round, leading me to think they were all hat and no cattle.  But they roared back in the third round, finishing it in a tie with Our Shirts Are Blue (who quietly racked up points throughout the  evening, and then ran away with round three) for the big prizes.  Shirts won the tiebreaker and took home the big gift certificate; Hope took home second place.

Next week, Matt will be back, we’ll be saying goodbye to Eric the bartender (who is off to Las Vegas), and you should go, because this is a great venue for trivia.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!  This update should’ve gone up two days ago, but with the holidays and all…

I had a great time filling in at Brix on Sunday.  When I walked in, everybody looked very intent on their dinners and drinks, but by the time trivia started, everybody in the bar was playing.

We had an incredibly tight game, with four of the six teams all separated by a single point–Team Nairobi, Team Club Eclipse, Wolff (our round-two PBR winners), and amazing latecomers J2–who showed up four questions into round two and still finished third overall for the night.

The lovely and talented Tasha and Dawn, a.k.a. P.O.B., looked discouraged after the second round–and it was a tough set of questions, no doubt–but they finished the night in second place, taking home $20 in gift certificates and the third-round PBRs.

But nobody could catch Team 1, who ran away with the first round (scoring 50% of the total points for EVERYBODY in that round) and coasted to a five-point win, earning $25 in bar cash, a round of PBRs, and your humble quizmaster’s undying admiration.

Hope to see you all again next week.

Week #2 and EVERYONE in the bar, including the substitute bartender Willy played along.  I guess you’ve just got to be prepared for what we’re handing down.  And a shameless plug for my boys: Got Junk?

Anyway, The bar started out a bit rowdy with the players wanting to get going even before there was anyone in the house.  Relax guys, we’ll get your ass kicked in the scores soon enough.  So, after getting introduced to Steven Segal and Vinny Bagadoughnuts, we were off…

Kickin ass and takin’ names in the first round was Khaki and Creamy.  The second round belonged to Stuckler and Buck Chuckles(or Chronic and Bluntman [or Chronic and Chronic]), but only in a tie breaker with team Kill.

Thanks to team Nigae~ for showing us the casual racist in all of us. Team Junk put up a fight but proved that age doesn’t necessarily bring wisdom.  Team A & M (new boyfriend and girlfriend who broke up that night) showed that the recent college grads don’t know much more.

Anyway, with a tie to end round #3 and the game; Khaki and Creamypulled both out with a beatdown on team Kill and Stuckler and Buck Chuckles.

PBR’s all night long, how can you end a weekend any better? Check us out for the next two weeks as our newest host Josh slides in to take my place while I’m on vacation…

Well, if you haven’t looked at the calendar recently I’m sure you missed that we’ve got a new Sunday location at Brix in Cherry Creek. Laid back, good food and drink, what a great way to end your weekend or start your week. Bartender Eric is about as trivia involved as I’ve seen at any bar.  Good times.  So, come check us out: 7:30ish every Sunday. Plus, I can promise I’ll be through working out the technical difficulties in the next 6 or 7 weeks.

Anyway, 5 teams kicked off our inaugural night and it didn’t take long to get right into some sort of rhythm: I yell a question, they complain about how hard it is (and then get it right), we all do shots (well, not every question at least). Plus, the “Blog o Shame” got some great answers right off the bat: If you’ve ever seen Mystic River you know that Ace Ventura was not the other cop (how can you forget the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon?). No matter what map you look at Pennsylvania does NOT border Colorado. Garfield doesn’t eat Pot Pies. And, my favorite, while Gonzo blew the trumpet, Kermit’s assistant wasn’t “That muppet with Jim Henson’s hand up his ass”. 

So, we had 5 teams to start and 4 fought to the finish.  Thanks to the ladies from Oppyheads (representing my home of upstate New York). Next week you’ll have to lay off the ole’ vino before the game then you can finish out.  Team Tinfoil walked in the door and got my first free drink of the night by missing the tie breaker by only 1 year. Team Superbutt (or Festivus depending on who you asked) had the best worst answers of the night, and maybe the past couple of months.

In any event, the night boiled down to two teams who pulled answers out of who knows where and it came down to the last question of the night. The Fighting Spartans won round #1 handily but, the night belonged to Ebony & Ivory who round round #2, round #3 by one point and the night by one point.  Great job even if you don’t know your NBA.

Seriously though (yeah right, in my blog?) If you’re looking for some trivia on Sunday, Brix is the place to be. See you all next week.