The 2025 San Francisco Bar Trivia Open Tournament
July 16, 2025 until September 17, 2025
El Lopo Presents: The 2025 San Francisco Bar Trivia Open Tournament
(or the “Lopo Trivia Open” for short)
Qualifying will run Wednesdays July 16-August 13, with a double elimination tournament starting August 20. The winner will be crowned September 17, and will receive a 50% bonus to all their trivia winnings for the rest of the year!
Prizes
First place in the tournament: 50% bonus to all trivia winnings for the remainder of 2025. That means that instead of the usual two porrons a day for 1st / $20 certificate for 2nd / $10 certificate for 3rd at regular trivia nights, your team will be able to win three porrons a day / $30 / $15 every time for the rest of the year. And if the tournament winner ever gets last place at a regular trivia night, we'll let them pick two topics for the following week!
Qualification
There are 2 ways to qualify. Either:
Play trivia at El Lopo on a Wednesday from July 16 to August 13.
Your team will earn qualification points based on your position if you finish in the top 5 (1st place = 5 points, 5th place = 1 point).
The “Lopo bracket” will be filled in by the top teams at the end of this five week qualification period.
ORWin trivia at one of our partner bars: The Red Tail (either location), Fishbowl Bar & Grill, The Beer Hall, O’Reilly’s Pub, Danny Coyle. You’ll get a coupon for $10 off for your order at El Lopo on a non-Wednesday, and if you redeem that, you’ll automatically get a seeding in the “Polo bracket”.
You may do both for a chance at a higher seeding in the tournament.
Gameplay
During the entire tournament, trivia will remain the same. Tournament points will be assigned separately from the game points.
You are welcome to change your team name week-to-week, but you’ll need to settle on one team name for tournament purposes.
Prizes will still be given as normal, and then tournament prizes awarded.
During qualifying, your team can be up to 8 people as usual.
Once tournament play begins, you’ll need to identify a team of up to 5 players with two alternates. Only they will be able to play for your team in the tournament.
Regular Lopo trivia power-ups can be used to benefit you in tournament play, but Super Special Tournament Power-ups (SSTPs) can only be used for tournament point benefit.
As usual, one regular Lopo power-up can be played per round, and
One SSTP can be played per game.
Super Special Tournament Power-Ups (SSTPs)
Come to El Lopo on a non-Wednesday to get regular game power-ups, and a chance for one of these:
(Sunday) Double Trouble: Your tournament score will be doubled. You can’t get less than 2 tournament points, no matter where you score.
(Monday) Climb the Ladder: Automatically finish one position higher at the end of the game, pushing the team ahead of you down one.
The latest this can be played is at the end of the third round.
(Tuesday) Sherryoke Star: Sing two songs at sherryoke Tuesday night to get this, which gives you 2 tournament points no matter where you finish.
(Thursday) Blue Shell: Whoever finishes in first place tonight (even if it’s you) will get 0 points in the tournament.
The latest this can be played is at the end of the third round.
(Friday) Roll the Bones: Sacrifice your tournament points for the game, and roll a die to get your score for the night.
The latest this can be played is at the end of the second round.
(Saturday) Pity Point: Automatically get one tournament point.
