John Schollmeyer keeps winning at the brewery nobody else wins at

56 Brewing in northeast Minneapolis is the smallest room on the Minnesota tournament circuit by volume. Most of the players in the 2026 top 25 have been there fewer than ten times and half of them fewer than five.

John Schollmeyer has eight visits and two wins, including the 43-player Monthly Progressive Strikes in February 2026, which is the biggest field he has ever taken.

He is twentieth in the standings on 121.80 points from a full twenty-event calendar.

The record

• 106 tracked tournaments, six outright wins plus two shared firsts, 21 podiums
• 809 games, a 37% win rate in the 75th percentile
• 157 machines on file
• 22 consecutive months with an entry, a streak still running

A 37% game win rate and an average finish in the 68th percentile put him in the middle of this list on ability. The 22-month streak and the full twenty-event calendar put him at twentieth in the standings.

Six rooms

His best average finish, 2.11, comes at 56 Brewing across eight visits, better than his 2.17 at Northstar where he has played 60 times. Twenty-five firsts from 66 games in a room he barely visits.

Small samples move, but two wins and a 2.11 average in the same place is a pattern rather than a coincidence.

Wins

Four wins in fields of 34 or more, none of them at his busiest venue. He also shared the top of qualifying at NPC Friday Night in April and again in May, both four-way ties.

The second half of 2025 was his best run: three of those wins landed between July and August.

Matchups

The hundred-game record with Tvedt is his deepest and sits at 45%. He is comfortably ahead of Mutchler, ranked fifteen places above him, over 48 games.

The names that hurt: Adam Turgeson at 1-8, Luke Nahorniak at 6-26-1, David Marcis at 2-11-2, Eric Fryc at 2-10-2, Alex Huth at 2-6, and Keith Hanson at 12-28.

Six opponents with a combined 25-89 against him. When Schollmeyer draws a strong group he does not usually escape it, which is the other half of the story behind a 37% win rate.

Machines

Thirty-three games of Iron Maiden at 69.1% is the one with real depth: 17 firsts, nine seconds, five thirds, two fourths. Nothing else on his list passes fifteen games.

His weak spots:

• The Getaway: High Speed II, 0.305 over 10 games, a 26% win rate
• Road Kings, 0.335 over 8 games
• Mars Trek, 0.362 over 8 games
• King Kong: Myth of Terror Island, 0.380 over 8 games

Ten games of The Getaway at 26% is the steepest. King Kong is interesting because two players ranked well above him, Skochinski and Hammond, both have it near the top of their lists at 86%.

Form

Slightly cold at 50% against a 55% baseline. His most recent tracked result is from mid-August at the Broken Clock 3-Strike.

If you draw him

The Getaway: High Speed II is the pick. Road Kings, Mars Trek or King Kong after that, all of which sit under 0.40.

Keep him off Iron Maiden, where 33 games say he knows exactly what he is doing. And if you are playing at 56 Brewing, treat him as the favorite whatever the standings say.

The scouting report does the version of this that accounts for your own record. The rest of the 2026 top 25 is here.