1st Bryan Benwitz came very close to averaging 500 for the session, his 498 per-game average propelling him to a clean sweep, 4-0 +515. In a first-round battle between club nos. 1 and 2, Bryan vanquished Charles Reinke, 442-429, with bingo finds of QUAVERS and CENTROID. Immediately thrust into a game against the other Reinke, Bryan again got the win, playing GARNERED, RATIFIES, and STRIVEN for a 475-422 final score (Thomas had SHENDING and UNAFRAID). Bryan continued to pile on the bingos in roundthree as he played four of them (GARROTED, OVERSTEP, NOTIFIED, PTOMAINS) to take down Lynda Finn in a high-scoring 541-422 contest. The worrying trend of Bryan showing absolutely no mercy whatsoever towards his Scrabble opponents showed no signs of abating in the final round; in fact, Bryan's ruthless tendencies only seemed to grow in intensity as he smashed Richard Lauder 534-204 to take undisputed first place in the weekly standings. OVERLAIN, BEHEADS, and AIRFARES were his bingos there.

2nd Charles Reinke averaged a nice 491 points per game, finishing 4-1 +423. He got his singular loss out of the way early in the night when he was defeated by Bryan Benwitz 429-442; luckily, this loss was, via the unexplained magic of two-on-one games, balanced out by a 459-364 win vs. Helen Flores where Charles had LOONIER, RETAINER, and SINUSOID. Charles' regularly-scheduled two-game match against Mark Kenas was an unqualified success as Charles ran away with both games, 544-331 and 540-371. Six bingos were played by Charles in those two games: SEDATELY, DUELIST, MISDOING, DUALISE, SNIFTER, and the rarely-seen VOCALIC. The fourth win on Charles' scorecard was a 481-422 bout against Andy Bohnsack, where Charles prevailed despite being outbingoed two (WISPIER, SANDBURR) to three (COMMUNE, NATURISM, ATAVIST).

3rd Thomas Reinke came back from an atypical 1-4 performance last week to go 3-2 +321. A 445-355 win against Mark Kenas started him off right, with Thomas finding REORIENT and RAMRODS to Mark's ENSEALS#. Sadly, losing to Bryan Benwitz 422-475 in round two put to rest Thomas' aspirations for an undefeated night. In round three, Thomas played a two-on-one and split the pair, doing well against Sara McLaughlin, 475-301, but losing a close one to Mark, 454-461. Mark played some relatively normal words (at least by his standards) with TRIBADE, TENABLE, and DOSSIER, while Thomas found PEONAGE and CLICHED, to add to the bingos of INDAMINE, HORRIDLY, and GOOSIER that he had against Sara. Thomas ended with a 459-342 win against late arrival Dennis Lloyd.