1st Thomas Reinke repeated as weekly champion with his 4-1 +392 record, a feat that is becoming so common that he probably doesn't even feel joy when it happens. His per-game average of 488 points was also clearly tops among all players. Thomas started off in exciting fashion when his game against Mark Kenas fell just four points short of the vaunted "1000 combined" mark, with the final being 521-475 in Thomas' favor. Mark found bingos of ALLEDGED#, DICTATED, and MISWRITE, but was matched every step of the way by Thomas' ARTICLES, MANROPES, and FONDUES. A round three rematch saw Thomas suffer a rare defeat, with Mark prevailing 466-430. In that one, Thomas again bingoed thrice (ACEDIAS, DEALATE, and METAPLOT#), while Mark was limited to two bingos of NONACIDES and BETONIES. At the same time as that game was occurring, Thomas beat his brother Charles 456-410, thanks to finds of FLAVONOL, FOETIDER#, and TAWNIER. The first-place finish was secured when Thomas whomped Lynda Finn, 556-336, this time dishing out four bonus plays: TANDOORI, UNSERVED, COINAGE, and INSPECT.

2nd Richard Lauder overcame somewhat adverse levels of ambient noise in the playing area to finish 3-1 +103. He got his singular loss out of the way early when he was felled in round one by none other than Helen Flores, 308-347. That was the only game where Richard was held bingoless, while Helen got down REDDENS and DELATION. Richard followed that up with two well-contested wins against Margie Van Handel (352-336) and Sara McLaughlin (369-321). Each of those games saw one bingo from Richard: KAOLINES against Margie and PINTADAS against Sara. However, it was obvious that Richard was just saving up all his scoring power for the final game, woe betide his unsuspecting fourth round opponent. In the end, it was Bryan Benwitz who received the full might of Richard's built-up power, as Richard played four bingos (SAUTOIRE, CARBINE, HOUNDER, and GENITAL) en route to a 484-406 win.

3rd Bryan Benwitz topped a group of four players at 2-2, all with negative spreads, with his 2-2 -60 final tally. Things got off to a good start with a 408-392 win against Charles Reinke, aided by bingos of SEICENTO and BEDWARFS. However, that was immediately followed by a less successful Reinke match, this one ending 479-353 in Thomas' favor despite Bryan's high-prob bingos of NEGATES and TERTIAN. Bryan's best game was a solid 440-322 win over Lynda Finn, where a large chunk of his score (140 points of it, to be exact) came from his triple-triple bingo of PATENTED. A high-flying 406-484 loss to Richard Lauder in the final round sadly nuked Bryan's spread into the negatives.