1st Lynda Finn (mostly) cruised through a tough field of competitors with a 3-1 +250 record and a nifty 422 per-game average. Things got off to a good start when she scored a comfortable win against Sara McLaughlin, 484-282, getting down bingos of HORSIER and CREATES while Sara was sadly held bingoless. Lynda followed that up with a pair of wins against the #1 and #2 players in the club, calmly beating Thomas Reinke 400-385 with not a trace of intimidation, and then taking down Bryan Benwitz 443-391 in a similar showing of steady Scrabble superiority. Lynda saw her bingo fortunes continue in those games as she played DIASTOLE, TEENIER, DETAILED, and BOOSTERS. Unfortunately, Lynda was not able to complete an undefeated record as she was defeated in the fourth round by Richard Lauder, 361-380.

2nd Bryan Benwitz fell a bit short of first place, but placed far ahead of third, with his 3-1 +200 record. He came away with a well-fought win in round one against Richard Lauder, where Richard's nine-letter FATTENING, supplemented by INTORTED, were equaled by Bryan's TONEARM and STOCKILY. A game against Dennis Lloyd saw Bryan deploy two more bingos (FAGGOTED and RETRIALS) to take the 422-340 win. Bryan's sole loss came in round three versus Lynda Finn, where an uncharacteristic zero-bingo game from the one known as "Bingowitz" resulted in a 391-443 loss. But the universe righted itself in the final game where Bryan prevailed in a lopsided match against Sara McLaughlin, 467-322. A small amount of good news for Sara did result from that game, as her find of COAXINGS, which drew a challenge, was chosen as word of the week.