TRY SAYING POLYNYI THREE TIMES FAST
1st Thomas Reinke averaged one win per game, going 4-0 +371. He prevailed in a low-scoring game against Lynda, 353-327, playing FENTHION (per Wikipedia: an organothiophosphate [break out your Super Scrabble boards!] insecticide) against Lynda's FLANNELS. His scoring picked up in the second game, as he dropped 518 on a not-happy Helen, with his bingos being REGRATED, STICKIER, and RAVINING. Thomas' third-round matchup against Bryan was close until the end, when Bryan drew a horrid combination of V's, W's, and Q's and was unable to shed them from his rack in time. I thought QI was supposed to fix this? In the fourth round, against Eternal Foe Charles, he overcame an early 100-point deficit (caused by Charles' CHAINSAW for 110) to win by 100, 517-414. EUROLAND (n. the area formed by countries using the euro, apparently not capitalized?) started the comeback, followed by the phony JESTERED*, ANISOLE, and ATRAZINE.
2nd Bryan Benwitz played a really cool word, which pretty much overshadows his other accomplishments of the night. He went 3-1 +390, but who even cares? He won his first game, against Betty, 446-304 by playing BURNOUT and SAUTEED, then beat Gail 417-318 with the aid of VERITES (n. VERITE, the technique of filming so as to convey candid realism, and here I was thinking it was a chemical compound or something). His late-game clunkers sunk him against Thomas, but he recovered quickly in the fourth round. Very quickly, as his opening play was a natural (as in, no blanks) POLYNYI! POLYNYI is the plural of POLYNYA, a loanword from Russian meaning "an area of open water surrounded by sea ice". Lynda had no choice but to challenge; can't let people play random strings of letters all willy-nilly like that, but it was good, and Bryan rode this advantage to 525-333 win.
3rd Charles Reinke got out-bingoed in every game, but still cruised to a 3-1 +128 record on the back of his 468 average. He beat Helen in the first round 488-410, despite getting outbingoed 3-2. In his next game, he beat Aaron 467-402 despite getting outbingoed 3-2. Against Gail, he won 502-414 despite getting outbinoed 3-1. And, in the final round, his bingo deficit finally caught up with him, as he got outbingoed 4-2 and lost. The above paragraph looks pretty weird until you realize that I'm trying to get Miriam-Webster to put OUTBINGO* in the next dictionary update and they really wanted some citations. Here's your darn citations, you stodgy lexicographers!
| Intermediates |
| Bingos | ||
| Thomas Reinke | 10 | FENTHION REGRATED STICKIER RAVINING BREAKUPS POSTERN EUROLAND ANISOLE ATRAZINE jestered |
| Aaron Bader | 9 | BULLDOZE SWEATED THINKERS VICTORIA CURTAILER FILIATES HOLIEST STANDERS leuconic |
| Bryan Benwitz | 8 | BURNOUT SAUTEED VERITES CISTERNS POLYNYI SIPHONED VAMOSING REPANELS |
| Charles Reinke | 7 | SPALTED OCTAVES BIOGENS TALESMEN SOOTIER CHAINSAW DOTTIER |
| Gail Salm | 7 | REEFIEST CRIMSON LISTENS VILLAGES CREATINS LEASINGS RESITING(3x3) |
| Lynda Finn | 6 | FLANNELS AVIATOR FASTENS CURIOSA RELOCATE veeriest |
| Helen Flores | 5 | SONNETS QUEENING DOWRIES SHUNTED SWANKED |
| Betty Hasselkus | 4 | EYESORE TURBANS unwires weedings |
| Mary Becker | 4 | STRIVES MOLDIEST ROUSTED VALIDATE |
| $4 Prizes | |||
| Prize | Player | Word | Score |
| High Games | |
| 525 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 518 | Thomas Reinke |
| 517 | Thomas Reinke |
| 502 | Charles Reinke |
| 496 | Aaron Bader |
| Most bingos/game | |
| 3 | Aaron Bader |
| 2.5 | Thomas Reinke |
| 2 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 1.75 | Charles Reinke |
| 1.75 | Gail Salm |
| High Average Bingo Score | |
| 88 | Gail Salm |
| 81 | Helen Flores |
| 80 | Charles Reinke |
| 78 | Thomas Reinke |
| 77 | Aaron Bader |
| High Averages | |
| 468 | Charles Reinke |
| 450 | Aaron Bader |
| 450 | Thomas Reinke |
| 439 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 417 | Gail Salm |
| Low Opponent Averages | |
| 342 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 357 | Thomas Reinke |
| 369 | Betty Hasselkus |
| 378 | Gail Salm |
| 393 | Mary Becker |
| High Scoring Bingos | ||
| 131 | RESITING | Gail Salm |
| 110 | THINKERS | Aaron Bader |
| 110 | CHAINSAW | Charles Reinke |
| 102 | CRIMSON | Gail Salm |
| 98 | jestered | Thomas Reinke |
| Session Averages | |
| Avg. Game Score | 396 |
| Avg. Intermediate Score | 0 |
| Avg. Expert Score | 396 |
| Avg. Winning Score | 450 |
| Avg. Losing Score | 343 |
| Avg. Bingo Score | 77 |
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