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1st Thomas Reinke regained the top spot in the weekly standings with his unblemished 5-0 +499 record. He gained most of that spread total in a 552-247 win over Dave Kinzer where his bingos were DASYURE, CRANNOGE, DECRIALS, and WORRITS. A game against Richard Lauder was significantly closer, but still Thomas' win, 404-379. Richard had SENIORS in that one, while Thomas got EMPLANE and LAPIDATE (which was extended to the misspelled DELAPIDATE* - DILAPIDATE is the spelling that they were looking for). Thomas also strengthened his hold on top of the yearly standings with a pair of wins against his brother Charles, 463-364 and 409-390.

2nd Charles Reinke went 3-2 +464, two losses against his brother not being quite enough to prevent him from snagging second place in a smaller-than-usual field. His 390-409 loss against Thomas proved that the U is not always a horrible tile, as his bingos of GLAUCOUS and MEOUING contained three of them. Charles more than made up for those losses with a 566-288 win against Wendy Bialek, where four bingos (RAINIER, CORYBANT, DISRUPT, PIOLETS) helped him run away with it. At the same time as he was vanquishing Wendy, Charles was soundly defeating Richard Lauder, 438-281. TABETIC and CANARIES were his bingo finds there.

1st Charles Reinke brought his winning streak to nine straight thanks to a flawless 4-0 +547 performance. His first-round victory against Mark Kenas, 463-399, was actually his lowest score of the evening. In that one, his triple-triple ASTERIDS# for 131 points was able to overcome Mark's FLITTERN#, RAPTURES, and CAMELIAS. A rematch against Mark also ended in Charles' favor, 501-352, thanks in part to another high-scoring bingo, ADJURERS for 116. In the final round, a true "clash of the titans" took place as Charles, sitting at 3-0, matched up against the one other remaining 3-0 player, Bryan Benwitz. Despite the impressive pedigree of the two combatants, the clash was somewhat lopsided, as Charles won 493-354. Bryan found LIPREADS and VENETIAN, while Charles' bingo list consisted of NONOBESE, BEADSMAN, and GREENLIT.

2nd Thomas Reinke had the same win total as his brother, but the addition of a single loss to his scorecard dropped him to second place at 4-1 +486. He saved the majority of his wrath for his two Collins-lexicon games against Mark Kenas; playing a combined NINE bingos, Thomas won the games 512-329 and 539-359. His bingos were ANGELICA, FLIPSIDE#, UNROTTEN#, LENTORS#, URALITE, MANPOWER, FERRELS, DUNITES, and ASCITES. A more closely-fought victory was gained over John Bialek, 406-368. John found the gross bingo of BOOGERS, but Thomas outdid him with finds of INTONER, TENSEST, and word-of-the-week GUAIACOL. Thomas' only loss was to Bryan Benwitz, 405-433.

3rd Ron Malzer marked his third visit to our club with his first appearance in the weekly writeup, finishing at 3-1 +214 with a hefty 408 per-game average. His best game was a 462-349 smackdown of Dennis Lloyd where the bingo battle (POSTURE for Ron, LISTERS for Dennis) clearly doesn't tell the whole story. Ron followed that up with another large win, this one against Sara McLaughlin, 439-329. That one also saw each player get exactly one bingo: Ron's LANCETS and Sara's MOTIONED. Like Thomas above, Ron's only defeat was at the hand of Bryan Benwitz, 338-452.

1st Charles Reinke flourished with an unblemished 4-0 +478 record. Things almost went wrong for him in a round-one matchup against Dennis Lloyd, but in the end he squeaked out victory, 396-384. A more comfortable winning margin was established against Richard Lauder as Charles won that one easily, 488-328, thanks to finds of ARTISTRY, FRIVOLED, and INDICANS (Richard had COUNTRY as his sole bingo). Charles' other two victories were a pair of 500-point games against Mark Kenas, 500-369 and 521-346. The bingo-finding part of Charles' brain proved to be in good working order as he found a combined seven bingos in those two games: SNIDIER#, INTINES, REPOSALS, SOGGIEST, LANNERET, CALIBRED, and TRENCHER.

2nd Thomas Reinke made yet another top-three appearance with his 4-1 +400 final record. Fifteen total bingos in his five games feels like it could be some sort of personal record for Thomas, but this writer does not have the inclination to find out for sure. Thomas dropped a whopping five bingos when defeating Richard Lauder 560-397: MISRATED, TOGGLED, AUBRIETA, VOCATIVE, and ENVISION. No word on whether VOCATIVE was ever hooked to make EVOCATIVE. Slightly less impressive (but still very impressive) was his 496-378 over Bryan Benwitz where he got four bonus plays: RETAKES, BONNIER, OXIDASE, and PLEONASM. It wasn't all good news for Thomas as he did suffer one loss, that being 395-459 to Mark Kenas.

3rd Lynda Finn continued her recent streak of strong performances (and writeup appearances!) with a 3-1 +273 finish. Her best game came against Wendy Bialek, 476-336, thanks to finds of ANGULOSE and INCHERS. She also did quite well against Helen Flores, holding her opponent to no bingos in a 460-305 win. Lynda's bingos there were PLANETS, REROUTE, and INDUCTS, all for exactly 70 points (cue spooky music). Her single loss was against John Bialek, 322-352. She played the game's only bingo, ESTATES, but John proved that bingos are strictly optional when attempting to win a game of Scrabble.

4th John Bialek went 3-1 but his smaller spread of +21 kept him out of the top three. Still, a strong performance from one of our newest members!