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1st Bryan Benwitz sent his spread into the stratosphere with a 4-0 +676 record. His nine bingos and 485 per-game average were also best among all players. He started off strong in round one by getting his highest score of the year, 592 to Richard Lauder's 362. Somehow this mammoth difference in scores was achieved despite each player getting exactly three bingos: BEDDINGS, MANLIKE, and ANORETIC for Richard, INWEAVED, UPROARS, and LOGNGINGS for Bryan. Another huge score was achieved against Helen Flores, where Bryan won 539-338. Another three bingos were on order in that one: HOARSEN, ERECTING, and INCUSES. Bryan secured his undefeated record in the final round when he prevailed over Charles Reinke in a low-scoring affair, 360-336, thanks to a bingo of ACIDOSIS.

2nd Lynda Finn went 3-1 with an anomalous -68 spread. All of her victories were quite close, the closest being a round one upset over Thomas Reinke, 373-365. Lynda's bingo finds of SADIRON and FEASTING were clearly helpful in securing victory and snapping Thomas' five-game winning streak against her. She got down two more bingos (GUITARS and COTTAGED) in a 402-385 win against Dennis Lloyd, who got ORANGIER. Her success in finding bingos continued against Charles Reinke, where she played ADMIRAL and NAIVETE, but this proved not to be enough as Charles handed her her only loss of the night, 345-456. His bingos were DIVERGE and OUTRAVES.

3rd Thomas Reinke continued the trend of finishing well while having a negative spread, as evidenced by his 3-2 -117 record. A devastating round two loss to Mark Kenas all but guaranteed that his point spread would never again get into positive digits. The 280-609 drubbing saw Thomas get down one bingo, NARGILES, while Mark cruised with four such plays: HEATERS, ENDITED, TOILETRY, and BEVOMITS, the last of which scoring 120 points. Thomas got his revenge later in the night, besting Mark 427-354, but he would have needed to win by a lot more than that to rescue his spread. A 443-206 triumph over Sara McLaughlin, buoyed by bingos of PINIONED, ESCAPER, and SINTERED, did help Thomas' cause.

Bingo of the week was Charles Reinke's 9-letter find of SENSITIVE, awarded because even common words are hard to find when they're nine letters long.

1st Thomas Reinke put on another display of dominance with a 5-0 +359 record. A first-round win against Charles Reinke, 498-462, got him off to a good start, and bingos of NUDENESS, GASTRAL, and TORTIES# were quick confirmation that his word-finding would be on point for the rest of the night. That victory was followed up by a fruitful two-on-one excursion where Thomas prevailed over both Bryan Benwitz (430-318) and Helen Flores (453-310). His scoring dipped a little bit in a 381-343 win over Sara McLaughlin (his COMAKERS going toe-to-to with Sara's URANIUMS), but Thomas regained his scoring mojo for the final round, a high-scoring rematch against Charles where he won 520-490. Both players bingoed three times in that one: TRIPLIES#, AURICLES, and VOLITIVE for Charles, DISPONED#, EJECTION, and a nine-letter OUTSWEARS for Thomas.

2nd Sara McLaughlin punched well above her weight with a hefty 411 per-game average on her way to a 3-1 +63 finish. All three of her wins saw her score above the 400-point barrier, with her loss to Thomas Reinke (described above) being the only exception. She started off with a 406-364 win against Lynda Finn, her first win against Lynda in six attmepts. Seventy points for OUTLOVES was needed there. That was followed up with a well-fought 451-427 victory versus Richard Lauder which saw Sara up her bingo output, getting down REJOINED and COSINES to Richard's PALTERS. Sara secured her second-place finish with another closely-contested game, 443-408 against Bryan Benwitz. SHOWMEN for 112 points, in addition to GROANING for 83, proved to be the necessary ammunition to topple the Bryaniac.

3rd Lynda Finn snuck into third with a 3-2 +200 record and a 426 average which keeps her well above the 400-point mark for the year. Both her losses came in round one, as the law of odd numbers forced her into a two-on-one match where she lost both, 363-451 vs. Richard Lauder and 364-406 vs. Sara McLaughlin. There was a noted improvement in round two as she clobbered Charles Reinke 517-408, although her scoresheet was blemished by a phony OUTCLEAN* to go with valid bingos of IGNORES and ETERNITY. Anybody tempted to try OUTCLEAN* in the future should first consider whether finding a spot for CLEANOUT might be a better idea. Charles, meanwhile, phonied with ALRIGHTY* in the same game. Against Helen Flores in the final round, Lynda escaped from a tenuous endgame to achieve victory, 433-415, despite being outbingoed by her opponent, who got REVISOR and TEENIEST while Lynda had just ETOILES.

1st Thomas Reinke bingoed 11 times and did not face a game below 400 points on his way to a pack-leading 4-1 +323 finish. He barely escaped with victory in the first round when he toppled Mark Kenas, 454-453 in a Collins-lexicon showdown. Mark, amazingly, scored his 453 points without the aid of a bingo, while Thomas had three: ARMOIRES, ZOONITES#, and AGITABLE. A later rematch proved to be Thomas' only defeat of the evening, where another trio of bingos (ANYTIME, LATIGOS, and REBODIES) could not prevent Mark from taking a 465-425 win. Thomas' high-water mark was a 475-306 win against Helen Flores, where Helen's find of COMPLETE as countered by Thomas' BOSSIER and RELEARNT.

2nd Dennis Lloyd came agonizingly close to the mythical 5-0 record, but lost a game in the final round to leave his record at (a still quite respectable) 4-1 +156. Of particular note was his ultra-low-scoring 295-276 win against Dave Kinzer, where neither player bingoed. This writer's unsubstantiated speculation is that the board must have been significantly and irrecoverably blocked through the actions of one or both players. Still, it counts as a win for Dennis in the yearly standings, which is all that matters in the end. A game against Charles Reinke was significantly higher-scoring, ending 467-411 in Dennis' favor thanks to plays of INTERNS and NODULES (Charles had RAIDERS and FILAREES). However, perfection was denied by Sara McLaughlin, who conquered Dennis in round four as part of a two-on-one, 419-349.

3rd Bryan Benwitz finished at 3-1 with a healthy +364 point differential. Much of that point differential came in round one, where he held a one-man demolition derby against Sara McLaughlin, winning 540-282. That dazzling point total was achieved with just two bingos, PERMEASE and REATTACH. Bryan also scored big against Charles Reinke, beating him 457-375, this time with three bingos: MOUNTED, CONCERT, and IOLITES (no word on whether CONCERT was ever hooked to make CONCERTO or CONCERTI). Success of players surnamed Benwitz against players surnamed Reinke was not universal, however, as Bryan was downed by Thomas Reinke, 354-410, despite a 96-point play of RANCHES.

Dennis' spectacular nine-letter, two-blank find of MIDDLEMAN against Lynda Finn was word of the week. Also of note was Charles' insane score of 649 against Mark Kenas, who scored respectably well with 392 points of his own. In the course of this 600+ point game, Charles recorded the club's fifth-ever six-bingo game (at least since modern statskeeping began in 2011), playing APOGEIC, WEARIEST, RABBETS, HEPTANE, ASININE, and the 122-point triple-triple of ROTTENER.