1st Thomas Reinke prevailed over all attendees hardy enough to brave the unfriendly weather, finishing 4-0 +160. Thomas dealt major damage to his twin in the first round when their Collins-lexicon clash ended 511-400 in Thomas' favor. The bingo list was lengthy as Thomas got down EUSOCIAL, NOMINATE, ELEGIAC, and TOETOES#, to Charles' IMPUGNED and WURZELS. A rematch in round three was less of a bingo bonanza, with Thomas getting down a singular PETITES, but it was again Thomas' win, 404-389. Thomas similarly was able to claim victories against the club's other top players; 480-423 was his winning score against Andy Bohnsack (playing SORDINI and ORIGANUM), and against Bryan Benwitz, he reversed a recent losing streak with a 442-406 win (playing BOTTOMED and ROUSTED).

2nd Richard Lauder's strong 3-1 outing got him above .500 on the year in addition to a writeup paragraph of impeccable journalistic quality. He began his evening with a strong 392-306 win over Dennis Lloyd, finding SUNDAES to Dennis' REMOVER. Richard has now won nine of the last eleven against Dennis. In round two, Richard and his forty years of high-level Scrabble play went up against James Rollins' four weeks of high-level Scrabble play, and the result was a 361-322 win for Richard, marred by Richard's phony THEREINS* (James got down SARDINE). Richard needed no phonies to prevail in this third-round match against Andy Bohnsack, getting OPIATES in a 404-267 victory. But it all came crashing down in the fourth round as Richard's glimmering vision of a 4-0 night was stomped out of existence by the bootheel of one Charles Reinke: their game ended with a score of 235 for Richard to Charles' 489.

Dennis' creative SLAPDASH was word of the week.