1st Bryan Benwitz went 3-0 with a dominant point spread of 403, resurfacing the eternal philosophical question of whether 3-0 is a better record than 4-1 (the site doesn't seem to think so). He punished Richard Lauder in round one, 407-283, getting a 90-point ANTISAG to propel him to victory. After that point, Bryan's scoring skyrocketed as he found AIRWOMEN, UNPLAYED, BRETHREN, and SANDLIKE for a conclusive 524-300 win over Dennis Lloyd. For the final game of his abbreviated session, Bryan encountered Charles Reinke in a fireworks-filled game (insert July 4th joke here) that ended in Bryan's favor, 504-449. Charles actually outbingoed Bryan, getting DANDIES, FELLATOR, AIRWAVE, and RIVAGES to Bryan's CHAUFERS, OUTEATEN, and OUTFABLE, but it wasn't enough. Bryan has now won six of seven against Charles, a (presumably) rare feat.
2nd Thomas Reinke came back from a week off to go 4-1 +160, although it wasn't really a week off given his attendance at the July 4th tourney in Albany, New York. He kicked things off with a two-on-one match against Dave Kinzer and Chani Katz: while he was able to dispatch Dave by a score of 433-392, he lost to Chani 428-432, giving the second-time visitor a rare Reinke win that she can take back home and cherish. Thomas may have a significant amount of time to plot revenge before Chani is able to make it back to our club. Thomas started his comeback tour with a round two win against James Rollins, 396-335, getting TRESTLE and REINCITE vs. James' COMELIER. He then downed Andy Bohnsack in a tight 380-368 game where each of the two-a-game bingoers was limited to one bingo: TESTIER for Thomas, MUNTINS for Andy. Thomas was allowed to switch to the Collins lexicon for the last game, repelling Charles Reinke 438-388 with bingos of OESTRUAL and the always-useful-(but-only-for-Collins-players) DOUANIER#.
3rd Steve Hartsman got in some good practice games for the upcoming Scrabble Players' Championship in Cedar Rapids, Iowa as he went 3-1 +196. He barely got past James Rollins in round one, winning 371-369 with an 80-point SORBITOL being his sole bingo (the higher-probability SORBITAN might come up more often). A 375-437 loss to Charles Reinke followed; Steve found out that playing only one bingo (CITADELS) isn't always sufficient. Regaining his momentum, Steve pulverized Dave Kinzer in their third-round matchup, 455-274, getting the high-probability sevens of ELOINER and BONIEST. The night ended with a 423-348 win against Chani Katz, where Steve got down ANESTRI and SETTLING.
| Thomas Reinke | 4-1 +160 |
| Bryan Benwitz | 3-0 +403 |
| Steve Hartsman | 3-1 +196 |
| Andy Bohnsack | 3-2 +307 |
| Charles Reinke | 2-2 +11 |
| Dennis Lloyd | 2-2 -129 |
| Chani Katz | 2-2 -189 |
| David Kinzer | 1-2 -85 |
| Richard Lauder | 1-3 -336 |
| Carol Ormand | 0-2 -134 |
| James Rollins | 0-4 -204 |
| Aaron Bader | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 458 | 397 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Beth Amos | 100 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 383 | 350 | 5 | 1.67 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Thomas Reinke | 72.5 | 116 | 44 | 0 | 447 | 391 | 379 | 2.37 | 6 | 1.6 | 20 |
| Bryan Benwitz | 69 | 78 | 35 | 0 | 429 | 378 | 237 | 2.1 | 4 | 1.7 | 0 |
| Charles Reinke | 65.1 | 105 | 56 | 1 | 444 | 400 | 364 | 2.25 | 5 | 1.4 | 22 |
| Steve Hartsman | 61.1 | 70 | 44 | 3 | 415 | 387 | 202 | 1.73 | 13 | 6.4 | 5 |
| Andy Bohnsack | 60.6 | 80 | 52 | 0 | 429 | 390 | 281 | 2.13 | 12 | 4.3 | 16 |
| Sara McLaughlin | 58.3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 384 | 390 | 15 | 1.25 | 2 | 13.3 | 0 |
| William Barfuss | 50 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 406 | 420 | 7 | 1.75 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Howard Pistol | 50 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 400 | 395 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 12.5 | 0 |
| Dennis Lloyd | 45 | 43 | 53 | 4 | 374 | 384 | 124 | 1.24 | 3 | 2.4 | 4 |
| Ed Nawrocki | 45 | 27 | 33 | 0 | 374 | 382 | 82 | 1.37 | 1 | 1.2 | 0 |
| Lynda Finn | 43.8 | 35 | 45 | 1 | 377 | 399 | 102 | 1.26 | 8 | 7.8 | 7 |
| James Rollins | 43.8 | 24 | 31 | 1 | 380 | 391 | 90 | 1.61 | 1 | 1.1 | 0 |
| David Kinzer | 42.9 | 39 | 52 | 0 | 366 | 385 | 81 | 0.89 | 4 | 4.9 | 0 |
| Mark Kenas | 40.8 | 31 | 45 | 0 | 430 | 449 | 156 | 2.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Blake DeSwarte | 40 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 326 | 355 | 6 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ron Malzer | 40 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 366 | 418 | 18 | 0.9 | 2 | 11.1 | 0 |
| Richard Lauder | 39.7 | 57 | 87 | 1 | 367 | 402 | 227 | 1.57 | 15 | 6.6 | 3 |
| John Bialek | 36.8 | 28 | 48 | 0 | 353 | 389 | 50 | 0.66 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Alex Vacharat | 33.3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 346 | 364 | 2 | 0.67 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lloyd | 33.3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 365 | 399 | 1 | 0.33 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Carol Ormand | 32.6 | 15 | 31 | 0 | 337 | 369 | 41 | 0.89 | 1 | 2.4 | 0 |
| Helen Flores | 32.2 | 33 | 70 | 1 | 348 | 407 | 82 | 0.79 | 4 | 4.9 | 1 |
| Chani Katz | 28.6 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 360 | 411 | 8 | 1.14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dora Kilburn | 21.4 | 6 | 22 | 0 | 300 | 376 | 16 | 0.57 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Loden | 20 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 273 | 313 | 1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mike Edwards | 10 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 303 | 384 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lynn McDonald | 8.7 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 259 | 359 | 1 | 0.04 | 1 | 100 | 0 |
| Kelsey Stanczak | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 262 | 436 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jennifer Tibbetts | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 309 | 390 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jake W | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 238 | 373 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bingos| Charles Reinke | 11 | DOGTAIL ORATIONS POLARITY SATIATE CROONING DANDIES FELLATOR AIRWAVE RIVAGES DEATHIER
BESHOUT |
| Andy Bohnsack | 10 | AIRDATE ANGSTED NAUSEATE FILTERED CRADLING ENTRAILS MUNTINS TESSERA CAREENER PETUNIA
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| Thomas Reinke | 9 | CESTODES SUNCARE ELEGIES GLANDERS TRESTLE REINCITE TESTIER OESTRUAL DOUANIER |
| Bryan Benwitz | 8 | ANTISAG AIRWOMEN UNPLAYED BRETHREN SANDLIKE CHAUFERS OUTEATEN OUTFABLE |
| Steve Hartsman | 6 | SORBITOL CITADELS ELOINER BONIEST ANESTRI SETTLING |
| Dennis Lloyd | 5 | TRIBUTE DERISION STORAGE TOSTONE MINORED |
| Chani Katz | 5 | SENATOR ASTATINE WANNEST LOITERED INSECTS |
| Richard Lauder | 5 | TUNICATE REASONED ANTIRED ENTERONS REGALIA |
| James Rollins | 4 | REZONED COMELIER IODATING INDENTS |
| Carol Ormand | 2 | GLACIER SOLVING |
| David Kinzer | 1 | TARRIES |
| 30-Sep: Scrabble at Covenant Church | 7-Oct: Scrabble at Covenant Church | 14-Oct: Scrabble at Covenant Church | 21-Oct: Scrabble at Misty Mountain Games |
