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1st Thomas Reinke started the new club season in the same way he ended the last one, in first place, this time with a 3-1 +376 final tally and a 478 average game score. His high score of the night was against Helen Flores, 512-275, thanks to bingo finds of ANISETTE and SILVEXES (SILVEX is a type of herbicide, so has the conventional -ES plural, not the -ICES plural seen in words like INDEX->INDICES or SCOLEX->SCOLICES). Helen found RESITES in her losing effort. Thomas' only loss of the evening came against Mark Kenas, a high-scoring affair (typical of the international Collins dictionary) which ended in a score of 474-516. A nice nine-letter bingo of IMITATIVE was the jewel in Thomas' crown, but Mark was on a bingo spree of his own with SCROUGES, FRENULAR, and a 111-point DOWNSIZE.

2nd Mark Kenas achieved a 3-1 +221 record, those three wins being a somewhat rare feat given that his choice of dictionary dooms him to playing the Reinkes and nobody else. Spreading bingos across the board like a majestic peacock, Mark easily handled Charles Reinke in round one, winning 553-411. Seven total bingos were played in the game, five of them Mark's: BORNITE, SIENNAS, TRAGICAL, LAKESIDE, and NAEVOID. Charles got down SPURTED and FORESAW. A second matchup against Charles ended in much the same result: Mark's win, 432-343, with Collins-only bingos of BEDRITE# and PORLOCK#. Mark's loss came against Thomas Reinke, 431-483. Thomas played the snazzy double-Z bingo of SNAZZIER in that one, but failed to invoke the little-known rule that any play made with two Z's automatically scores 500 points and instantly ends the game. (That was a joke and there is no such rule, but your friends and family don't know that if you want to try it out on them.)

1st Thomas Reinke finished up the club season with a masterful 4-1 +539 performance. A series of Collins-lexicon games against Mark Kenas went well for Thomas, as he went 3-1 against the wily multiple-decade Scrabble veteran. The best of those games was in round one, where Thomas prevailed by a score of 548 to 329, thanks to bingos of DIORITES, STANNIC, AGGRIEVE, and BEMOILED#. The single game he lost, he lost just barely, with Mark beating him 447-443. Mark played NONTITLE and word of the week BODYSURF, while Thomas got down SERVITOR and GRATINEE.

2nd Richard Lauder also closed out the season with a strong outing, going 4-1 with a smaller +157 cumulative spread. Richard saved his best game for last, taking down Helen Flores 440-371 with bingos of UNITARD, ANALYSE, and NESTABLE. Helen had STUPIDER as her only bingo, a word which describes itself. Richard's spread took a massive hit when he faced off against Thomas Reinke and fared poorly, losing 277-427 despite a bingo of VOLTAGE.

With a 73.7% winning percentage and an average game score of 452, Thomas Reinke was club champion for the second straight year. Charles Reinke, winning 69.1% of his games and averaging 450, was second place, while Bryan Benwitz at 60.8% wins and a 427 average, was third. Here's hoping for a 2023 with bountiful bingos for all and not too many IUUW draws.

1st Thanks to the fickle whims of a rather flexible pairing methodology, Charles Reinke managed to play a total of six games across four rounds, and capitalized on the opportunity by going 5-1 +476. He also scored above 500 in four of his six games. Two of those 500+ games happened in the first round, when he defeated Richard Lauder 510-321 while simultaneously besting Helen Flores 507-329. However, his victory over Richard was marred by the phony FUNNELER*, a word whose eminent plausibility saved it from too much scrutiny. Charles' single loss was against Mark Kenas, 367-519, a game where a paucity of bonus plays (zero of them, to be exact) was acutely felt in the face of Mark's VAUNCING#, ADHESION, ARMORIES, and HELICOPT. Even worse, the loss made Charles hungry for Chipotle, which is the anagram of HELICOPT.

2nd Thomas Reinke also was afforded the chance to play six games, but he didn't make the most of it, going 3-3 -65. He lost both of his matches against his brother Charles, the first being an impressive display of word-fueled firepower that resulted in a combined score of 1081 points, a record for this year. Thomas had three bingos of ALIENISM, OXIDATE, and HANDIEST, but Charles got down LAZIEST, ZOOECIUM, WAGONER, and CORPSED# to take a 576-505 victory. Thomas bounced back in the following game, recovering some of his lost spread points with a decisive 503-286 victory over Helen Flores. Helen had a sole bingo of HERDING, while Thomas had RETAINED and VESTURAL. Despite the second-place finish, Thomas appears to be a shoo-in for the club championship with his 73.5% winning percentage