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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

1st Charles Reinke romped in the absence of other top experts, going 5-0 +584 and gaining a small amount of ground in the yearly standings; however, the marginal gains were not nearly enough to overtake his brother, who remains six percentage points ahead of him. Charles opened the night with a slugfest against Richard Lauder, a slugfest which he eventually won, 507-395. This was despite Richard's four bingos of BOWLINGS, REPEATS, HOODIEST, and REELINGS. Charles supplied three bingos of his own: CREDITOR, OUTBIDS, and PEONISM. Another big win was scored against Helen Flores, whom Charles defeated by a score of 488-306. Helen found DENIERS to avert total disaster, while Charles had LAITANCE and OLEFINE.

2nd Dennis Lloyd went 3-2 -40, with a final record that could accurately be termed "three and Charles". Of Dennis' two losses to Charles, the second one was closer, but still not all that close, with a final 357-434 tally. Dennis got down FATTIES and GRANULE in that one, while their first matchup saw Dennis held sadly bingoless. The second round of the evening was particularly generous to Dennis as he played a two-on-one and won both. The big win was a 369-274 matchup against Sue Goldstein, a game in which neither player bingoed, but Dennis' 388-319 triumph over Richard Lauder was also a substantive supplier of much-sought-after spread points. Dennis' bingos there were SEEDING and REFINES, the latter for 98 big points.

Richard's OSMOSIS, played against Helen Flores, was word of the week.