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1st Thomas Reinke claimed undisputed first place with hia 4-1 +495 record. He got off to a rousing start with a 556-317 win against Mark Kenas. Mark's ill-fated play of the expurgated ABO didn't help his cause, and neither did Thomas' bingos of UNFILED# (somehow not good in the American wordlist), SHARPER, and GENOMES. The one blemish on Thomas' otherwise immaculate scoresheet came in round three when he found himself in a two-on-one against Peter Schmiedicke and Sara McLaughlin. He dispatched Peter with some effort, winning 449-423, but was handily defeated by Sara, 414-471. Sara had three bingos of TENDERS, LAUNDERS, and DROOPIER, while Thomas just had AGNATES. This is Sara's second lifetime win against Thomas, while she has not yet managed to defeat the other one.

2nd Peter Schmiedicke went 3-2 +254 to snag second place over a clump of players with 2-2 records. He had a whopping 330 points of spread after the first round where he defeated both Helen Flores (415-356) and Richard Lauder (594-323). That winning score of 594 is Peter's highest in his decade-long club career, and it was achieved with just three bingos: UNCHOSEN, LADRONES, and SIENITE. Peter's second-highest scoring club game, 584, was also against Richard back in 2016, so maybe there's some bad blood there. After defeating Sara McLaughlin in a sad, bingoless 341-332 affair, Peter ran into back to back Reinkes and lost both games, leaving his final record as "three and Reinke".

3rd Aaron Bader made his first club appearance since March 2020 (right before You Know What happened), and performed commendably, going 2-2 +84 against a field comprised solely of strong Collins experts and definitively proving that he still knows how to play Scrabble at a more than adequate level. He defeated Charles Reinke 454-378 with the help of bingos CRISTAE and AMORINI, while Charles had ETERNAL and AERADIOS, in a game that once again demonstrated the astounding utility of high-probability bingos. Aaron's second win came against Mark Kenas, 467-408, with bingos of ANHINGA and REINDUCE (Mark had RODINGS# and TRAILING). But a rematch was less favorable for Aaron, as Mark bested him in a low-scoring (by Collins standards anyway) 379-408 match.

Of note was Charles Reinke's 689 points scored against Helen Flores, a new high game for him at club and the fourth-highest score recorded since modern statkeeping began in 2011 (Thomas owns the three highest scores, including the only 700+ game of 739, although there are two 700+ games pre-2011). Charles' bingos in his 689-point game were FLOUTERS, SOREHEADS, BLOWZIER, INCITER, PYRENOID, and TRIUNITY. His six bingos also ties a club record, achieved on three separate occasions by, you guessed it, Thomas Reinke.

1st Charles Reinke went a perfect 4-0 +432, becoming the first player to go undefeated in a session since Peter Schmiedicke did it on May 18. Charles' merciless style of play was on display early as he whomped the returning Richard Lauder by a score of 533-312, getting bingos of MAGNETO, ENQUIRY, DELATED, and IBOGAINE. Richard had not played a club game since December 2019, so playing Charles in the first round was a good reminder of the brutal realities of Scrabble club. Switching his skills to the internationally-adopted Collins dictionary, Charles defeated Mark Kenas in a pair of games, 419-396 and 501-377. In the latter game, Charles had URANITIC, AEONIAN, and FUSIBLY, while Mark had READOUTS and PEARLITE. All of those words are good in the American lexicon, so such players will have no need to purge any of those words out of their head after having read them.

2nd Thomas Reinke went 3-2 +244, a 60% winning percentage that looks pretty good until you check the yearly stats to find that Thomas has won roughly 70% of this games so far this year. Thomas's two losses came at the veteran hand of Mark Kenas, 424-483 in the first and a crushingly close 458-460 in the second. But Thomas made up ground against all his non-Mark opponents, the biggest of those wins being 492-259 against Helen Flores. Thomas played DEALATE, SUBLEASE, and ARMCHAIR for big scores in that one. Thomas also snagged a 442-424 win versus Peter Schmiedicke, despite getting outbingoed three to two: ONLOADED and UNBOLTS for Thomas, IMPRINT, ANTIMALE, and STONIER for Peter.

3rd Dennis Lloyd pulled off the rare feat of coming in third place with a 2-2 record, finishing 2-2 +21. After losing his first two games against Thomas Reinke (363-417) and Richard Lauder (358-374), Dennis forced fortune to deal him a better hand, and finished off the night with two wins. He downed Sara McLaughlin 404-375 despite Sara's very appropriate bingo of WORDIER - while bonus points were indeed awarded to Sara for the Scrabbliness of the word, she found that bonus points cannot actually be redeemed for actual points that count towards one's final score. Dennis then unleashed some bingoey wrath on Helen Flores by playing three of them (SANDERS, CARIBOUS, and SCARIER) en route to a 431-369 win.

1st Mark Kenas went 3-1 +290 to snag first place, continuing the dry spell of undefeated records that goes back to May 18, when Peter Shmiedicke went 4-0. By virtue of his enthusiasm for the Collins international word list, Mark was treated to an all-Reinke lineup of opponents, but was fearless in confronting the danger looming in front of him. His single loss was in the first round to Thomas Reinke, 385-435. He then beat Charles Reinke in two straight games, 409-363 and 503-394, cashing in with high-scoring bingos of UNCASHED (92) and MANTELET (122) in the latter victory. The cherry on top was an emphatic 530-345 win over Thomas, where Thomas' HANDIER for a sizable 94 points was no match for Mark's bingos of UNSHADED, PENULTS, and COMPOTES.

2nd Helen Flores strengthened her case for unlimited and irrevokable bragging rights with her second-straight second-place finish, this time going 3-1 +23. After a low-scoring, bingoless, but very tightly contested 319-317 victory against Sue Goldstein, Helen ramped up the scoring a bit with a 388-347 win against Sara McLaughlin. Helen had one bingo of DESTINY in that game (as in: it was destiny for Helen to go 3-1 two weeks in a row), while Sara had IMPOSES. Similar to Mark Kenas' experience, Helen's one loss came courtesy of Thomas Reinke, who defeated her by a score of 408-358. However, Helen was the winner of their previous contest, so this surely has ushered in an area where Helen beats Thomas exactly half the time from now into perpetuity.