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1st Charles Reinke enjoyed a 4-1 +353 record on a night where none of his opponets managed to score above 400. His single loss came in round one to Dennis Lloyd as part of a two-on-one match; the painf of a 379-395 loss to Dennis was partially assuaged by a simultaneous 444-309 win against Bryan Benwitz. Of note, Charles' only bingo against Dennis was a phony MYCETES* (MYCELES is a word, as are MYXOMYCETES and ASCOMYCETES), while Dennis hismelf had two perfectly valid bingos (PESKIER and ENTREAT). Charles would go on to play his brother Thomas in rounds two and four, and miraculously emerge victorious from both scuffles (miraculous because of Thomas' recent dominance over his brother). Charles' bingos in those two matches included some low-probability finds like ELKHOUND and BLIGHTER.

2nd Bryan Benwitz went 3-1 +220 and averaging a club-best 438 per game across his four games. His aforementioned loss against Charles Reinke was agonizingly bingoless, but was immediately followed up by a 406-361 win against Helen Flores where a late QI for 31 proved to be a significant boon for Bryan. Even bigger boons were to be found in the next game as Bryan utterly obliterated Thomas Reinke by a score of 602-367. In addition to being the eighth feather in his "600+ points" cap (a cap which he has promised to model for us at our next meeting), it was his ninth time getting five bingos in a game. In this instance, the bingos were UNINSTAL, COLLAGES, POTHEAD, INTORTS, and ERUPTIVE. Reports that Thomas was able to bingo with REWIRES and WAVERING, putting the total bingo count for the game at seven, are unsubstantiated at this time.

1st Bryan Benwitz went 3-1 +306 to capture first place in the weekly standings. He was held to a low score of 326, nearly 100 points below his yearly average, in a loss against Sara McLaughlin (who scored 332 and played the only bingo of the game, PANINIS). However, Bryan internalized the anguish he felt from that poor showing and turned it into a pair of 500-point games, 514-283 against Dennis Lloyd and 503-425 against Thomas Reinke. Bryan played a total of seven bingos in that two-game stretch: RENEGADO, RUSTICS, OPIATES, AGONISES, PROTEIDE, UNWOOED, and ENTRAINS.

2nd Thomas Reinke went 3-1 +278, with his fourth-round loss to Bryan Benwitz being the only thing holding him back from an undefeated record. He notched his second-highest scoring game of this shorter-than-usual club season by defeating Helen Flores with a score of 563, playing bingos of MITIGATES, OCTAVES, and TINDERS in the process. Both Dennis Lloyd (424-463) and Charles Reinke (390-426) put up valiant fights against Thomas and his frenzy of bingos, but neither succeeded in felling him.

Dennis Lloyd got word of the week with SUCCORS, proving that having two C's doesn't always succ.

1st Charles Reinke topped a small group of four players with his impeccable 3-0 +245 performance. He started off with a strong 547-336 win against Sara McLaughlin, getting down DEFUELS, TERNIONS, OVERDRAW, and DISASTER against Sara's sole bingo of REDLINE. The torrent of bingos didn't continue into the next round, however, and Charles just barely pulled out a 406-393 win against Thomas Reinke, aided only by a high-probability bingo of STEARIN (Thomas had AVIARIES and the word-of-the-week BISTOURY, which is a type of surgical knife). Notably, Charles' victory snapped the nine-game losing streak he had suffered at the hands of his brother. It also marks the beginning of his upcoming 34-game winning streak against that same opponent.

2nd Thomas Reinke went 2-1 with a healthy spread total of +434. Both of this wins could accurately be termed "blowouts". A 462-289 win against Bryan Benwitz was a good start, but the 557-283 win against Sara McLaughlin was even better. His bingos in those two games were ISOLATE, RELISTS, SUASION, ANTIGENE, FARADIZE, PARAVANE. His play of PARAVANE shall forever stand as a testament to the utility of studying words that have three A's, a P, and a V. Next up on Thomas' bucket list: PIASAVA. Or VANASPATI.