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1st Thomas Reinke, with his 2-1 +221 record, topped a 6-player field which featured no undefeated players but did feature four 2-1 players. He suffered defeat in round one against Helen Flores, 363-380, thanks to her late bingo of PEONIES (Thomas had an earlier ZOOTIER). The scoresheet for this game will certainly join the others which are currently affixed in a place of prominence on Helen's fridge. Despite the early setback, Thomas rebounded with a 446-289 win against Sue Goldstein and a 465-394 win against Charles Reinke. In the latter game, Thomas' bingos of TOROIDAL, RATIFIER, and DEFRAGS put the game out well out of the reach of his brother, who got down RAFTSMAN and MAJORITY.

2nd Bryan Benwitz went 2-1 and accumulated just enough spread points (72 of them, to be exact) to place second in the standings. Just like Thomas was a round-one loser, so was Bryan, as he was taken down by Charles Reinke 337-471. Bryan struggled to get a single bingo down (TENEBRAE), while Charles had TISSUING, GLUTTONS, and the phony WURZITES* (WURTZITE is the word he was thinking of; his attempt was possibly an unholy combination of KUNZITE and WURZEL). But Bryan's fortunes turned quickly after that disappointing outcome, and by round three he was firing on all cylinders, as demonstrated by his 483-310 triumph over Dennis Lloyd. ENGULFED, REINVENT, and SENSATED were his bingos in that one.

1st Bryan Benwitz rebounded from a 1-3 record the previous week to pull off an undefeated 4-0 +433 record this week. He ended Thomas Reinke's 12-game winning streak in emphatic fashion, emerging triumphant from their encounter holding up a scoresheet which read "Bryan: 496 - Thomas: 280". Bryan's bingos in that game were CLOUDING, ASSORTED, and EGGLESS. A victory against the other twin, by a score of 421-403, was less impressive from a pure dominance perspective, but Bryan's 149-point triple-triple of DIASTEMA was impressive in its own way, even if the club didn't collect enough money to pay out the $5 triple-triple prize (not to mention the $5 prize for ending a 10-game winning streak).

2nd Thomas Reinke went 3-1 with a smaller-than-expected +34 spread, although readers of the above paragraph will know exactly why Thomas' cumulative point total was so small. His highest-scoring game was a 495-401 barn-burner against Dennis Lloyd, who suffered his highest-scoring loss of this club season. By way of bingos, Thomas got down RATHOLE, RENTIERS, and AUDIENT (all quite high-probability), while Dennis got down AERATION and BADNESS (the latter for a cool 96 points). And while Thomas may have had his 12-game winning streak brutally terminated by Bryan, he made up for it by extending his winning streak against his brother to an improbable eight games, this time winning 410-341. Sources close to the situation report that tension in the Reinke household has never been higher.

1st Thomas Reinke compiled an unblemished 4-0 +355 record while also extending his ongoing winning streak to eleven games. He came somewhat close to breaking the 600-point barrier in a game against Sara McLaughlin which he won 584-298, playing bingos of AUSTERE, BLINKED, STIFLES, and TACNODES in what turned out to be the second-highest-scoring game this season (Bryan had a 588 back in August). Two straight wins against Charles Reinke in rounds three and four put Thomas' winning streak against that particular opponent at seven games, to that opponent's eternal frustration.

2nd Helen Flores went 2-2 +192, beating out two other 2-2 players for a well-deserved second place finish that saw her average an impressive 405 points per game, nearly 70 points more than her season average up to this point. Her big win came against Dennis Lloyd, 437-267, where she played two bingos, RAPIDLY and STOURIE. She came quite close to dethroning some of the club's top experts, losing to Charles Reinke 379-392 and losing to Bryan Benwitz 388-406 (the latter loss happening despite her 99-point bingo of COQUETS, played in addition to a 67-point GLIMPSE).