1st Charles Reinke ran off an unblemished 3-0 +161 record to score first place among a small group of just four Scrabblers. The high point of his night was a solid 500-381 victory against eventual second-place finisher Bryan Benwitz. Bryan got a single bingo of EUDAIMON, while Charles had ETERNALS, NEREIDS, DETACHES, and GOLDEYES. He secured his undefeated record by escaping with the win in a high-scoring nailbiter against Thomas Reinke, 465-459, thus cementing his temporary position as the "superior" twin. The inferior twin got bingos of GATHERS, SEEDBED, and TOILWORN; the superior one had PINESAP and ANOTHER.
2nd Bryan Benwitz averaged a nifty 455 points per game en route to a 2-1 +245 record. He got off to a blazing fast start by mercilessly dominating Thomas Reinke by a score of 494 to 316. So merciless was he in his domination that his three bingos of HOTLINES, PRECLEAN, and OSETRAS had to be supplemented by a needless fourth bingo, DILATED, to make the grisly carnage complete. He later followed that up with a similarly dominant win against Helen Flores, 490-304, where he played word-of-the-week-runner-up MALARIAL along with FIESTAS.
Helen Flores got word of the week with CRANCHED, boldly played when the conventional word BRANCHED was available to her.
Charles Reinke | 3-0 +161 |
Bryan Benwitz | 2-1 +245 |
Thomas Reinke | 1-2 -81 |
Helen Flores | 0-3 -325 |
Thomas Reinke | 70.6 | 63 | 26 | 1 | 433 | 376 | 194 | 2.16 | 5 | 2.6 | 12 |
Charles Reinke | 67.6 | 59 | 28 | 1 | 428 | 383 | 164 | 1.86 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
Bryan Benwitz | 61.2 | 46 | 29 | 1 | 430 | 383 | 148 | 1.95 | 1 | 0.7 | 0 |
Lynda Finn | 50 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 419 | 388 | 5 | 1.25 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mike Johnson | 50 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 358 | 403 | 6 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dennis Lloyd | 44.5 | 24 | 30 | 1 | 362 | 397 | 67 | 1.22 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
Sara McLaughlin | 35.6 | 16 | 29 | 0 | 346 | 406 | 37 | 0.82 | 3 | 8.1 | 0 |
Helen Flores | 23.2 | 16 | 53 | 0 | 337 | 409 | 52 | 0.75 | 2 | 3.8 | 2 |
David Kinzer | 16.7 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 343 | 407 | 4 | 0.67 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BingosCharles Reinke | 7 | SNEEZED ETERNALS NEREIDS DETACHES GOLDEYES PINESAP ANOTHER |
Bryan Benwitz | 7 | HOTLINES PRECLEAN OSETRAS DILATED EUDAIMON MALARIAL FIESTAS |
Thomas Reinke | 6 | TROWELS BRISANT MOILERS GATHERS SEEDBED TOILWORN |
Helen Flores | 1 | CRANCHED |
13-Aug: Scrabble at Covenant Church | 20-Aug: Scrabble at Misty Mountain Games | 27-Aug: Scrabble at Covenant Church | 3-Sep: Scrabble at Covenant Church |