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.

Experts
Charles Reinke3-0 +161
Bryan Benwitz2-1 +245
Thomas Reinke1-2 -81
Helen Flores0-3 -325
Intermediates

 
NameWin% W   L  T  Avg  Opp Avg Bingos  Avg Phonies % v2
Experts
Thomas Reinke70.6632614333761942.1652.612
Charles Reinke67.6592814283831641.865310
Bryan Benwitz61.2462914303831481.9510.70
Lynda Finn5022041938851.25000
Mike Johnson5022035840361.5000
Dennis Lloyd44.524301362397671.22464
Sara McLaughlin35.616290346406370.8238.10
Helen Flores23.216530337409520.7523.82
David Kinzer16.715034340740.67000
Intermediates

Bingos
Charles Reinke7SNEEZED ETERNALS NEREIDS DETACHES GOLDEYES PINESAP ANOTHER
Bryan Benwitz7HOTLINES PRECLEAN OSETRAS DILATED EUDAIMON MALARIAL FIESTAS
Thomas Reinke6TROWELS BRISANT MOILERS GATHERS SEEDBED TOILWORN
Helen Flores1CRANCHED
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