Stats for August 11, 2021
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.
| Avg. Game Score | 414 |
| Avg. Intermediate Score | 0 |
| Avg. Expert Score | 414 |
| Avg. Winning Score | 466 |
| Avg. Losing Score | 361 |
| Avg. Bingo Score | 80 |
