1st Charles Reinke notched first place by a margin of just sixteen spread points over a similarly-monikered foe, finishing 4-0 +429. His customary two-game Collins set against Mark Kenas went exactly according to plan (well, maybe not Mark's version of the plan), as Charles won both, 469-417 (playing CHARTERS, FOLATES, and DELETION) and 432-399 (playing CLOUDIER and LAETARES#). Mark did have the nice nine-letter SAGENITES# to ease the suffering in the second game. Charles got down three more bingos (HERNIAE, DERRISES, LAITANCE) while bulldozing Sara McLaughlin, 566-274. The relentless scoring assault slowed down for the final game, as Charles downed Bryan Benwitz in an atypically low-scoring game, 370-318, thus finishing 4-0 for the second time in three outings.

2nd Thomas Reinke fell just short of first place, going 4-0 +413 and averaging 477 points per game. The combined undefeatedness of the Reinkes might seem spectacular, but the feat was also achieved two weeks ago, so it's not spectacular at all, and might even be commonplace now. Thomas was thrown right into the proverbial fire for round one, facing off against Bryan Benwitz, where, despite the unceasing torment of proverbial flame, he prevailed 457-416. Bryan's sole bingo was BEEPING for 106, while Thomas had HEROICS, TANSIES, and DULLARDS. Seamlessly switching to Collins mode, Thomas beat Mark Kenas 453-325 on the back of FORSLOE# and STOVAINE#. Large amount of spread was accumulated in a 498-293 stomping of Andy Bohnsack, where Thomas monopolized the bingo output with OUTRAVES, BALDRICS, FEROCITY, and DEVISEE. Reinke domination was concluded with a high-scoring 498-459 bout against Mark Kenas, where each player had three bingos: ANEURINS, NAMASTE, and STEEVER# for Mark, RETIRAL#, AGATOID, and BACONERS# for Thomas.

3rd Andy Bohnsack finished 3-1 -56, proving that he can still win games even if he doesn't bingo a bazillion times (he only got four bingos total across his four games). He got a revenge win against Steve Hartsman after a loss the previous week, scoring 438 to Steve's 399 and getting down DISROOT (Steve had RINGTOSS). His game against David Kinzer was quite close, but Andy prevailed 375-366 despite Dave's word-of-the-week find of BUSHMEN. Words won't be wasted on Andy's spread-obliterating loss to Thomas Reinke, 293-498; instead, those words will be spent describing Andy's fourth-round 414-313 win over Helen Flores. Andy provided a lesson in the utility of high-probability seven-letter words, deploying AERIEST (probably 57) and ANEROID (probability 1), and also provided a lesson in the utility of reviewing high-probability eight-letter words, as he challenged Helen's valid SHOUTIER.