I won two out of three on my first visit to the Club during the new season:
383-362 against Glenn. I played IONISES (86) and Glenn played STARTING (80). Both blanks came out at the very end.
459-359 against Mark E. I played IDEALOGY (78), ETIOLaTE (68) and ATONIES (70) and Mark played SPANNER (65) and CORIVAlS (90).
361-382 against Tony. I played xEROSES (63) and MANTICS (75)* which Tony must have taken seven minutes to consider, all the while keeping me on hold. He allowed it and then made a play. He had exchanged all seven of his tiles in his prior move, leaving drek in the bag for me to draw after my bingo. I could not do much but unload AUU around an N to score 8 for UNAU, which I thought might block up the board since the last blank was still out, but Tony managed to go out with REORIeNT (66).