How it played out · September 26–27, 2026
Every placement below is computed from the match scores at Springs Gauntlet 2 — the same math the Gauntlet Leaderboard publishes.
Springs Gauntlet 2 is in the books: 32 players, 74 games, 1,227 points and 11 games decided by two. Here's who won, how the Gauntlet Leaderboard moved, and what it did to DUPR ratings.
Event at a Glance
The Podium
Saturday
Champions Court
Eric Lewandowski won Elite/Contender at 7–2 with a +38 point differential. Aeon Overlander finished second with the best record of the day at 8–1, and Rich Garcia took third. Aeon and Nick Hagan each earned the +20 bonus for winning their Division without being its Top Gun.
Friday
Keisler goes 8–2 and takes the Gold
Aaron Keisler won Challenger and the top Gauntlet Gold prize ($70). Nicholas Witte, with the best point differential in the Level (+31), was second and Eric Kirkland third.
Every Placement
Worth Retelling
Around the field
Games of the day
Upset of the weekend: Nico Perez and Gabriel Prada beat Caedon Davis and David Sanchez 11–5 in the Takedown, across a 0.31 DUPR gap. Only two games went past 11, both 13–11. And Kirkland and Witte hung an 11–1 on the board in the Grind.
Where it left the season
One board, your whole season
The Leaderboard now ranks every player on one board: the one your current DUPR puts you on. Everything you've played this season comes with you. Your record counts in full on your new board. Points you move down with keep their full value, and points you move up with count at 25%.
The boards are live and keep moving; the write-ups are as of the wrap-up, September 27.
Elite board
A new #1: Rich Garcia
Rich Garcia climbed from 4th to 1st, adding 39 points to reach 220. That ties him with Stephen Moore, and he's ahead on the tiebreak. Lewy moved from 8th to 5th, and Tim from 11th to 8th.
11 of 74 games decided by two
Clutch and heaters
Only 11 of 74 games were decided by two points, and David Oginni won three of them, more than anyone. Klaus Schwarz was perfect in the tight ones at 2–0. Aeon Overlander opened Saturday with six straight wins, and Nicholas Witte and Aaron Keisler each strung six together on Friday. Oginni also gets the iron man award: he played both Levels, 19 games in all, and banked 182 RYVL Points.
Iron man: David Oginni played 2 Levels, 19 games.
What the ratings made of it
DUPR has jokes
Nick Hagan won the Desert division, banked 162 RYVL Points, and DUPR took 0.04 off him. Eric Lewandowski won the whole Elite / Contender Level at 7–2 without playing a single DUPR game, and thanks to "dynamic ratings" he still went down. Meanwhile Jese Tovar Vargas went 5–5 and got the biggest jump in the building.
Resubmitted in play order
We resubmitted every game from both days to DUPR in the order it was played, since game order affects the rating math. Jese's 0.27 took him to 4.06. Nicholas Witte passed 4.0, and Aeon Overlander climbed to 4.75, right at the top of the Contender range.