2025/26 Season Women's Awards
453 games played by 24 women across the 2025/26 season at the Bangalow Hotel. Here's how it played out.
Laura Garcia takes the title
Laura Garcia topped the 2025/26 Women's Season Leaderboard with 33.0 points from 67 games — a 49.3% win rate that put her clear at the top. Shyla Bernstein finished 2nd on 29.5 points, and also played more games than any other woman at Bangalow this season — 81 of them. Miela Evans rounded out the podium in 3rd with 27.5 points, backed up by the sharpest win rate of the lot at 48.2%. Teagan Berger (4th, 19.5 points) and Amarlie Bernstein (5th, 10.5 points) completed the top five.
Miela Evans
Shyla Bernstein
by Women This Season
Congratulations, and thank you
Congratulations to Laura, Shyla, Miela, Teagan and Amarlie for a brilliant season at the top of the table — and to every woman who pulled up a chair on a Tuesday night. 24 women played a combined 453 games at Bangalow this season, a real and growing part of what makes this competition work.
Thank you to all 24 of you for being part of the 2025/26 season:
Amarlie · Caitlin · Em · Frankie · Jasmine · Jenny · Kanasta · Laodekia · Laura · Lily · Miela · Oghale · Peta · Polly · Rebecca · Sacha · Shara · Shyla · Sofia · Teagan · Tessa · Violette · Wendy · Zahli
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