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Photos: NSSC 2008: Round 3

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Caption List

• Table 1: Westport SCRABBLE Club (CT) vs. Windham Nesmith Library (NH). Annotated by Gregg Foster and Jason Katz-Brown.
• Windham Nesmith Library (NH) splits the work. Quincy keeps score and tracks and Bradley draws tiles and handles clock hitting duties.
• Portledge (NY) studying the board carefully on their opponent's clock.
• R.D. and Euzelle Smith Middle School Team 1 (NC) quietly concentrate on their opponent's play.
• Westport SCRABBLE Club (CT) and their annotator, Gregg Foster, at table 1.
• Emerson Middle School Team 3 (CA).
• Winterhaven Elementary School (OR) contemplates their two-blank rack in a game vs. Emerson Middle School Team 3 (CA).
• Atlanta Tucker Community Center (GA) vs. Pennichuck School (NH).
• Hopkinton Middle School Team 1 (MA) and CPRD-Oak Creek (OR) shake hands after their game.
• Hopkinton Middle School Team 1 (MA) vs. CPRD-Oak Creek (OR).
• Evangelical Christian School Team 1 (TN) with their rack. It looks like they just toss their tiles and don't care how they land!
• A zyzzyva screen caught between two modes. The "type the challenge in" mode and the "ruling" screen. In this case, TINTERS, RID, EL was challenged and ruled acceptable. This wasn't an error, rather the camera shutter clicking just as the screen was transitioning from one mode to the other.
• Mount Pleasant Christian School Team 2 (MD) stands up to see the board better in its game vs. John Glenn Middle School (MA).
• Ruth Keeler Library Team 3 (NY) vs. Randolph Middle School (NC).
• Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School (MA) in a moment of rack/board concentration.
• Eastern Greene Middle School Team 2 (IN).
• The find of the day: UNSTITcH through the N to win the game! Princeton Day School (NJ) vs. Solomon Schechter Day School (Newton) Team 2 (MA).
• Maxwell Park Team 1 (CA) stands to have a better board view vs. South Side Middle School Team 1 (NY).
• Janney Elementary School (DC) poses with their coach, Stefan Fatsis.
• Northern Lincoln Elementary Team 3 (RI), checking the standings.
• Students meeting with coaches and parents in the foyer.
• Hopkinton Middle School Team 2 (MA) shows off their scorecard. They end today in the 3-0 pack.
• SCRABBLE coach, Linda Oliva, poses with her two teams: Mount Pleasant Christian School Team 1 (MD) and Mount Pleasant Christian School Team 2 (MD).
• Checking the standings.