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Photos: NSSC 2010: Round 6

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Caption List

• Lunchtime buffet: burgers, veggie burgers, mac & cheese, hot dogs, etc.
• Our Lady of Victory Team #5 (MD) goes through the buffet line.
• Enjoying lunch.
• Members of the Mount Pleasant Christian group.
• Certificates of Participation on each chair for the students when they come in from lunch.
• SCRABBLE Cheez-Its! Six games per table: one for each team member and a box for their coach, too!
• A sea of SCRABBLE Cheez-It boxes!
• Katya Lezin works a table outside the playing room where she signs copies of her new book Knight Swam, .
• Students play the card game SCRABBLE Slam as they wait in the hall for Round 6 to begin.
• A group plays a casual game of SCRABBLE inbetween rounds.
• Wheatley School (NY), a winning team!
• Hanging out in the hallway between rounds.
• Commitee member, Kristen Chew, sharpens about 100 pencils so that they would be ready for the next session.
• Toronto SCRABBLE Champions (ON) shows off the Certificate and SCRABBLE Cheez-Its!
• Agawam Jr. High School (MA) and Alice Deal Middle School Team #2 (DC) hold up their SCRABBLE Cheez-Its.
• Committee member, Amy Krafchick, visits with Randolph Middle School Team #2 (NC).
• Hudson Middle School (FL) and Walter C Young Middle Team #2 (FL) and some SCRABBLE Cheez-Its!
• Table 1's Windham Whiptails (NH), annotated by Joey Krafchick, and New West Charter School (CA), annotated by Noah Lieberman.
• John Morse, president and publisher of Merriam-Webster, Inc., addresses the students.
• John Morse, president and publisher of Merriam-Webster, Inc., reads the correct answers off To Score High quiz he offered to the students. NSSC director, Ben Greenwood looks on.
• Of the 80 or so correct entries, a winner was chosen at random. The happy winner of an IPod Nano: Steven Alt of Ridgefield Library Team #1 (CT).
• DC School SCRABBLE (DC)
• Seawell Elementary School Team #3 (NC)
• Bay Shore MS/Albert Leonard MS (NY) focuses on their rack at table 2 vs. Ridgefield Library Team #1 (CT).
• Bay Shore MS/Albert Leonard MS (NY) holds S?NARII. And it can go down above that H on the board!
• The first two plays at table 1 between New West Charter School (CA) and Windham Whiptails (NH).
• SeNARII/SH went down! Yeah!
• The play was challenged and is acceptable.
• Table 1, Windham Whiptails (NH) vs. New West Charter School (CA) is up to three bingos in three plays! Wow!
• Bloomfield Library (IN)
• Palmerston Ave Public School Team #2 (ON) played pAdLOcKS for 94 in a game with Armuchee Elementary Team #3 (GA).
• Bay Shore MS/Albert Leonard MS (NY)
• DC School SCRABBLE (DC) confers on a play.
• Ridgefield Library Team #1 (CT) in shirts featuring Ridgefield Library Team #1 (CT).
• SWEETUZ on a Windham Whiptails (NH) rack at table 1.
• Event annotators, Noah Lieberman and Joey Krafchick, intent on their jobs of inputting the games live for everyone to join in real time.
• Joey Krafchick, annotating Windham Whiptails (NH) at table 1.
• Toronto SCRABBLE Champions (ON) vs. Uplands Elementary Team Marines (OR) featuring the 176-point, triple-triple WIELDERS.
• Uplands Elementary Team Marines (OR)
• Good sports, [error: no such id: 890and18] shake after their game.
• DC School SCRABBLE (DC) vs. The Sage School (MA).
• Bay Shore MS/Albert Leonard MS (NY) vs. Ridgefield Library Team #1 (CT).
• The Sage School (MA) vs. Glenfield Middle School (NJ).
• Windham Whiptails (NH)
• NSSC Director chats with Lexington Montessori School Team #1 (MA) and Lexington MA Scrabble Club #108 (MA). All but Mohini attend Lexington Monessori School and faced off in round 6.
• Lexington MA Scrabble Club #108 (MA) vs. Lexington Montessori School Team #1 (MA).
• Lexington MA Scrabble Club #108 (MA) and Lexington Montessori School Team #1 (MA) after the game is over checking "every play made in their game."
• Smoke coming off table 1, Windham Whiptails (NH), annotated by Joey Krafchick, vs. Lexington MA Scrabble Club #108 (MA), annotated by Noah Lieberman.
• Lexington MA Scrabble Club #108 (MA)
• Gregg Foster helps Joey Krafchick with an annotation question.
• The Windham Whiptails (NH) vs. Lexington MA Scrabble Club #108 (MA) board while a ruling was pending (this is not the final board in the game).
• NSSC Director Ben Greenwood, discussing a ruling with Lexington MA Scrabble Club #108 (MA) and Windham Whiptails (NH).
• The Lexington MA Scrabble Club #108 (MA) outplay of iDOLATE* was challenged and ruled unacceptable. Game-changing result. You could almost hear Bradley's jaw drop.
• iDOLATE/MUD ruled not acceptable (because, if even one word is not acceptable, the entire play is ruled unacceptable).
• The final board for Windham Whiptails (NH) vs. Lexington MA Scrabble Club #108 (MA).