These are a few photos from the 3rd Big Apple Scrabble tourney at Ira Freehof's COMFORT DINER in New York. I'm writing this intro at the point I gathered 36 photos - might or might not be adding more. They are in the order they were taken. You can view these in the normal way of clicking on the first one then "next" to see the photos with the caption or you can click on the "slideshow" button, above. If you'd like prints of any of these, they can be ordered through this site (see the "buy" button). If you were at the tourney and aren't here, either I didn't manage to get a shot of you or it was so awful that
you'd not be pleased if I put it on line :) :) - might find a few more acceptable shots and will get them up when I can - but I think I need to back away from them for a few days.
Chowing down before the tourney - mmmm Guacamole, shrimp cocktail, fr ...
Overview of Division 1 - Game 1
Game 1, Division 3 - The kids face off... Matthew Silver, age 14, faci ...
Jeremy Cahnmann - just after his first game
Ira checks on the results as Cecelia Le sends them off to cross-tables ...
Round 1 - Division 2 L to r Shane Tourtellotte, ERic Goldstein, Jerem ...
Froilan Mendoza and Kevin McCarthy show off the tie game they had in R ...
Joe Bihlmeyer playing in Division 2.
The Old Rev. looks unsure about something - Ira is amused - bottom rig ...
G.I. works on the couples puzzle during a break in the action.
Evan Berofsky was on the waiting list for Division 1 and got in when M ...
Main focus here is on Froilan Mendoza
The action in Division 4 - Rebecca Lambert in foreground.
Clockwise, Joel Sherman, Diane Firstman, Evan Berkofsky, John Luebkema ...
Front to back Chris Economos, Froilan Mendoza , Sue Gable. Round 4, ...
Lynda Kraar can't wait to get to a table to start enjoying dinner.