Photos: 2007 Big Apple ST: Round 15

Jason Katz-Brown (Cambridge, MA) has fans online (his mother and father, who follow the coverage closely and e-mail us!) and fans in person! Jason's brother and girlfriend spent a couple rounds with us today!

Ira Freehof with 18 pieces of tape stuck on every surface of his hands. He claims that the hallway is so crowded, he doesn't have room to carry the tape dispenser!

Top table in division D. All these players stand a chance to be in the money!

Joe Edley (Coram, NY) vs. Joey Mallick (Cape Elizabeth, ME).

Gibsonized Matt Graham (New York, NY) plays Stefan Rau (Newington, CT). Mark DiBattista (Astoria, NY) vs. Jesse Day (New Haven, CT) at the same table.

Matthew Silver (Westport, CT) vs. Austin Nichols (Washington, DC).

Ida Ann Shapiro (Rego Park, NY) vs. Bill Kaufman (Patterson, NJ).

Alyssa Faria (Washington, DC) vs. Winter Zxqkj (Houston, TX).

Faceoff of the Quackle creators. Vying for 2nd place, John OLaughlin (Cambridge, MA) plays Jason Katz-Brown (Cambridge, MA). Diane Firstman breathes a sigh of relief in the background. Soon annotation duties will be over!

Joey Mallick (Cape Elizabeth, ME) pulled out photos of his tournament this summer held on the coast of Maine to show to Lynn Cushman. Mira Stulman (New York, NY) and Wilma Pitzer (Englewood, OH) look on.

Jeremy Cahnmann (Chicago, IL), always doing his best to be fashion forward.

Ahhhhh... sweet! Jeremy Cahnmann (Chicago, IL) set up this board he just played at to give a message of support to fellow event contestant Rod MacNeil (Somerville, MA), who will be playing on the US team at the WSC next month. RODZILLA is Rod's nickname. However, worth noting, Rod has better breath.

Matt Graham (New York, NY) vs. Stefan Rau (Newington, CT) and their Gibsonized game. Stefan won!

Alyssa Faria (Washington, DC) and Rod MacNeil (Somerville, MA).

Ira Freehof congratulates Mark DiBattista (Astoria, NY) on his great game. It dawns on Ira that a big chunk of the event money will stay in the city: Matt Graham (New York, NY) and Mark get a bunch of it!

Mark DiBattista (Astoria, NY) vs. Jesse Day (New Haven, CT). This game won Mark 3rd place.

John OLaughlin (Cambridge, MA) vs. Jason Katz-Brown (Cambridge, MA). This game won Jason 2nd place honors!

Joe Edley (Coram, NY), Marjorie Schoneboom (Central Islip, NY), and Jeremy Frank (New York, NY) visit while playing equipment gets put away.

Robert Linn (Potomac, MD) and Linda Oliva (Lisbon, MD) check out the train schedule (they both live in the DC area).

A nice shirt for Jason Katz-Brown (Cambridge, MA). Smiles everywhere!

Stefan Rau (Newington, CT), realizing that Matt Graham (New York, NY) had not filled out the information on his contestant scorecard, seized the opportunity to do it for him. Name: LUCKBOX* and Contestant #: 666.