Photos: DO 2008: Round 1

KC Frodyma (Silver Spring, MD) vs. Terry Kang Rau (Newington, CT).

Michael Donegan (Austin, TX) vs. David Gibson (Spartanburg, SC). Kate Watson and Dee Segrest on annotation.

Wallace Schultz (Las Vegas, NM).

Brian Cappelletto (Chicago, IL) vs. Keith Pries (Denver, CO).

Jason Katz-Brown (Cambridge, MA) vs. Peggy Altazan (Zachary, LA).

John Luebkemann (Bear, DE) vs. Karen Dacosta (Grand Prairie, TX).

April McCarley (Austin, TX) vs. Sam Kantimathi (El Dorado Hills, CA).

Samantha Southard (Albany, NY) vs. Cynthia Seales (Stone Mountain, GA). Chris Cree (Dallas, TX) in background.

Angela Dancho (Thornton, CO) and Emely Weissman (Menlo Park, CA).

Erica Moore (Chicago, IL) vs. Mike Baron (Corrales, NM).

Robert Gillis (Owens X Roads, AL) vs. George Viebranz (Strongsville, OH). Note the Double letter score sticker on his clipboard.

Orry Swift (Dayton, TX) is in the house.

Cecilia Le (Cambridge, MA) vs. Zana Anderson (Layton, UT). Unabomber imitator, Andy Bohnsack (Madison, WI) is in the background.

Snowmelt off the roof of the Conference Center.

April McCarley (Austin, TX) and Michael Early (Fort Worth, TX).

Tom Kowalik (Schaumburg, IL) vs. Rebecca Lambert (Columbia, MD).