Nearly three dozen — 33, to be exact — players competed to take home Halloween pumpkins at the National Go Center on October 27. The top finishers in the open section were Frederick Bao 5D (pictured, front center) a
nd Justin Teng 6D, each 3-1. Frederick was the overall winner on tiebreaks. All 4-0 and 3-1 finishers (pictured) happily took home pumpkins.

Eric Lui 1P teamed up with Nathan Epstein 2D to broadcast the top board in all 4 rounds on Twitch from the new broadcast room at the NGC. Click here for the commentary. “As always the Pumpkin Classic was a fun event.” reports TD Gurujeet Khalsa, “It was exciting to see Frederick break through with a tournament victory, and great to have Eric’s insightful commentary.”