WRONG!!
You people don’t know spelling bees and how kids practice for spelling bees.
Each letter is pronounced to a set beat.
V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N
NOT
V-A-CE-A-T-I-O-N
Her C sounds like CeeE but she is not saying the letter E by itself.
She spelled it right.
The judges are MORONS.
Separate CEE and and EEE sounds equals the letters C and E.
The “beat” you speak of is the separation for syllables, but she unfortunately added an unnecessary EEE sound, which equals fail. Listen to it again and you’ll hear the extra EEE sound.
Run the MP4 file through a sound analyzer and you can even see the break for the letter E.