Posted on 05/31/2019 4:45:31 AM PDT by grundle
The eight co-champions of the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee, from left, Shruthika Padhy, 13, of Cherry Hill, N.J., Erin Howard, 14, of Huntsville, Ala., Rishik Gandhasri, 13, of San Jose, Calif., Christopher Serrao, 13, of Whitehouse Station, N.J., Saketh Sundar, 13, of Clarksville, Md., Sohum Sukhatankar, 13, of Dallas, Texas, Rohan Raja, 13, of Irving, Texas, and Abhijay Kodali, 12, of Flower Mound, Texas, hold the trophy at the end of the competition in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday, May 31, 2019.
OXON HILL, Md. — The Latest on the National Spelling Bee (all times local):
12:07 p.m.
Eight spellers were better than the dictionary. They were better than anything the Scripps National Spelling Bee could throw at them. And they all ended up with a hand on the trophy.
In the most extraordinary ending in the 94-year history of the competition, the bee ended in an eight-way tie on Thursday night. The eight co-champions spelled the final 47 words correctly, going through five consecutive perfect rounds.
Each will get the full winner’s prize of $50,000 in cash.
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yes, and $50,000, and probably a college scholarship - wife and I watched this Bee last night. Those kids are terrific. Those aren’t participation trophies, they were earned.
If memory serves, when I was in the Bee (in 1982), we were handed a booklet filled without about 3000 words. I'm pretty sure that the book also said that they could use words that weren't in the book, and it was mostly for practice and as a guide.
It ain’t hard to understand why “Indians” do so well. Look at their names. Once a kid has learned to spell his Indian name everything in English is down hill.
I thought these spelling bees were like baseball. It doesn’t end until there is a winner. If it gets late then it continues the next day and so on.
204 pages, and only up to the letter P.
I don't recall our word list having definitions, but I lost in the later rounds in the Texas State contest.
One of these things is not like the others, can you guess what it is? Only one doesn’t wear glasses! Congrats to all the winners. They work VERY hard to get where they are.
avoid the WPO:
http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/26860053/spelling-bee-ends-unprecedented-8-way-tie
SJW: “‘They’ had an unfair head start with all
those long last names!”
That is amazing. Good for those kids.
Beat me to it!
I had a long Slavic last name that helped me too!
Students from India predominate in many competitions, such as the Geography Bee. It is a cultural thing. Chinese parents emphasize science/technology competitions, often team competitions, more than the spelling and other memorization-based contests.
An acquaintance's parents immigrated from India. He was born here. He said that when he was a child his parents told him in no uncertain terms he was going to be a surgeon. Period. End of story.
He is one of the two or three best surgeons in his specialty in the state. Also nationally respected. And fabulously wealthy.
Not that all Indians are like that, but, just saying.
Mrs. L are on an overnight to an outdoor range today. This was playing in the bar where we had dinner. We couldn’t believe some of the words. Congrats to all of them.
L
These kids were well trained at stalling and asking for questions to be repeated.
They’ll do great in DC.
I’m no economic voyeur but I always wonder about surgeon pay, given their irreplaceability and the fact that they ‘stay in their lane’ and probably don’t have the need, time, or desire to get involved with entrepreneurial ventures (beyond medical practices/offices).
$5 mil? 10?
Obviously once the cash comes in there are investment portfolios etc but base pay is the question.
They weren’t stalling. They are on a clock.
I have had to wear glasses since I was 5. I think.
Did anyone have to spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeosis?
Certainly at a much younger age than these kids.
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