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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How can you stall when you have a running clock? They are entitled to a certain amount of time to answer. They are penalized if they exceed the allotted time.
Do football teams stall when the clock is running? Absolutely.
Do hockey teams? Yes, especially when killing penalties.
If each speller is allotted 2 minutes and uses the full 2 when unnecessary then that is stalling. QED. It also maximizes the overall time needed for the full Bee - and the decision to make the outcome a mass tie at the end is proof.
It’s clear many of them are asking for repeats, definitions, etc. without listening to a single word said thereafter by the proctor. The Bee organizers have eliminated asking individual questions about etymology, usage, pronunciation etc and all that info is given in one go. Why? Because in previous years kids used to ask all those questions merely to delay the moment of truth.
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