The best young English language speakers are ready to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Beethat celebrates your 100 anniversary this year.
The first bee was held in 1925, when the Louisville Couer-Journal invited other newspapers to organize spelling bees and send their champions to Washington. The bee now is carried out on the outskirts of the capital of the nation, in a convention center on the banks of the Potomac River in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Start on Tuesday and conclude on Thursday night.
This will be the 97th bee; It was canceled from 1943 to 1945 due to World War II and again in 2020 due to Covid-19 pandemic. This year’s champion will be 110º, because the bee ended in a bidirectional draw several times and an eight -band draw in 2019.
The Bee is transmitted and transmitted on channels and platforms owned by scripps, a media company based in Cincinnati.
– Tuesday, May 27: Preliminary rounds transmitted in Bounce XL, Grit Xtra, Laff More and Spellingbee.com From 8 am to 4:40 pm edt.
-Leds on May 28: Finals Transmitted in Bunce XL, Grit Xtra, Laff More and Spellingbee.com from 8 am to 12:45 pm semifinals transmitted in Bounce XL, Grit Xtra, Laff More and Spellingbee.com from 2:30 to 6:30 pm semifinals transmitted in ion on delay tape of 8-10 PM
-Juves May 29: Finals transmitted by ion from 8 to 10 pm
The bee has 243 spells, with at least one of the 50 states and the Columbia district; as well as the orthogged from the US territories Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States and the Mariana Islands of the North; and from Canada, the Bahamas, Germany, Ghana, Kuwait and Nigeria.
Faizan Zaki, runner-up last year, returns after losing to Bruhat Soma at a headline known as a “spell-off”. It is a grade of the seventh grade of 13 years of Allen, Texas. If it falls short again, it would have another year of eligibility. He has won several online bees in which the best speakers compete in preparation, including the words of the spelling bee of wisdom and the spelling bee of southern Asia.
Other possible contestants:
-Aishwarya Kallakuri, an eighth 14 -year -old grade student, and winner of the national spelling bee of the spell post.
-Avinav Prem Anand, a 14 -year -old eighth student from Columbus, Ohio, who ended in second place in the words of the bee wisdom.
-Vedanth Raju, a seventh grade student of Aurora, Colorado, and the younger brother of 2022 Vikram Raju runner -up.
The spells qualify advancing through regional bees organized by sponsors throughout the country. To compete, spells should not have advanced beyond eighth grade or have more than 15 years.
The spells must cross two preliminary rounds, questioning them in the words of a list provided in advance: a spelling round and a multi -choice vocabulary round.
Those who exceed preliminaries sit for a written spelling and vocabulary test, with the first 100 or so that they advance to the quarterfinals. The words for the test, and for all the posterior rounds, are taken from the Merriam-Webster dictionary without glazing.
Throughout the quarterfinals and the semifinals, spells are eliminated in the microphone through oral spelling or vocabulary questions.
Around a dozen speakers advance to the finals. When there are only two spells left, scripps has the option of using a lightning rash known as a “spell” to determine the champion. However, scripps has He removed the requirement That crime begins at a specific moment, giving bees judges more discretion to let the competition develop.
The winner receives a personalized trophy and more than $ 50,000 in cash and awards. Here are the awards payments:
-Primer Place: $ 52,500 in cash, reference work of the British encyclopedia and Merriam-Webster, and a contribution of $ 1,000 to a school of the champion’s choice.
– Second place: $ 25,000.
– Third place: $ 15,000.
– Fourth place: $ 10,000.
– Fifth place: $ 5,000.
– Sixth place: $ 2,500.
– All other finalists: $ 2,000.
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Ben Nuckols has covered the National Spelling Bee scripps since 2012. He continues his job here.
