Scripps National Spelling Bee Guide: How to see

The best young magicians in the English language can compete at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.

The first bee took place in 1925 when the Courier journal in Louisville invited other newspapers to organize spelling bees and send their champions to Washington. The bee now takes place directly in front of the country's capital in a congress center on the banks of the Potomac River in Oxon Hill, Maryland. It starts on Tuesday and ends on Thursday evening.

This will be the 97th bee; It was canceled from 1943 to 1945 because of the Second World War and again in 2020 because of the Covid 19 pandemic. This year's champion will be the 110.

The bee is broadcast and streamed on channels and platforms of scripps, a media company based in Cincinnati.

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-Wed Wednesday, May 28th: ​​Quarter -finals were streamed on BOONCE XL, Grit Xtra, Laff more and spellingbee.com from 8 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

-Donnerstag, May 29: Finale on Ion from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

The bee has 243 spellers, at least one of each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia; as well as wizards from US territories Puerto Rico, the US virgin islands and the northern Mariana Islands; And from Canada, the Bahamas, Germany, Ghana, Kuwait and Nigeria.

Faizan Zaki, a second place last year, is back after losing against Bruhat Soma in a lightning-round tie-breaker who is known as a “spelling”. He is a 13-year-old seventh grader from all, Texas. If he is neglected again, he would have another year of justification. He has won several online bees in which top magicians compete as preparation, including the words of wisdom spelling bee and the South Asian spelling bee.

Other possible competitors:

-Aishwarya Kallakuri, a 14-year-old eight grader from Concord, North Carolina, and winner of the National Spelling Bee Spell Pundit.

-Avinav Prem Anand, a 14-year-old eighth grader from Columbus, Ohio, who became second to Faizan in the words of the wisdom bee.

-Vedanth Raju, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aurora, Colorado, and the younger brother of 2022 Vikram Raju.

Magicians qualify by promoting regional bees organized by sponsors across the country. In order to compete, Spellers must not go beyond eighth class or be older than 15.

The Spellers have to go through two preliminary rounds and ask them on words from a list provided in advance: a spelling round and a multiple-choice vocabulary round.

Those who make it through the preparations sit for a written spelling and vocabulary test, with the around 100 top finishers progressing to the quarter -finals. The words for the test and for all subsequent rounds come from the unabridged dictionary by Merriam-Webster.

During the entire quarter -finals and the semi -finals, spellers in the microphone are removed by oral spelling or vocabulary questions.

About a dozen wizards exceed the final. If only two wizards are left, Scripps have the opportunity to use a Lightning round tie-breaker known as the “writing unit” to determine the champion. However, Scripps has made the demand that the depreciation depreciation starts at a certain point in time and bee judge gives more discretion to let the competition play.

The winner receives a custom trophy and more than 50,000 US dollars in cash and prices. Here are the price payments:

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– Second place: 25,000 US dollars.

– Third place: $ 15,000.

– Fourth place: 10,000 US dollars.

– Fifth place: 5,000 US dollars.

– Sixth place: $ 2,500.

– All other finalists: $ 2,000.

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Ben Nuckols has reported the Scripps National Spelling Bee since 2012. Follow his work here.