Spelling Bee

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Harini Logan kept trying to learn from her near-misses in online spelling bees. Recognized for years as one of the best spellers in ...

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More subscription to our online content can only help us achieve the goals of offering you even better and more relevant content. As we battle the economic impact of the pandemic, we need your support even more, so that we can continue to offer you more quality content. Business Standard has always strived hard to provide up-to-date information and commentary on developments that are of interest to you and have wider political and economic implications for the country and the world. Over the past 20 years, Indian-Americans have been dominating the Spelling Bee contest even though they comprise only about 1 per cent of the US population. Language of origin: This word is originally English. Sentence: The hunter took aim at the moorhen after the beaters had flushed it from the heather, Scripps National Spelling Bee said in a tweet. The National Spelling Bee was launched in 1925. Def: the female of the red grouse. Competitors aren't asked to spell; instead, they are given a word with three definitions and they must choose the correct one. The finals were then held in person at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Florida, rather than in the National Harbor in Maryland, where the event had typically been held in recent years. "Our 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion Speller231 Harini Logan draws inspiration from VP @KamalaHarris. After tonight, Harini is inspiring a new generation of spellers everywhere. Hers is happy tonight, Scripps National Spelling Bee said in a tweet. The final two competitors had trouble deciphering their words between rounds 13 and 18.

Harini Logan has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee, defeating Vikram Raju in the bee's first-ever lightning-round tiebreaker.

The 14-year-old from Texas clinched the 2022 title following a dramatic lightning-round tiebreaker.

Before she writes the great American novel, Logan said she plans to celebrate her Scripps Spelling Bee journey by traveling with her family. Logan’s biography on the Scripps National Spelling Bee site reveals she is an “avid reader,” and it was her love of the written word that led her to compete in spelling bees. During the vocabulary round, Logan described “pullulation” as the nesting of mating birds. “Really just focusing on the next word and knowing that I’m still in, I think was just a big relief for me.” She moved up the ranks quite a bit the following year, tying for 30th place in 2019, and then tied for 31st place last year. And then she had to face off against fellow finalist Vikram Raju, 12, in the historic lightning-round tiebreaker where both contestants misspelled a few tough words (including “drimys,” a genus of Australian shrubs).

Colorado students have a long history of placing well in the bee. Spellers from the state have won the national competition 7 times — one of the highest ...

The most recent winner from Colorado was Pratyush Buddiga, who took home the Scripps Cup in 2002. You want to know what is really going on these days, especially in Colorado. We can help you keep up. While he missed out on the competition’s top prize of $50,000, he still earned $25,000 for his second place finish. A judge announced the final tally of correctly spelled words, handing Logan the first place trophy. Vikram Raju, 12, went up against Harini Logan, 14, from San Antonio for the first place spot after each survived 18 traditional rounds of spelling earlier in the night. Spellers from the state have won the national competition 7 times — one of the highest champion counts of any state.

The San Antonio, Texas, native received a trophy and a check for $50,000. Harini went head-to-head with Vikram Raju, 12, in the spell-off, a format that tested ...

The finals were then held in person at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Florida, rather than in the National Harbor in Maryland, where the event had typically been held in recent years. (The National Spelling Bee was launched in 1925.) "I think honestly so surreal, it's my fourth time at the Bee," Harini said on stage holding the trophy. The Bee returned last year, but with a few changes. In a statement in December, Burton called the position "an honor." Of the first-ever spell-off, Harini said: "At first I was a little uneasy and I decided to take it in stride ... I just had to take a deep breath and tell myself to go out there and do my best and whatever happens, happens."

A Texas girl who was eliminated from the finals of the National Spelling Bee was given a second chance and ended up taking the championship trophy.

Walters rushed to the bee judges after Harini was told in the second round of finals — a vocabulary rather than a spelling round — that she had incorrectly defined pullulation. The top four reinforce a trend that’s persisted for two decades — 21 of the past 23 champions have had South Asian heritage. He was allowed into finals, but was eliminated in the vocabulary round. Hers was not the only reinstatement of the competition. Harini, a crowd favorite for her poise and positivity, wins more than $50,000 in cash and prizes. Two rounds later — officially Round 11 of the competition — only Harini and Vikram remained of the initial 13 finalists.

The San Antonio, Texas, native received a trophy and a check for $50,000. Harini went head-to-head with Vikram Raju, 12, in the spell-off, a format that tested ...

(The National Spelling Bee was launched in 1925.) The finals were then held in person at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Florida, rather than in the National Harbor in Maryland, where the event had typically been held in recent years. “I think honestly so surreal, it’s my fourth time at the Bee,” Harini said on stage holding the trophy. - WATCH: Video captures massive rock collapse at Lake Powell – KSLTV.com(pageviews: 3683) - WATCH: Video captures massive rock collapse at Lake Powell(pageviews: 8342) The Bee returned last year, but with a few changes.

Harini Logan has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee, defeating Vikram Raju in the bee's first-ever lightning-round tiebreaker.

The bee itself was leaner, with fewer than half the participants it had in 2019 because of sponsors dropping out and the elimination of a wild-card program. The word was “drimys,” and she got it wrong. The last fully in-person version of the bee had no tiebreaker and ended in an eight-way tie. Then Vikram missed again and Harini got “sereh” right, putting her one word away from the title. Harini defined the word “pullulation” as the nesting of mating birds. “Really just focusing on the next word and knowing that I’m still in, I think was just a big relief for me.” She is the fifth Scripps champion to be coached by Walters, a former speller, fellow Texan and student at Rice University who is considering bowing out of the coaching business. Scripps said the correct answer was the swarming of bees. “We did a little sleuthing after you finished, which is what our job is, to make sure we’ve made the right decision,” Brooks said. “When it got introduced last year, I was a bit terrified, to be honest,” Harini said. The 14-year-old eighth-grader from San Antonio, Texas, who competed in the last fully in-person bee three years ago and endured the pandemic to make it back, spelled 22 words correctly during the 90-second spell-off, beating Vikram by seven. She misspelled four times as Scripps’ most challenging words proved too much for her and Vikram Raju, who also got four wrong in the closing stretch.

National Spelling Bee finalists visited the White House on Friday, celebrating and relaxing after an unprecedented spell-off at National Harbor.

And she was “super happy” for Harini, with whom she had talked earlier in the competition. Sitting in the audience Thursday night in Maryland, “listening to the two of them go, it was really impressive,” she said. “This year, I didn’t even expect to become a finalist,” Vikram said, adding, “I kind of learned my true potential from the bee. “It was looming,” said Harini, who had started practicing speed-spelling a month or two before the competition. “You know, it has been quite the overwhelming roller coaster,” Ayyar said. Harini fired off the same 12 to start, but she operated at a quicker pace, getting to 26 words in total and spelling 22 correctly. But she also wants to start a fund “for helping students in underprivileged areas where they can’t get access to the bee even if they want to do it.” The bee stretched late into Thursday night, culminating in the first spell-off in the competition’s history, between Harini and Vikram. The spell-off provision was added last year, Loeffler explained, though it wasn’t used. Harini credited her mother’s coaching for her win. Harini, a San Antonio native, tied for 323rd place in 2018, for 30th in 2019 and for 31st in 2021. He’s considering it, he said. Vikram, of Aurora, Colo., tied for 51st place in 2019 and for 21st last year.

Harini Logan,14, from San Antonio, Texas, takes home a trophy and more than $50000 in cash and prizes.

"I'm definitely looking to go more into musical theater," said Logan. "I also want to be able to give back to the community... It all came down to the first ever spell-off, where the final two competitors had 90 seconds to spell as many words as they could, off a predetermined list. A historic ending to the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended Thursday night with its first spell-off. The winner is 14-year-old Harini Logan of San Antonio, ...

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OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Harini Logan kept trying to learn from her near-misses in online spelling bees. Recognized for years as one of the best spellers in ...

The bee itself was leaner, with fewer than half the participants it had in 2019 because of sponsors dropping out and the elimination of a wild-card program. The word was “drimys,” and she got it wrong. The last fully in-person version of the bee had no tiebreaker and ended in an eight-way tie. Then Vikram missed again and Harini got “sereh” right, putting her one word away from the title. Harini defined the word “pullulation” as the nesting of mating birds. “Really just focusing on the next word and knowing that I’m still in, I think was just a big relief for me.” She is the fifth Scripps champion to be coached by Walters, a former speller, fellow Texan and student at Rice University who is considering bowing out of the coaching business. Scripps said the correct answer was the swarming of bees. “We did a little sleuthing after you finished, which is what our job is, to make sure we’ve made the right decision,” Brooks said. “When it got introduced last year, I was a bit terrified, to be honest,” Harini said. She misspelled four times as Scripps’ most challenging words proved too much for her and Vikram Raju, who also got four wrong in the closing stretch. The 14-year-old eighth-grader from San Antonio, Texas, who competed in the last fully in-person bee three years ago and endured the pandemic to make it back, spelled 22 words correctly during the 90-second spell-off, beating Vikram by seven.

Logan, 14, from San Antonio, won the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee and a $50000 cash prize on Thursday in National Harbor, Maryland for nailing the ...

That was seven words shy of Logan’s 22 correct out of 26 spelling attempts in the lightning round, in which she sped through the spelling of words like phreatophyte, toquilla and excimer. The wordsmith beat out 12-year-old Vikram Raju from Colorado, who took home $25,000, in the tie-breaking round. The contenders had just 90 seconds to spell out as many words as they could.

Harini Logan claimed the top spot last night, making her the seventh Texan spelling bee champ in the last ten years. T-E-X-A-S!

Harini’s victory caps off a downright dominant run for Texas in the Scripps competition, as she becomes the seventh Texan in the past ten contests to finish in first place. Earlier in the event, during the “word meaning” round, when the young contestants have to prove they also know what the polysyllables they’re spelling mean, judges struggled to determine if she had correctly defined “pullulation,” which Merriam-Webster defines as both “swarm, teem,” and “to breed or produce freely.” Harini’s bell had dinged when she called it the nesting of mating birds, as judges had sought an answer related to the swarming of bees. It wasn’t the only dramatic moment in Harini’s quest for glory.

The 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a 90-second spell-off that left viewers on the edge of their seats and completely amazed at the intelligence ...

“Clearly, they demonstrated their deep capacity for the competition.” Harini Logan and Vikram Raju were tied for the entire final round of the spelling bee, leading the Scripps judges to launch the first spell-off in their history—a whopping 94 years. The 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a 90-second spell-off that left viewers on the edge of their seats and completely amazed at the intelligence on display.