Eight Smartypants' Broke the Scripps Spelling Bee

['stache 21905]

Eight winners. And don't even start with the "everyone gets a trophy" crap. They went over 10 hours and literally ran out of words as it approached midnight. The last round went 3+ hours. This group spelled 47 straight correctly in the final rounds, and the stuff the kids were spelling at the end were ridiculous. I truly think that none of them could get tripped up by any word outside of a medical dictionary (and they would probably get that stuff right too).

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/26860053/spelling-bee-ends-unprecedented-8-way-tie

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/us/national-spelling-bee-champions.html

[Armybrat 41001]

Awesome! 

[52-80 19279]

 

[solamente73 1132]

Texas represent!  

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The eight co-champions of the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee, from left, Sohum Sukhatankar, 13, of Dallas, Texas; Abhijay Kodali, 12, of Flower Mound, Texas; Rohan Raja, 13, of Irving, Texas; Saketh Sundar, 13, of Clarksville, Maryland; Christopher Serrao, 13, of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey; Rishik Gandhasri, 13, of San Jose, California; Erin Howard, 14, of Huntsville, Alabama; and Shruthika Padhy, 13, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Texas claims 37.5% of the winners.  Awesome!

[52-80 19279]

names of some of those who mastered spelling of the english language....

 

Rishik Gandhasri

Saketh Sundar

Shruthika Padhy

Sohum Sukhatankar

Abhijay Kodali

Rohan Raja

[gsoda3 3299]

other than rajon rondo they get a lot of practice just writing their names on their assignments.

[Fuck Tim Beck 3855]

[XYZ 2154]

Yeah, white Americans not exactly dominating.

[MaybeACoordinator 8350]

2 minutes ago, XYZ said:

Yeah, white Americans not exactly dominating.

Its are langwij so hoo cares how wee spel it!

[Underdog 28873]

17 minutes ago, XYZ said:

Yeah, white Americans not exactly dominating.

[BradInATX 9208]

"This would never happen at my bee,'' said Rahul Walia, founder of the South Asian Spelling Bee, where Sohum defeated Abhijay for the title last year. "They need to use harder words. The words are available.''

 

LOL. Nobody cares, Rahul.

[Gene Parmesan 4023]

Not a lot of Haydens or Prestons at the spelling bee this year.

[TexArcher 38420]

3 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

"This would never happen at my bee,'' said Rahul Walia, founder of the South Asian Spelling Bee, where Sohum defeated Abhijay for the title last year. "They need to use harder words. The words are available.''

 

LOL. Nobody cares, Rahul.

Doesn't India still have a barbaric caste system and widespread lack of potable water and basic health care services?  But hey, congrats on that badass spelling bee.

['stache 21905]

1 minute ago, TexArcher said:

Doesn't India still have a barbaric caste system and widespread lack of potable water and basic health care services?  But hey, congrats on that badass spelling bee.

[Huckleberry 33558]

Watched the end. The pressure on the last of the 8 as he stepped up must have been intense. Imagine being the only one to fail in that round. But he looked cool as hell.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Time for a death cage match.  Eight go in, one comes out....  THAT, spells VICTORY  (and a ratings bo-nanza) !!!!

[Jerry Callo 8831]

[Chewbacca 7793]

1 hour ago, Underdog said:

I loved that movie.

[El Diablo 4232]

I suspect many of these contestants were just trying to curry favor with their future employers. Something doesn't smell right.

[HornOnTheBayou 8967]

Then we'll see if those kids can really spell.

[ChiTownDoc 21225]

Was gonna volunteer Lou Holtz but Ed will do.  

[po elvis 2091]

They need to stop allowing them to ask for the origin of the word. That should not be information you have  when spelling a word. It helps a lot, but is not information you would have if needing to spell the word in real life.

[TwiceHorn 31686]

3 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

Its are langwij so hoo cares how wee spel it!

Hellz ya muthafucka

[ChiTownDoc 21225]

14 minutes ago, po elvis said:

They need to stop allowing them to ask for the origin of the word. That should not be information you have  when spelling a word. It helps a lot, but is not information you would have if needing to spell the word in real life.

True, in a real life spelling contest there’s no fucking questions.  

[Lhorn 5025]

3 hours ago, Gene Parmesan said:

Not a lot of Haydens or Prestons at the spelling bee this year.

Asian privilege

Good for them. As a whole the educational system seems to downplay achievement and exceptionalism and wastes its efforts hammering square pegs into round holes and celebrating mediocrity and underachievement. 

['stache 21905]

29 minutes ago, po elvis said:

They need to stop allowing them to ask for the origin of the word. That should not be information you have  when spelling a word. It helps a lot, but is not information you would have if needing to spell the word in real life.

In real life wouldn't they just use google? This particular skill seems meaningless to me unless one is going to pursue linguistics or etymology as an academic profession. We all know they will be forced to become doctors. no rasis

Edited May 31, 2019 by 'stache

[Mojo Hand 4580]

I just don't get the point of this whole enterprise.  

[phdhorn 6224]

4 hours ago, 52-80 said:

names of some of those who mastered spelling of the english language....

Billy-Bob Jethro Spuckler.

Rishik Gandhasri

Saketh Sundar

Shruthika Padhy

Sohum Sukhatankar

Abhijay Kodali

Rohan Raja

 

Edited May 31, 2019 by phdhorn

[El Diablo 4232]

I blame the Rolaids commercials for my lack of ability in the spelling department.

[Pig Bellmont 8754]

Maybe because I’m a dad now, but those last few rounds were heartwarming. Those kids were spelling for hours and had perfect round after perfect round. They all pulled for each other and all get scholarship $. At the end they each showed pure joy. Maybe it’s dumb to have spelling bees on tv, but I thought that was neat

[Jerry Callo 8831]

Based upon the final round words, I'm pretty sure they ran out of actual real words much earlier.

Pure gibberish - pendeloque, auslaut, aiguillette, palama, cernuous, odylic, and erysipelas.

[Underdog 28873]

Should have dropped a Covefe on them.  

['stache 21905]

hamberder

[immortal13 4059]

6 hours ago, 52-80 said:

names of some of those who mastered spelling of the english language....

 

Rishik Gandhasri

Saketh Sundar

Shruthika Padhy

Sohum Sukhatankar

Abhijay Kodali

Rohan Raja

They should have made them spell each other's names

[hayden_horn 11365]

7 hours ago, Gene Parmesan said:

Not a lot of Haydens or Prestons at the spelling bee this year.

it's true, i was not there

[hayden_horn 11365]

1 hour ago, Jerry Callo said:

Based upon the final round words, I'm pretty sure they ran out of actual real words much earlier.

Pure gibberish - pendeloque, auslaut, aiguillette, palama, cernuous, odylic, and erysipelas.

the other night, i was going to pull a pendeloque manuever on your mom, but her auslot got in the way, so i had to change my plan to choking her with my special aiguillette. then she stuck my junk in her palama, and i'm not really a foot guy, so that had a cernuous result.  after a couple of days, my junk became odylic, and it turns out your mom has erysipelas and now i have it too.

nevertheless, tell your mom hi for me.

Edited May 31, 2019 by hayden_horn

[Clackles 276]

I’m proud to deliver the first rep for the above post.

[Pato del Muerto 52882]

35 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

the other night, i was going to pull a pendeloque manuever on your mom, but her auslot got in the way, so i had to change my plan to choking her with my special aiguillette. then she stuck my junk in her palama, and i'm not really a foot guy, so that had a cernuous result.  after a couple of days, my junk became odylic, and it turns out your mom has erysipelas and now i have it too.

nevertheless, tell your mom hi for me.

It’s spelled ocelot, idoit. 

[Chewbacca 7793]

It’s spelled ocelot, idoit. 

Baboo?

[WBT 20744]

Look at his little spots!  Look at his tufted ears!

---------------

He remembers me!

[Deej 77176]

Apparently, they give the contestants a book with possible words. They couldn't pull new words, because they weren't in the book. What kind of bullshit contest is that?

Edited June 1, 2019 by Deej

[gsoda3 3299]

A dictionary?

[shakahorn 1650]

10 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Time for a death cage match.  Eight go in, one comes out....  THAT, spells VICTORY  (and a ratings bo-nanza) !!!!

Actually, they should do something like a free throw shooting contest or who can throw a baseball the farthest.

[Guest]

11 hours ago, 'stache said:

Eight winners. And don't even start with the "everyone gets a trophy" crap. They went over 10 hours and literally ran out of words as it approached midnight. The last round went 3+ hours. This group spelled 47 straight correctly in the final rounds, and the stuff the kids were spelling at the end were ridiculous. I truly think that none of them could get tripped up by any word outside of a medical dictionary (and they would probably get that stuff right too).

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/26860053/spelling-bee-ends-unprecedented-8-way-tie

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/us/national-spelling-bee-champions.html

Can they fix the auto-correct thingy for Apple?

Sounds like a great internship for these folks.

[Vic Mackey 47310]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

Apparently, they give the contestants a book with possible words. They couldn't pull new words, because they weren't in the book. What kind of bullshit contest is that?

If that's the case, isn't that just a memorization contest?

[WBT 20744]

1 hour ago, Vic Mackey said:

If that's the case, isn't that just a memorization contest?

What else would a spelling contest be?  It's not exactly deriving the quadratic formula.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

11 hours ago, shakahorn said:

Actually, they should do something like a free throw shooting contest or who can throw a baseball the farthest.

booooooooor-ring

[Guest]

Should have just thrown a baseball glove out there and see which nerd can get it on the correct hand first.

There's your winner.

[WhatTheBuck 28836]

16 hours ago, Underdog said:

Should have dropped a Covefe on them.  

It's spelled "covfefe." You are disqualified. 

[Homercles 10206]