Spelling Bee History Made!

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

The Scripps National Spelling Bee just wrapped up, and because of how good the final eight were, the organizers gave up and ended it all at Round 20 and declared them all co-champions for finishing the round.

They just nailed every single word thrown at them despite having to listen to some really terrible sentences and dad jokes in the process.

[mcmahonfan85]

an eight-way tie? i'm going to use my psychic powers to predict...there's going to be a large amount of bitching about it on social media once it makes the news sites

[Hit Girl]

May 30, 2019 23:17:25 GMT -5 mcmahonfan85 said:

an eight-way tie? i'm going to use my psychic powers to predict...there's going to be a large amount of bitching about it on social media once it makes the news sites

There's a lot of bitching, but most of it is far worse than complaining about how many kids won it.

[cosmo]

May 31, 2019 10:17:30 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

May 30, 2019 23:17:25 GMT -5 mcmahonfan85 said:

an eight-way tie? i'm going to use my psychic powers to predict...there's going to be a large amount of bitching about it on social media once it makes the news sites

There's a lot of bitching, but most of it is far worse than complaining about how many kids won it.

Gonna take a wild guess and say it’s people bitching about the winners being a bunch of Indian kids?

[fw91]

How does a spelling bee end up in a eight way tie? I say we have the little bastards settle the score Billy Madison style and give a speech either explaining business ethics or reflecting on society in literature.
Big missed opportunities Scripps.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

How do you book 50/50 with eight competitors?




I've got it! Octuple Co-Champions!



This is good shit!

[Hit Girl]

May 31, 2019 15:18:42 GMT -5 cosmo said:

May 31, 2019 10:17:30 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

There's a lot of bitching, but most of it is far worse than complaining about how many kids won it.

Gonna take a wild guess and say it’s people bitching about the winners being a bunch of Indian kids?

Yep.

[Push R Truth]

I legitimately didn't know you COULD tie. I just figured they'd keep digging up 20+ letter scientific words from the dictionary until there was only one standing. This is kinda cool!

[Deleted]

Did Mike Greenberg cover this?

It sucked when Greeny covered it years ago.

[Citizen Snips Has Left]

Throw those nerds into the Hunger Games until we get a sole survivor dammit!

[cosmo]

May 31, 2019 15:44:18 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

May 31, 2019 15:18:42 GMT -5 cosmo said:

Gonna take a wild guess and say it’s people bitching about the winners being a bunch of Indian kids?

Yep.

That’s a silly thing to gripe about. Indian kids have been running the table at the Scripps spelling bee for years, there’s no real sense in being pissy about that aspect of it unless you’re just a racist shitbag.

[mcmahonfan85]

May 31, 2019 17:08:22 GMT -5 cosmo said:

May 31, 2019 15:44:18 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

Yep.

That’s a silly thing to gripe about. Indian kids have been running the table at the Scripps spelling bee for years, there’s no real sense in being pissy about that aspect of it unless you’re just a racist shitbag.

[ERON]

You know you've been teaching high school English too long when you watch a spelling bee and think, "Meh, so you can spell skiapodes. Let's see you use it in a sentence."

[Paul]

Everyone's a winner... because of course.

I'm always impressed with the kids who can do these spelling bees.