spelling bee record eight children win scripps national in the us

Record eight children win Scripps National in the US On Thursday night. The finalists, aged 12 to 14, spelled their way through 20 tough rounds of the competition.2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee at National Harbor on Oxon Hill, Maryland.Organisers eventually announced that it was a tie, as they had run out of words that were challenging enough.With six of the winners being Indian-American, it is the 12th year in a row that the bee has been won by children of Indian descent.The Scripps National Spelling Bee has seen an increasingly competitive field in its 94-year history but organisers were stunned when several hours of spelling tests were unable to break the final eight competitors. All successfully navigated 20 rounds of increasingly obscure words to be crowned co-champions in one of America's oldest competitions. The Scripps National Spelling Bee has seen an increasingly competitive field in its 94-year history but organisers were stunned when several hours of spelling tests were unable to break the final eight competitors.As the hours ran on, Jacques Bailly, the competition's pronouncer, told the finalists: "We're throwing the dictionary at you, and, so far, you are showing the dictionary who's boss".Rishik Gandharsi, 13; Erin Howard, 14; Saketh Sundar, 13; Shruthika Padhy, 13; Sohum Sukhantankar, 13; Abhijay Kodali, 12; Christopher Serrao, 13 and Rohan Raja, 13, were eventually crowned co-champions after spelling 47 consecutive words correctly.  Some 562 super-spellers under the age of 15, from across the US, US territories and six other countries, took part.Each will now receive a prize of $50,000 (£39,700), a $2,500 savings bond and reference books.Among the words they spelled correctly were omphalopsychite, a person who stares at their navel to induce a mystical trance, and auftaktigkeit, a musical principle where all musical phrases begin on an upbeat.There were quite a few tough medical terms in there too - including erysipelas, an infection that causes red rashes on the skin, and geeldikkop, a type of plant poisoning that can affect sheep.