Laura Newcombe ESPN montage commencing. OK, so we know her prowess in life, at the early age of 11. Let's see her spelling prowess at its finest.
The thunder you hear from our neighbors up north is the hope of all Canadian staying strong. Nicely done, Laura. ESPN might be seeing their invested montage time pay off for a long time in this competition.
The Boy Scout Brian King might have seen some weasels in his life, but it probably didn't help him spell "musteline." Paul Loeffler wanted a sentence for "musteline." Let's just move merrily along here, shall we, Paul?
No one's pressured for time to this point yet. I wonder if they told the semifinalists to "take your time, but not too much time" or if there's new "bonus time" restrictionsto speed it up.
Rahul Malayppan is out!!! Gone before ESPN could put the word on the board. We'll see him next year, and he BLOGS!!!
A quick shout-out to contributor and recent alumni of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Josephine Kao, who I heard from right before the bee. YAY!!!! To give some perspective to this bee, Josephine, would was probably a top 5 or so speller last year in terms of credentials (but my personal favorite, of course), would be the odds-on favorite to win it this year with similar credentials: 4th year in the bee, 2 top 20 finishes, awesome personality. My point? IT'S WIDE OPEN THIS YEAR!!!!!!!
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