The Scripps National Spelling Bee had its toughest day of competition with the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds. Wednesday began with 148 spellers on stage and by early afternoon, more than 100 had been eliminated. Among them were some veteran spellers who hoped to improve on their previous performances and qualify for Thursday night's finals.
Achyut Ethiraj, 14, of Fort Wayne, Ind., reacts to misspelling his word during the quarterfinal round of competition in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, in Oxon Hill, Md., Wednesday, May 29, 2024. N’Adom Darko-Asare, 13, of Accra, Ghana, covers her face while listening to the competition during the quarterfinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, in Oxon Hill, Md., Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Darko-Asare is the last of three Ghanaian competitors left in the quarterfinals.
“It’s my last year, and I expected to do better, but I guess it is what it is,” he said. “And I have to move on.” “I’m sure when I was making my lists, I just assumed, ‘Oh, everybody knows the Sistine Chapel.’ But the reality is these kids are like 10 to 14. They might not have the ... cultural knowledge that us older people have,” said the 22-year-old Walters, a former speller. “So that’s definitely something I feel like I overlooked in helping him prepare.”
He has plenty of company. Spellers who place high expectations on themselves based on past performance often fall short. Rare is a speller like Vanya Shivashankar, who came in with enormous buzz in 2015 after years of strong finishes and, didn’t make the finals the following year.
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