A Tampa preteen won the Scripps National Spelling Bee championship on Thursday night.
The competition on Thursday night was a nail-biter, initially ending in a tie. However, Bruhat Soma, 12, emerged victorious by spelling 29 words correctly in 90 seconds in a “spell-off.” That was nine more words than the second-place winner, Faizan Zaki.
Before the competition, Soma stated that he was nervous and felt pressure to win because of his previous performances, which included not losing a spelling bee in eight months, the“I was pretty confident that I had a chance at winning because I’ve been working so hard,” Soma said. “And I really wanted to win. That’s why I practiced the spell-off so much.”As champion, Bruhat received over $50,000 in cash and prizes, along with a trophy to commemorate his efforts.
This year’s spelling bee was slightly different for Scripps since it advanced to a tiebreaker. By doing so, the rules specified that the contest winner would be the contestant who spelled the most words correctly in 90 seconds, as mentioned above, thereported. The word that ended up being the winning word was “abseil,” which means “descent in mountaineering by means of a rope looped over a projection above.”, a former speller and study guide author, according to the“I always want to win.
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