87th Scripps National Spelling Bee

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87th Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Date May 27-29, 2014
Location Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland
Winner Ansun Sujoe
Sriram Hathwar
(co-winners)
Age 13 (Sujoe) / 14 (Hathwar)
Residence Fort Worth, Texas (Sujoe) / Painted Post, New York (Hathwar)
Sponsor Texas Christian University (Sujoe)
Corning Rotary Club (Hathwar)
Winning word feuilleton (Sujoe) / stichomythia (Hathwar)
No. of contestants 281
Preceded by 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee
Followed by 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee

The 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held from May 27 to May 29, 2014[1] at the Gaylord National in Oxon Hill, Maryland and was broadcast live on ESPN3, the semi-finals on ESPN2, with the final rounds live on ESPN.[2] Ansun Sujoe of Fort Worth, Texas and Sriram Hathwar of Painted Post, New York won the competition, making the 87th Bee the twelfth in the past sixteen competitions to have an Indian-American champion.

Competition details

  • 281 spellers participated in the 2014 competition.
  • The competition welcomed 208 new spellers around the world.
  • The youngest competitor, at 8 years old, was Hussain A. Godhrawala from South Carolina.

Finals

Both Sujoe and Hathwar spelled their words incorrectly in Round 16 of the championship round. Hathwar misspelled the word corpsbruder, meaning a close comrade. However, Sujoe was unable to take the advantage of the slip-up, misspelling antigropelos, meaning waterproof leggings.[3]

For the rest of the 25-word championship list they spelled every word correctly. In the final round, Hathwar correctly spelled stichomythia and Sujoe correctly spelled feuilleton, exhausting the list of words. As co-champions, Hathwar and Sujoe were the seventh consecutive Indian-Americans to win the competition.[4] It was the first time the competition ended in co-champions in over 50 years, since the 1962 bee.[5]

Word list championship round

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