SPELLING CHAMP: Harini Logan took down the runner-up in the bee's first-ever lightning-round tiebreaker on Thursday night.
OXON HILL, Maryland -- Harini Logan kept trying to learn from her near-misses in online spelling bees. Recognized for years as one of the best spellers in the English language, she had never taken home a national title.
The 14-year-old eighth-grader from San Antonio, Texas, who competed in the last fully in-person bee three years ago and endured the pandemic to make it back, spelled 21 words correctly during the 90-second spell-off, beating Vikram by six. The winning word, according to Scripps, was"moorhen," which means the female of the red grouse, because that was the one that moved her past Vikram.Language of origin: This word is originally English.
"I think it would have been really easy for me to get deterred, to get sort of like, 'Wow, why am I missing so much?'" Harini said."Really just focusing on the next word and knowing that I'm still in, I think was just a big relief for me." "We did a little sleuthing after you finished, which is what our job is, to make sure we've made the right decision," Brooks said."We a little deep dive in that word and actually the answer you gave to that word is considered correct, so we're going to reinstate you."
Two more rounds, two more misspelled words by each, and Scripps brought out the podium and buzzer for the lightning round that all the finalists had practiced for in the mostly empty ballroom hours earlier."I knew I just had to blurt off the spelling I could think of off the top of my head, and I just had to be a little faster," said Vikram, a 12-year-old seventh-grader from Aurora, Colorado, who hopes to return next year.
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