83rd Scripps National Spelling Bee
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The 83rd Scripps National Spelling Bee
was an event held from June 2, 2010 to June 4, 2010 at Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington D.C., United States of America.
Scripps National Spelling Bee
The Scripps National Spelling Bee is a highly competitive annual spelling bee in the United States, with participants from other countries as well. It is run on a not-for-profit basis by The E. W...
was an event held from June 2, 2010 to June 4, 2010 at Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington D.C., United States of America.
Competition details
- 273 spellers participated in the 2010 competition, including the greatest number of U.S. based spellers in the history of the event. There was also a special guest, the Liberian spelling bee winner, who would have been #94 if she had been a competitor.
- The number of participants was down from last year, which had 293. The Canadian contingent, which usually has 21 spellers only sent the winner of the Canspell National Spelling Bee to represent Canada this year.
- The 2010 competition was the shortest National Spelling Bee on record, consisting of only nine rounds. More meaningfully, it featured the fewest rounds of any competition since the introduction in 2000 of a written test designed to shorten the competition by eliminating as many spellers as would several early rounds.
- This year's competition was the first visit for 110 spellers.
- The 2010 competition's youngest participant, at 8 years old, was Vanya Shivashankar, sister of the 2009 winner Kavya Shivashankar.
- The spellers ranged in age from 8 to 15 years old, with 80% being between 12 and 14 years old (inclusive).
- Tim Ruiter, who placed 2nd in the 2009 bee82nd Scripps National Spelling BeeThe 82nd Scripps National Spelling Bee took place between May 26, 2009, and May 28, 2009, and involved 293 participants.-Champion:The winner was Kavya Shivashankar. Her winning word was Laodicean. She was sponsored by The Olathe News. She won $35,000 in cash and more than $5,000 in prizes...
and was a favorite to win, was eliminated in round four. - Neetu Chandak, who placed 8th in 2009 and was making her fourth appearance at the National Spelling Bee, misspelled paravane in round 5 but was reinstated because she received an ambiguous answer to a question about the word's etymology. In the next round, however, she was eliminated on apogalacteum.
Top finishers
- Anamika Veeramani, from North Royalton, OhioNorth Royalton, OhioAs of the census of 2000, there were 28,647 people, 11,250 households, and 7,695 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,345.9 people per square mile . There were 11,754 housing units at an average density of 552.2 per square mile...
(a suburb of ClevelandCleveland, OhioCleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
), a student at Incarnate Word Academy in Parma Heights, won the Bee with the word StromuhrStromuhrA stromuhr was a medical instrument designed by Carl Ludwig in 1867 to measure the strength of flow in major arteries and veins....
. - This was the third year in a row that an Indian-American has won the championship. Eight Indian-Americans have won in the last 12 years .
- Adrian Gunawan of Illinois, Elizabeth Platz of Missouri, and Shantanu Srivatsa of North Dakota all tied for second place. This was the first three-way tie for second place in the event's history.
- 5th Place (tie): Laura Newcombe of Canada, Lanson Tang of Maryland, Joanna Ye of Pennsylvania, and Andrew Grose of Wisconsin.
Broadcast information
- ABCAmerican Broadcasting CompanyThe American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
aired the championship round in primetime from 8 to 9:37 p.m. Eastern time on June 4. Even though ESPN branding was not used, ESPN style presentation was used. - The event was shown live in the Eastern and CentralCentral Time zoneIn North America, the Central Time Zone refers to national time zones which observe standard time by subtracting six hours from UTC , and daylight saving, or summer time by subtracting five hours...
time zones and on tape delay in the MountainMountain Time ZoneThe Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time, also known as Greenwich Mean Time, during the shortest days of autumn and winter , and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time in the spring, summer, and early autumn...
and PacificPacific Time ZoneThe Pacific Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 120th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory. During daylight saving time, its time offset is UTC-7.In the United States...
zones, as well as in AlaskaAlaskaAlaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
and HawaiiHawaiiHawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
. - Chris HarrisonChris HarrisonChristopher Bryan "Chris" Harrison is an American television host, perhaps best known for his role as host of the ABC reality television dating show The Bachelor since 2002 and its spin-offs The Bachelorette since 2003 and Bachelor Pad in 2010...
, Erin AndrewsErin AndrewsErin Jill Andrews is an American sportscaster, journalist, and television personality. As of 2011 she is a co-host of the ESPN entertainment show College GameDay and a contributor for Good Morning America on the ABC network...
and Paul Loeffler hosted the Championship Finals. - Earlier rounds were carried online at ESPN3.com on June 3 at 1:15 p.m. ET/10:15 a.m. PT, and on ESPNESPNEntertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
on June 4 at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT.