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[1] 632 words were used, and Bee took eight hours to complete. [4] The first place award was $1,000, doubled from the previous year, with $500 for second place and $250 for third. The next five each received $100, the next ten $50, and the remaining 45 spellers $25 each. [1]
Girls won nine consecutive competitions from 1932 to 1940. Joint winners have been crowned on seven occasions in the Bee's history. The first such occurrence was in 1950, when Dean Colquitt and Diana Reynard were declared co-champions after the contestants had exhausted the list of available words. [4]
In 2019, the Spelling Bee ran out of words that might challenge the contestants and ended up having 8 winners. The 2020 National Spelling Bee competition, originally scheduled for May 24, was suspended and later canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] [3] [4] This was the first time it had been canceled since 1945. [5]
The showdown began between O'Dorney and Gartke when both contestants were the last to survive correctly spelling 7 consecutive words each. The first place prize was $50,000 in cash, and additional prizes from Scripps. [1] The championship finals aired live on ABC from 8:00 PM to shortly after 10:00 p.m. EDT.
The first place prize was raised from $40,000 (which it had been since 2016) to $50,000 this year. In the event of a tie, the two winners would split the first and second place ($25,000) awards ($37,500 each).
Karthik Nemmani, a 14-year-old from McKinney, Texas won the bee after he correctly spelled the word "koinonia". 12-year-old Naysa Modi, a fourth-time speller from Frisco, Texas, placed second, falling on the word "Bewusstseinslage". The two finalists were both from the Dallas area; Nemmani was a wild-card entrant under this year's new rules ...
The total prize pool was US$5,070,000 and it was spread among the teams. The first place (SK Telecom T1) took $2,028,000, the second team (Samsung Galaxy) took $760,500, and the third and fourth place (ROX Tigers and H2K) took $380,250 divided among the 2 teams. The rest of the prize pool was distributed among the 5th–16th places.
Coming in second place was 11-year-old Edna Stover of Trenton, New Jersey, winning $250, who spelled gladiolus with a "y" instead of an "i". Third place went to 12-year-old Helen Fischer of Akron, Ohio ($150) who missed "moribund", and fourth prize went to 13-year-old Mary Daniel of Hartford, Connecticut ($100) who missed "valuing".