Listen: Scripps National Spelling Bee ends in unprecedented 8-way tie
"Scripts, national spelling bee normally I do watch a little bit of this, but it was on during the finals. History made they ran out of words. They beat the dictionary, essentially twenty rounds eight spellers. They decided. Well, we don't go any further ninety four year history of these scripts, national spelling bee and ended in an eight way. Tie eight coach spelled the final forty seven words, correctly, going through five straight perfect rounds. Each of them will get the full winner's prize of fifty thousand dollars cash because that was that was like question. I'm like, wait. Whoa, eight we're going to split the fifty K. That's nothing. But no someone I don't know how that works where they just have this extra money or what all of a sudden, they're, they're pulling up a ton extra money for this eight times what they are seven times. I'm sorry, seven times they were going to give out. That's really cool in the spelling. Bee, first of all, like splitting Fords. That, that's what I'm saying is they beat the dictionary. How is that even possible? Of course, there's more words than a dictionary. But the idea that. The contest did not have enough words prepare they didn't think it would go past twenty rounds of the competition. I'm Ben that doesn't"