Ohio girl wins National Spelling Bee with 'stromuhr'
Anamika Veeramani, 14, of North Royalton, Ohio, gets a hug from her parents after winning the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Credit: MCT
By an unpopular move.. Concerned that there wouldn't be enough spellers left to fill the two-hour slot on ABC, organizers stopped the semifinals in the middle of a round Friday afternoon - and declared that the 10 spellers onstage would advance to the prime-time broadcast, including six who didn't have to spell a word in the interrupted round. The alphabetical order of the U.S. states helped determine who got to move on to the marquee event.. There were 19 spellers left at the start of the round - too many for prime time. But when the round turned out brutal (nine of the first 13 misspelled), ABC was on the verge of having too few.. Bee director Paige Kimble stressed that the move was within the rules.
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