National Spelling Bee Ends in a Tie? Bonus-Funny Video of Cocky Participant
Can't they just open a dictionary to find more words? http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/29/living/national-spelling-bee/
This kid also had a pretty awesome celebration earlier in the day.
This is the kickoff event to the dead period where college athletics are pretty much done and all that's on TV is MLB.
Sigh.
The whole damn band is white except for Jimi.
Let all of the happy thoughts flow. There are no mistakes only happy accidents. If we all celebrated each others victories and cried for each others losses the world would be a better place.
but to be fair, nobody looks good when they're that age.
I think that kid deserved a dead-ball flag for excessive celebration. Though I guess he was technically celebrating while the play was still live so.......
The sniff of the mic before he walks off has me cracking up.
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Say it a couple of times its fun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellbound_%282002_film%29#Nupur_Lala
After watching this, I'm thinking this kid may have asperger's, especially with how he fails to recognize the kid trying to shake his hand, but then immediately wishes him well next year.
I think you're right. Just from the video in the OP, I thought, whoa, weird kid, but now I think he must be otherwise challenged. Good on him, though. I'm a bit of a spelling/grammar nazi and I wouldn't want to meet up with him in a spelling bee.
I am fairly sure that all of us who have been in such competitions have been here. It is always "I GOT THIS!" followed all too swiftly by:
I feel bad for that kid. He probably doesn't have a lot else going for him at this stage in life.
I don't know if that kid is a nerd. He may very well be on the spectrum. I think it's kinda mean to make fun of him.
I'm not making fun of him. I'm pointing out that excellent spellers with extreme social awkwardness aren't exactly valued by their adolescent peers. If you can't see that he would be viewed as a nerd by others in his grade, I don't know what to tell you.
Coming from a teacher...
Middle/High school hasn't changed that much.
Sadly, I have a sense he might not be too aware of much else going in his life or anyone else's.
Eye'm knot sew shure Y spelling is such a big deel.
/s
The Eric Cartman voice helps add to the comedy of the video. I'd say that kid is fortunate that it's the end of the school year. He'd never hear the end of it at school if the spelling bee was in January.
And after looking it up, apparently a kabaragoya is a large water monitor native to South Asia.
I'm reading this as the kid psyching himself up when he knows he is just going to guess at the spelling, yelling "I totally know it" more or less for luck. Kids that age are like that.
Technically he lost at the point which he said "I know it! I totally know it!" since once he states the word, he must proceed to spelling it, and then state the word again to signal he has finished his spelling of the word.
Or something like that.
Somewhat OT, but there is a Michigan connection: both the national spelling bee reader, Dr. Jacques Bailly, and his wife Leslyn, are former Michigan grad students.