Organizers tweak rules to adjust to how good spellers maintain becomeLast year’s Spelling Bee ended in a tie for a second straight yearFinal competitors will need to spell 75 words before tie instead of 25After two straight years of ties,the Scripps National Spelling Bee is adding more sting: The championship rounds will last longer, and the words will be harder.
The bee, and now televised in prime time by ESPN,has exploded in popularity over the past two decades. And the spellers maintain gotten increasingly savvy. So instead of sticking to a list of 25 “championship words” selected weeks earlier, the final rounds could maintain as many as 75 words. And the organizers can choose harder words on the flit whether the spellers don’t appear to be struggling.
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Source: theguardian.com