Did anyone watch the spelling bee finals last week? These kids are insane. I couldn't even spell a single word during the show. For example, the championship word was "Ursprache" and the heads-up opponent fumbled on the word "Weltschmerz". The tournament winnings for the champion was about $42K.
I guess donkeys who can't even spell poker shouldn't bother trying to satellite into the National Spelling Bee.
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Started by AcesUp46, Jun 06 2006 12:41 PM
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 12:44 PM
QUOTE (AcesUp46 @ Tuesday, June 6th, 2006, 4:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Did anyone watch the spelling bee finals last week? These kids are insane. I couldn't even spell a single word during the show. For example, the championship word was "Ursprache" and the heads-up opponent fumbled on the word "Weltschmerz". The tournament winnings for the champion was about $42K.
I guess donkeys who can't even spell poker shouldn't bother trying to satellite into the National Spelling Bee.
I guess donkeys who can't even spell poker shouldn't bother trying to satellite into the National Spelling Bee.
those are both pretty simple german words, if you've taken any german. but if you don't know basic german spelling constructions, you'd be in serious trouble.
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 12:45 PM
QUOTE (AcesUp46 @ Tuesday, June 6th, 2006, 1:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I guess donkeys who can't even spell poker shouldn't bother trying to satellite into the National Spelling Bee.
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 12:46 PM
QUOTE (checkymcfold @ Tuesday, June 6th, 2006, 12:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
those are both pretty simple german words, if you've taken any german. but if you don't know basic german spelling constructions, you'd be in serious trouble.
well the kids are about 11-13 years old so most havent taken german but yeah, they are amazing
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 12:46 PM
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 12:48 PM
QUOTE (checkymcfold @ Tuesday, June 6th, 2006, 12:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
those are both pretty simple german words, if you've taken any german. but if you don't know basic german spelling constructions, you'd be in serious trouble.
Yeah, the runner up was a Canadian girl and coasted to heads up cos some of her words were of French origin and I assume that being Canadian, she's familiar with French. Her last 2 words were German and she got lucky guessing the 2nd last one. But "Weltschmerz" tripped her up. She spelt it as "Veltschmerz", showing her lack of German knowlege.
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 12:50 PM
QUOTE (eYank @ Tuesday, June 6th, 2006, 4:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
well the kids are about 11-13 years old so most havent taken german but yeah, they are amazing
Yea, they've taken german, french, latin, italian, spanish, and swahili. haha. Bunch of home schoolers and 'playground door mats'
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 12:50 PM
QUOTE (AcesUp46 @ Tuesday, June 6th, 2006, 4:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeah, the runner up was a Canadian girl and coasted to heads up cos some of her words were of French origin and I assume that being Canadian, she's familiar with French. Her last 2 words were German and she got lucky guessing the 2nd last one. But "Weltschmerz" tripped her up. She spelt it as "Veltschmerz", showing her lack of German knowlege.
Yes, and the Yankee girl only had to spell 2 words that sound like they are spelt:
Kundalini
Ursprache
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 12:51 PM
I was just surprised that they televised this thing LIVE 
I didn't think that there would be much demand for it but eh ... what do I know?
What would be cool is if they ran a "Where are they now" show for previous winners of like 10 years ago.
And the 1996 winner is now serving slushies at jugo juice but at least they can give you the definition, use it in a sentence and provide the origin of whatever drink you ask for.
Don't get me wrong I still think those kids are pretty amazing to do what they do.
I didn't think that there would be much demand for it but eh ... what do I know?
What would be cool is if they ran a "Where are they now" show for previous winners of like 10 years ago.
And the 1996 winner is now serving slushies at jugo juice but at least they can give you the definition, use it in a sentence and provide the origin of whatever drink you ask for.
Don't get me wrong I still think those kids are pretty amazing to do what they do.
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 12:53 PM
QUOTE (eYank @ Tuesday, June 6th, 2006, 4:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
well the kids are about 11-13 years old so most havent taken german but yeah, they are amazing
lol, don't get me wrong, they could all probably spell me into the ground. i could beat them up, though.
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 12:54 PM
QUOTE (Mercury69 @ Tuesday, June 6th, 2006, 12:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yes, and the Yankee girl only had to spell 2 words that sound like they are spelt:
Kundalini
Ursprache
Spelling Bees are rigged
Kundalini
Ursprache
Spelling Bees are rigged
The Canadian runner up said "Well, that's the Spelling Bee." She said "I wasn't sure that I was right but I had a read from the chief judge that it was spelt with a V. So I went with my read and unfortunately, I missed. In order to survive in spelling bee, you must be willing to die"
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 12:57 PM
QUOTE (AcesUp46 @ Tuesday, June 6th, 2006, 3:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The Canadian runner up said "Well, that's the Spelling Bee." She said "I wasn't sure that I was right but I had a read from the chief judge that it was spelt with a V. So I went with my read and unfortunately, I missed. In order to survive in spelling bee, you must be willing to die"
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 01:00 PM
QUOTE (AcesUp46 @ Tuesday, June 6th, 2006, 12:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The Canadian runner up said "Well, that's the Spelling Bee." She said "I wasn't sure that I was right but I had a read from the chief judge that it was spelt with a V. So I went with my read and unfortunately, I missed. In order to survive in spelling bee, you must be willing to die"
the judge was an american, he was using a reverse tell
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 01:08 PM
Last year's winner was an Indian kid from San Diego and he was on the news talking about how this was better than any sports accomplishment he could ever have....smart kids.
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 02:46 PM
did anyone see that kid at the begining that was like "im a good basketball player, i might be in the nba someday" yet he didnt hit one shot when they showed him at home
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QUOTE (AcesUp46 @ Tuesday, June 6th, 2006, 12:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The Canadian runner up said "Well, that's the Spelling Bee." She said "I wasn't sure that I was right but I had a read from the chief judge that it was spelt with a V. So I went with my read and unfortunately, I missed. In order to survive in spelling bee, you must be willing to die"
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Posted 07 June 2006 - 01:33 PM
Did anybody besides me gamble on the bee?
Like for real?
Me and 3 friends sat down and watched a few rounds. I think we played like X bucks/person/word. So if I spell it right, and my two friends don't, they each owe $X. If everyone gets it right but me, then I owe $X to 3 people It was actually really fun. The best was when a word I absolutely knew how to spell (including "moloch" and a few others). It happened every once in a while.
The worst was when you tried getting fancy with a word, and everyone else just spelled it funetikly. And they were right... and you owed a quick 3X bucks.
I picked up like 20 units or so, and somebody else won like 10-12.
One friend was nearly breakeven, and the big/only loser was down like 30 units. The best part was, the guy who won the 10-12 units was a pretty crappy student in HS, and the guy who lost all the money was a National Merit scholar.
Sweeeet.
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Like for real?
Me and 3 friends sat down and watched a few rounds. I think we played like X bucks/person/word. So if I spell it right, and my two friends don't, they each owe $X. If everyone gets it right but me, then I owe $X to 3 people It was actually really fun. The best was when a word I absolutely knew how to spell (including "moloch" and a few others). It happened every once in a while.
The worst was when you tried getting fancy with a word, and everyone else just spelled it funetikly. And they were right... and you owed a quick 3X bucks.
I picked up like 20 units or so, and somebody else won like 10-12.
One friend was nearly breakeven, and the big/only loser was down like 30 units. The best part was, the guy who won the 10-12 units was a pretty crappy student in HS, and the guy who lost all the money was a National Merit scholar.
Sweeeet.
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Posted 07 June 2006 - 02:01 PM
QUOTE (eYank @ Tuesday, June 6th, 2006, 3:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
did anyone see that kid at the begining that was like "im a good basketball player, i might be in the nba someday" yet he didnt hit one shot when they showed him at home
That whole thing was hilarious -- how about him and his buddy playing a video game, then a pause, and he says "see I told you there was no e on the end" -- they were playing a damn spelling game on Playstation or whatever. And regarding the basketball segment, he says "well I could be as good as Nash, and Jordan -- well, maybe not Jordan". Fantastic
And Wang, I made a bet on the winning word being under 10.5 letters before the bee so that worked out pretty well
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Posted 07 June 2006 - 02:20 PM
QUOTE (ol'number7 @ Wednesday, June 7th, 2006, 6:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
And Wang, I made a bet on the winning word being under 10.5 letters before the bee so that worked out pretty well
I think I would have taken the over. Off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure this is the first year in a while that the winning word's been under 11
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Posted 07 June 2006 - 02:28 PM
QUOTE (Shimmering Wang @ Wednesday, June 7th, 2006, 3:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I think I would have taken the over. Off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure this is the first year in a while that the winning word's been under 11
I was getting +110, the over was a -130 favorite -- thought I'd take a shot for entertainment's sake
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