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If you want to see a bunch of elementary and middle schoolers have a mental breakdown behind a microphone over "verbarspermococcus," the National Spelling Bee starts its first round today at 8AM until 11:45 AM today before coming back at 1:15 PM, then resuming for the semifinals tomorrow at 10 AM and the finals at 10 PM. The stuff on today will be on ESPN 3, the semifinals on ESPN 2, and the finals on ESPN, like some kind of gradual evolution of "sports" relevance that ends with someone like Samantha Ponder going, "Ah, how cute!" at the kids for an hour. The rules are constantly evolving because the goal is actually pretty attainable (just memorize the dictionary) so there's more and more bullshit offscreen computer testing that the participants have to go through to weed them out, but it still didn't work because there were co-champions last year because they spelled each other into a tie. So I'm not even sure how the rules work anymore, but presumably the broadcast will explain it. The Favorite  Vanya Shivashankar, official Chilid Genius (TM) thanks to a bullshit Lifetime Channel reality competition, four time returner to the Bee, sister of a previous winner, yadda yadda, kinda the Seattle Seahawks of spelling bees or some other tortured comparison equivalent. Probably gonna win. Other Contenders I dunno, Gokul maybe. I don't recognize many of these kids from last year. Also, the best way to find someone to root for is go here and pick out the kid who went to school nearest where you lived or grew up or whatever. Alternatively, just spot the most awkward kid there and root for them as they go through their most embarrassing routines and tics imaginable. Why Should I Care? Mostly because it gives good .gifs to use in actual sports GDTs.   Alternatively, because you like chess, but figured it just wasn't nerdy enough to root for, so you want to look at even nerdier poo poo under the thin guise of "competition."
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May 27, 2015 12:44
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Kid laughed at getting "llama" and that wasn't even the easiest word that's been offered. ("Renegade," really?) While other kids get random Chinese or Hawaiian words. The early rounds are weird that way.
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May 27, 2015 13:55
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Ah, yes. "Ribaldry." 
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May 27, 2015 19:00
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Kid who apparently dressed as Tom Baker for a Halloween is out. 
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May 28, 2015 15:08
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Henchman of Santa posted:Cy is the most Jewish kid I have ever seen. I'm all in on him. The horribly shoehorned-in sports references have only just begun. Gokul the Lebron of Spelling going against the Spurs that are the Shivashankars, who wins???
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May 28, 2015 15:40
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"Oh well."
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May 28, 2015 17:20
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I took a nap and hosed up the time for when this started, and I was like, "What, there's only two spellers left? Okay, Gokul and... Vanya, that's completely unsurprising." That No Questions Ending owned. Good bee, just for that. Gonna pour one out for Jae Canetti tonight. Nvr 4gt.
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May 29, 2015 03:07
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