Scripps National Spelling Bee 2016 - Last Few Minutes

[@Akash_Tyagi_93]

Boys of Indian origin rocking the National spelling bee championship once again. Well done boys. Congrats.

[@hemanthbt]

Well done kids...!! I liked their sportsmanship. They both supported and encouraged each other until last moment. Something rare to find. They displayed a Mature attitude.

[@MF7.1]

10:09 that self-five though ! Hahaha :D

[@1progamer152]

MasterFrog7 He miss two high five lol 😂😂he was like WTF

[@gigiky]

This is like the ending of Akeelah and the Bee, one of my favourite childhood movies.

[@diamndz1021]

yup! love that movie

[@IAmWebCrawler]

INDIAN BOYS ROCK IN THE SPELLING BEE

[@aa-eo2xd]

It's because they are dull.

[@pageturner72]

They’re coping so well with so much pressure

[@DipikaDesaboyina]

Nihar decidedly threw the competition at tetradrachm.

[@YolandaNiHP]

Yeah, I thought so too. Nihar's a terrific speller, and I'm sure that he'd realized that it was four drachmas. That reminded me a lot of 'Akeelah and the Bee.'

[@joannwuli7201]

he purposely misspelt the word

[@chaffyelf2512]

Nah I row crew with him in Austin and asked him, he said he genuinely misspelled it

[@TheCayman75]

Wait so they're both Champions ??? These kids are like the Kenyans in marathon but for Spelling Bee 😝😂😝😂

[@erichpouch8802]

Mischsprache is easy to spell if you know anything about the German language

[@clintonp5395]

Exactly! I was able to spell it by the first try!

[@YolandaNiHP]

But everything else had me (and everyone else in this comment section, I'm sure) positively stumped. Quite ironic, isn't it?

[@staggmovie]

Makes you wonder how they might try to change it up to see if they can get a solo winner at the spelling bee, or if we are truly in a new era that one speller doesn't want to win without the other speller when it gets down to the final 2.

[@elliyuh228]

I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooo into Scripps National Spelling Bee!!!!

[@Phymacss]

Me too!💗

[@greatexpectations9446]

12:06 my mam my mam it is just my mam 😭😭😭 i know how much mothers suffer and work hard with thier kids ..God bless you mams🌹💝🌷

[@NickSquaredTV]

So many missed high fives here

[@rootsOfMadness15]

Janga let those two words wrong so that they can both win.. very great kid

[@gilbertoo8663]

yeah

[@ennakavi2129]

Yes, especially tetradachm

[@i_love_animals5080]

he is very great but that's really dumb to do in a spelling bee because the other boy could easily change his mind about being co champions and easily spell his word right

[@tcltv-ei2eu]

@@i_love_animals5080 Indians smell the similarity of blood

[@LampP0st]

I don't know any of these words or how to spell them

[@ennakavi2129]

4.20 nihar was determined to get that word wrong. GReat sync btw two kids Hope they become great doctors and lifelong friends!! This is more than American individualism.

[@brianb5145]

When will the full video be available? I recorded the preliminaries earlier in the day, but didn't realize the finals had moved from ESPN2 to ESPN and missed the full competition with the final 10 spellers. I was out of town.

[@dipenchandra4014]

Thanku very much congratulation

[@irishfan743]

I wish the kid in the white shirt would've won. The other kid was shaking his head when he got one wrong, clapping in his face, and didn't smack him high 5 at the end. Even holding the trophy at the end was rude and selfish. Hopefully his parents had a conversation with him regarding his behavior.

[@araaeduconsult9587]

fantastic......

[@noranhc9969]

for some reason I was able to spell feldenkrais too

[@nayanmdesai]

MEE TWO

[@princianorvz]

like the stars

[@BimalenduSinhabrain]

looking here and there ... phew no indian-american thank god....... after 5 minute ----- ravi ramalingam please come on the stage. damn not again...........

[@andrew-le4210]

Lol

[@mattfolta6956]

he threw up the x like dez bryant lol

[@GoldenCubeYouTubeChannel]

Haha! I like your jokes!

[@khaledmuhanna9665]

13:00 JUST BREATHE GODDAMN IT

[@aflahn]

wow 😃!!

[@louisbasler2958]

How are you

[@jrd.9069]

bad ass

[@DianeF-nd6rm]

Hello

[@MVP_Steve]

NIHAR IS IN MY CLASS LMAO IM FRIENDS WITH HIM

[@ArvinGuy]

WOW. WE CARE SO MUCH.

[@willywonka8204]

Arvin Guy xd good response

[@JuanAlvarez-hw9fs]

Bullshit

[@seanpratten9221]

#throwupthex

[@francoisbenoit6752]

Left Hanging... 10:09 10:12 10:26 11:07

[@mastermoralitymaster1171]

Ancient India had thousands of years of civilization while Europe was plagued with disease. I don't see the importance of spelling these words, these children are too intelligent well done

[@purshottamadevadhikar5035]

Yeah but now India's a shithole so, whats your point.

[@sk-spawn3315]

10:16 and 14 he became a fool

[@haiytian]

Groenendael.

[@haiytian]

Mischsprache

[@haiytian]

Tetradrachm

[@haiytian]

Zindiq

[@haiytian]

Euchologion

[@badmiyagi]

Some ask how come so many Indian kids win the Spelling Bee. First, Americans generally suck at spelling, second, just look at some of those Indian names, especially last names They have a beginning and an end yes, yet they're miles apart. I mean if they can spell and pronounce them forward and back, and they do, what's going to rattle them or 'em' if you so choose? NADA!Why don't you try spelling and/or pronouncing one, just one. You know all the names have a meaning too.So, there's my take on it. Besides huge support from family, yes, including parents these kids are used to cramming.It's just the nature of the culture.

[@jaisonnn1806]

he tried high fiving him too many times

[@stoneypatchkid7734]

Hindus

[@niswan7657]

yes and Indians

[@averyplayz3057]

I wold never spell like that

[@xyu610]

I can definetly tell....

[@shapereinhardt3151]

+AngelicApathy you are definitely in that same boat.

[@xyu610]

Shape Reinhardt Hmm?

[@shapereinhardt3151]

AngelicApathy​​ lol every body can see your edit stupid girl lmao.. you wrote "defineatly"... and now also changed to "definetly" "Hmm"?! Lol. 

[@rehanakhambati7485]

2021 😂

[@UttiyaGoswami]

5 dislikes? Those must be Pakistanis.....

[@irrelevantmasterxd692]

Uttiya Goswami or those must be dislikers..

[@umair5602]

What do indians know about this all the winners are American citizens stop trying to claim credit for what others do

[@jasonstarrising]

Uttiya Goswami hahahahahah

[@vProxify]

Why is their two winners

[@morganmartin5860]

There are 25 championship words, which are unbelievable difficult. If the champions exhaust all of them, they both win.

[@ReverendHogwash]

This should be called a MEMORY competition instead of a spelling contest! Great they memorized how to spell words they will never use in their lifetimes.

[@TheMelonStorm]

If they memorized the words they wouldn't need any additional information to spell the word ;) It's impossible to remember every word in the dictionary anyway :)

[@IArif-jp5cy]

its not just memorizing the words. they have the lean the Morphology of different languages, grammar and many other things. Thant is the reason they ask for the definition and the origin of the word. This is actually a very important skill to have.

[@ReverendHogwash]

From what I was told they are all given a list of potential words ahead of time - its not the entire dictionary. If I was told incorrectly so be it, but that does not change the fact they likely never use these words again the rest of their lives.

[@c.gwakamole2350]

ah but that is only the school, districts, and regional ones, not nationals you see ( I am in spelling bee btw)

[@RicAbapo]

Reverend Hogwash You're wrong. The musical words that were used are words we use from time to time in the 'classical music world', in fact, the word Berceuse is very common. So if one of them decides to pursue music, then you're wrong already. Besides, if you watch the performance of Nihar, he knew several words already, meaning he could use those words whenever he wants to and the opportunity to use them arrives. Don't be too negative. :)

[@queencleopatra5679]

*nihar is egotistic*

[@luci0x0]

who do you think you are to comment on what nihar is like. please you dont even know him. i grew up with that kid in my classes and he has one of the best personalities that ive ever seen.

[@juwan5256]

As much as I am interested in them, I am NOT interested in their face especially Nihars.

[@thomas261989]

I guess you should never look into a mirror then

[@nayanmdesai]

YOU DO NOT NEED MASK ON HALOWEEN.