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National Spelling Bee adds vocabulary and lightning-round tiebreaker for 2021 Guardian sport and agencies © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters
The Scripps National Spelling Bee is undergoing a major overhaul to ensure it can identify a single champion, adding vocabulary questions and a lightning-round tiebreaker to this year’s pandemic-altered competition.
The 96-year-old bee has in the past included vocabulary on written tests but never in the high-stakes oral competition rounds, where one mistake eliminates a speller. The only previous tiebreaker to determine a single champion was a short-lived extra written test that never turned out to be needed.
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