Vismaya Made it to Semifinals!

Vismaya Kharkar, the speller from Salt Lake, has done it again! She made it to semifinals! This is her last year, and she tied for tenth last year! Who knows? Maybe Utah will have their first champion, but there are also other spellers to look out for.

All these spellers are fourth and fifth timers at the Bee!

39 Grace Remmer

48 Rachael Cundey

93 Emily Keaton

115 Amber Born

156 Sriram J. Hathwar

163 Arvind Mahankali

238 Chetan Reddy

Then we also have other spellers: 

91 Vanya Shivashankar - the sister of the 2009 Champion, Kavya Shivashankar, who is at the Bee for her third time!

The computer-based test was today, and there were twelve spelling words and twelve vocabulary words (one point per word for both), again. Then the speller received two vocabulary words, again (3 points each).

Tomorrow: In Rounds 5 and 6, if the speller spells his/her word correctly he/she receives 3-points per round. If the word is misspelled, the speller is out. The spellers will have to meet a certain score to make it to the Championship Finals...

Good luck to all!