The championship finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a dramatic draw, after eight contestants combined to spell the final 47 words correctly over five consecutive perfect rounds - a feat unprecedented in the competition's 94-year history. When organisers ran out of sufficiently challenging words 20 rounds in, they awarded the winner's prize of $50,000 to all eight remaining contenders

Source: The Guardian May 31, 2019 17:03 UTC