c'mon guys swarm sixteen take your places please the boys and girls boys and girls on stage ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen quiet please quiet please boys and girls quiet please s ok this is the competitive part of the spelling bee this is when things get a little bit more serious but it's still a lot of fun one year i've been doing this for ten years and one year i did not have enough coffee and my brain actually started to drift at this point which is when i actually have to announce it so i do have a double espresso over there so i'm ready abi for we begin we're going to reduce all your kids i just wanted reduce the dream team down here and man has been here all day with us she's a realtor in town one of the sponsors she's one of the pronouncers laurie graham in orange is the former chair of the school committee and still on the school committee another pronouncer it's a with them our iron pants been here all day suzanne al cock is known to many as a former kindergarten teacher at burbank she's the umpire and haven't done kindergarten for a long time this is a piece of cake and lucia a is also on the school committee she is the time keeper so kids are you ready you're ready ok i just want to introduce the teams which are you ready when you can do better than i already ok moms and dads are you ready and grandparents and guard it come on in are you read ok very quickly we have a lot of ground to cover i'm going to start from the far side forgive me if i minutes mispronounced names i'll do my best we have the chubby chickens david couey robert shang felix  artichokes adrian gallagher collin martin and eric  now i want to speak to the children and the rest of you can listen in for a second guys this is competitive but there's one winner here tonight and that's the english language and whether you go all the way to the end and win the prize or whether you do not make it to the next round you're brave for being here you're smart and you're going to gain something from this ok so be proud no matter what happens right ok without further ado i turn it over to the panel so oh by the way we are being broadcast live on the belmont media by the bellman media center and the broadcast we will be repeated at noon on saturdays and sundays throughout november channel ninety six on comcast channel thirty on horizon this is the eighth year that this is been broadcast live this is also the fourteenth spelling bee and there  seven hundred and forty some odd kids participating and all the money goes to support the foundation so let's let's rock swarm sixteen just to let you know what the rules are for this competitive round we're going to read a word in and i will take turns reading of a word that's on the list we will say the word we will use it in a sentence and w repeat the word when we're done with that and then here's going to start counting you've got twenty seconds to write down the word she will give you a ten second warning and at twenty seconds jill rang the bell just like that at that point in time we need you to put down your markers and the board up over your head it's very important that you write as large as you so that we can read it if you're doing any a racing you can do it when you're writing at the first time but don't be a racing anything after the board is up ok we need to be able to see it if you get the word it spelled incorrectly fire here is will tell you that and you have to put one of your stingers down today you have two chances to get the words correctly we're going to read six words that are on the list and then we will go off less and we're going to do this for but it's really important to write is neatly as you can and as large as you can so that we can be able to see it all right and he questions oh ok then we're going to get started  the first word is bankruptcy several years ago with the economic turndown several people struggled bankruptcy seconds left do you not spell out loud can you hold up your boards with girls boys and girls very important do not erase until we tell you to please ok because of the confusion word that word is not going to count so everybody race will start from scratch but again please don't race till we tell you boys and girls ok thank you we're just getting used to doing it it's been a long was and i am new at this so they are with me ok so then your first real word is glamorous the actress was very glamorous on the red carpet when she won the grammy glamorous everybody can air race yeah everybody was correct everybody everybody's correct yeah ok one thing one thing i want to know there's a lot of tension on the stage i want you guys to do with me ok everybody stretch no matter how this night and i want you to all be very optimistic and positive because you try optimistic ok hold up those words nice and high and leave them up so we can see that alrighty you already your next word is pro creston eight i often pro crast in eight and leave my chores until the last minute pro crast in eight ok hold up your boards nice and high so we can see job ok so so far we have had bankruptcy which didn't count we've had glamorous which did optimistic procrastinate and confiscation try to make a sentence all right is everybody ready for the next word everybody ok with magic markers and racers and everything everybody school ok ok the next word penitentiary area the prisoner went to the quiet please in the audience quiet please ten seconds i love flowers so my friend lori bought me a chrysanthemum is that phrase it's my favorite flower chrysanthemum ladies and gentlemen in the auditorium silence please show her the spellers need to hear and concentrate ten second number five i needed your horn up close could i have this please number six is correct number seven ranked number eight is right and number nine is correct you bet which this ok hold up those board  and the rest i think are still remaining so if your have no stingers left would you kindly stand down and again we salute you for spelling valu yeah again again you guys should be proud for last coming as far as you did and everybody wins hold it up again for now the way you spell ostentatious has to be an eighteen ok teams seven and eight i would ask you to stand down if you would we have the bacon winners in the beauty for us ok so we have left and then there were three we have cast a spell team three we have the champions team four and the chubby chickens team nine each team before and nine have one stinger left in team three has two so onward we excuse me free pass time with that the remaining teams i was told that once we're down to three we go on to the next round so you guys everybody gets this correct and let's have a hand for these three teams the three of you will go on to the finals thank you very much thank you k let's bring swarm seventeen on to the stage so warm seventeen come on  up ok ladies and gentlemen quiet please show shy quiet please out of respect for our spellers ladies and gentlemen please quiet please be quiet if your lips are moving that means you unless you're not making sounds ladies and gentleman we ask for quiet please thank you and in a quick announcement food and drink still being sold in the cafeteria the money goes to the foundation for a bel education this is the second swarm in the competitive part of the b before introduce the teams everybody relaxed richard out come on guys stretch it out take a couple of deep breath we're going to have some fun here take it easy ok let's have a hand first warm seventeen i'll introduce them in a minute i asked for a hand that's two hands not the sound of one hand clapping this is not a zen koan ladies and gentlemen we clap our hands together all right let me introduce these teams team on over here the dictionaries and forgive me if i mispronounce any names ok dark and lauren arsenault katrina mccarthy and sides nice sheth boss ok team to the dynamic du lange team for football fanatics easy to tell from the jerseys brendan burkett clark consider charlie november and sandwich they've got fans out there team five killer kids and last but not least spellers and black thomas grace declan harrington edwin kirby and julian parker sartori now ok kids remember this is competitive but you're to be congratulated just for being here if you move on to the next round terrific if you don't you'll learn a lot and you have some fun here tonight ok so we salute you no matter what happens right all right go ahead guys yeah thanks you guys for all being up here it really matters that you try and life keep on trying no matter what happens tonight so here's the rules you to get lori and i my friend are going to read a word to you that we're going to say that word in a sentence and then we're going to read it again once we've read the word and my friend at the end here she's going to put a timer on you have twenty seconds to write that word down you're going to have a ten second warning and then the bells going to ring and she just rang and that's when your twenty seconds are up and suzanne is going to take a look you're going to hold your boards up you're going to have written that word big because we can't see it if you don't write it big enough and then we're going to have to call it down and have a read here so write it big hold it above your head do not a raise your board and till we have told you you have permission to do so ok because this is the competitive round this is big time everything you write down counts so you're a donor h donor race and the thing is that we're all working together to try to get them it's not just suzanne we're all going to be looking at the word so keep it up hold it up until we tell you to erase it once we've told you to then we'll go on to the next word we're going to go six words on lists so you all got the lists you memorized the words are going to six words from there after that we're going to go off list if you get a word mis spell you have two chances that's what those two stingers on your desk are for if you misspell a word one stinger goes down you got one more shot i boasting ors go down you're welcome to stay on the stage until it's over or you may depart it's up to you and laurie graham is going to be reading your first word tonight all right so your first word is voracious ten seconds left ok hold on up towards nice and high so we can all see them do the parents you think we're kidding franklin talker from belmonte and said that would be quick the next word is she went with good food without good food for so long she was undernourished undernourished is the word you know i feel kind of like a sideline reporter at e s p n and i have to tell you i don't know if you guys can see it or feel it or hear it but there's a lot of chatter there is this palpable crackling tension from the stage here all right are you ready for your next word the word is extricate the fly and try to extricate itself from the spider's web extricate we can ok hold on we're just going to take number ten no no just leave it right there i'm just putting number ten down so we don't get confused would you guys just knock number two down if you would in the stingers with it ok good i'm going to ask you kids to do something delicate because parents i don't know if you probably can't see it from where you are because your eyes telescope it but the tables are shifting forward with the tension and they're going to i'm afraid we're going to lose some kids which we definitely don't want to do so kids would you just go all grab your tables by the back to a well what would gently gently because they're all together just pull them back a little bit a little bit easy easy ok good ok excellent thank you oh oh you lost your ok if you knock a stinger down incidentally you're not disqualified don't worry ok everybody ready next word parachute i jumped out of the airplane and thank god i remembered my parachute parachute know you ready for the next word the next word is epidemic people are very concerned that a bolo will become an epidemic epidemic hold up your board it's nice and high you go to the belmont public school system which is considered one of the most prestigious school systems in the country prestigious everybody ok or prestigious depending on how you want to pronounce it ok i want to point out to the crowd an act of incredibly valiant sportsmanship from team nine because they spelled it p r e s t i j e o us and they had an eye and they are aced it and they were honest about having a race to it so you guys can stand  the sportsmanship let's have a hand for their sportsmanship good job guys ok let's congratulate the football fanatics and spellers and black personnel and valiantly through one two three four five six rounds which is a lot more than most of the parents could already for your second off list were conscientious he was very good at doing his homework on time and was conscientious about getting the work done conscientious sure guys here's the good news there's bad news and there's good news the bad news is everyone got it wrong they good news is when that happens we it's a tough one this is the point in the program where all the parents  correct is amazing your next word is per knishes the mugger's attacks were very violent and pernicious and scared people to go out at night killer unicorns have done extremely well to have lasted through so many rounds to have a big let's have a big hand for all these spellers that's not a hand that was a finger c'mon guys surveiling once the museum found the painting stall and they put up surveillance so they could try to find out if it ever happened again who did it  ok if i'm not mistaken we are congratulating the dictionary's number one as they leave  eight is that right to the neon can a dollar stepping down is that right so we have six and seven remaining is that correct ok so a six and seven will go along to the finals thank you very much we can graduate we can graduate the fire breathing squirrels in the killer bees as they move on you guys don't go away though you guys are coming back for the final ok ladies and gentleman we had three teams to advance from swarm sixteen two from swarm seventeen and now we introduce warm eighteen please take the  stage ok ladies and gentlemen swarm eighteen ok i'm going to give everybody about twenty seconds to a calm down we ask for silence says we introduce these spellers hold on we have a question here in a marker these guys over here need a marker in a race or scuse me could you give them a marker in a race or please teammate thank you oh they have an extra or just a marker for teammate please thank you ok let's start with over here i'm going to introduce everybody i i apologize in advance show team to watch out there this sarcastic spellers christopher jorgensen robin westman and michael j team three spaghetti and meatballs they have spaghetti and meatballs on their hats i don't know if you can see team seven are the super spellers shaper oms laura janssen and rachel november that's the second november kid we've had right november families had two kids where are you raise your hands ok ok number taylor mcdonough instead of will this a last minute substitution is that legal yes is no problem just kidding ok number nine the lightning spellers maga are vomitous julian crocker and my neighbor didn't say the name the first time i did say the name the first time not that you weren't listening or anything but you know pay better attention please no no big deal i'm teasing ok ok let's rock guys swarm  there that you each have to that you have a board with a marker and eraser that work and here and if you don't you raise your hand we can get one to you right away but heres how this goes down laurie and i are going to read a word from your list the first six words are on the list you're going to have twenty seconds to write that we're down we don't want you to spell the word out loud we want you to whisper with your friends there and put it down on the board you have twenty seconds and it's going to be timing you she's going to give you a ten second warning and then she's going to ring that bell with the twenty second and at that time you have to let them board up show g whatever you got on that board and you hold it up and you hold it up until we tell you to put it down because these are hard words and we need to check every single board and make sure it's clear and even when you lay it down on your table don't race it till we tell you to so six words come from the list after that we go off list if you misspell a word we're going to tell you misspelled it and you're going to drop one of your st both of your stingers go down that means you're don you can stay with your up with the rest of the people or you're allowed to exit the stage it's entirely up to you but we're going to start now does anybody have any questions all right listen i'm so proud of every single one of you here today it's a big deal and we thank you wonderful for doing it please come back next year lauren graham is going to start with your first word but before we do that everybody stamp your feet  we'll do better next time but nice try a from the side of the auditorium or let's rock ok nice and large so that we can see it all right and don't put your board down or raise it until we've looked at everybody's born right got it ok the first word is miscellaneous i have a junk drawer in my kitchen that is filled with all kinds of miscellaneous items miscellaneous whatever we're getting mixed up with the numbers ok so just yeah yeah number one put a stinger down please and number eight put a stinger down and the rest of the teams are correct miscellaneous number number eight just go down to your left a little bit ok guys thanks word lucrative that i have a lucrative career as a real estate agent lucrative spelled valiant next year the event will be in fenway park so by your winter gear now i'm going to be on the pitcher's mound these guys will be in the dugout but seriously they were raising twenty thousand ladies and gentlemen let's give a warm sendoff to team seven the super spellers up your boards and i said i you ok who needs a better marker you guys everybody ok on markers everybody's ok yes ok perfect all right your next word is chandelier there was a very fancy chandelier hanging over her dining room table chandelier very ladies and gentlemen let's give a warm up belmont sendoff to the super sparkling spellers thanks sam six thank you so after one two three four five words which are he takes a breath miscellaneous lucrative obsolete serviceable and chandelier we have one two three four five six seven teams left ok let's see what i'm going to give you and sufficient when my daughter got all my her hollowing trick or treat bag i felt as though she gave me and it's insufficient number of chocolate audience that we have we have a stellar panel here but i want to compliment two in particular who have been here since the beginning no slight to you suzanne are and they joined us in the second half and they've also served valiantly but anyway and may in was a real treat real estate broker in town has been here since the beginning thank you laurie graham the former chair of the school committee has been here since the beginning and i admire the eloquence of the statements there come on coming up with although i do following ann's a little bit mean spirited sometimes no we're kidding they actually tried to leave but we felt growed them to the seats anyway and we go ok this is your egregious mistake and he got in a lot more trouble agreed  really really bad really bad that's going to be on your s a t s so make sure you learn that word before you get there there really s a t's are being held tomorrow for your kids all right the next word that is off  at this we have one two three four five six seven teams there remain after one two three four five six seven eight words which were miscellaneous lucrative people coming to see him at the zoo no that's wrong mischievous whatever spelling teens what we're going to do is we're going to discount this word because it was pronounced incorrectly ok so you race your boards and we'll give you the next word you know let me just point that after all these rounds we still have one two and i believe three teams are still have to but don't get overconfident due to stinger teams keep fighting hard ten seconds guys do not spell out  us hold on everybody everybody stand down you guys are eight is there a wait one second let me see is that ok h i p p here this is you know hold on ladies and gentlemen bid at your and give a big round of applause to the leading lions team mate and the sting yours team ten so we have one two three four five teams remaining does spell or team nine so teams three four excuse me you know i made a mistake i said the sarcastic spellers go teams team three four and five remain and we'll go on to the finals thank you don't go away remember guys are coming back so don't call home somebody give me a hand up here for a second i still have this bracelet here which is a silver bracelet with the flower charms on it if anybody is missing a bracelet come see me oh yes and  you jamie ok let's bring swarm nineteen onto the stage come on guys it's very important piece of information these are the things you must know to be educated ok ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentleman this is the final semifinal before we get to the final this is swarm nineteen with somebody flipped the sign over there please first to the swarm sign so nobody gets confused ok i'm going to introduce these guys starting with team one we have iraq karma char yeah i believe i said that right if not forgive me and say relent team three is a duo turbo cranium roger how can you teen mom con they're brave two of them come out here alone team for the spicy cucumber is henry brown in gun so george palmer and sam stevens five word wonder women anybody seen that linda carter's been seen around lately team six the walrus is jacob geiger side young john john young camden johnson and know of her nick team seven and team eight have merged it's an er nine you guys siblings yes all right that's cool siblings on rival teams team ten the word wizards thomas boyle reed carlson michael coyne and william melanne hsan ok let's have a big round of applause for swarm nineteen a wait a minute ok number sit well eight is seven and eight merged so there is no number eight yes seem seven move down a little ok that's cool so that number six there were you are ok just move the seven down a little bit more please if it's taped on ok you know what put the seven where the number eight is please ok we're cool  of a question for you in how we do it we've been here since two thirty were a little bit punchy but we're still making sense still putting words together in succession let's rock so guys here is how it works i don't know if you heard before we were talking the other kids but you got to sting ours too stingers which of the two metal things that are put yeah pick it up seventy can see it that is what you're going to put down if you get a word wrong you get two tries laurie and i have your list of words that you all memorized were going to give you six words from that word list when we were going to read the word we're going to put in a sentence we're going to read the word again and my friend at the end she's going to be timing you have twenty seconds to write that word down on the board in front of you with a marker sorry then she's going to give you a ten second warning and she's going to ring the bell that's what it sounds like as soon as she rings the bell your market goes down your board goes up whatever's on the board is what you're showing us no racing after that no changing things around right big enough so that we can read the word ok because otherwise greg has to bring your board over to our table so that we can look at and slows things down suzanne is the judge suzanne is going to be looking at all your boards you may not a race your board until we tell you you can because there it can be confusing up here you're going to hold your board up we're going to go through a morgue and tell you if you're right or wrong if you're wrong you put one singer down you still have a second chance if you end up having two words wrong to stingers down greg is going to announce your team and then you're done and you can either walk off the stage or stay on but here's the thing guys we are so proud of every one of you for being out here today this is a big deal were impressed we thank you and we hope you'll come back again next year and do it all over again thanks now laurie's got your first word ok the first word is grotesque the monster mask was so grotesque it scared all the little kids who are coming to do trick or treating grotesque ok hold those boards up this is a tough word let's see how everybody did  already already for your next word that is pseudonym even though his name was joe smith he was under a pseudonym so dilbert he knew who he was number ten let me see let's give a warm belmont sendoff to team for the spicy cucumber and seen five word wonder woman women excuse me the next word is radioactive last time i ate shelley at lawry's house it was so spicy it was radioactive ok hold up the boards and we'll check your word for the spelling bee perseverance very much thank you spelled brilliantly thank you can you guys have much to be proud of first for staying in the game this long so we have we have one two three four five six teams left and we have one two three teams with two stingers a minute hold on one second i miscounted in five teams left hold on bear with me a moment five teams left my bad and then you're buying ron they are this is off list guys you didn't memorize this before you got here but you it's really hard for ok ladies and gentlemen we have had the words grotesque psychiatry just pseudonym radioactive perseverance rendezvous and we have one two three four five teams left and summary of them have to stingers so we go on to the sixth word which is off list is that right next word is susceptible when i have a cold i'm very susceptible to other kinds of maladies susceptible all right ladies and gentlemen let's just recap where we are we have four teams left as we go to our one two three four five six seven eighth's word which will be off the list and we still have three teams w you couple of things ladies and gentlemen a couple of things we still have four teams remaining hold on hold on hold on ok we have four teams left one with two stingers let's just do a seventh inning stretch come on everybody let's have a hand for a brilliant audience y bill gates uses a lot of his money for philanthropy to help other people the word is chauvinist a chauvinist is a person who feels superior toward members of the opposite sex and i hope none of you ever will be is show you know i have to make a personal comment if i may about one of the panelists and that is the woman who just spoke who is the umpire suzanne l cock she was my son's can do garden teacher she's look at me looking at me like you're going to  great teacher and you can also hear it in her tone now the way she addresses the kids she's very authoritative but she's kind we miss you suzanne burbank school m ok let's look at the more we can't spell you we still we have story one two and seven who will go on to the finals so let's have a big long round of  teams one two and seven are the a team that per bank b s and and don cherry spellers right ok are you guys can all stand down but don't go away i ask i know there are twelve teams that remain i believe i ask you for a little bit of patience because i have to redo a new list because i can't go by the program anymore so give us about five minutes or so ten minutes and we'll be back for the final final thank you