Ghana eliminated from 2023 Scripps Bee after reaching semifinals
After making Ghana proud by qualifying from the preliminary stage of the Scripps National Spelling Bee and advancing to the semifinals of the spelling contest, the West African country in the competition has been eliminated.
Ghana’s elimination comes after Mychelle Kumah, one of the three female students representing the country who qualified for the semifinals misspelt her word. She nailed the word “multifidus” to advance to Round 5 of the Bee.
“The curtains have come down on Team Ghana’s @scrippsnationalspellingbee campaign. Mychelle misspelt her word and is not progressing further,” the sponsor of Ghana’s Scripps Bee competitors said in a social media post.
This year, N’Adom Darko-Asare, Mychelle Kumah and Janice Afiba Nketsiah after placing first, second and third positions respectively in 2023 The Spelling Bee competition represented Ghana at the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee (formerly the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and commonly called the National Spelling Bee) is an annual Spelling Bee held in the United States of America (USA).
The 95th edition of the Scripps National Spelling Bee which commenced on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, according to E.W. Scripps Company, the producer of the contest will end on Thursday, June 1, 2023.
In a blog post sighted by AcademicWeek, the company said the preliminaries stage of the contest will begin on May 30, 2023, with quarterfinals on Wednesday, May 31, semifinals on Wednesday, May 31 and finals on June 1, 2023.
To watch the spelling competition it said “ION Plus and Bounce XL are your streaming homes for live coverage of every round, including the Preliminaries, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Finals! Coverage runs from May 30-June 1.”
Spellers will compete in four segments of competition to determine who will take home the Scripps Cup: the Preliminaries, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Finals. All rounds of competition will be broadcast on ION platforms.
For their participation in the Bee, the producer of Scripps Bee says all competitors or finalists will receive a number of awards and prizes from the Bee and its prize sponsors including Merriam-Webster and Encyclopædia Britannica.
