Video: The 2018 CBS Bay Area Spelling Bee – Round by Round
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) -- Forty-four of the best student spellers in the Bay Area, ages 8 to 14, came to the KPIX 5 studios in San Francisco on Saturday compete in the CBS Bay Area Spelling Bee regional finals.
In the end, the winning speller was Amith Vasantha, a seventh-grader from BASIS Independent Silicon Valley in San Jose. He successfully spelled "clogwyn," defined as a precipice or cliff by Webster's dictionary.
The final rounds were especially tense, pitting Vasantha against Rishik Gandhasri, also from a San Jose school, Silver Oak Elementary, in a memorable back-and-forth showdown.
As the winner's medal was being presented, the proceedings were interrupted by a brief challenge which was resolved by the judges in Vasantha's favor.
Round-by-round videos of the event are embedded below.
ROUND 1
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ROUND 2
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ROUND 3
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ROUND 4
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ROUND 5
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FINAL ROUNDS