Shout Out To 2017 Spelling Bee Champ Ananya Vinay: Who Goin’ Spell Check You, Boo?

I rushed after watching Wonder Woman in theaters so I could catch the rest of the finals. I couldn’t believe I’d forgot it was on that night and by the time I got home I caught the tail end of it. I was so mad at myself. I went and missed the 2017 Scripps Spelling Bee and had to sift through highlights like a serf. Oh, you thought I was talking about NBA Finals? You thought I was talking about Cavs vs The Golden State Warriors: The Trilogy? Naaaaaaah, NOT ON MY WATCH! I’m talking about the 2017 Spelling Bee my G. This shit is my NBA Finals. The Spelling Bee is academia Wrestlemania, my guy. The pressure, the prayers, defeats, and triumphs of these competitors are ambrosia in real time. America gathers around the television yearly to watch these kids face off against one another in spelling. This is our Hunger Games (Battle Royale if you nasty). If you think I’m wylin’ then you obviously didn’t see the stunt Shourav Davari pulled out this year. Shourav risked it all (with his moms lookin’ on like, “you know you done fucked up now, right?”) to push the culture forward. Now I’m watching the ending, right. The pressure is on, Ananya Vinay got the rock. She shooting her free throws right now. She just spelled gifblaar (a South African plant deadly to livestock) derived from Afrikaans (aka Dutch colonizers oppressive ass fuck language in South Africa but I won’t delve into that here). Ananya is now spelling “morocain” for the buzzer beater win. Her competition, Rohan Rajeev, is han…