Sizing Up the Competition

We have quite the spectrum of spellers here.

I met a mom who said her son hadn’t studied since winning the regional, and no bribing, nagging, or helping could get him to study. There was another girl who also hadn't studied since the regional, watched Spellbound about a week ago, got panicky and started studying.

Then, on the way to dinner tonight, we passed a group of about 15 spellers in the lobby, a couple with laptops, sitting together and quizzing each other. They said they were going to take a practice written test (I assume someone in the group made it up?) at 8 pm, then study together until 11:30.

Jason’s somewhere in the middle!