New champion will be crowned on Thursday evening.
More than half of the 41 spellers qualified for the final round of the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee are Indian Americans.
The first round of the will begin on Thursday morning at 10 am and it will telecast live on ESPN2. The championship round will begin at 8:30 pm, and it will be aired live on ESPN.
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Of the 41 spellers who advanced to the finals, after the two preliminary rounds, on May 29 and May 30, seven are from Texas, six from California and three from Colorado.
However, the biggest story of the first days is the continued domination of Indian American spellers.
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Among notable Indian Americans that advanced to final rounds are two spellers who finished joint 7th in 2017: Naysa Modi, 12, a resident of Dallas, TX, and Shruthika Padhy, 12, of Rosa International Middle School in Cherry Hill, NJ. Other finalists are Saketh Sundar, 12, of Howard County Library System, in Ellicott City, MD, who was in 12th place last year; Tara Singh, 13, Louisville Spelling Bee Collaborative, in Louisville, KY, and Samhita Kumar, 12, of Sacramento, CA, who were tied for 18th place last year; Aisha Randhawa, 12, from Riverside, CA, who finished 35th last year; and Sravanth Malla, 14, of Fieldstone Middle School, in Thiells, NY, who was tied for 41st place last year.
Here are the finalists:
Name Age Sex State
Aisha Randhawa 12 Female CA
Shruthika Padhy 12 Female NJ
Sravanth Malla 14 Male NY
Naysa Modi 12 Female TX
Karthik Nemmani 14 Male TX
Jacob Faulk 14 Male CO
Erin Howard 13 Female AL
Tara Singh 13 Female KY
Jashun Paluru 13 Male IN
Sohum Sukhatankar 12 Male TX
Simone Kaplan 12 Female FL
Rishik Gandhasri 12 Male CA
Anisha Rao 12 Female CA
Rohan Raja 12 Male TX
Nicole Tsygan 12 Female MD
Phoebe Smith 12 Female PA
Christopher Serrao 12 Male PA
Snehal Choudhury 13 Female OH
Abhijay Kodali 11 Male TX
Amith Vasantha 13 Male CA
Siddharth Doppalapudi 13 Male AL
Lauren Guo 12 Female CO
Medina Miranda 13 Female CA
Paul Hamrick 14 Male CA
Nidhi Vadlamudi 12 Female CA
Marisa Langley 14 Female FL
Brendan Pawlicki 11 Male MI
Sophia Nguyen 13 Female MO
Alice Liu 11 Female MO
Saketh Sundar 12 Male MD
Navneeth Murali 12 Male NJ
Melodie Loya 13 Female NY
Pranav Nandakumar 12 Male TX
Anson Cook 11 Male CA
Enya Hubers 12 Female ON
Cameron Keith 12 Male CO
Samhita Kumar 12 Female CA
Noah Brandt 15 Male TN
Nilla Rajan 13 Female OH
Eva Vega 14 Female NC
Pranathi Jammula 12 Female TX