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PHOENIXVILLE ROTARY SPELLING BEE RULES AND REGULATIONS 1. The competitors will be given a practice round to acquaint them with the procedures and give them a chance to relax. No one will be eliminated during the practice round. 2. Each competitor, after being given a word, should SAY the word, SPELL the word, and then SAY it again. If the word is mispronounced, the spellmaster should correct the student (Homonyms should automatically be put into a sentence or accompanied with a definition). The SAY-SPELL- SAY procedure must be followed to ensure that: (1) the speller understands the correct word, and (2) the judges know when the spelling is complete and no more letters will be added. The head judge will stop the student if he fails to pronounce the word before spelling, or if it is pronounced incorrectly. NOTE: Failure to say-spell-say will not in itself eliminate the speller from competition, but it will reduce the chances of correct spelling and/or the ability to arbitrate. 3. Contestants must speak clearly and loudly. The spellmaster’s decision is final in determining the correctness of the spelling, which may be misunderstood if not spoken clearly. 4. The contestant may, before beginning to spell, ask for a definition of the word, ask for the word to be used in a sentence, and/or ask for the word to be repeated. Requests will be granted until the officials agree that the word has been reasonably clear to the speller. 5. No proper nouns will be given. 6. No two word phrases will be given. 7. No Roman numerals will be given. 8. The student will have 30 seconds to spell the word from the time he begins the word. Once a word is started, the student may start over, but may only use the letters originally stated; no letter changes are allowed. 9. No talking will be allowed among contestants or between contestants and members of audience. If a contestant receives assistances from anyone in the audience, he will be disqualified.

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Page 1: PHOENIXVILLE ROTARY SPELLING BEE RULES AND REGULATIONS Bee - Rules... · PHOENIXVILLE ROTARY SPELLING BEE RULES AND REGULATIONS 1. The competitors will be given a practice round to

PHOENIXVILLE ROTARY SPELLING BEE

RULES AND REGULATIONS

1. The competitors will be given a practice round to acquaint them with the

procedures and give them a chance to relax. No one will be eliminated

during the practice round.

2. Each competitor, after being given a word, should SAY the word, SPELL

the word, and then SAY it again. If the word is mispronounced, the

spellmaster should correct the student (Homonyms should automatically be

put into a sentence or accompanied with a definition). The SAY-SPELL-

SAY procedure must be followed to ensure that: (1) the speller understands

the correct word, and (2) the judges know when the spelling is complete and

no more letters will be added. The head judge will stop the student if he

fails to pronounce the word before spelling, or if it is pronounced

incorrectly. NOTE: Failure to say-spell-say will not in itself eliminate the

speller from competition, but it will reduce the chances of correct spelling

and/or the ability to arbitrate.

3. Contestants must speak clearly and loudly. The spellmaster’s decision is

final in determining the correctness of the spelling, which may be

misunderstood if not spoken clearly.

4. The contestant may, before beginning to spell, ask for a definition of the

word, ask for the word to be used in a sentence, and/or ask for the word to be

repeated. Requests will be granted until the officials agree that the word has

been reasonably clear to the speller.

5. No proper nouns will be given.

6. No two word phrases will be given.

7. No Roman numerals will be given.

8. The student will have 30 seconds to spell the word from the time he begins

the word. Once a word is started, the student may start over, but may only

use the letters originally stated; no letter changes are allowed.

9. No talking will be allowed among contestants or between contestants and

members of audience. If a contestant receives assistances from anyone in

the audience, he will be disqualified.

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10. When a word is misspelled, the spellmaster will say, “That is incorrect,”

then correctly spell the word for the contestant, and give the next word to the

next speller. However, when only two spellers remain, the procedures will

follow rules #12 and #13.

11. Rounds will continue, with a written record of which students went down in

which round, until four students remain. Then it will be announced that

third and fourth places will be determined by the next two contestants to go

out.

12. When only two spellers remain, the spellmaster will pause to announce the

change of elimination procedures. At that point, when one contestant

misspells a word, the other contestant shall be given an opportunity to spell

that same word. If the second contestant spells that word correctly, plus the

next word on the spellmaster’s list, then the second contestant shall be

declared the champion. If the second contestant misspells the word the

spellmaster will repeat the process.

13. At any point in the bee, if the competitors exhaust the word list for that

grade, the spellmaster is to use words from the next highest grade’s list. If,

after a number rounds, no one has been eliminated, the spellmaster is to

switch to the next higher grade’s word list. This applies even when there are

only two competitors remaining.