February 2, 2015 Winners

We're back for the 2015 season!

Due to the freezing slush blanketing our fair borough, the crowd was small, but the spelling was on-point. Also, Jen brought her baby.

Congratulations to winner Marcus Bones. Note that our rules prohibit anyone from winning more than one monthly bee per year, so from March to November, you don't have to compete against Marcus, our 2014 annual winner. (Until the 2015 Finals, that is!)

Congratulations also to second place David Henry Haan and third place Norman Perlmutter. All three winners are qualified for the Finals in December!

Memorable words this bee: cinereal, bantling, tangemon.

Join Us in 2015

It's been a year!

After hosting the Finals this past December, Bobby and I hosted a spelling bee for Chopard's holiday party. I threw in as many French words as I could.

We'll be returning to Pete's in February.

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April 6
May 4
June 1
July 6
August 3
September 7
October 5
November 2

December 7 FINALS

As always, signup at 7, bee at 7:30. Free (21+). First 18 signups get to spell.

Congratulations to Marcus Bones, Winner of the 2014 Williamsburg Spelling Bee Finals

1st Place: Marcus Bones
2nd Place: David Riddle
3rd Place: Ben Kusmin

Congratulations to our winners!

See more photos here.

We begin again in February, 2015.

Monday, October 6th: 10th Anniversary Spelling Bee

We're celebrating with a cake, the theme song, instituting a new hashtag (#williamsburgbee), and, of course, a spelling bee.

Here is some video coverage from the last ten years.

See you at 7!

 







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Congratulations to September 1st Winners!

1st: David Riddle
2nd: Lilly
3rd: Jenny Brown

We had a fun first round on homophones -- spellers were asked to spell gild (not guild), faro (not pharaoh), flue (not flu), etc.

And then there was this:

See you for our next bee on October 6th.

Congratulations to July 7th Winners

1st: Kirsten Sabotnik
2nd: Ally Spier
3rd: Bobby Zacharias

Congratulations! See you all on August 4th!

Congratulations to our May 5th Winners

1st place: Marcus
2nd place: Drew
3rd place: Kali

More photos here. Join us again on June 2nd! Open to first 15 people to sign up. Free.

Congratulations to 2013 Winner Robert Moy!

Congratulations to Robert Moy, winner of 2013's annual Finals!

The bee will return in May, 2014!

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December 2nd Finals: Here are the Finalists!

In no particular order, here are the finalists in the 2013 Williamsburg Spelling Bee Finals taking place on Monday, December 2nd!

Be there and be square.

Samantha Mandel
Masha Westerlund
Phoebe Gaston
Wilson Southerland
Arvind Raman
Noam Schuldenrein
Jessica Greif
Mike Petrina
Raymond Givens 
David Henry Haan
Marcus Bones
Maddy DeLeon

Carolyn D'Aquila

Robert Moy

Tamara Glenny

Guy Smoot
Bobby Zacharias

Thea Enos
Alexis Walker
Devorah Wolf 

Warren Habib

Jason (TheOneWhoIsAChild)
Keith (WeMissedYourLastName)

Daniel Cohen

David Zheng

Judy Kameny
Kate Cemay

Congratulations to our November winners!

1st place: Samantha Mandel
2nd place: Masha Westerlund
3rd place: Phoebe Gaston

This month it was clearly ... Ladies Night.



All three winners qualify for the finals, which are next month!

Pics here.

October 7 Winners

1st place: Wilson Southerland
2nd place: Arvind Raman
3rd place: Noam Schuldenrein

Only one regular-season bee left before the FINALS!

Congratulations to September winner Jessica Greif

1st place: Jessica Greif
2nd place: Mike Petrina
3rd place tie: Raymond Givens and David Henry Haan

 





Super-cool fun fact: Jessica is a teacher who just enrolled her school in the Scripps-Howard Bee. Bees all around!

A big thanks to Gotham Girls Roller Derby for donating this month's first-place prize!

Only two more regular-season bees remain before the annual Finals!