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Bleeding Cool‘s Can You Spell It in a Sentence? Bleeding Cool’s 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee Live-Blog! will be covering the final round closing portion of 91st Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, May 31st, from 8:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. ET (our blog post goes live starting at 8 p.m. ET).

With network host/reporter Matt Barrie and 1990 Scripps National Spelling Bee finalist Paul Loeffler hosting, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and the ESPN app are combining for more than 24 hours of live coverage. ● Finals: ESPN2 will begin opening portion coverage on Thursday, May 31, beginning at 10 a.m ET; with ESPN broadcasting the closing portion beginning at 8:30 p.m[...]

Think you know everything there is to know about "The Bee" going into the preliminary rounds? Here's a look at some facts about the competition you might not be aware of; what the winning spellers amd schools walk away with; a breakdown of this year's event by the numbers; and some past winning words.

Since there's over 500 spellers in this year's competition, there's no way Bleeding Cool could list every single contestant here (for that, check out the main website). Thanks to our random-number-generating friends over at Random.org, here's a look at some of this year's contestants.

So Bleeding Cool's reached that time in its Spelling Bee coverage that's pretty much the equivalent of when the accounting firm or academy president comes out to speak during an awards show: the rules of the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee.

With network host/reporter Matt Barrie and 1990 Scripps National Spelling Bee finalist Paul Loeffler hosting, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and the ESPN App will combine for more than 24 hours of live coverage. Credit: ESPN ● Preliminary Rounds: ESPN3 will carry all rounds, streaming live on the ESPN App beginning on Tuesday, May 29, at 9:15 a.m[...]