By Marco Cummings | The Denver Gazette
Colorado’s best speller, who left viewers spellbound, reached the Top 5 before getting eliminated on Thursday night from the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Aditi Muthukumar, an eighth grader from Westminster, was Colorado’s last contender in the contest, bowing out after 13 rounds of spelling in the final round of the competition.
Muthukumar misspelled “Lillooet,” a word of unknown origin and which is the name of a municipality in British Columbia, Canada.
The final eight contestants, including Muthukumar, competed for a trophy and over $50,000 in cash and prizes.