The Great Australian Spelling Bee

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The Great Australian Spelling Bee
Genre Reality
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Country of origin Australia
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 12(as of 9th September 2015)
Production
Production location(s) Fox Studios Australia
Running time 60 minutes
Production company(s) Shine Australia
Release
Original network Network Ten
Picture format 576i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV) (2016- )
Audio format Stereo
Original release 3 August 2015 –
present
External links
Website

The Great Australian Spelling Bee is an Australian reality series on Network Ten. Hosted by Grant Denyer and Chrissie Swan,[1] and produced by Shine Australia,[2] the series premiered on 3 August 2015.[3] The series also stars Chris Edmund as pronouncer.[4]

The series is based on the spelling bee competition whereby contestants are required to spell presented words which vary in their degree of difficulty.

For the first season, the winner received a $50,000 education scholarship, $10,000 worth of equipment for his school, a Macquarie Dictionary, a Sprout computer, and a HP Pro Slate 8 tablet. In addition, the five runners-up received scholarships worth $10,000, a HP Pro Slate 8 tablet, and $1,000 of education goods for their school.[5]

On 19 August 2015, the series was renewed for a second season, set to premiere in 2016.[6]

Format

Individual Challenges

Speed Spell

One by one, spellers must stand inside the spell gate and spell as many words as they can in 45 seconds. Spelling a word incorrectly will end their turn regardless of time left.

This is usually the first challenge on elimination days. The top spellers, depending on the episode, will be safe from elimination.

Flash Cards

Prior to the challenge, the spellers are introduced to a theme of the words that are going to be spelled for the challenge, whether it'd be a band of instruments for the theme of music or a dinosaur for the theme of prehistoric.

Then the spellers receive a letter, whether it would be picking a token out of a bag, cracking a dinosaur egg to collect the token, grabbing a lollipop with a token on it, or finding it inside a bag attached to the speller's instrument. The tokens are either red or blue and has a letter spelt from A to all the way to the last letter depending of the number of spellers left. The spellers are then arranged in two lines: blue on one side, red on the other and in order of A, B, C and so on.

The challenge is to spell the word relating to the theme correctly by writing it on a tablet within ten seconds. The speller who spells the word correctly will be through to the next round and the other speller will not be safe. This continues for all pairs. If in any case the pairs spell the word correctly for six rounds, a tiebreaker round will happen. To win, the speller who finishes their word first immediately shows their flash cards to the pronouncer.

Spell Check

The remaining spellers are required to stand in front of their buzzer while a word is shown on screen. The word may be correct or incorrect in which case if it's incorrect, the speller who buzzes in first is allowed to spell the given word correctly. If correct, the speller is safe. If incorrect, or if the spellers buzzes in at a correct word, they are locked out and they go into the final Spelling Bee. A certain amount of spellers may be safe.

Spelling Bee

The remaining spellers follow normal Spelling Bee rules. Only two spellers may be safe in every round, while the rest are eliminated.

Show And Spell Individual Edition

Normal Show And Spell rules apply, except players don't earn points for their team, they do for themselves.

Letter By Letter Knock Out Mode

Normal Letter By Letter rules apply, except they are not in teams, and if you make a mistake, you're out of the round.

Dictionary Dash

This challenge featured dictionaries, which the competitors must find a word in. The first person to find the word in this challenge would get an advantage in speed spell, which is to select your theme first. The others followed in order of who won dictionary dash in the next rounds.

Team Immunity Challenges

Spellers choose a coloured token out of a bag in which that colour is the team they are in. In every challenge, a team will be knocked out and cannot get immunity for the next elimination.

Letter By Letter

The team members must spell a word, saying a letter one by one in the order they are in. If a speller thinks the speller before them spells the word wrong, they must say 'Next word.' to continue with the next word. They must spell as many words as they can within 90 seconds.

Show and Spell

Like Flash Cards, spellers are introduced to a theme of words the spellers must spell. The words, like Spell Check, are shown on a screen, Unlike Spell Check, all the letters except the 1st letter are not shown, and are replaced with underscores. The competitors must guess the word, following a series of clues, and after they guess, spell it correctly to gain a point for their team.

Team Spelling Bee

Normal spelling bee rules apply. The remaining two teams have their members spell alternating. Spelling incorrect will force the speller to be knocked out of the challenge. The team with spellers still left wins immunity.

Season 1 (2015)

Contestants

The series began with 52 contestants aged 8–13 years old.[2][4]

Speller Top 26 Top 24 Top 20 Top 16 Top 12 Top 8[7] Final[8]
Anirudh Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Speed Spell) Immune Immune Safe (Flash Cards) Safe (Letter By Letter) Champion
Grace D Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Flash Cards) Safe (Flash Cards) Immune Safe (Final Spelling Bee) 2nd
Mica Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Speed Spell) Immune Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Show and Spell) 3rd
Harrison Safe (Flash Cards) Safe (Flash Cards) Immune Immune Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Letter By Letter) 4th
Harpita Safe (Flash Cards) Immune Safe (Flash Cards) Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Final Spelling Bee) Safe (Final Spelling Bee) 5th
Marko Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Final Spelling Bee) Immune Safe (Show and Spell) 6th
Amelia Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Flash Cards) Safe (Flash Cards) Immune Safe (Flash Cards) Eliminated
Peyton Safe (Flash Cards) Immune Safe (Flash Cards) Immune Safe (Final Spelling Bee) Eliminated
Amanda Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Flash Cards) Safe (Final Spelling Bee) Safe (Speed Spell) Eliminated
Grace P Safe (Spell Check) Safe (Final Spelling Bee) Safe (Flash Cards) Safe (Flash Cards) Eliminated
Harpith Safe (Spell Check) Immune Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Final Spelling Bee) Eliminated
Karl Safe (Spell Check) Immune Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Speed Spell) Eliminated
Aimee Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Flash Cards) Safe (Flash Cards) Eliminated
Holly T Safe (Spell Check) Immune Immune Eliminated
Jye Safe (Flash Cards) Safe (Final Spelling Bee) Safe (Final Spelling Bee) Eliminated
Stuart Safe (Final Spelling Bee) Safe (Flash Cards) Immune Eliminated
Holly R Safe (Flash Cards) Safe (Flash Cards) Eliminated
Jack B Safe (Speed Spell) Safe (Speed Spell) Eliminated
Ryan Safe (Final Spelling Bee) Immune Eliminated
Tej Safe (Flash Cards) Safe (Speed Spell) Eliminated
Bella Safe (Speed Spell) Eliminated
Ben Safe (Speed Spell) Eliminated
Josie Safe (Flash Cards) Eliminated
Timothy Safe (Flash Cards) Eliminated
Josh Eliminated
Jack H Eliminated
Emma Left Quit

Other Spellers

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  • Blake
  • Harriet
  • Noah
  • Drew
  • Anika
  • Lachlan
  • Ariane
  • Rachel
  • Ava
  • Emma
  • Lachlan M
  • Sebastien
  • Katy

Episodes

Episode 1

This episode consisted of 4 person heats, with 2 in each group winning a spot in the top 26.

Episode 2

At the beginning of the episode it was announced that Emma had to quit the competition due to family reasons. Because of this Harpith (as the most successful eliminated contestant) was brought back into the competition. Josh and Jack also got sent home.

Episode 3

Team Spellers Results
Letter by Letter Show and Spell Spelling Bee
Blue Harrison 7 points (4th) N/A N/A
Anika
Anika
Anika
Anika
Tej
Green Marko 10 points (1st) Lost Tiebreaker (3rd) N/A
Grace D
Bella
Jack B
Anirudh
Timothy
Red Holly R 8 points (2nd) 3 points (1st) 7th
Grace P 4th
Aimee 12th
Amelia 5th
Josie 11th
Ben 2nd
Yellow Harpith 8 points (2nd) Won Tiebreaker (2nd) 1st
Karl 10th
Peyton 9th
Holly T 6th
Harpita 3rd
Ryan 8th

Episode 4

At the end of Speed Spell, the Top 6 were deemed safe from elimination. In no particular order, those spellers were Marko, Anirudh, Mica, Tej, Grace D and Jack B. The remaining 12 spellers went head-to-head in Flash Cards, where the theme was technology. The winning spellers, Harrison, Aimee, Amelia, Amanda, Holly R and Stuart were then safe from elimination. In the final spelling bee, 6 spellers spelling in multiple rounds to determine the 2 spellers who would be safe from elimination (Jye and Grace P). The other 4 spellers, Ben, Bella, Timothy and Josie were sent home.

Episode 5

Team Letter By Letter Show and Spell Final Spelling Bee Grace P, Tej, Amanda, Jack B and Marko Out N/A N/A
Holly R, Jye, Harpith, Harpita and Karl In In Out
Amelia, Ryan, Aimee, Grace D and Peyton In Out N/A
Mica, Stuart, Holly T, Anirudh and Harrison In In Win

Ratings

Colour key:
     Highest rating episode during the series
     Lowest rating episode during the series
The Great Australian Spelling Bee (Season 1) overnight ratings, with metropolitan viewership and nightly position
Episode Original airdate Timeslot approx. Viewers Rank
(Night)		 Source
1 "Episode One" 3 August 2015 (2015-08-03) Monday 7:30 pm 921,000 #7 [9]
2 "Episode Two" 4 August 2015 (2015-08-04) Tuesday 7:30 pm 801,000 #8 [10]
3 "Episode Three" 10 August 2015 (2015-08-10) Monday 7:30 pm 655,000 #16 [11]
4 "Episode Four" 11 August 2015 (2015-08-11) Tuesday 7:30 pm 642,000 #12 [12]
5 "Episode Five" 17 August 2015 (2015-08-17) Monday 7:30 pm 662,000 #16 [13]
6 "Episode Six" 18 August 2015 (2015-08-18) Tuesday 7:30 pm 616,000 #16 [14]
7 "Episode Seven" 24 August 2015 (2015-08-24) Monday 7:30 pm 665,000 #16 [15]
8 "Episode Eight" 25 August 2015 (2015-08-25) Tuesday 7:30 pm 589,000 #16 [16]
9 "Episode Nine" 31 August 2015 (2015-08-31) Monday 7:30 pm 639,000 #19 [17]
10 "Episode Ten" 1 September 2015 (2015-09-01) Tuesday 7:30 pm 624,000 #14 [18]
11 "Episode Eleven" 7 September 2015 (2015-09-07) Monday 7:30 pm 662,000 #16 [19]
12 "Grand Final" 8 September 2015 (2015-09-08) Tuesday 7:30 pm 755,000 #11 [20]
"Winner Announced" 901,000 #7

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