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Every year, Jimmy Kimmel challenges the Scripps National Spelling Bee champion to a spell-off. This time around, since the competition ended in a tie between 13-year-old Vanya Shivashankar and 14-year-old Gokul Venkatachalam, Jimmy had twice as much losing to look forward to.

Though with Guillermo presenting the words (dressed as a bee, because why not?), it’s a miracle that there were any correct answers. The battle was hard fought, but in the end, there could be only one victor — er, two.

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