Thomas York, speller 281 and a Minnesota eighth grader, is out. His father was in the Bee in 1982.
Thomas misspelled Carrara, a white statuary marble.
The 15 spellers in the Finals are:
Speller 278 Shruthika Padhy
Speller 264 Ananya Vinay
Speller 259 Alex Iyer
Speller 254 Shourav Dasari
Speller 235 Rohan Rajeev
Speller 210 Naysa Modi
Speller 200 Raksheet Kota
Speller 191 Alice Liu
Speller 187 Saketh Sundar
Speller 167 Sreeniketh Vogoti
Speller 143 Tejas Muthusamy
Speller 114 Shrinidhi Gopal
Speller 75 Mira Dedhia
Speller 36 Erin Howard
Speller 27 Rohan Sachdev