"Hello, Dr. Bailly," said Abhijay Kodali, Speller 484 and a Texas fifth grader.
He correctly spelled "millefleurs," a perfume made from extracts of several flowers.
He was the last speller in round 8.
There will be 16 spellers in the primetime finals tonight at 8:30 on ESPN. They are, in reverse numerical order:
484 Abhijay Kodali
471 Karthik Nemmani
460 Rohan Raja
447 Naysa Modi
326 Phoebe Smith
315 Sravanth Malla
290 Shruthika Padhy
279 Navneeth Murali
192 Jashun Paluru
133 Tara Singh
98 Erin Howard
80 Anisha Rao
72 Paul Hamrick
60 Simone Kaplan
50 Aisha Randhawa
15 Enya Hubers
