Cabin Radio’s Adult Spelling Bee is ready for the grand final! Watch the contest at Yellowknife’s Top Knight this Saturday and you could win huge prizes, too.
Doors open at 6pm and spelling starts at 7pm. You get to watch a new territorial spelling champion be crowned, plus we have live music from spelling bee house band The Co-op.
On Facebook: Head to the Adult Spelling Bee event page
You can also win an incredible door prize courtesy of the Explorer Hotel: a night’s stay in the Aurora Suite plus dinner and brunch the following morning at Trader’s Grill. Extra door prizes can be won courtesy of Ricky’s All Day Grill, Adam Dental Clinic and the Black Knight Pub.
Admission on the night is by donation. Every cent you donate goes to the NWT Literacy Council’s work and supports the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program.
Got all that? In short: great spelling, big prizes you can win, and you’ll be helping literacy in the North.
Now, let’s meet the contestants!
Who won the heats?
Here are the 15 contenders you will meet in Saturday’s grand final. For each of the heats below, you can also watch the winning word to get a sense of how they might approach the big night.
(Scroll down for more information about how the final works.)
Heat 1: Heather Heinrichs defeated Gregory Tink
Heat 2: Benjamin Karstad defeated Ryan Walsh
Heat 3: Philip Boulton defeated Margot Remnant
Heat 4: John Inglis defeated Katrina Leonardis
Heat 5: Jessica Harte defeated Toby Kruger
Heat 6: Matthew Leung defeated Kienan Ashton
Heat 7: Bhagyashri Pawar defeated Ryan Planche
Heat 8: Patrick Meloche defeated Liz Mackenzie
Heat 9: Garrett Hinchey defeated Ryan Planche
Heat 10: Sandy Brennan defeated Navriti Sharma-Patel
Heat 11: Lauren Nolan defeated Tineke Kippers
Heat 12: Jacki McKinnon defeated Scott Clouthier
Heat 13: Anusa Sivalingam defeated Rajiv Kalkar
Heat 14: Kristie Leach defeated Joshua Short
Heat 15: Esther Ebbing defeated Michael Aide
You can watch full recaps of all the heats on the Mornings at the Cabin Instagram channel.
How the final works
Our 15 heat winners will be split into three semi-finals of five for the final. The three winners of those semi-finals then go on to the very last round to decide the winner.
The champion can select either $1,000 in cash courtesy of Apex Pest Control or a Yellowknife-Vancouver round trip for two courtesy of Air North, with the second-placed contender receiving the remaining prize. Third place receives a $200 gift card courtesy of Sutherland’s Drugs.
Draw prizes for the audience include the Explorer Hotel overnight stay and brunch package, an Adam Dental Clinic electric toothbrush, a Black Knight $100 gift card and Cabin Radio apparel. A minimum donation of $20 on admission is required for entry into the prize draw.
Three $100 gift cards for Ricky’s All Day Grill will be awarded as lightning-round prizes throughout the evening. Each contestant receives a $20 Javaroma gift card for participating, regardless of how well they do.
All proceeds from the evening go to the NWT Literacy Council to support the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, which delivers monthly age-appropriate books to families across the territory.
Spelling begins at 7pm with an anticipated event end time of 9:30pm, at which point house band The Co-op takes over for the rest of the night.
