[2][3] Ansun Sujoe of Fort Worth, Texas and Sriram Hathwar of Painted Post, New York won the competition, making the 87th Bee the twelfth in the past sixteen competitions to have an Indian-American champion.

The youngest competitor, at 8 years old, was Hussain A. Godhrawala from South Carolina.

However, Sujoe was unable to take the advantage of the slip-up, misspelling antigropelos, meaning waterproof leggings.

As co-champions, Hathwar and Sujoe were the seventh consecutive Indian-Americans to win the competition.

The top prize was $30,000 this year, which each of the co-winners received due to the tie.