[2] It featured 562 total contestants and was won by eight co-champions who had lasted through twenty rounds.

[7] This ambiguity may have been caused by a rule that states that spellers cannot be eliminated for failing to repeat the word once they are finished spelling;[8] Greenspan's long pause led the judges to believe that he had done so.

Late in the day, a group of 50 finalists was announced, which consists of spellers who spelled both of their words on stage correctly, and were the top scorers on the written test.

The morning session was supposed to end at 2pm, but ran over 90 minutes, until the field was reduced to 16.

After over three hours, the competition ended in an unprecedented eight-way tie, the winners being dubbed the "elite eight.

[18] A few weeks before the competition, spelling bee organizers declared that the tiebreaker test, established in 2017 to declare a champion in the case of all 25 championship round words being exhausted, would no longer be administered, due to the pressure and difficulty it imposes upon the speller.

[19] RSVBee participants do not have a sponsor, and have to pay a $1,500 entry fee plus their own travel, lodging, and expenses, and another $600 if they do not stay at the site hotel.

Some wild-card spellers were eliminated in the first two oral rounds on simple words (compared to the normal level at the national bee): tendon, vestibule, allocation, and gyro.