I wonder why I'm number eleven.

Ask for the definition, even if you know the word.

Hey, look, when I look down, my number looks the same to me as it does to you.

Brick, forget about the sign.

You should be focusing on letters right now, not numbers.

Now, over there.

That's your main competition, Sanjay Bawa.

Hey!

Brick, don't befriend your enemy.

He's nothing to you, you're gonna take him down.

Got it?

Okay.

When are we heading home?

Can we eat at Japan Cake House on the way?

Sue said that they make the pancakes right at your table.

Brick.

Your mom said something last night.

Do you even care about winning this thing?

I don't know.

Cause, you know, you win, you get a trophy to put on your shelf.

I thought you'd think that was really cool.

Nah, I don't really care about the winning part.

I just like to spell.

And that's when it finally sunk in for Mike.

Brick really didn't care.

And that changed everything.

That's your edge.

That's how you're gonna win this thing by not caring.

You're the iceman.

You're my brick of ice.

You see, unlike Brick, Mike really does like the winning part.

If we can please have all the contestants take their places.

Okay.

How is he?

Oh, he doesn't care at all.

I think we got a real shot.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 45th annual Midwest Regionals.

The winner of this competition will go on to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC.

Let the spelling begin.

Yeah!

Grammar.

G r a m m a r, grammar.

That is correct.

Woo!

Privilege.

P r i v i l e g e, privilege.

I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

Oh!

Sebaceous.

S e b a.

Minutia, M I N U T I A.

S a b o u s.

That is correct.

Pleasurable.

That is correct.

That's incorrect.

Ubiquitous.

That is correct.

Yeah!

Ladies and gentlemen, we're down to the final two.

One of these contestants will be our Midwest champion.

Oh my God.

I can't look, I'm too nervous.

Come on, Brick, come on, you can do this.

The word is propitious.

Propitious.

Can you give me the definition, please?

It means foresight, seeing ahead.

Propitious.

P r o s p i c i o u s, propitious.

That is correct.

No!

The word is.

Girden.

Girden.

What is the origin?

Stall tactic.

Middle English.

From Old French.

Girden.

G u e r d o n, girden.

That is correct.

The next word is, chiaroscuro.

Oh my God.

No, he knows this one.

What?

He studied this one, he knows it.

And that moment, it all melted away, all the stress and the sore backs and the complaining and the fighting.

We were there for one reason and one reason alone, to cheer our littlest member to his hard-won victory.

Our victory.

Chiaroscuro.

C h i a r o s c u r i s t.

T.

Oh, I'm sorry, it's only one T.

No!

No, no, no, he knows this one, you want T.

I don't think you understand.

I know, I know, I know.

I'm just saying.

I'm just saying.