A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

ONLY MARGINALLY LESS PRESTIGIOUS THAN WINNING THE SPELLING BEE ITSELF: With only this evening's finals remaining, we have precisely as many finalists in the 2009 Bee Pool as the Bee itself has -- eleven. Still competing for fame and eternal glory are the following Throwers of Things:

Adam (Kavya, Mou)
cagey (Kavya, Pastapur)
Colin (Kavya, Chand)
Deena (Kavya, Veeramani)
Genevieve (Kavya, Laine-Lobsinger)
Heather P (Kavya, Heera)
Sconstant (Kavya, Kennyi)
Maggie (Mou, Kennyi)
ritab (Mou, Pastapur)
StvMg (Mou, Chand)
StrangeLuck (Laine-Lobsinger, Ruiter)

In other words, This Blog Prefers Kavya, with a Distinct Minority Going for Mou. Only StrangeLuck, with his, um, strange luck, has travelled elsewhere for both of his selections.

Other interesting statistics: the most commonly selected speller who did not make the finals was Josephine Kao, the third most popular overall pick, selected by nine ill-fated souls. Zachary Zagorski was the second-most favored also-ran with six picks. A whopping 17 people found some way to pick Kavya Shivashankar, while ten went for Kyle Mou. And of the eleven (Bee) finalists, the only one who wasn't chosen in the pool at least once is Neetu Chandak.

Good luck to all the finalists, spelling and ThingThrowing alike!