He won a tense duel over first-time participant Sidharth Chand, 12, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, who finally stumbled on "prosopopoeia," a word describing a type of figure of speech.

他形势紧张下打败了来自密歇根布鲁姆费尔德希尔斯12西德哈斯•钱德。钱德是第一次参加比赛，最后描述一种演讲类型单词“拟人法”处夭折。