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The Great New Zealand Spelling Bee

New Zealand 2006

Network: Tv One

Broadcasting: Sundays 8.30pm for 60 minutes

Episode: Four (around July/August 2006), in a team with Michala Banas and Miranda Harcourt. The other contestants in this episode were Team Balme, Katrina Hobbs, Taungaroa Emile in one team and Annie Whittle, Peter Elliot and Teuila Blakely in the other team.

Host: Mark Leishman

Other Contestants: Jason Gunn, Kevin Milne, Robert Rakete, Leigh Hart, Frankie Stevens, Georgina Beyer, Peter Elliott, Jo Cotton, Jon Gadsby, Rosita Vai, Willy de Wit, Gary McCormack, Jordan Luck, Pam Corkery, Simon Barnett and more.

Info: "Some of New Zealand's best-known faces compete in this week's spelling bee, in an attempt to become the eventual spelling champion and win a cash prize for their chosen charity." (Description by TVNZ.co.nz).

Rules: Each episode started with nine players in teams of three with one of them the assigned captain. At the end of round two, the team with the lowest score was eliminated, after round four another one. The remaining team has to play as individuals then. The champion would receive a cash donation of $10,000 for his/her selected charity and go through to the series final. The overall series winner would win $50,000 for their chosen charity. /7 The winner was Jim Mora (against Raybon Khan and others), a radio and television host. He gave his price to a family in Africa that he helps through Child Care sot hat they could buy a new fishing gear and put a roof on their house. It got used as well to build a new school in Zambia.

Links: TVNZ.co.nz Detail page | Wikipedia: The Great NZ Spelling Bee | Listener Article with short, devastating review | Article before the start