‘Congratulations to our Octochamps!” Scripps National Spelling Bee tweeted after a record-breaking eight children became co-champions in the 92nd competition Thursday night.

By the 16th round, only eight contestants remained of the initial 554. After two more rounds with no eliminations, event producer Jacques Bailly announced that organizers were running out of words to sufficiently challenge the “phenomenal assemblage of spellers.”

These kids were just that good.

Instead of putting the already tired children through more hours of competition and turn it into an endurance contest, Bailly ruled that any who could make it through three more rounds would share the win. All eight competitors met that challenge, navigating words like “aiguillette” and “erysipelas” without breaking a sweat.

The winners posed with the trophy a little after midnight, but each champ will get a personal trophy and the full $50,000 prize.

Even the night’s big loser was pleased: “The Dictionary concedes and adds that it is SO. PROUD,” Merriam-Webster tweeted the next morning.

Incidentally, six of the winners were Indian-American. We guess that means that Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza thinks the whole thing is racist.