Co-champions Vanya Shivashankar, left, 13, of Olathe, Kansas, and Gokul Venkatachalam, 14, of Chesterfield, Missouri, hold up the championship trophy after winning the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday.

The bee hadn’t ended in a tie for 52 years — until last year. Now it’s happened for an unprecedented two years running.

Vanya is the first sibling of a past champion to win. Her sister, Kavya, won in 2009.

Vanya’s final word was “scherenschnitte,” which means the art of cutting paper into decorative designs.

After being informed he’d be the co-champion if he got the next word right, Gokul didn’t even bother to ask the definition before spelling “nunatak.” For the record, it means a hill or mountain completely surrounded by glacial ice.