WINNER – The winner of your system/county/spell-off bee.
RUNNER-UP – Every student that qualifies to attend the Region Bee from your county after the winner. For example, Rome City only has one qualifier, so they have no runner-up. Cherokee has 4 qualifiers so the next 3 after the winner would be runners-up.
ALTERNATE – Using the above examples, for Rome the next student finishing after the winner is the alternate and for Cherokee, it would be student #5.