“I had no idea of how big of production it was until I got there,” Ben Evans said.
"I think of it as like a big puzzle of everything that I've heard from other people spelling the words and even just studying on my own," Ben Evans said."At that point, you just piece it together and hope it's right, and there's nothing you can about it past that." "It was quite a proud moment for us and just, you know, that he was able to do so well. And was very calm up there. We looked up there, and we felt pressure in the audience,” Scott Evans, Ben’s father, said.
"I did not honestly think I was making it that far at all," Ben Evans said."I was pretty set on making it past the first day. But past then, when it's off list, I had no idea what was going to happen."