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General Discussion / How and what did you pay for at NPS?

« on: August 15, 2007, 09:01:00 AM »

ABQ.

We fundraised and our poets paid for food.

Our fundraising efforts paid for registration, membership, travel, and lodging.

Don Mc

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Slam Selection Processes / ABQ Slam Selection Process

« on: August 14, 2007, 01:13:53 PM »

Any slam can be a qualifying slam so long as it has the following:

To be a Qualifying Slam, slam masters/hosts agree to the following:

1.      Slams must be open to the public, must have an open sign up, and not censor the poets in any way.

2.      A qualifying slam must be at least 3 rounds.

3.      A qualifying slam must be have at least 3 judges and no more than 5 judges.

4.      A qualifying slam must have at least 6 poets slamming.

5.      Qualifying slams follow the point system.

6.      Head to Head Haiku is at least 2 out of 3 haikus and is used to break ties at qualifying slams.  Complete poems are used to break ties in semi-finals and finals.

Points are rewarded for qualifying slams as follows:

20 points for the winner
10 points for second place
5 points for third place
1 point for the other participating poets and host.

Points are tabulated all year, with the top point gathering poets notified by e-mail, e-mail list, and website that they qualified for a tournament.  IWPS Finals is in June, WOWPS finals is in December (except this year-we already picked our WOWPS rep and then the schedule changed.  So we are going to honor our original pick and not have a WOWPS slam in December), and team semi-finals are in March and team finals in April.  Top 20 Poets are randomly assigned to a semi-final (factoring in hosting conflicts-you can't slam at a semi-final you host even if you get a substitute, and other extenuating circumstances so long as we know in advance) which usually is scheduled as the last two regularly scheduled slams before finals.  There are 10 poets/semi-final with the top 5 moving to finals.

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General Discussion / Cheap Airfare to ABQ

« on: April 19, 2005, 02:15:22 PM »

ABQ is the featured destination on Southwest Airlines.  You can get your cheap airfare for Nats here:  http://www.southwest.com/hotfares/hotfares3.html

See you in August.

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General Discussion / Day & Late Night Events at NPS2005

« on: March 22, 2005, 03:52:58 PM »

Okay,

We've tentatively blocked out the Day/Late Night Events for NPS2005.  They are on http://www.nps2005.org under the Schedule button.

1) The names, times, and venues are very tentative, but we wanted your feedback because we plan to make it firm before slam masters.

So any questions, comments, or concerns you can e-mail me directly and I'll either answer it or forward it on to Danny.

2) We are looking into hosting a 24 Hour Open Mike, but we need a list of volunteers who'd be willing to host it (especially over night and early morning hours).  Please hit me backchannel if you'd be interested in volunteering.