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Slam Selection Processes / Urbana-NYC Selection Process

« on: August 14, 2007, 12:09:11 PM »

Urbana Slam NYC
every Tuesday sept-may
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery NYC, NY 10003
www.myspace.com/urbanaslam


Selection Process at Urbana
There are four quarters of six open slams each. Each open slam has 
eight slammers. The winner qualifies for the semifinals. Each 
semifinal has six poets (the six winners of the open slams); if only 
five of the winners are available for a semifinal, a "ranking 
qualifier" is brought up on points (a poet gets 27 points for 
winning, 14 points for second place, three for third, and 1 for 
fourth). The four semifinal winners win their way into the second 
half of the first round of the finals (spots 5 through . To 
determine spots 1 through 4 n the first round of the finals, we hold 
the MegaQuasiSemifinal one week before finals. The top eight point 
earners of the season battle it out to see who the top four are. 
Those four go on to the finals. Then we have a Last Chance Slam in 
which anyone can throw their name in the hat to see if they can be 
the last person in the finals.

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General Discussion / Fair and Balanced poets

« on: March 22, 2007, 01:34:37 PM »

Hey everybody! Fox News came and filmed a segment at Urbana this past Tuesday where they asked us what we thought of the word "ghetto" for a segment about the book "Ghetto Nation". It will air this Sunday(3/25) on the Geraldo Rivera show at 8pm on the Fox News Network. I can't wait to see how they spin our lefty poetry! What a country!

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General Discussion / Did some teams drop out?

« on: August 03, 2006, 01:32:30 PM »

I'm looking at the grid published in the Austin Chronicle and it looks like there are 2 four team bouts in each flight. Pittsburgh? Corvalis? Are they coming? Cuz they are not on the Chronicle grid. If there are two 4 team bouts are they going to be 4X4?