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General Discussion / Re: The NPS 2011 MC Callout
« on: July 20, 2011, 02:16:14 PM »
oh yeah, Nazelah should also be in that mix (if she's not already)
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General Discussion / Re: a couple random NPS questions
« on: July 20, 2011, 03:23:21 AM »Teams can receive up to 5 passes. It is based on the number they register.
really? I thought it was up to 6. Is this a change as of this year?
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General Discussion / Re: Underage Slam Poets at NPS - Rules Question
« on: July 19, 2011, 02:07:31 AM »
t's pretty straight forward - there's gonna be stuff they can't do. late night stuff and bouts that are at bars are a no go. anything that says 21+ is just that; there's nothing you can sign, say or do legally to circumvent it. that's the downside, the upside is there's all kinds of stuff they can do. for newbies the day events and cyphers, not to mention all the new friends, is the best part of NPS. sure they'll miss some stuff, but there's so much that happens all at once it'll be easy for them to find something else to get into.
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General Discussion / Re: Up Coming Locations for PSi Events
« on: July 19, 2011, 01:59:45 AM »Can we get an update on this? I assume some of these contracts are in by now, yes?
you know what they say happens when you assume... (seriously though, the contracts are know to take a while... a long while)
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General Discussion / Re: Bathroom corn combine minus guidelines
« on: July 01, 2011, 02:46:19 PM »
I foresee more spam in our near future...
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General Discussion / Re: Slammaster Access Request Archive
« on: June 28, 2011, 04:48:12 AM »
would someone ban this mofo (h8wt7pf4o) already please.
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General Discussion / Re: Who's your team 2011 and Danny Strack's "scouting report"
« on: May 26, 2011, 02:00:06 AM »
not at all. the information is out there. you just pointed to it.
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General Discussion / Re: The NPS 2011 MC Callout
« on: May 23, 2011, 03:58:18 PM »
Hey Eric- I'm down. I can MC or bout manage as needed and have (a bunch of) experience doing both.
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General Discussion / Re: SLAM! National Newsletter - First Featured City/Slam
« on: May 21, 2011, 03:08:53 PM »
The Green Mill seems the most obvious choice. I'm surprised it's didn't make your list...
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General Discussion / Re: Any poetry venues or competitions in California? Any upcoming competitions?
« on: February 24, 2011, 02:48:04 PM »There are lots of readings. They can be pretty hard to find, though. I've lived in San Francisco for six months, and I've wasted a lot of time and cabfare heading to phantom events. One of the downsides to Facebook is that a lot of slams and readings that used to have Websites have now migrated to Facebook pages, and thus disappeared beyond the reach of Google/Yahoo/etc.
Hey Ransacked - are you still in the Bay? Did you visit or contact ask any of the folks that run the various slams that have been going on for the last 10 years steady about other shows? We can definitely put you up on where to get on the mic. SF, Oakland & Berkeley have all been going strong that whole time.There's a weekly email list that includes 20 or so regular events that are all local/easily drivable.
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Mike McGee, David Perez, and Tatyana Brown host an AMAZING variety show and poetry slam six times per year in San Jose. Go to Mike McGee Town to learn more.
LOVE these guys... but it's odd this the one show you specifically point to?? Berkeley happens each and every wednesday (again, in the same spot for for the last 11 years), Tourettes gets 400+ folks out monthly (for a decade + now)... MoFo is once every two months with no set date for the next show??
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When you go to a reading (any kind of reading) make sure to mingle and network, because other poets are often your best source of knowledge about local slams in your community.Amen!
(mind you I don't think the OP is genuine, no one actually -in- CA would omit the city/region from a question like this)
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General Discussion / Re: Any poetry venues or competitions in California? Any upcoming competitions?
« on: February 23, 2011, 04:39:29 PM »Please let me know if there are any upcoming competitions or venues in California
Thanks!
um... yeah, lots. dare i ask where in CA?
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General Discussion / Re: With Technology the way it is
« on: January 16, 2011, 06:06:01 PM »
as long as you don't try to limit the number of proxies that can be carried...
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General Discussion / Re: why are storm poets allowed to participate in IWPS?
« on: December 15, 2010, 12:07:03 AM »
i know - i'm responding to something specific that Bill Mac brought up that relates to both iwps and nps (which i quoted a little higher up in the thread). Then i went on a tangent that related specifically to nps. I know first hand about the difficulties of finding additional suitable venues when the field grows. we were able to do it here (if you use a loose definition of "suitable") but many places wouldn't be able to do the same.
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General Discussion / Re: why are storm poets allowed to participate in IWPS?
« on: December 14, 2010, 01:36:02 AM »
I don't see any reason to shrink it. If you can make it to Finals against 60, you should be able to make it to Finals against 72. Or 80, or 100. It's anybody's game. Let the haters hate.
the reason to shrink it or cap the number of teams isn't about the competition at all but to make it easier/possible to find cities to host it - the bigger it gets the more unwieldy and harder to facilitate. each additional venue you have to get makes it that much more impossible for smaller markets.
additionally what capping the number of teams at nps would do is push us towards a regional system which would make teams compete against more, not fewer, teams on the path to winning. it'd just be x teams at nps, but 2x or 3x teams in regionals to get to nps.
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General Discussion / Re: why are storm poets allowed to participate in IWPS?
« on: December 01, 2010, 09:35:01 PM »cut NPS to 65 or so teams...
-bill mac
every time we suggest this it gets shouted down... imho 64 # of teams for the tourney, especially since the larger field is harder to find host cities for.