The winner of every weekly match gets bragging rights and a prize. Whether you're a local lit superstar or an unknown scribe, everyone has a chance to win. Here is your chance to talk some smack back to all the wack local verse, and to shower victorious word-smiths with verbal gravy. Every slam, we choose 5 judges from the audience to play the Judge Judy of poetry. They will assign each poem a score of 0.0-10.0.
Judges use only one decimal point.
The scorekeeper will drop the high and low scores for the round and tally the other three judges' scores for round's cumulative score. The Sign up list is randomized to determine the First Round order. Poets who read 1st and 2nd in the first round have a choice to select their reading spot during the next slam in which they participate. All poets read in first round. 8 poets will read in the second round.