Rust Belt quickly

[scottwoods]

(Hey: I wasn't the only one there, so get to posting, folks!)

After day 1, we were the second highest ranked team with a 1 ranking from our bout and a score of 112.5 under extremely adverse venue and time conditions.

Saturday, second round:
By the time the bout started, my team was pretty wiped out (stated time 1:50; actual time 4:12).  I had been up

Comments

[doniellemonique]

I am so very proud of the WB team and their accomplishments! Look out Austin!!!!!

[scottwoods]

Thanks, man!

I'm sick-proud of these cats, no matter what happens in Austin. We've had great teams forever, and this is another in a long line of great teams that just might get their props this year.

[brags2bitches]

Two words.

Damn, baby!

[scottwoods]

You know?!
You'd have LOVED this show.

[jwbaz]

Congrats to your whole team, sir. Well-played indeed.

[scottwoods]

Thanks, man. Always a pleasure to rock a mic with you.

[delrica]

Good times!

[scottwoods]

Next time we'll have to save enough energy afterwards to hang. I know we keep saying it, but we're going to have to commit, Del.

[delrica]

Very true.

[poltergasm]

Right on, cool update. But man oh man, don't those slams where everything's a 29.0 and above just make ya lose a little faith?

[scottwoods]

An EXCELLENT question! In response, an observation and philisophical position.

While I certainly think that a slam with scores through the roof throughout when the quality of work, performance, or both in said bout have been suspect is a saddening indicator of how little people may actually be listening to the content of poems, what I've noticed is that somewhere in the middle they tend to balance out. At some point, the new low score becomes apparent, the new average score becomes apparent, and a perfect or near-perfect score becomes the new truly high score. There were some jokes lobbed about in my section about the fact that we were booing scores of 9.5 and 9.8. I mean, come on.

Which brings me to my philisophical position, which is that a bout with consistent scores that high just shows how ludicrous the whole Slam exercise is, and that opinions are opinions, not charges of character or a true test of one's abilities as an artist. Anyone who comes to a slam EXPECTING a score of X doesn't get "it".

[hot_rod_poet]

Anyone who comes to a slam EXPECTING a score of X doesn't get "it".

Well said. I've recently, and in separate instances, heard experienced slammers talking about a "30 Poem," like, "I don't know why she read that piece--there's no way that's a 30 Poem" or "I think that new piece I read tonight is going to be a 30 poem with a little more editing." There's so many flawed assumptions in that concept...

[lilsamkudu]

it made finals more carefree and less competitive... until i got a 1 point time penalty and we were knocked out of the race immediately.

c'est la slam.