hot damn it's the SEMIS

LouderArts

NUYO

NEOsoul

Silver City

Berkeley

Bout of the night, this will sizzle, one of the best bouts you will ever see, more like the finals than a semi.  Louder ARTS rises up and takes what belongs to them, based on their badass writing, a spot in the finals.

Oakland

St Paul

Charlotte

Baltimore

CHI-GM

It's the semis and anything could happen, like Charlotte going to the finals, AGAIN.

DenverNuba

Atlanta

hollywood

Austin

Richmond

My hearts with Atlanta, i hope they win, but i have to pick Austin, covered in sweat to take the win and go on to tomorrow night, what will be left in their clip ? Hollywood, I hope you get a good seat for the finals, oh wait, no i don't.

San Diego

Denver MERC

BostonCantab

Lincoln

San Francisco

Congrats to Lincoln and San Diego on, I believe, their first trip to the semis.

Denver holds a furious performance by  Cantab  and SF to go back to the finals since a long time.

Going to the finals:

Louder Arts
Charlotte
Austin
Denver Mercury

Possible upsets:
Cantab
Denver Nuba
Oakland

Indie final champ will be:
Oh yeah, never mind

tHuRsDaY's WiNnErS

I have picks for tonight. You are all excited.

Brink, 8: Urbana
Bartell, 8: Los Angeles
Brink, 8: Louder Arts
Bartell, 8: Atlanta JM
MMOC, 8: Nuba
Stage Door, 8: Denver Mercury
Majestic Ass, 8: Nuyorican

(Yes, all three NYC teams are at 8 pm bouts and I've picked them all to win)

Brink, 10: SF
Bartell, 10: This is the weird Houston vs. Houston and Richmond vs. Richmond bout. Houston HT.
Brink, 10: Silver City
Bartell, 10: Cleveland
MMOC, 10: Austin SF
Stage Door, 10: Seattle
Majestic Ass, 10: Killeen

Tonights Picks !

Thursdays Picks, like you care, bear.

BostonLL-1
NUYO-2
Springfield-3
SanDiego-4- The scores in this bout go down as you go south and west

LosAngeles-1
Portland-2
Maui-3
WhitePlains-4-Maui’s honeymoon is over but they still have fun.

AtlantaJM-1
Flagstaff-2
Fayetteville-3
SaltLake-4- Atlanta is on a mission.

DenverDM-1
Hampshire-2
Philadelphia-3
Decatur-4- is Decatur in Illinois ? I suck at geography almost as much as I suck at making picks.





LouderArts-1
Albuquerque-2
ChicagoMG-3
Cincinnati-4- it’s cause of the Bengals and Marge Schott that you will take the 4, Cinci.

NUYO-1
CharlotteRD-2
DetroitBP-3
Eureka-4 Eureka ! We took the 4, oh, nevermind.

SF-1
Oakland-2
Madison-3
Amarillo-4 Battle of the bay leaves Mad and Amarillo looking for bandaids.

RichmondSR-1
HoustonHP-2
RichmondNA-3
HoustonHT-4 Okay, the weirdest bout grouping ever, can we go for four teams from the same city in the same bout next year ?

Killeen-1
St.Paul-2
Buffalo-3
Spartanburg-4 The 300 was a great graphic novel, too bad that doesn’t translate to SLAM

DallasDP-1
Seattle-2
Tuscon-3
Orlando-4 Ok, I’m probably wrong about Orlando.

SilverCity-1
Baltimore-2
Minneapolis-3
NewPaltz-4 Isn’t New Paltz a kind of beer ? if so I pick them to take the one.

AustinSF-1
SanAntonio-2
Vancouver-3
St. Louis-4 Austin and SanAnto means family feud, if it were the REAL family feud St Louis would win.



Kalamazoo-1
Cleveland-2
Manchester-3
OKC-4 I heard that OKC has a great Zoo, next time OKC should put a rhino on the team and let him snort in group poems about rhinos and extinction and they will win the whole thing.

LATE PICKS

But i swear i didn't peek, really.

kalamazoo-1
New Paltz-2
St. Louis -3
Amarillo-4

Seattle-1
Minneapolis-2
St. Paul-3
Richmond-4

San Antonio-1
Madison-2
HoustonHT-3
Manchester-4


AustinSF-1
Baltimore-2
Tuscon-3
Spartanburg-4


Killeen-1
Oakland-2
HoustonHP-3
OCK-4



SilverCity-1
Vancouver-2
Orlando-3
Cleveland-4

DenverDMS-1
Albuquerque-3
NYNUYO-2
DeRay Beach-4

ColumbusBP-1
Charlotte-2
DetroitEC-3
ColumbusWB-4

Berkely-1
BostonCT-2
Paris-3
Boise-4

Honolulu-1
Milwaukee-2
Durham-3
Lincoln-4

FortWorth-1
Toronto-2
Mesa-3
Freehold-4


AustinAP-1
ChicagoGM-2
Phoenix-3
Sacramento-4

Top three score getters,

1-killeen
2-Oakland
3-Silver city

PrEdIcTiOnS fRoM mY cOaSt On WeDnEsDaY

I called nine of the twelve winners right yesterday. More predictions for tonight, where, for some of the teams, the dream dies. Consolation: You get to choose between the Erotic Reading and the Decathalon Reading.

Brink, 8: Seattle. Unless Minneapolis and St. Paul join forces. But that's not legal, is it?
Bartell, 8: Kalamazoo.
Brink II, 8: Cleveland.
Bartell II, 8: Austin SF.
Comedy Club, 8: Madison. It's the home team, after all.
Stage Door, 8: Killeen. (In the finals last year, after all.) Oakland could win this as well.
Brink, 10: Charlotte SC.
Bartell II, 10: New York Nuyorican. This looks huge. I'm going to this one.
Brink II, 10: Austin, but not in a tiebreaker.
Bartell II, 10: Honolulu. If Durham's got more poems, could be Durham again.
MMOC, 10: Berkeley over Cantab in a squeaker.
Stage Door, 10: Fort Worth.
Late Night: Gabrielle.

here are my picks for the first night.
i hope you're realistic enough about your chances not to get pissed off if i didn't pick your team to take the one. the best thing you can do is prove me wrong. Also keep in mind that many of these selections are purely conjectural since i know little or nothing about these teams.
Also, at the bottom are my three picks for high cumulative scores for the evening
To those about to slam,
I SALUTE YOU !




ColumbusWB-3
Bos-CA-2
Hono-1
Freehold-4

NYUR-1
LAPL-2
SaltL-3
Decatur-4

Phoenix-3
Charlotte-1/2
Boise-4
Millwaukee-2

ChicagoMG-2
Eureka-4
Worc-3
Bos-LL-1

FW-2
Aust-AP-1
DetroitEC-4/3
Berkeley-3

White Palins-4
Flag-2
Hampshire-3
Louder Arts-1

Lincoln-4
Mesa-2
Sacramento-3
Columbus BP-1

CharlotteRD-2
DenverNuba-1
Springfield-4
Portland-3

Paris-2
Durham-3
Toronto-4
Chi-GM-1


Atalanta-1
Phily-3
Cinn-4
DetroitBP-2

SF-1
Buffalo-4
Richmond-SR-3
DallasDP-2

Montevallo-4
San Diego-3
Maui-1
Fayetteville-2

1-Boston Lizard
2-Louder Arts
3-Black Pearl