Youth Slam Standings (3 months worth)
From July to February youth poets between the ages of 13-20 compete to earn points that will qualify them for the youth team playoffs in March 2015. To qualify you must compete in a youth slam at least twice during the season and you CANNOT be turning 21 before September 1st, 2015.
Our season began on July 28th. Poets that finish in the top 5 all earn points towards making the team. Here are the standings from July 28th.
01) 54.0 Emma Field earning 16 points
02) 53.0 Sophie Born With Two Teed earning 9 points
03) 51.9 Angelica Poversky earning 5 points
04) 51.7 Vincent Gnit earning 3 points
05) 50.2 Sarah Berast earning 1 point
other competing poets on this night in no particular order
Martin Dy
Jessie Read
Eileen Tran
Lyle Hendricks
Our second youth slam of the new season happened last night. A full compliment of poets slamming. We had a tie for 5th so we had 6 poets in the 2nd round. Here are the new standings.
01) 52.2 Alex Montinola earning 16 points (once)
02) 51.8 Mariah Dear earning 09 points (once)
03) 51.4 Emma Field earning 05 points (twice)
04) 50.3 Vincent Gnit earning 03 points (twice)
05) 50.1 Nicola Durrant earning 01 points (once)
06) 49.6 Lyle Hendricks earning 00 points (twice)
Other poets competing this night include Martin Dy (twice), Antonella Gonzallez (once), Anjelica Poversky (twice), Melissa Illing (once), Maegan Bradford (once)
Standings after two slams to make the playoffs in March
01) 21 points Emma Field
02) 16 points Alex Montinola
03) 09 points Mariah Dear
04) 06 points Vincent Gnit
05) 05 points Angelica Poversky
06) 01 point Sara Berast
06) 01 point Nicola Durrant
You must slam/compete at least twice during the Youth Slam season to qualify for the playoffs in March. And you CANNOT be turning 21 before September 1st 2015 to be on the team.
Our third youth slam of the new season happened on Sept 22nd with Annelyse Gelman as our feature and Lucia Misch with out host. We also had 9 people competing in the slam with a bunch of new voices taking the stage. Here are the results from that night as well as the updated overall standings.
September 22nd 2014
01) 52.9 Natalie Zalkon for a total of 16 points (once)
02) 51.7 Antonella Gonzalez for a total of 09 points (twice)
03) 50.1 Vienna Jeffery for a total of 05 points (once)
04) 50.1 Siling Zhang for a total of 03 points (once)
05) 48.8 Vincent Gnit for a total of 01 points (third)
also competing
Tucker Bowen
Skyla Barahona
Baby Doll
Celine Cullen
Updated overall standings
01) 21 points Emma Field
02) 16 points Alex Montinola
03) 16 points Natalie Zalkon
04) 09 points Mariah Dear
04) 09 points Antonella Gonzalez
04) 09 points Sophie Born With Two Teed
07) 07 points Vincent Gnit
08) 05 points Angelica Poversky
08) 05 points Vienna Jeffery
10) 03 points Siling Zhang
11) 01 point Sara Berast
11) 01 point Nicola Durrant
The next youth slam is on Monday Oct 27th featuring Poetic Speed