What Had Happened Was...

So, this past Monday was the very last qualifying slam for the 2010 Los Angeles Slam Team. As we suspected, the last of the area's most brave and motivated poets brought their asses on out the house to participate in the slam extravaganza... and we love them for it. We were also graced with the presence and talent of New Orleans songstress, Kelly Love Jones, and a few of our favorite poets who didn't want to slam, but instead came out to support and even offered to calibrate. Much love and thanks to everybody who's been out to Brass Knuckles so far and we want to wish good luck to the poets who have qualified and made it into the Semi Final Bouts.

This past week's qualifying poets include Daniel, April, Rel8, Brass Knuckles' own Judy Holiday, Damnyo, and Francois, who swept in like a viscous whirl wind and earned the highest cumulative score of the night. And with that, our rapid fire qualifiers were done.

So what's next?

Well kids, now we get down to business. The 18 poets that qualified get to show you what they got in a duo of Semi Final bouts. Each bout will have 9 poets competing for a spot in the Grand Slam Final, which will determine the 2010 Los Angeles Slam Team. Thanks Random.org, we were able to generate list for the Semi bouts, and it goes a little something like this:

Semi Final Bout #1 - May 17th

Artus Mansoir

Sanyu
E. Amato
April
Daniel
Charlene
Kristina
J.P Martinez
Nikki Blak

Semi Final Bout #2 - May 24th

Mr. Poetic
Treesje
Francois
Matt Sedillio
Judy Holiday
Leon P.
Damnyo
Paul
Rel8

We anticipate 2 nights of kick ass poetry, and we're pretty sure you won't wanna miss it. So be there. It's easy.

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